I thought leeches were heavily nerfed on bows...
I'm building a demon slayer composite with HLA/HLD/Balance/SSI
But it's mainly for a archer/tamer build, as an assist to pets. The balance is for surprise pk attempts or, conversely, for area effect PvM. The SSI can be switched out for DI, although I prefer SSI for an archer/tamer
I'd be interested to know more on what exactly leeches do on bows now, hmm...*hits imbuing menu*
In pvm Leeches work great on all weapons. They're all dependent on how much damage your putting out.
Now to throw my 2 cents out there on pvming. I do ALOT of pvming, both solo with my sampire and in groups with my wammy.
You will not need any slayer on any bow. The damage cap is 300%. What you will be doing is this, 100 Di from items, 100 DI from Enemy of one and 100 DI from honor. If you're not honoring your wrong. If your planning on solo'ing stuff your gonna need a bow with the following mods.
Regular Crossbow
50 stam leech
50 mana leech
30 ssi then enhance to 40
high DI
With this bow, you'll need to be rocking a suit with 180 stamina. You will dish out massive amounts of damage (200-300) per hit and be a flat out powerhouse.
Now if your going to let a dragon do the tanking, you can use a set up along these lines
Magical Shortbow
40s Lower D
15 HCI (this is even optional as you'll be LS spamming the whole time)
30 SSI
High DI
My bow I use is,
magical Short
140 Luck
45 Lower D
30 SSI
40 DI
With this bow, you can use a suit with just 120 stam and devine fury and you will be swinging at 1.25s. You can rock a max luck suit, be at perfection and hit upwards of 3000-3500 luck. You will be in wraith form with this bow, thus you will not need any leeches.
The two templates that you will build around these bows are the ABC archer and the Wammy
ABC Archer
120 archery
120 bushido
100 resist
100 healing
100 anatomy
100 tactics
75 chivarly
That is all you really need for a solo template. You could probably even drop the healing and raise necro for vampire form and the life leech ability. Depends on your style...
Wammy ( Wraith Samurai)
120 Arch
120 bushido
100 Spirit Speak
100 tactics
100 anatomy
75 chivalry
0 or 50 necro (i use 50 for corpse skin)
And whatever other skills you want...thats honestly all you need