What are your feelings about skyhunter vs a normal weapon with aspect?
I did get skyhunter but obly lvl 890ish and seems to be quite difficult to get a good one as the special effect range is quite broad. Would you say that one should wait for a lvl 925 skyhunter with near max stats and meanwhile use another weapon (plus 650 sheet damage) or is the skyhunter effect still worth it? Furthermore do you even use skyhunter? Build is penetrating shot with rapid fire.
Would you recommen the other unique bows at all, like windforce or eaglehorn?
Skyhunter and a 4/4 crossbow (all stats, dex, crit damage, core damage) with Edgemaster’s are fairly comparable in performance. The crossbow has slightly higher damage but not by much, meanwhile Skyhunter has some QoL with the guaranteed crit (makes getting precision stacks slightly easier) and the energy regen. Skyhunter is also the choice to go with if you use heartseeker or forceful arrow as your basic skill.
Crossbow will have more random variance in damage (due to using aspect of elements) where as Skyhunter’s damage is high on the first hit (higher damage vs healthy targets), but goes down from there. This is quite noticeable in boss fights in particular, though there’s not much of that this season.
Crossbows however at the moment have a huge advantage due to a new bug with Weapon Mastery, basically doing 3x more damage than it should be.
For me it’s been impossible to get a 925 unique bow, and the damage is important and falls off hard even if you’re only missing 20-30 item power.
Even ignoring item power, I haven’t had a perfect roll skyhunter, so because of that I’ve been running aspect of elements for the most part (925, with the item affixes I want). I’m a RF only build w/ starless skies, banished lords talisman, beast boots, condemnation.
. Have a really nice 925 crossbow waiting to be imprinted.