[3.13]🏹 Poison Barrage-VF / Scourge Arrow / TR PF | Bottled Fortify | The Tankiest Ranger + High DPS

My sirus phases usually last around 10 seconds each, last one being a bit bigger at 20-30 seconds.

Single target DPS gets pretty good once you have the right setup, it mainly focus on poison, though, so you need some nodes targeting poison duration and the likes

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Vallcrist wrote:

My sirus phases usually last around 10 seconds each, last one being a bit bigger at 20-30 seconds.

Single target DPS gets pretty good once you have the right setup, it mainly focus on poison, though, so you need some nodes targeting poison duration and the likes

Well... yeah. Your gear looks "insane" as I put it.

But it seems I already have gotten all poison related passives. So I don't see how I can scale that much from here on, on passives alone.

Here is my updated PoB: https://pastebin.com/K5Yn2SfA

I bought the elder bow, bought a decent quiver, and a -15 mana cost chest.

The damage got a lot better, yes, but... What usually happens in t14+ map bosses is: i start killing the boss, then i run out of flask charges because the fight still takes so damn long, and then I die.

I still don't understand why my single target damage is so low, while AoE is great.

Honestly at this budget it doesn't make too much sense to be doing this low single-target DPS.

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Garulf161 wrote:

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Vallcrist wrote:

My sirus phases usually last around 10 seconds each, last one being a bit bigger at 20-30 seconds.

Single target DPS gets pretty good once you have the right setup, it mainly focus on poison, though, so you need some nodes targeting poison duration and the likes

Well... yeah. Your gear looks "insane" as I put it.

But it seems I already have gotten all poison related passives. So I don't see how I can scale that much from here on, on passives alone.

Here is my updated PoB: https://pastebin.com/K5Yn2SfA

I bought the elder bow, bought a decent quiver, and a -15 mana cost chest.

The damage got a lot better, yes, but... What usually happens in t14+ map bosses is: i start killing the boss, then i run out of flask charges because the fight still takes so damn long, and then I die.

I still don't understand why my single target damage is so low, while AoE is great.

Honestly at this budget it doesn't make too much sense to be doing this low single-target DPS.

What also helps is crafting duration of ailments during focus on helmet. That's gonna help your single target quite a bit.

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Garulf161 wrote:

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Vallcrist wrote:

My sirus phases usually last around 10 seconds each, last one being a bit bigger at 20-30 seconds.

Single target DPS gets pretty good once you have the right setup, it mainly focus on poison, though, so you need some nodes targeting poison duration and the likes

Well... yeah. Your gear looks "insane" as I put it.

But it seems I already have gotten all poison related passives. So I don't see how I can scale that much from here on, on passives alone.

Here is my updated PoB: https://pastebin.com/K5Yn2SfA

I bought the elder bow, bought a decent quiver, and a -15 mana cost chest.

The damage got a lot better, yes, but... What usually happens in t14+ map bosses is: i start killing the boss, then i run out of flask charges because the fight still takes so damn long, and then I die.

I still don't understand why my single target damage is so low, while AoE is great.

Honestly at this budget it doesn't make too much sense to be doing this low single-target DPS.

You're missing some core things there, imo.
Enduring composure cluster is a must for survivability
You also are missing both medium cluster setup (flasks and more damage), kinda huge for DPS in general

I would swap vinktar and taste of hate for a Overflowing chalice (will fix your running out of flask mid boss fights) and definitely a catarina flask (cinderswallow? guess that's the name) huge boost in damage and survivability.

Also increased duration on blast rain/withering touch, wither is really important for us.

Definitely needs more leveling up, though. Cluster setup is really important and currently you don't have over a third of it online

Now I have finished a8 Sirus
ELder
Shaper
Soon uber elder
I like how I always read the sulphur unique flask will help but never tried it before, it makes bossing so trivial
Currently, the only upgrade I'm aiming for is aul's uprising for malevolence damage.
I have to say anyone who might be suffering with flask charges during bossing *in my case I have to spam enduring since chest rolled enduring composure* you have to try that unique sulphur flask.
Would appreciate it if someone suggests upgrades along the way as well.
Also did some delve currently around ~350.|
Overall I would say scourge arrow is A banger of a skill.

Hello everyone.

Can somebody check out my PoB link and give me advice? Damage seems small for the nearly 20ex I invested so far, red map bosses especially.

