Originally Posted by tuperwho

Like I said, never tried anything like that before, and I was just throwing it together in a hurry. I did concider the prep with barrage, but I don't think it's too bad. Unlike kindle, ignite, etc., which rely on the prep being active for each hit, apply poison goes on autopilot. You use it, then pin down, then hunters, then epidemic. Normally, the benefit of apply poison is that you can hit multiple targets while it's still active. However, with epidemic, this is not needed. Thus, you have a mob all poisoned, and have littel use for apply poison until the poison duration ends. Thus, to me, it's not too terrible to use barrage. Yes, I'll admit that apply poison is expensive to only use for 2-3 arrows per mob, but I personally feel that you can get a better elite than poison arrow. Thus, I still hold that barrage is ok (aestheticlaly, I like the idea of AoE arrow attacks to go with the AoE degen from conditions + epidemic), but I would also assert that punishing shot would work well. How can you go wrong with big damage and interrupt?

And yes, FW is a bit of a gamble, but not so much so that it prevents its use.