This feels the exact same as before. Strafe feels stronger, is this another “bug” just like the runewords that wouldn’t work at launch of patch? I noticed you didn’t seem to help people that lost multiple “Ber” in their gemmed amazon spears too… Anyone else see/feel a dmg boost to Bowa?
In my testing, it felt quite questionable as to whether the synergies are working, but I think my cow run times have improved. Managed to clock in a players 8 cow run with a test bowazon build in under 5 minutes where as previously I was struggling to break 6 minutes.
I will test this further somehow but GoMule stopped working now 
Is this while using strafe, or just multi, because I feel something with strafe, multi/guided… ehhh
Sorry that was with multishot. The tooltip for multishot at least doesn’t display properly.
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Well Ive always had trouble farming World stone keep and baal, But… I switched to act 5 merc with Grief/lawbringer/Arreats/Duress and have no issues now. I usually went thru way too many Rejuv’s
I Should go back to act 2 merc for testing, It seems like my damage hasnt improved much at all. The Merc does half the work
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My WF strafazon, with Might merc plus lvl19 Pride, has the strafe dmg increase from about 7.8K (2.3 patch @ 1pt GA, 6pts MS, 20pts Strafe) to 12K (2.4 patch @ 20pts GA, 10pts MS, 20pts strafe). I didn’t time the runs but it felt like she clears 8p cows like 5p pre-patch, meaning its not that fast still but definitely doable. Once the AD proc cows drops very fast even at 8p.
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Yeah, strafe wasn’t in question. It’s multi not being stronger even though it has a synergy now…
i noticed that as well the damage doesnt increase with guided arrow like it should. Guided arrow does get the boost from multishot but not the other way around
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Oof. So multi shot isn’t getting the damage bonus? Hopefully they fix it… Planned on rolling a bowa for ladder.
thats the only way to play a bowazon guided arrow / multishot… ive never been a fan of strafe so when the dmg bonus doesnt work its a gut shot
I’ll do a test today to confirm for sure. It might just be a tooltip issue on the skill, as I see more damage in the char screen and my run times are a bit faster.
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Awesome. Let us know please. 
The net dps increase to multishot with max GA synergy should be about 20%, according to theorycraft numbers I’ve seen. After farming cows about 30 times since last night, it feels about right. I think the synergies are working.
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Same here, just did some CS runs and WSK2-3. Clear times are faster. With WF I even had a freaky encounter with Diablo where I killed him with just 3 guided arrows only. No amp or anything, he just dropped dead.
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Is that even possible? Guided arrow in my test builds cap out at 14k max damage with Windforce and Diablo has 114k hit points… oh wait on battlenet he only has 75% of that amount so yes I think it is possible but you must have got real lucky with all 3 crits at max damage rolls and not getting blocked. Was he under amp damage or decrep?
None of it but I also noticed that my merc hits way harder than before for some reason. Act1 Faith merc with ice arrow. She’s got my 15ed lvl 15 fana diamond faith, fortitude and a 8ll 45ias helmet. No amp and decrepify, I was at point blank and fired 3 arrows.
All this doesn’t matter because what matters is PVP.
It was already good in PVP, now its great. No need to talk about PVM.
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Oh great! Another person telling us how other people should spend their time 
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No, I’m telling you how to think about balance.
No one could care less about how you waste your time.
And I’m telling you I disagree, ha!