Ice Shower into nearly guaranteed penetrating > Rapid shot headshots. Yay? Nay?
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Hard to hit those against a moving target. Ice shower ends if you switch to bow if you put anything into it beyond the first basic skill.
So…not that effective. Easier to hit headshots with a musket. Hit-scan is much more effective with a bullet (hits where your crosshair is at when you click fire) than trying to predict movement and arrow drop.
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~War~
Well thats disappointing. Thought I was on to some nasty stuff.
What’s the cooldown on Ice shower? and can you lower CD?
Think i need to see this, but i fear “rapid anything” with the bow is weak or wonky.
Cooldown on ice shower is 20 seconds, but its a 3 second sprint/dodge disable and a 50% slow.
The bow abilities are actually really strong, with rapid shot doing 350% weapon damage in the same time it takes you to shoot a bow basic heavy attack, and penetrating shot is basically an instant heavy attack. Land all 4 hits in the head and its a nearly, if not, guaranteed kill.
But if ice shower really gets canceled when switching to bow, it doesn’t matter anyway. 
It’s 20% for 5 seconds, if you can land the circle on them or they run into it. And 20 seconds until you can use it again. Where do people get this misinformation at?
Edit! I mistook Ice Shower for Ice Storm, my mistake!
Not going to counter a Great Axe with a permanent +30% run speed buff and the damage bonus from the passive blood lust, lol!
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~War~
What you just linked literally says 50% slow.
So technically, people are getting misinformation from you linking it. Lmao
I think you are mistaking Ice Shower with Ice Storm. But even that says 25% in the tooltip of that link.
You’re right! I was thinking Ice Storm, lol! I’ve rarely gotten anyone to run into the wall that Ice Shower puts down. Had the same issue with the trap from musket line when I was trying that in beta.
My apologies!
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~War~
So when you said that it gets canceled if you switch weapons, was that the bubble, or does the wall disappear too?
Just the bubble with the dot…the wall at your feet stays in place when you switch. Just upgraded that yesterday and haven’t had issues there. But if a Great Axe user is in range of your ice wall/shower, then you’re in range of their pulls / gravity well and melee attacks you’re dead 
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~War~
I can turn you onto something nasty.
Full INT musket build. Good musket roll with +INT Vorpal, Enchanted, Keenly Jagged. Good luck getting all 3 but just Vorpal alone makes this weapon op. Recommend Onyx gem for the boost against targets at full health.
Light armor, again +INT. Skills to look for are Crippling Powder Burn, Empowering Shooter’s Stance, and Accelerating Traps. Wanna use Emerald gem here. Currently thrust damage is a pretty common damage type and at the ranges you’ll be fighting only muskets will be able to fight back.
What you get at minimum is +20% damage from light armor, Slow, Burn, 5 shots at a 75% reduced reload time, Increased headshot damage, Instant reload after 3 headshots and when you dodge. Empowering Shooters stance gives a damage boost to your follow up shots. With Keenly Jagged you can add bleed to that list. Enchanted will pump your base damage and cause more damage per tick on your DOTs. You’ll also grab the perk for dodging gives haste so with that and accelerating traps you’ll have +29% movement speed for 3 seconds. You can also grab the damage increase after aiming for 3 seconds, and the damage falloff skills to increase your lethal range.
The reason you stat dump on INT is nodes 2, 3, 5, and 6. +20% crit damage, +20% to elemental damage (your powder burn), +30% to duration of all status effects you inflict (honestly useless with how strong the build is cuz you’ll never need it but cool for dungeon bosses I guess), and finally +30% damage to targets at full health. Also INT is the secondary musket attribute so it pumps musket base damage. Once you have 300 INT dump the rest into DEX for some extra musket damage.
In the end at level 60 you have a Musket that can one shot any player not wearing heavy armor, 2 maybe 3 shots on these guys if your unlucky. But honestly the burn and bleed will deal with them usually. Heavy armor guys don’t expect to get popped for 80% of their health from an enemy they cant see and will panic and probably forget to cleanse and heal. If they have the ‘purify when dropping below 50% hp perk’ then you just follow up with the empowered shots from shooters stance till they are dead. Like I said 2 maybe 3 shots if you are unlucky.
Have fun ambushing players and them never knowing how they died.
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Hmmmm.
You have my attention.
Too bad I’m addicted to my Warhammer.
HAMMER GO BONK.
Does musket work with dex too or is this the only way to use it? ive been using it and trying to make it work but its absolute dogshit. it does very poor damage overall and if someone is wearing heavy armor, they might as well be immortal, it would take at least 50 shots or 20-30 headshots to kill them, im level 43 right now, im trying to stick it out but this game seems SUPER unbalanced and pointless to do anything but wear heavy armor and swing a 2h weapon.
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