Considering it takes my level 82 sorceress, with worse gear, about 3 frozen orbs to do what it takes my level 83 amazon with a Windforce and Razortail 20+ arrows to do, it’s not unreasonable to expect that knockback should actually KNOCKS THINGS BACK. Which it doesn’t with Multishot. I am told that the middle two arrows do, but having 10% of my shots have the advertised property is not enough. I finally have a bow with knockback, I want to knock things back.
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It does, but only for the center two arrows of the volley, or basically where ever you are pointing when you shoot.
“Aside from actual arrow damage, leeching and Deadly Strike/Critical Strike works with every arrow, but everything else (procs, crushing blow, knockback, et cetera) only triggers from the center two arrows.”
That is what I heard. That means multishot does NOT knockback 90% of the time versus hordes. It might as well knock back zero cows if 9 out of 10 of them waltz right up to me. Physical bowazons are among the weakest ranged characters and I happen to like multishot better than strafe. Yes, Multishot is lower level than Strafe, but then Blizzard is lower level than Frozen Orb and is twice as powerful.
If they aren’t going to buff multishot damage, than making it actually work the way the tooltip says it does would be nice. Nowhere in-game does it say that crushing blow and so on only work 10% of the time with multishot.
It does but it only works with the middle couple arrows
That’s why I like using strafe. Max pierce, critical strike and as much crushing blow as you can get. Line 'em up, blast them away. Plus strafe is a lot more effective against bosses. Just don’t get caught with your pants down mid-strafe. 
Multishot is unbeatable once youre in full GG breakpoint gear and guided arrow should be used on bosses
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So, if i have 100% Deadly Strike and Pierce, Multishot should just clean everything with 1 skill use?
What would you consider GG gear for a MS bowazon?
TBH I don’t think “GG” and Bowa should belong in the same sentence for PvE. Don’t get me wrong, I love me some bowa, but it’s a fairly weak build comparably to a lot of options. I haven’t gotten to try the Hustle/Windforce swap build due to NL, and haven’t tried the 40/15 stack setups, but doubt that changes much.
Even with full charm stack Bowa struggles in around a C+ tier build.
That said I wish all builds were around Bowa levels. There are just too many setups that offer more damage, still have much better survivability, and offer more mobility.
Closest thing I can think to compare it to power wise is the current throw barb, which clears slower, but is much better overall at actually farming due to hork and the option for good TP frames, and has much better survibility.
If anyone wondered what does “everything else” mean (source: The Amazon Basin):
Quite a lot of broken mechanics!
I noticed that multi shot always leeches so well, but i didn’t think how actually good it is…
I should definitely try using it on my cold\fire zons to restore mana…
In general, multi shot’s AoE is one of the biggest in the game. Only similar to Lightning fury and holy fire. Sure at the top end those 2 spells are better, but they have downsides. LF spends all the javelins quickly (while arrows are partically infinite, they drop all the time to replenish them), holy fire requires a ridiculous amount of gear to deal AoE damage comparable to a simple windforce\fortitude\might merc zon and puts the player in more danger
Don’t think i have refilled my titans since i got them, running a lot of cows on it.
The answer is, because multishop would be much better than the other option in the skill tree (strafe). You want a pony that does it ALL. Well, considering you play a sorc, you are used to that. Skills annihilate entire screens, and you got teleport for free. Ofc you might be disapointed with the bowama 
If I cow run non stop then even 2 packs of titans start to run out. And when I have 3 packs, might as well use T-strokes and repair them once in a while. I like T-strokes for the -res, they deal so much more damage because of it. And the run speed on titans can be made up with other (like harmony swap).
Don’t use holy freeze merc, round up a lot of cows and one shot them all. The time you spend on rounding em up is easily won with all guaranteed to die from one throw, no refill and no having to charge strike or the bad feeling of leaving one cow alive because killing that single cow is actually a waste of time
maxroll.gg/d2/guides/multiple-shot-amazon
There it is the best.
I made changes to merc setup and use him as only auras else he is no where to be found lagging in the back some where allways.
Act 2 Might + Pride on as weapon + Andy jewel with 15ias 30fire and i put Treachery for faster activation of his Might aura.
Made a bowazon last season. Strafe is far superior. Never guided arrow in pvm.