Explosive shot or scattershot?

[Klaus]

which is more damage? which has better aoe? which would you pick if you can only have one, better overall? thanks in advance if you have input on this.

[MadMax665]

Scattershot, hands down. Soften them up with Ice shot or Poison shot and then fan them down once they're close enough for Scattershot.

[Leaf Fox]

scattershot. with that you can close to one shot most monsters or two shots the "elites and suchs" specialy with picking the " chance of shots passing thrue and the +30%dmg. but you need to be abit close up and personal, think of it as a very massiv shotgun with buckshots xD

[Klaus]

thanks for replies.

[Angelrage]

Try ice shot +poison shot, whit ice shot you may get the highest skill dps(whit cc) and using it wht poison shot you can get lik 6-7k crit on a target easy.

[Youpi#]

perso i prefer explosive shot.Scater shot cost a lot of mana and the range is pretty short.

[Klaus]

angle what do you mean by highest skill dps cc?
like highest damage in all the spells for single target?

[Vahnkiljoy]

I was HIGHLY disappointed in scatter shot, the cost is NOT worth the pitiful damage, not when I can do much more with repeated shots of explosive, hell it was the only skill I used once I saw the horribly mana inefficient scattershot.

[Pocok]

Explosive shot with poison shot.

[Klaus]

I undid my explosive to scatter, I must say I agree that it is A bit too much mana, I can only pull the move off about two times, making explosive more useful for large groups atleast.

[r¡sê ºƒ çhaös]

Originally posted by Youpi #YOLO:

perso i prefer explosive shot.Scater shot cost a lot of mana and the range is pretty short.

Hah who in their right mind is using scatter shot at 100 mana per shot? it is absolutely no better than Explosive and costs TEN times the mana! Am I missing something BIG here? It is 100 mana minimum a shot that is like 2 shots. Im only lvl 22 so not sure if people have like 1200 mana and 100 mana on kill or something I have like 300

[TipToeDonkey]

Scattershot has some big advantages over Explosive that makes it worth it once you can manage the mana cost.

The biggest advantage is it can hit the same mob multiple times. 8x 90% weapon dps in 1 attack anyone?

Mana over time is probably the easiest way to manage it, mana on kill helps too. I prefer slow, high damage attacks so mana on hit I skipped altogether.

Edit: I alternate between Scattershot + Rageboosted(AoE) Normal shot. Normal shot kills give back good mana, and Scattershot kills fuel my Rage. Just YoYo your resource.

And mana over time :D

[NEUROMONGO]

Stand close to a boss, give him a scattershot. there u go, totally worth 100+ mana. itd be super imba otherwise

[ArcanisCz]

You are missing "+Xmana on hit". If you have lets say +10, you can pretty much spam scattershot to mob pack. Even more, if you use +90% pierce :D

[Youpi#]

Im now lvl29 at last boss and there is my build. Maxed frost shot and explosive shot and elemental dmg (by maxing elemental dmg my frost shot does 1660 and 1330 with maxed shoot).Your highest mana cost is frost shot with 27MP(my Van mana regen/1s is 44MP with 12MPH and 24MPH on katarina with maxed touch of oblivion5.5% of Van MP ).My van actually have 461MP and I never run oom.
Sorry for mistake, English isn't my native language.

[ArcanisCz]

My opinion is:
Explosive shot + poison shot (with 3 splash powerups) for long range

Scatter shot (+ occasionaly 3 pierce powerups) with ice shot (for tricky oponents) for more personal approach. (Some survival skills and gear needed)

In both cases, heavily relied on +X hp/mp per hit effects.