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Hey guys I looked for a thread on this question but I didn't see any. Please excuse me if I accidently overlooked one. I am wondering what will be better for PvM, strafe or multishot? I heard some people say multishot because you can move when you cast it opposed to not being able to move until your strafe attack it over. Does this really make a difference? I would like to have a good reason for your choice and why you would say this. I personally like strafe better because I thought that it took up less mana but I am not sure and I am just wondering which is better against monsters? Thanks for all your inputs, this info will really help me.
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id say they are both good for pvm when fighting big herds, but a bowazon isnt exactly a very good pvm in the first place..
id say put a few in multi and a few in strafe so u will have enough left for the passive skills
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I dont really like strafe much, you can do damage to alot more enemys in a area with multi, then again i've never made a zon before but if i did for pvm it would be multi.
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Hey guys thanks for the information. Another thing I think is better about strafe is that it attacks any monsters around whereas multishot you have to shoot at a certain area. Please continue with the ideas. Thanks again.
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You should only put 1 point into Multi-shot anyways. Once Multi-shot reaches skill level 23 it doesnt get any better. The only thing that goes up is the mana cost. With all your plus to skills, you should be fine. If you level up Multi-shot and then take into consideration all the plus to skills items you have......you end up with an attack that takes ALOT of mana and doesnt really get any better damage wise. So only put one point into Multi-shot (5 at the most) and let your "+skill" items take care of leveling it the rest of the way.
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I'd use multi and then if there's a handful close by I'd spam strafe. Although usually only had to use multi and guided.
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strafe less mana and it AA
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Lol well guys I see alot of different opinions of the two different skills but I am just playing tcp/ip with my brother because we only have 1 cd key so we can't play together on Battle.net(i know, brotherly love
) so alot of the +skills items I would normally have, I don't have because we aren't using editors. Just the plain old fasihioned run through the whole game type of playing. It is actually pretty fun, gets you familiar with the game. Anyway, thanks for the information so far. My idea right now is to put 5 or 6 into multi and see how that does then put some in strafe. 'Link 4 Ever' said Bowazon wasn't even good for pvm anyway but I am doing pretty good so far. Well thanks again for all the information I have recieved and hopefully will continue to recieve
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For a Pvm bow it would be better to use strafe
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Okay guys I think I have come to the decision that strafe it better. I have been using multi with two 7% manald heal rings and there is absolutley no mana heal unless the group is enormous(rare) or I use normal shot one monster at a time. I have not done strafe yet but before in the past, the mana heal was very good because each arrow hit a monster and stole mana. This has helped me out alot and I hope others that need this information will run into it also. Final decision is strafe is better PvM especially if you want mana steal. Thanks for everyone who helped me out making this decision.
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strafe is better. no doubt , it AA's and it hits everything anyways, so u are garenteed to hti something/ many things, when multi doesn NOT AA it only gos a certain area. so strafe FTW.
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strafe does have a disadvantage though, while fireing you cant move until you finish firing X ammount of arrows, by then it could be all over
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not really you have crazy amount of leech and it will keep you alive so strafe is better then multi cuz if the enemy is far awy the arrows get farther apart and miss everything T_T stafe=pvm multi=pvp
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definitly go with strafe for PvM, friend did pretty good with it.
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i voted for multi, because personally i love the leech u can get if u shoot out a multi. Never made a strafe, so dont no about them to much. but seeing them in pvm, multi looks better
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who gives a shit, it's a garbage pvm
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Strafing without a doubt, not sure what my reason(s) is/are, it just seems better to me.
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Do strafe, way better odds to leech. BTW bowzons can still be good pvm, and are awesome for running chaos. Sure there are things with more hitpower but you can deal with anything that's not immune to both physical and magic.
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