Earth/water For A Archer?

After I read that the spelldamage was nerfed I looked for some info what build I shld do after the nerf. On the wiki I found out that a bomb arrow deals mostly earth/fire dmg, I am that kind of archer who wants to spam arrow bombs from a save place and one hit the enemies around my level, to spam arrow bombs i need a lot of intelligence, but bc arrow bombs deal mostly earth dmg I am thinking to go for a build with in first place:
1.Intelligence
2. Strength
3.Dexterity
4. Agility
5. Defense

So i wld get a sort of muddy build with water and earth. Would that work out?
I also like walk speed and fast weapons. But that doesn't work out with slow earth items. Does anyone knows a solution?

Btw im lvl 79

 

go for it though i think fire / water would be a but more viable

 

Well... it's up to you what you use.
The one problem is the fact that earth and water items almost always counter each other. They are almost exact opposites. Earth means high melee damage, low spell damage. Water means high spell damage, low melee damage. Of course, there are other things these elements give like poison for each and mana regen for water.
I would say, if you want to have a build which boosts the base elemental damage on your spells, that you should go for a water fire archer. These two elements rarely conflict each other. Not only that, but I'm starting to see a lot of really good fire bows at high levels.
As for the walk speed and fast weapon problem... that can't really go with a water-earth or water-fire build. Well, I guess you could have a bit of dexterity or agility to help with the water-fire build but you would have to have only a little dexterity.
Another solution to that problem would be to replace water with dexterity. As earth gives slowness to counter the possible walk speed the thunder items have, you would probably want fire. So fire thunder. Why thunder? Well, thunder does give walk speed often, but I could have said air. The thing is, thunder also often has mana related things. While it does sometimes have spell damage, thunder items more often have things like mana steal or regen.

So if you want to boost bomb arrow's damage, have a bit of spell-related stuff AND keep the walk speed and fast attacks, I would go for a mainly fire-thunder build.

 

That was confusing

 

Olux weapons, fenmask, pisces, marsh waders, aquamarine, druid ring, and more.

All of these are earth-water items with few if any negatives of high magnitude :P

Also, op:
Though there are not really any high attack speed bows like this, and you like walk speed:
-earth water doesnt really have walk speed alteration that is significant
-olux and a pure earth and pure water would be ideal on your hotbar.
-though you will be slow, not only is your damage augmented by poison and intelligence augmented by mana regen, you will also enjoy the benefits of %spell and thorns, both common to these items.

I recommend leveling up a bit and using:
Fenmask
Damage and defense chestplate
Leggings of choice
Sodeta boots (mana reg)/black sheep (walk speed and only requires strength)

Druids ring
Supression
Squid anklet (i think it gives mana regen)
Stormy amulet

 

I tried not to make it too confusing, but in the end... yeah.

Still doesn't really solve his problem of no high walk speed or fast attack speed. Still, any build technically works, you just need to have good ids, know how to use it and be able to use it.

 

Added some stuff he could use. :P. Attack speed is a lost cause overall, a secondary like clairvoyance would be the best thing he gets

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Actually, if he invests the rest of his skill points into agility, he could wear crystal and boosterplate as well, but being as earth-water is a slow, but consistent heavy hitter with thorns, its better spent in defense

 

*attack speed is a lost cause if he wants to go with earth
Actually, I'm just trying the general earth-water archer so far. Don't know how well it works since I haven't found anything which relates to this build, unless a normal very slow attack speed but high damage bow counts.

 

Thank u all for responding, you gave me really useful tips!

 

I made a proper list of all water-earth items over level 60 (viable regardless of your level, as 60+ marks the beginning of viable endgame with badwolves being introduced). Ill give a full list and guide with pros and cons of each item, and I'll put the link here :P

 

Wow thankuu!

 

Earth slows you down. So it's not recommended for archers to use earth builds. But if you like yoloing just go right ahead :3