I am thinking of trying a Strafe/Immoliation arrow Bowazon. Possibly running it with the cold act 1 merc with an early insight bow and leveling up a valk to tank.
With the split of the casting times and the cast bar, I am thinking this may be fun to play actually. However, I was curious to what others think. Are the changes enough where my character will not bet too gimped compared to other alternatives?
I will build it either way, its more pondering whether I would be setting myself too far back making it my first or second character. I know when I played PD2 the small change of making fire arrow have multiple shots made my play through ridiculously easy and I didn’t feel like I was giving up too much.
This might be the first time I actually play a PTR to test
And that’s why they put up the PTR, for you to test it out. Nobody really knows except on paper / theorycraft right now. I will say that with the number of fire immunes, fire ANYTHING is kinda niche and limited to certain areas of the game to farm. Hopefully they adjust that in the future as well.
Fair the thing with a zon is it has enough physical damage where it doesn’t bring damage to a halt like it does with casters. Also the merc with the upgraded spell will be able to do enough to help out as well.
Again I get it wont be the BEST build, but I think if things work like how they sound on paper, fire zons with Act 1 mercs may have a good enough amount of damage sources to clear most content at a competitive pace. Like you said all in my head so I will have to grind it out in PTR