What’s the general consensus on silver spread from the silvercore bolts component?
I’m currently trying to improve/optimise a ranged build at endgame to deal with nemeses and this sprang to mind.
Although I’m not a consensus;
I use it as a shotgun against anything that procs the void devotion (100% on attack).
Then I stand there and throw daggers in faces until everything is dead 
AND it will go well flavour wise when I start wearing the demonslayer set 
CD is too long, AND it targets horribly if not used on your mouse (which means only use it if you don’t have a good right click skill).
Range is also short; if you want it to shotgun you’d have to step in even closer, which spells danger for most ranged characters.
Overall not that useful unless your build somehow doesn’t have a good right click skill… (skills with around 2-5 second CDs which need to be used frequently to be put on the keyboard, but not worth used on left click)
That defines the skill quite precisely.
CD is so long, that it’s impossible to make of silver spread a reliable semi-spammable main skill.
The way it targets is engine related, same for PB, but the latter can be transmuted to a spammable skill, thus correcting the faults. High CD combined with such a targeting kills the skill. In a perfect world the blades would always spread in a cone, no matter the position of the character and the target, and the distance between them.
At its current state silver spread works fine as a single target shotgun and as a chthonic boss killer. What’s questionable is, if the high cost of the component and its properties (overall usefulness) justify the benefits it provides and its use in general.
Thanks for the replies, I’ve since given it a try and the rather slow speed and cooldown threw me off when it came to using it. I’ll have to look at Shard of Beronath next which I probably should have done at the beginning.
Edit: And Shard of Beronath can’t be used with ranged weapons, well, this character’s getting shelved then unfortunately as I’m entirely out of ideas short of swapping from ranged to melee or creating an entirely new character based around the concept but with a different class combination.
I don’t think it’s intended to be that way, but rather something you do as part of a rotation or as a supplement to a spammable skill.
Sure it isn’t, it’s definitely designed as a supplement.
I was about making it semi-spammable by investments in CDR, and of course backing the build up with other skill(s) when it’s on CD. But targeting is so poor that combined with the CD it’s unplayable.
Like non-transmuted PB, same shit.
it’s much worse than PB… PB’s range is much longer, AND it carries a lot of bleed, such that you just need one dagger to hit to get the full bleed effect. I myself use untransmuted PB for bleed builds…
A lot of component skills will be better than silver spread in the vast majority of cases such that I wonder why it should be considered a rare component…