Revisiting Archery/TA

[Energy Aura]

Dusting off an old character from LIVE and updating the build in Mids Reborn (MR) and I stumbled onto a interesting slotting convention. According to MR, Glue arrow fully slotted does more damage then Fistful of Arrows or Explosive Arrow, can be slotted with a -Res debuff (Annihilation), has a longer range than FoA and more team friendly than Explosive Arrow (no knockback). Add in the innate -Speed/-Recharge and this seems to be the top dog in the AOE arena for the build. Oh, and it's in the TA secondary so it out-damages the primary Archery AOEs.

 

Just an interesting piece of info I stumbled upon, and not seeing many builds I researched using it other than 1-3 slots.

[Pzn]

It takes 30 seconds to deal that amount of damage and on a longer recharge.  It's not as effective as the damage number makes it look.

[Chelsea Rorec]

I see

Glue Arrow as 3.7 dps

Glue Arrow with Procs 8.83 dps

Blazing Arrow at 26.87 dps

Fist full of Arrows 12.16 dps

Explosive Arrow 6.52 dps

 

All with just 3 dmg IO's

 

Thats what i see in my mids.

 

[TheAdjustor]

The targets can leave the glue field.

[ExeErdna]

Personally with Glue Arrow, I frankenslot it. Since at the end of the build your recharge is good enough. The -res proc for sure. a lot of slow/range or dmg/slow. It isn't meant to be burst it's meant to be used either before or after a Rain of Arrows. YET if you want to keep them there and do that bigger damage you want the Superior Frozen Blast set.