I am playing with a ranged pierce Tactician at the moment, and while leveling it I was wondering what component to put in the weapon (playing 2H). Vicious spike seems to be the obvious choice until seal of Blades, but I came across Silvercore Bolts and wonder how good it is. Racial bonus is nice, what about the granted skill? It seems to be quite good on its own, and as far as I can tell can reach good damages thanks to the shotgun effect. But problem is, I don’t see any reason to stop my Cadence spamming, it still do more damage. And thus Vicious spike is a better deal.
Am I wrong? Is there a chance to make use of this component? And generally speaking, I feel like most of the time we basically use components which grant a damage-boosting aura until you can get a better “Seal of”. Maybe not always, but most of the times.
It cant hurt to try it out, best thing is to try out if you like this shotgun skill. If the components arent too expensive for you just go with it and see if it yields results. Its still a close call: shotgun skill or piercing aura. Personally i’d go with the shotgun skill until seal of blades or something.
Silver Spread benefits of Deadly Momentum, so it might give you a good nuke skill. Try if it yields better results than only using Cadence with a different component.
To me it doesn’t even look good on higher levels. I used it on level 32-ish character, it was good, nice clear etc (only if surrounded), but after something like 50-ish, on normal, it started to be weak. I don’t even remember if it fires arrows around your character or shoots a projectile that explodes on contact and fires projectiles the same way. Anyway, I didn’t like it at all.
I did give it a try before posting, sorry I should I have emphasize it. I had the same feeling as mad_lee. AoE-wise, a piercing-through Cadence shot is just better IMO, and damage-wise Cadence is hard to beat and both benefit from deadly momentum anyway. Even around lvl30-40, I still think that plain damage from Vicious Spike is just better.
My feeling was that this component was rather useless, so maybe I had missed the point. It seems I didn’t. Vicious spike and thel latter seal of blades are just better for pierce-based build I guess. If only the granted skill was better (more damage? 100% pierce through chances? More shots?)
Btw the way, the racial damages (+62 to chtonics in the silver spread skill), what kind of damage are they? Physical? Do they get converted?