What are the possibilites? What would stack best with it?
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Been considering this. Honestly, not much. You get an act 1 Merc instead of an act 2. You lose an aura. You gain some cc from freezing arrow. If your a cold spec, its no bueno. Fire/lightning might come out ahead.
It will be a nice mid-game option for bowazons. There’s nothing close damage-wise at the level Insight becomes available.
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Was contemplating if this would work on my hybrid kicksin. Not relying much on the might or other A2 auras tbh, and inner sight would help with AR. But freezing arrow would interfere with DS. Guess i’ll have some testing to do on the PTR
Its a terrific early-mid game option for a Zon, I would use it on the Zon personally and keep a A2 Might merc to help with some tanking and extra damage until I have a better bow.
Just the Med aura, Mana per kill, damage boosts, find a +skill ceremonial bow for the base and should really help you out for a low cost.
for hammerdins it might be beneficial. they can tank, so don’t really need one. and exploding arrows might help with wave 2 on baalruns
Would an act one mist using merc out DPS an act 2 merc with an ethereal giant thresher Infinity for wave 2?
hard to say without the specific skill levels for A1 skills. but i doubt it. the act 2 just shines with damage out of all. but he has no AoE. But the pala has that too.
And there lies the conundrum. If Blizzard ads high runes to a recipe then they need to compete with the best of the best runewords.
yes. their approach with obession is to make tradeoffs (cost+rarity vs a few stats, etc)
Yes. Hammerdins is another one that dealing their innate Magic damage, and physical AND Cold damage from a act 1 merc. It makes them nearly impossible to hard wall them.
Well Insight automatically deals high amount of damage like 260% top end, and if you get 5-6 critical strike that’s 40-45% “deadly strike” on top of it especially great for classes that might use bows that aren’t Amazons. It also has that huge %boost to attack rating, 35fcr, and of course the meditation aura giving you infinite mana essentially. I’d like to use it in conjunction with Harmony on my budget druid summoner, only reason I don’t do that now is Insight has never been allowed in bows.
you can’t really beat the CB and the lower def on the infinity by any means
If you intended to use that to shoot monster yourself with the bow, you would run into AR issue rather quickly.
Correct! 
Not particularly…because 1. even at 60-70% chance to hit, you’re still just incidental/bonus damage to supplement your summons/merc, also Heart of the Wolverine helps a lot. That said, I’m not sure Insight will be too useful anyway if you’re “actually using it” and not just on merc, because it encourages casting and using a bunch of mana but also has high ED/AR/Crit, I guess as others have said maybe an elemental bowazon might use it to supplement whatever mana leech they have, but idk. Nice they’re changing it to be usable in bows regardless, maybe A1 merc becomes better with her new ability
I think mist runeword could end up be more useful than insight runeword for summon druid.
I am waiting for 2.4 to hit and then I can test my theory
It could even be better than faith bow technically
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You can test it now. There are edited character files with this bow that you can test it out. Just google it. I think YouTuber GGM has some edited hero’s with the new items.
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I can’t because it isn’t on the base I want.
Have you tried using the hero editor for single player?