To Blizzard and dev team; no one will ever make this Rune Word. Faith is better at everything mist is and Pride is a thing with higher level Concentration aura. Now if you were to double the aura level and add some ias you might have a winner, but this one is not useful.
Mist is fine. It only requires Cham and a gul, has 100 pierce, resists and the aura. I’m using it on my bowa, and farming solo just fine. Doesn’t need to be top tier to be useful.
I guess you are right but Plague is a much more useful Rune Word imo and it too only requires a Cham.
It is cheap in comparison (about 20% the price), has 100% pierce, freeze, good damage, concentration and higher skill bonus.
It misses out on the speed of Faith and has a lot less bonus to AR (which is not a problem for some builds), but it deal a little less damage (10 to 20% less if including AR, with guided it can deal more and you can give the faith to your merc) if you can get the attack speed up, but it costs 1/5th of the faith bow and all this time it has a 100% pierce and freeze target.
With elemental builds you could make use of the pierce explosions as well.
Might not be a Faith, but it is a very good bow and in comparison quite cheap.
I’m not against the runeword itself
But it brought so much nothing to the game that it’s a waste of time and ressources
New runewords should be build enabling
Try this: use the runeword on an act 1 Merc with a zeal fana. Use lawbringer on switch instead of reapers for phys Immunes. New option besides act 2 Merc. Mist is fine. The new runewords were primarily aimed at offering mid tier choices, using some of the less used runes, and for Merc versatility.
I just wish it had a bit more IAS on it to at least compete with faith. Faith is still the preferred option for elemental bowazons.
People say it requires “just a Cham” but Cham is the second rarest rune in the game. It needs more.