Any Monk Bow Builds?
Havent seen much discussion on the topic, as i imagine deadeye is the best option around.
But ive heard ES is the best defense and invoker seems to be the better option of the 2 ascendancies, so what are my options?
I was thinking grab mainly the element of choice, some Meta nodes, and lean into either cast on crit or cast on shock.
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You can mostly follow the LA deadeye build, and pathing your passives to get similar nodes as the deadeye ones. You won't be as fast or have as much damage, but it'll work
Acolyte with chaos/poison could probably work as well. I started one on HC but still in Act 1, the lack of early damage nodes is a bit harsh..
Acolyte spiral volley looks pretty decent
Check mobalytics. Following a monk invoker bow build with poison gas. Tearing things up.
Any crit deadeye build works fine on Invoker - you have access to crit pen from ascendancy and plenty of generic ele scaling. Most of the good crit nodes are either in the monk area or along the monk/ranger outer ring, and you're close to lots of ES/EV nodes so probably lean into that rather than life/acro.
I'm playing howa + lightning rod + dual heralds on invoker with 7k ES and 60% evasion and it's working pretty well.
You could probably do any crit based build, and more easily invest in the good defensive stacking of evasion and ES since you are near the mage nodes. Also ice shot or any cold based builds would do very well since you can get heavy frost and thin ice, which are so broken they might as well be ascendency nodes (bypass all cold resistance and deal 50% increased damage to frozen enemies)