Why? You might be thinking: but hey, Archery passive for bows is better dps, and that's true, however it's a negligible difference. So the cons outweigh the pros.
Now the reasons why Xbow>Bow are the following:
1. Tier 18 Xbow higher dps than tier 18 bow
2. You spend your hatred much faster with a bow (you could be thinking you also regain it faster, but with a bat companion and good dps with an xbow you can kill champs/elites/etc. before you're out of hatred.
Say you're doing 300k dps/second with Nether tentacles for 10 seconds with a xbow, with a bow you now do 300k dps/second for 5-6 seconds before you have to switch over to hungering arrow. With a 10% elemental arrow quiver like I have this becomes huge. (this does not mean that getting atkspd in gear is bad, it just means that there's no reason to get more atkspd from your weapon when it's just gonna lower your dps there.
3. Critdmg = very good with sharpshooter passive for your first 5-6 elemental arrows.
4. You can stutterstep just fine with anything over 1.9-2 atkspd
Point 2 does not make sense. Attack speed will always increase DPS--at any given time or situation.
Point 3 is also strange as it is hard to believe you can shoot 5 or 6 elemental arrows within the window of 1 second. Not realistic with current level of gear.
I prob explained myself pretty badly since I was short in time.
Attack speed is an increase in DPS (I said that)
however Bow vs Xbow is the same DPS in a trade off of Attack speed vs Higher dmg.
Your hatred definitely drains faster the more ias you have lol. It'd probably be a hecka lot cheaper to just stack *mostly* mass dex on gear with crit damage and get a good weapon than grabbing various legendary IAS gear with lower dex and ten times the price tag if you're just entering into inferno later acts, wish I had known that sooner.
What's the effective damage difference between hungering arrow and nether tentacles btw, shouldn't they be similar on single target or no?
hungering arrow + devouring = like 210% ish average dps
Bows are better, unless your critchance/critdmg ratio is horribly unbalanced in favor of critchance. Also, faster attack speed gives faster animations, allowing you to move earlier after using an ability/attacking, and the DPS loss of spending hatred faster is negilible, since Devouring Arrow is a great generator, that plus the faster generation compensates well.
But of course the weapon with significantly higher DPS is always better.
When you have good gear more attack speed from weapon doesn't exactly make you stutter step better because you're already at 2.2+ atkspd.
Think about 310% DPS for 10 seconds vs 310% DPS for 6 seconds then you're doing about 210% dps from devouring arrow
Everything seems to keep coming back to crit one way or another. I think that just goes to show how strong sharpshooter is for inferno entry level if nothing else, not that it isn't the best for end game damage builds too.
Everything seems to keep coming back to crit one way or another. I think that just goes to show how strong sharpshooter is for inferno entry level if nothing else, not that it isn't the best for end game damage builds too.
best endgame dmg is 1Hs with tons of affixes but that isn't realistic
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I prob explained myself pretty badly since I was short in time.
Attack speed is an increase in DPS (I said that)
however Bow vs Xbow is the same DPS in a trade off of Attack speed vs Higher dmg.
hungering arrow + devouring = like 210% ish average dps
nether tentacles 310%
i got a 1300 dps xbow for 5.9
When you have good gear more attack speed from weapon doesn't exactly make you stutter step better because you're already at 2.2+ atkspd.
Think about 310% DPS for 10 seconds vs 310% DPS for 6 seconds then you're doing about 210% dps from devouring arrow
310% vs 210% is huge
best endgame dmg is 1Hs with tons of affixes but that isn't realistic