Mist = The best PVM Bow

TSBoyer-1111 · January 25, 2022, 10:53am

Aint no way.

Here is the truth about Mist:

The new runeword Mist for bows, is disappointing. It’s not that the runeword is BAD, it’s that it’s not good enough for the investment of Cham and Gul, to be a useful midway option on the journey to obtaining a Faith. First of all, this runeword even if in a Hydra Bow, is only about as effective as a Buriza even with that Concentration aura. No one is going to burn a Cham & Gul into a Mist when they could just use Buriza. Second of all, Windforce is just a lot better than Mist statistically and can be obtained even early season with just an Ist rune. Thirdly, the Concentration aura on it is kind of a problem actually because ideally the Bowa wants to have an Act 2 Offensive Might Merc wielding a Pride Polearm for a much higher level Concentration in conjunction with the Might, and then of course the Bowa gets Faith to have the triple aura with Fanatacism. So not only are Buriza & Windforce equal or better bows in terms of DPS output than Mist, but they are also both obtained through far cheaper means than building this Mist runeword. The Concentration aura would be nice at early end-game before you had a chance to build Pride and/or Faith, but this is simply not realistic because it requires Cham and Gul. If Mist required like “Um Shael Amn Ith Nef” ok, now that would be worth making and using for awhile. But as soon as any of those runes required go above Um, people are just going to save that rune to trade to get a Windforce. What I would have liked to see was a new bow runeword that actually helped make magezon builds viable. Ice doesn’t get the job. All Frostmaidens or Magezons eventually realize that the physical damage on Faith and the Fanat is just worth more than what Ice provides, even on Frostmaidens or Magezons. What they needed to do was drop a new good runeword that made the usage of the new buffs to all Elemental Arrows, awesome and comprable to physical Bowas in pvm.