Plant/Trick Arrow is pretty solid

[Almighty Magic]

I don't usually post but for the 2 weeks I was dipping my toes back into the game. I have not played consistently in 4 months or so. I missed all the updates and all that, so I spent the last few weeks reading and then hopped on the test server to get the skills unrusted/derustified/COH CLR?

Anyway was trying out the new changes and for the first time I tried out Trick Arrow....Never made one and the changes seemed interesting enough. Its pretty solid/all around performer......not too fast nor painfully slow. Safe but no where near invincible. Plant I heard was rough to use in the Hard Mode ITF due to the resists, but even on my Plant Dom I learned to play without using confuse so it was not that bad for me personally.

I thought at first I would take this toon live, but I am on the fence about it. I like the flow but I am leaning towards getting away from Plant for a while. Here are some test runs I did once I got the hang/flow of the sets together.

Did few things to show off it's diversity.... (Apologies for the crappy video quality I used a free program and didn't think to change the settings).

3 star unyielding ITF +4 4x8 - Just a brief few mobs in the early part (also apologies for cutting that short my son needed something so I had to bail out the mission mid boss fight). I found confuse can work in small doses so I hit it a few times to get a cheap heal from the enemy. I have done more of the level in other tests but its a slog solo, and its not like I can actually finish it so I bail to make changes or test other toons. Lots of deaths when the enemies ignore my slows and slow patch....or the hyper accurate squids come out....but to be expected.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NygVXl0Re8c

Road Tunnel Farm +4 4x8 - Needed to see what arrow could do when swarmed/farming. I could only do 2 mobs at once with safety. My Dom can do 3+ mobs at once so its just ok for farming. Not slowest nor the fastest.....I didn't finish the farm since it was just testing....the vid is just a snippet not the full farm.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu21qqdBEWM

Trapdoor run +4 4x8- Could not get a sub 5.00 run to save my life. Just not enough quick charging AOE. I would have to get rid of Earth to get a better time.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rgHiX63SVM

But if anyone is on the fence about using Plant/Trick Arrow for high level stuff don't be, its a very solid and versatile combo. Plant can do anything and TA has a large tool kit. I didn't really save any of the builds because I was changing stuff on the fly (incarnates/IO's etc). The build is nothing fantastic by itself I change things for my playstyle and techniques.

 

I focused on procs/35 def ranged/300+ regen.

 

The only build I kept was an earlier attempt using Water Spout (which did well).

 

 

Plant Trick Arrow Attempt 1.mxd

Edited December 29, 2022 by Almighty Magic

[Scarlet Shocker]

love my Plant/TA which I made on live many years back. Very strong, quite pretty.