Archer/Hunter Help Rainbow Hive Bow Powdering

So here I have a typical rainbow archer build:
https://wynndata.tk/s/1NxXbJ

However, when going to powder the Infused Hive Bow, I put on all T6 powders, but we all know that to get a perfectly even "rainbow" you do something along the lines of W4 A4 T5 F6 F6.

So, here's the exact same build but with the "optimal" rainbow powdering:
https://wynndata.tk/s/EJwQtV

If you look closely at the stats, you'll see that you actually get more damage with full T6 powders because of the extra dmg T6 powders give, at the cost of an unbalanced rainbow bomb.

So my question is, why is an even rainbow bomb be better, and is it worth sacrificing some damage to get an even rainbow bomb instead of going full T6?


Also if anyone has a good rainbow/spell Hive Bow build that they could share it would be much appreciated.

 

it abuses different elemental weaknesses better which is the point of rainbow damage
the first build (which uses t6s) deals very little air damage with its bombs, meaning mobs with air weakness wont be affected as much

for a stronger build over all i like the capri version since it comes with more ws and agi. you can make up for the lost mr if you want by changing out a ring to mpc and 94 int for 3 mana bombs is still reachable if you change another ring

 

Really? As far as this thread explains, elemental weakness is just a simple substraction, so it shouldn't matter how much damage you deal, it will still apply the same amount of weakness damage.

 

add a breeze hands so u can use your mana steal

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https://wynndata.tk/s/SzsyJV

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also invest into intell so u can spam the arrow bomb

 

mana steal trigger rate is supposedly the same regardless of attack speed and this build uses courage
it's not worth the -% spell damage to use breeze as the melee dps doesnt even get that high
you cant even use double breeze hands even wynndata warns about this

can we have mantid back instead of this

 

mantid has ascended beyond gods, we will have to deal with this for now