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

There is one more thing worth considering - Plague Bearer.
DPS seems low, you get that 1mil damage over 8s from base 20/20 gem, can be increased with +skills, empower, -enemy chaos resistance, curses. And AOE will increase radius obviously.

But whats most interesting, this damage seems to not get lowered in delirium/simulacrum. From what I understand, delirium applies less damage debuff to a player while in fog. And since more/inc damage modifiers don't apply to plague bearer, this skill is not weaker in delirium. So easily dismissed skill, because dmg number seem low, turns out to be very nice and dealing ton of damage to delirius enemies.

Not that it is weak in regular T16s, in fact if you boost it to 1.4mil damage, get dual curse (despair from flask is great because it works like aura), you can just rush through regular T16 and melt trash in one quick pass. Scourge arrow charges it to full in literally 1 shot.
But in delirium it really helps, speeds up killing noticeably.

That is correct. Plague Bearer was an MVP 1/2-link skill in Delirium league because it ignored the damage malus applied to the player so you could melt trash even when balls-deep in the fog.

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WolfieNa wrote:

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LtDrunk wrote:

Hi,
First of all, thanks for the great build!
It has felt fantastic (up until now, will get there soon) and it is really fun to play.
It's my first SA-build, and I'm pleasently surprised with the skill.

I am now lvl 92, and have about 5-7 exalts to spare on upgrades.

The DPS is sufficient, and I know where I can upgrade that in the future.
My problem is survivability though. Which has me scratching my head since so many of you praise the survivability of the build.

My biggest survivability problem is heists. VERY often (1/3 or even 1/2 heists in Area 83) I get killed of something almost instant. I've lost so many items and drops to this :(

So now I'm turning to you, the experts. What am I missing in my current build when it comes to survivability?
There must be something I've missed, or overlooked.

Would appriciate your help alot!

Here's my PoB (don't know how to link my items and links, sorry)
https://pastebin.com/xaZYnypC

Hey,

It seems you have the wrong Cinderswallow. You want stun avoidance + MS. Also respect the channelling wheel (they are for leveling). Use those points for life. You are a bit low on that end.

Grab as much jewel sockets as you can and fill them with good Viridian jewels (life, attack speed, etc.)

Grab Dying Sun. People with enough defense prefer Quicksilver for faster speed. For you, I'd rather replace that with Vessel of Vinktar and craft +30% movespeed on your other rare flask. Try to increase your chaos resist a bit, so you can ditch poison immune and replace it with better flask suffix.

Try a boots with Tailwind, life, resist. Then replace your rare ring with Nostalgia for chaos damage/resist.

Let us know if you'd like to follow up later. Have fun!

Hi WolfieNa again!
I haven't been able to play that much since changing the above, but MAN did it make a difference.
I swapped out my flasks to run:
Basalt, Vessel of Vinktar, Hybrid, Dying sun and Cinderswallow (with right suffix, again lol)
I also swapped around some gear and got myself resist capped (inc Chaos) while flasks are up, and in the process got a helmet with the pod-enchantment.
I have yet to die with these changes!

(On a sidenote, I did die 2 times running Sirius AW3, BUT it was my first Sirius-kill of all-time, and BOY did I accidentally face tank som beams and other stupid stuff without insta-dying).

So again, cheers WolfieNa!
Will probably try my hands on a fractured blueprint soon. Just gonna level myself up to 95 first to get some more HP and maybe try crafting a bit more HP on my chest, currently running at 5k.
This build has been tons of fun!

Hi
for full delirum (and zana mod), which variant is best ?

Hello, decided to try this build for my 3rd league in this game and it's a pretty enjoyable playstyle so i want to push it as far as i can.
I'm looking for an Aul's Uprising amy as my next upgrade and as a result i will have to use the same flask setup as in your PoB to keep up with resistances, ditching my Quartz Flask of Warding for a Vessel of Vinktar in the process (i'm already using Taste of Hate and Dying Sun).

So it might be a stupid question but i know you don't have to worry about Ele Res or Ele ailments while under flask effect, but how would you deal with curses? Some of them are pretty brutal.

Also any recommendations about how i should proceed to further upgrade my current setup would be greatly appreciated. (PoB: https://pastebin.com/qmWRyfMu )

Hello!

Just would like to say I've been enjoying your twist on the build. I started playing Scourge back in 3.10 and I decided to try your take on it this league and it's been pretty solid. I'm level 96 HC and I've done up to A5, and all the Heist bosses. The tankiness feels solid, and the flask duration makes it easy to be mildly brainless while mapping/heisting.

I guess my real complaint and the reason I don't want to drop any more money into the build is the lack of damage. I'm honestly not sure where I can squeeze more blood out of this build to get the damage numbers up, but maybe that's because I'm pretty new to bow builds.

Got any immediate recommendations? The available items in HC are slimmer, but I have about 4,000C just sitting around so sky is mostly the limit. Thanks in advance for the help, I'm just hoping to push this more instead of just going full aura-stacker.

PoB Link: https://pastebin.com/7SNmPXPN

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Arwolf17 wrote:

Hello!

