From what I’ve been reading, these weapons basically come with a certain level of Exploding Arrow (the actual level is hidden but it’s not the same on every weapon). Does this effect stack with the actual exploding arrow skill if you’re a Zon and have it, i.e. increases the effective level?
It doesn’t stack, it basically replaces normal attack with that level of Exploding Arrow. When an amazon uses her EA it uses her level of it, regardless if it’s higher or lower than the weapon’s level of EA.
The only “special” interaction an amazon will have with a FEAoB weapon is that the synergy skills will apply to it, so Fire Arrow will increase its damage.
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It doesnt stack but these weapons will outperform the amazon exploding arrow when wielded by a maxed out enchant sorc with 20 hard point fire mastery and you will have no mana issues due to only using basic attack which means ur remaining points can be used for mana shield for survival purposes only and the insane regen u get from maxed out warmth. Best elemental bowazon is a sorc
Yeah I know all about using demon machine (or even brand rw) on sorc… I was just wondering if zon or rogue merc benefits from having exploding arrow and a bow with this effect.
I suppose the merc might benefit a little since they don’t use a skill on every shot.
The only benefit u will get from the zon is the synergies + the fact that u can use basic attack and reduce the mana cost to zero. However as far as i remeber the exploding arrow from demon machine is only lvl 6. I havent tested if it actually works with something like multishot which could cause many explosions from one shot and u probably can increase the damage a bit by prebuffing with demon limb and wearing a flickering flame helmet for holy fire aura and - enemy fire res, both enchant and holy fire will add extra fire damage to ur exploding arrow.
Yeah the brand runeword works too on the sorc but it doesnt have the pierce mod needed for clearing, it will however give more single target dps but hardly worth the runes in my opinion since the demon machine is more than capable of dealing with bosses on its own. To be honest u will loose more time weapon swapping than u save on killing the boss unless u want to skip cta and wear it in second slot
yea. Brand has a higher level (12 i think) but it doesn’t have pierce, so most ppl stick with demon machine. But brand isn’t without its merits.
FEAoB doesn’t work for mercs sadly, it’s a visual bug.
- When Rogue Scout uses these weapons, explosions may be displayed but they apply no damage. This is still true in D2R. [1]
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Yeah i know. it has been tested before
Yeah its ok but it becomes very obvious in high density areas like cows that pierce is way better for clearing than more damage, besides when these weapons are wielded by a sorc the difference of the actual level of exploding arrow is negligible since most of the damage comes from the added fire damage from your enchant. A lvl 6 exploding arrow adds 27-41flat fire damage which ofc gets enhanced a bit by fire mastery + to all skills etc. and a lvl 15 exploding arrow which is the lvl on Brand adds 86-97. Now if i compare that to my current sorcs lvl 41 fully synergized enchant which adds 3020-3532 fire damage it becomes pretty obvious that the lvl of EA on the weapon is pretty insignificant.
The single target damage is however better with brand due to all the other stats on the weapon itself and ofc the bit of extra fire damage from the lvl 15 EA
I would LOVE for this to one day be fixed. That would be rad to have an effective exploding arrow enchanted merc putting down heavy support fire.
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