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

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greenrasp wrote:

I have noticed that armour version of this build is getting more traction now, but people playing it without transcendece and that suprises me.
I'm planning to switch to transcendence when i get every bit of gear i need for that, till that im still playing dodge/evasion build.

So for armor stacking to mitigate physical damage:
While stacking armour gives us more physical defense, we also loose 40% dodge and lots of evasion. We already have lots of physical mitigation due to fortify, and flasks, so im not really sold to armour stacking. I dont see that additional mitigation would make up for the avoidance we loose.
From my testing armour version: Mobs actually were hitting me, and i was taking some damage (usually very small amount, but armour cant reduce 100% of damage), that means i would need some version of sustain - and that i couldnt fix to reasonable level. In the end my conclusion was that while damage taken is less spiky, im forced to use my life flask more often due to the constant drain of my life.
I would appreciate opinions on that subject and potential solutions/tweaks to that problem.

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H_Espenhein wrote:

Im doing a Divine Flesh version of this build.

Is it better to transistion to armour?

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Slottm wrote:

5k life is really low. Like...at 5k life i'd definitely be shoving more hp nodes in than damage nodes.

My build has gotten to the "godlike" state where dying rarely happens anymore (died once on the maven fight with Shaper/elder/cortex/atziri...not sure to what)

rest is straight cruising

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WolfieNa wrote:

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Slottm wrote:

5k life is really low. Like...at 5k life i'd definitely be shoving more hp nodes in than damage nodes.

My build has gotten to the "godlike" state where dying rarely happens anymore (died once on the maven fight with Shaper/elder/cortex/atziri...not sure to what)

rest is straight cruising

Awesome! Gratz! Do you mind capturing and sharing some footage of the Maven encounter as well as mapping juiced t16 maps with us? It'd be great to watch.

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thegreekgod wrote:

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PandaSauce0 wrote:

I was wondering if I could do some end-game t16 mapping and farm A8/A9 sirus with decent survivablity and dps on a 50-55ex budget? Otherwise this is a very comprehensive guide and I look forward to building it!

I have spent around 9-11ex on my build i would say, and I just killed all four guardians in Mavens map. I cruise most T16 maps with ease. Even though I get slammed some odd times when i slack too much. With 50ex you should be able to be godly tanky I think.