09-29-2008, 05:12 PM
Quote:For argument's sake, you are giving swifty bows too much credit here. They would never beat a mythical king's LWB of slaughter in damage per second, and the extra speed is not as useful from a stun or be stunned standpoint as with a melee weapon (other than PvP I suppose). Even in the Real World of Diablo where bows of slaughter don't exist, getting enough damage to stun enemies is enough of a challenge to developing rogues to put swiftness behind raw damage for a long time.
Um, as a huge advocate of rogue playing (Ive lvled 4 of these gals to 50), i have to disagree for the most part.
Swiftness bows are just SICK. For a low lvl rogue, yes, raw damage would be more important then damage per second, but you are only low lvl for so long :)
Only place to go is up. And for mid-high lvl rogues, swiftness is clearly superior to raw damage for a number of reasons. Even if the raw damage is less, the the increased damage per unit of time for outweighs this factor, especially in nightmare and hell mode. Not to mention the fact that swiftness bows can stun multiple enemies at once. And against enemies that have super fast hit recovery like Balrogs, swiftness is indespensible on a bow. If im playing a high ac casting rogue, Emerald Heavens would be my bow of choice, in any other situation I would use my Massive Swiftness.
and for PvP, its a no brainer. Swiftness bows are hands down the way to go, though FireIce will occaisonally pull out the Merciless Burning for fun.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)