I've read some posts about single target recommendations but I feel like my base damage is too low for any of that to apply effectively.

Here is the PoB: https://pastebin.com/ctb7VcjP

Thanks!

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Satko147 wrote:

Hello everyone.

Can somebody check out my PoB link and give me advice? Damage seems small for the nearly 20ex I invested so far, red map bosses especially.

I've read some posts about single target recommendations but I feel like my base damage is too low for any of that to apply effectively.

Here is the PoB: https://pastebin.com/ctb7VcjP

Thanks!

Just took a glance at your profile character, You are using a very slow bow that doesn't have flat chaos on it. There should be other things that can be improved. Hopefully, others can chime in for more comprehensive suggestion.

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Garulf161 wrote:

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Well... yeah. Your gear looks "insane" as I put it.

But it seems I already have gotten all poison related passives. So I don't see how I can scale that much from here on, on passives alone.

Here is my updated PoB: https://pastebin.com/K5Yn2SfA

I bought the elder bow, bought a decent quiver, and a -15 mana cost chest.

The damage got a lot better, yes, but... What usually happens in t14+ map bosses is: i start killing the boss, then i run out of flask charges because the fight still takes so damn long, and then I die.

I still don't understand why my single target damage is so low, while AoE is great.

Honestly at this budget it doesn't make too much sense to be doing this low single-target DPS.

First, buy medium cluster jewel with circling oblivion and low tolerance. Unspec 3 points from Silent steps node, and put those in the medium cluster.

Second, replace knockback on your blast rain setup with increased duration. You need that to have decent uptime on wither stacks and keeping max wither stacks on single target is huge dmg boost.

Replace quicksilver flask with Coralito's Signature - thats huge dps boost vs single target. You can just swap those flasks when you are going on boss, can still use old setup for clear - you dont need that movement speed on bosses.

Also, how do you dps the boss ? You should start with putting up blast rain, then you should fully charge your scourge arrow 2-3 times and repeat with blast rain (if the boss isnt dead yet). Your POB shows around 1.6M sirus dps, thats not much but should be enough for most red map bosses.

If you do those steps, you should double or tripple your dps according to my testing on POB.

For the next improvements, you should get more levels and spec them into the jewel nodes. Depends on how much you can invest in those, you can go for increased life + poison damage/duration + bow attack speed (if you cant afford all 3, just stick to life + any of those). Ofcourse you should also keep investing in the cluster jewel nodes, basically if you lack dps, put points and invest in normal jewels, in you go for survivablity go for cluster nodes (enduring composure).

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holdthemoan wrote:

My current gear for this build. Having a fun time crafting everything from scratch, I'm enjoying crafting this season more than Harvest (my first serious season) tbh, I've crafted almost all my gear.

If I'm going for an Aul's uprising, that means I'm only going to have 1.25x fortify on helmet. I'm getting shat on by Kosis in T16 delirious maps, so I'm kind of looking to get more defenses.

Hi how can u craft these pair of boots??

I wanted to point something out. Lots of people are having troubles with low dps with this build, and this is due to few things:

1. This build requires you to stack poisons on target - this means you need to play correctly, you can't just spam 1 button to get good results.
Things to check:
- are you charging your scourge arrow to 5 stacks ?
- are you aiming at the boss ? - the aim here is to hit the boss with as many thorns arrows (those are shot from spores) as possible
- are you keeping your mirage archer with blast rain up ? - it should shot constantly and you should make sure that you have decent duration on those wither stacks

2. Theres multiple variations of the build, and some are meant to be late game if you follow those you might end up loosing damage rather than gaining - there are few examples especially when you look at flask choices:

- coralito signature flask is too good to skip when you have low dps, especially on bosses, in the late game you might drop it for ultra zoom zoom and one tapping mobs on t16 maps, but then you have enough dps to not worry about it

- mana cost on chest - well rolled chest with that affix is very expensive and in reality you will only gain 1 flask slot for that - sure good thing to have, but things like good bow, all the cluster jewels, helm enchant, ring with despair on hit are more important than that

3. Flat chaos damage is very important - you should invest in awakened chaos damage as soon as possible, you will need that to be level 5 and it takes ages to level. You can also go easy way and spec into strength stacking in this league and forget about stacking flat chaos