R/E Icy Spike full dmg build

Here's an idea:

Switch Beast Mastery into Wilderness Survival. Switch out Marksman's Wager for Poison Arrow (it adds 40 damage at lvl0 Wilderness Survival and it only costs 5 energy). Switch out Tiger's Fury for Kindle Arrows, since you've already got Dual Shot. Never switch out Tiger's Fury in a damage build. It's the best attack speed buff out there. Furthermore, if he uses Kindle Arrows, it changes the elemental damage type of his bow to Fire, and that means he can't use Conjure Frost.

Pin Down is much less energy intensive and quicker than Ice Spikes, so I'd probably use that to conserve energy. Ice Spikes is slightly harder to remove, given that it becomes a hex, and slows an opponent down more significantly, but for a much shorter period of time. Either way, I'm still leaning toward Pin Down.

I'd boot Power and Precision Shot as well. One for Rez Signet, the other for Throw Dirt so you can at least protect yourself and your teammate. This won't impact your damage output too much, and neither of those skills are very good anyway. I'd fiddle around with your stats a bit so that you wouldn't need Marksman's Wager (Something like 10+4 Expertise, 9 Water, and 10+1 Marks and 7+1 BM, or 11+1 Marks and 3+1 BM, depending.) As far as a replacement elite.....you're not stacking Kindle on there, so you may as well take Barrage for spammable damage output.

Its not a bad idea, but its really not as good/efficient as the absolute maximum in single target conjure damage potential, which is Kindle Arrows + Conjure Flame (And you don't need a fiery bowstring for this combo, since Kindle turns your damage into fire) and Dual Shot, followed closely by Penetrating attack. I'm sorry if my suggestion turns your original idea into an established build.

Horn/Ivory/Shadow Bows have innate armor penetration and would help deal larger individual spikes, but maximum damage over the least amount of time is the province of Short Bows.
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what kind of armor penetration??????? in all the shot???? 10%? 20%?

shadow have the same fire/flight rate/time of short bow...or very very similar.

and why is not in the description of bow? are u sure?

Miao.

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what kind of armor penetration??????? in all the shot???? 10%? 20%?

shadow have the same fire/flight rate/time of short bow...or very very similar.

and why is not in the description of bow? are u sure?

Miao. Its a flat 10%, and has been pointed out by several sources.

Shadow Bows are a lot slower than Short Bows. The Missile Weapons Guide here lists them as this: Shadow Bow 2.7 seconds 80' 0.75 seconds

WHich is the same speed as an Ivory Bow (I always equivocated them with Horn Bows) in my mind, and both Ivory and Horn Bows have the armor penetration.

I'm still not that big a fan of them, or Storm or Eternal Bows. They're entirely vanity weapons, IMO.

Well, short bows true, they do have a fast shot reload as do flatbows. But both have weaknesses as well. Flatbow has very nice range but unless my target is being tanked by something, not very smart idea. Shortbow contradicts the sniper motif.

Stormbow I will admit just looks good and it shoots on the slower end, however, Tiger's Fury should make up for it and it still has a rather straight trajectory when compared to the flatbow.

No offense, but I really don't see the point of the extra bow range and the 'sniper motif', apart from being 'cool' rather than 'efficient'. Why exactly do you need to be farther away from your opponents? It's not helping you in any way, shape or form in PvP, and all its doing in PvE is protecting you mildly better at a significant cost to damage. Sure, a Longbow with TF isn't bad, but a Shortbow with TF absolutely blows it away, and using anything but the fastest bow in a damage build is basically gimping yourself.

Since mobs don't move much in PvE, long range bows aren't bad. Flatbows have the same RoF as Shortbows, but much longer range. In some places they offer a significant advantage in pulling. I should have mentioned pulling. I only ever use long range bows in PvP for that purpose. True a flatbow is almost as fast as a short bow, but the trajectory is ridiculously high. It will miss any mob charging forward almost certainly. But for stationary targets, its not terrible. I still prefer the shorter, direct path of the short bow trajectory.

But again, for pure damage, only the fastest bow will do.

Just to reitterate something:

Res signet is a MUST for EVERY PvP character; regardless of class. Nah. Monks shouldn't carry res sig. If they are wasting time ressing, then more people will die.