today, we talk about arrow skills in path of exile. different arrow skills have their own advantage and disadvantage in battle.
in path of exile, all arrow skills is show as follows:
rain of arrows
split arrow
lightning arrow
ice shot
poison arrow
puncture
burning arrow
barrage
explosive arrow
frenzy
however, all is not used by players in battle in the game. some of skills can cause physical damage, like split arrow; some cause element damage such as ice shoot lightning arrow; some can closely attack monsters like frenzy.
rain of arrows
rain of arrow is an aoe skill in the game. you can shoot hundreds of thousands of arrows even if there are some obstacles between your character and enemies. if you have high critical strike chance, the damage skill of the skill will be great.
in the course of using rain of arrows, it is easy for your class to be closed by enemies in battle. in addition, the monster to reflect damage is its eternal fatal weak coin.
split arrow
to fire split arrow, enemies do not easily close to you though its panel dps is lower than rain of arrows. but split arrow is faster to clear away monsters if you match it with chain. split arrow faster attacks life gain on hit can recover life quickly, which is a way to survival.
like rain of arrows, the weakness of split arrow is reflecting damage monsters.
lightning arrow
lightning arrow causes lightning damage for enemies. it can convert half of all physical damage to lightning damage. if you equip with a poe items like blackgleam change half physical into fire damage. it is useful to slay reflecting damage monsters with lightning arrow.
each time lightning arrow has one projectile to be shot, it is bad to slay a group of enemies.
ice shot
ice shot converts some physical damage to cold damage and freeze monster for a short time. it can also piece enemies.
poison arrow
poison arrow causes a chaos damage over time debuff to some monsters. it is perfect effect that you link poison arrow to lmp or chain.
i found the skill takes more mana than other skills when i use it.
puncture
puncture can cause a bleeding defuff while enemies were hit. the skills has been analyzed in analysis to poe puncture and how to deal with damage from puncture.
frenzy
frenzy is a good solo skill in the melee. it is huge damage if you get high critical strike.
after you launch frenzy, you need to wait to charge for some time and fire next arrow to attack monsters.
barrage
there is the detail analysis in new poe skill barrage detail analysis.
burning arrow
burning arrow deals fire damage to enemies in battle.
explosive arrow
explosive arrow causes fire damage with an arrow which acts as a short duration fuse. it can the chance to ignite monsters in fights.