5 Foot Step wrote on Jan 28
th, 2016 at 10:28am:
100s of elemental damage per shuriken is somehow terrible for red names?
Objectively? Yes. I tested extensively and posted the results.
Moreover, if you went Racial AA for Slayer Arrow, you could also get MORE elemental damage per Shuriken going T5 Elemental Arrows. You could still be in FoTW, you could still do lots of proc damage, and you could still put up those very big and juicy Adrenal/Slayer shots that eat up red names.
Moreover, I'm going to post my mains current build soon, 14/6 Monk/Ranger that goes goes T5 DWS, and T4 AA (non-racial, crucial for AP to get KTA). T4 gives big elemental procs on boss mobs, but at 56 Wisdom with a little gear and 1 feat/1 twist (or no feat and twist if you ETR with Magister trained) a 63-64 DC paralyze that makes LE content completely trivial because you can paralyze EVERYTHING and then just level drain it down with T3 Crippling Flames/Ruby of Endless Night TF shuri. Bosses switch to Elemental arrows, flip to Archers Focus, get to 25 stacks fast with Aimed shot, Dual Boost, and go fucking nuts with Adrenaline and 10k/Manyshot.
Totally ridiculous.
A 20 Monk build could capture most of that builds selling points, and be FAR less end game/red name gimped if you chose to acknowledge the short coming of going T5 Ninja Spy and not AA on an Elf/Helf. But really, you should just add 6 Ranger levels and get better AP allocations.