Just would like to say I've been enjoying your twist on the build. I started playing Scourge back in 3.10 and I decided to try your take on it this league and it's been pretty solid. I'm level 96 HC and I've done up to A5, and all the Heist bosses. The tankiness feels solid, and the flask duration makes it easy to be mildly brainless while mapping/heisting.

I guess my real complaint and the reason I don't want to drop any more money into the build is the lack of damage. I'm honestly not sure where I can squeeze more blood out of this build to get the damage numbers up, but maybe that's because I'm pretty new to bow builds.

Got any immediate recommendations? The available items in HC are slimmer, but I have about 4,000C just sitting around so sky is mostly the limit. Thanks in advance for the help, I'm just hoping to push this more instead of just going full aura-stacker.

PoB Link: https://pastebin.com/7SNmPXPN

As you crave DPS, you really want Tailwind boots.

Craft Spider aspect on your gear, so you have curse on hit on corrupted gloves and spider on ring, etc. Alternatively, get a despair curse on hit ring and craft a better gloves (+36% AS while focus, +1 frenzy or DoT, etc.).

140% inc ailment duration while focus on helm is important.

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WolfieNa wrote:

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Arwolf17 wrote:

Hello!

Just would like to say I've been enjoying your twist on the build. I started playing Scourge back in 3.10 and I decided to try your take on it this league and it's been pretty solid. I'm level 96 HC and I've done up to A5, and all the Heist bosses. The tankiness feels solid, and the flask duration makes it easy to be mildly brainless while mapping/heisting.

I guess my real complaint and the reason I don't want to drop any more money into the build is the lack of damage. I'm honestly not sure where I can squeeze more blood out of this build to get the damage numbers up, but maybe that's because I'm pretty new to bow builds.

Got any immediate recommendations? The available items in HC are slimmer, but I have about 4,000C just sitting around so sky is mostly the limit. Thanks in advance for the help, I'm just hoping to push this more instead of just going full aura-stacker.

PoB Link: https://pastebin.com/7SNmPXPN

As you crave DPS, you really want Tailwind boots.

Craft Spider aspect on your gear, so you have curse on hit on corrupted gloves and spider on ring, etc. Alternatively, get a despair curse on hit ring and craft a better gloves (+36% AS while focus, +1 frenzy or DoT, etc.).

140% inc ailment duration while focus on helm is important.

Thank you, I'll immediately give that a try. Again though, seriously thank you for the countless hours and thankless work you've put into this build. It amazing to finally have a bow build that feels this good.

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Arwolf17 wrote:

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WolfieNa wrote:

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Arwolf17 wrote:

Hello!

Just would like to say I've been enjoying your twist on the build. I started playing Scourge back in 3.10 and I decided to try your take on it this league and it's been pretty solid. I'm level 96 HC and I've done up to A5, and all the Heist bosses. The tankiness feels solid, and the flask duration makes it easy to be mildly brainless while mapping/heisting.

I guess my real complaint and the reason I don't want to drop any more money into the build is the lack of damage. I'm honestly not sure where I can squeeze more blood out of this build to get the damage numbers up, but maybe that's because I'm pretty new to bow builds.

Got any immediate recommendations? The available items in HC are slimmer, but I have about 4,000C just sitting around so sky is mostly the limit. Thanks in advance for the help, I'm just hoping to push this more instead of just going full aura-stacker.

PoB Link: https://pastebin.com/7SNmPXPN

As you crave DPS, you really want Tailwind boots.

Craft Spider aspect on your gear, so you have curse on hit on corrupted gloves and spider on ring, etc. Alternatively, get a despair curse on hit ring and craft a better gloves (+36% AS while focus, +1 frenzy or DoT, etc.).

140% inc ailment duration while focus on helm is important.

Thank you, I'll immediately give that a try. Again though, seriously thank you for the countless hours and thankless work you've put into this build. It amazing to finally have a bow build that feels this good.

You are welcome. I'm glad to see HC people starting to pick up the build (or at least try it out more seriously). On a different note, make sure you keep the high ilvl Viridian Jewel drops to use later (eithe craft or buy). Aside from life and AS (and poison duration/chance or chaos dot multi), you can squeeze lots of resist out of them. Btw, thank you for the kind words.

Hi, thank you for the build, I don't remember having as much fun in a long time. It makes it feel like a true action game!!!

I am getting a little confused on where to go from here. My dmg is OK killing max-level conquerors, but I have had a few close calls and would like to improve defences before proceeding.

HELMET: for fortify effect, should I use crusader orb on helmet (non-dex base) that has the pod enchant, or try to hit enchant on a dex base? (fossil or lab...)



BOOTS: +1 end charge is hard to craft with any meaningful mods, do you have any tips? or should I go for tailwind?



BELT: i looted an elder leather belt that I tried to craft but the pool is so large. Under limited currency, should I stick to a Stygian or a normal leather belt? (stygian's jewel helps a lot in rounding up resists and missing stats)



Which would you suggest I focus on first? I'm sitting on around 15 ex and 300c in HC (trade options are a bit limited)

Thanks again and in advance