Rain of arrows question

[mad at video games]

I couldn't find this answer on the wiki. Does increasing the area of effect increase the cone in which the arrows are fired or the size of the arrows? Or both?

Also has anyone tried to stack additional arrows on rain of arrows? Is it purely only good to do that for clearspeed because the wiki's description of how additional arrows works for RoW makes me think it wouldn't do anything for single target.

[davidb11]

It should increase the cone. It's notable when under a massive shrine for certain. :)

[_Fell]

per the wiki,

Targeting: Half of the arrows will attempt to target a creature within their range, while the other half will land randomly. A single enemy can be hit multiple times.

Additional Arrows: Additional arrows will be added at the outer portion of the Area of Effect, effectively increasing the AoE of the skill.

this means when you target a creature with rain of arrows, half of the base arrow count (1 + what the skill adds. not including additional projectiles here) will try to aim for the target creature. the rest will hit randomly within the skills area.

when you add an additional projectile to rain of arrows, those additional projectiles will try to land towards the outer rim of the skills area. because each arrow creates a smaller circle of damage when it lands, these additional arrows can potentially have their radius overlap the skills main radius, effectively increasing your aoe.

additional arrows for rain of arrow, a skill that already adds 17-21 of them, is kinda iffy. on one hand, each (including additional) has a chance to have their damage radius overlap and "shotgun" a target. thats a nice damage multiplier. on the other hand, rain of arrows causes your arrows to do 40-50% of the base damage, AND has a 40-50% damage effectiveness meaning that if you added 2-4 cold damage to your bow attacks, rain of arrows is only getting at 1-2 cold damage.

[Niuq]

Extra Aoe and Xtra arrows are fairly pointless on ROE imo.
I end up running Conc effect as the Aoe is stupid large to begin with, maybe on a slow attacking build more aoe could be better but not in your links.