The one that was with a repeater did.

I was in an active period when those were hot so I played a couple versions. I tried a bard version once for enchantment dc's but it was slow as fuck. I think I liked the shuriken version when imbues would work but that's no longer.

The Terror arrows are wis based DC which pairs nicely with 10k and Killer/Deadly Instinct from Falcon Punch. The pre-fix Terror imbue builds hunted vorpals with repeaters or shuriken and the rate of fire on the bow will be inferior.

I think the best thing is probably to build a wis based slayer arrow 10k/manyshot AA and enjoy the super high imbue dc's that come with it. Unfortunately Deadly Instinct boosts tactical dc's and imbues are enchantment.

Short answer, yes it is still viable, but you will use paralyze more. 

Longer answer starts with what no longer works... like fearing undead.  Additionally, fear is annoying; even for those using it, and does not stop the mob attack sequence. So, if you hit with a fear during a mobs attack sequence, you still take the hit as the sequence finishes first.  With paralyze, it interrupts the attack completely.  And as a bonus, you don't get pissed off folks chasing feared mobs.


I have abandoned the max DC build for more of a ranged power build.  I can still paralyze in reaper mode with no noticeable issues.  Just bring a LGS salt bow in there and most people will love you for it.  Between super slow-mo from salt and paralyze, it is an easy way to approach reaper.

Just interesting why bother? PK is terrible effect due to double save check, on heroics you have your vorpal and improved vorpal that works just superb. If you are talking about epics, well, shrugs, dont know if it ever worth to use. Fear effect is the best way to get blacklisted :-D well if it used to work on undead and some other cheese I dont know cause not playex those days, it may be interesting. But nowdays its looking super useless

I was a huge fan of the Terror Shuri build and a lesser extent the GxB build. When the inbues went Bow only I dropped the idea mostly but one of my alts hit completionist recently and he has most of the decent bows in the game so I've pondered putting him into a AA/Monkcher build but most of them seem boring anymore.

At any rate talking with a pugger recently who was using the Falconry thing led to a conversation to consider. Druid 17 Ranger 3 probably an Elf. Use the 17 Druid to run in either Water or Fire Elemental Form to take advantage of the changes with Mantle giving 100% Elemental vulnerability on Bosses. Even if you have to manually pop a spell (Creeping Cold) every minute to trigger the effect on an Ice Arrow Imbue running with a few hundred Cold Spell Power that should tick along nicely. If you play in Falconry and hit this as a Wisdom build you should hit by some rough calculations a standing Terror Arrow DC of 85ish to 95ish depending at cap and I know those numbers work very well on much of the trash in most of the game. Back it up with the Elemental Arrow for bosses and it should be a damn solid performer. It will be very much a gear pig and the build AP is going to be tight as Archers always seem to be but I've mapped out 2 versions to try so far. One a traditional Fury/racial AA build. One a Falconry moderate AA build.

One thing is will an arrow imbue trigger the mantle effect on it's own being that its an enchantment. I doubt this but I look forward to testing it when I can get the Falconry tree separate from the cosmetic bs pack.

The downside of the Terror Arrow thing will be the slowness of the bow attack speed and the low BAB this build will generate effecting bow speed as well so its definitely a niche thing that may not work if you decide to try something along these lines.

With Falconry in the mix, I was thinking about reworking my old imbue shuriken build into a 14 Cleric/6 Monk Bow build with racial AA.