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

Yeah I'm doing option 3 right now, damage is fine I'm just a perfectionist. So one other question I followed the exact gems, skill gems and everything, spared no expense the only two things I'm missing from your gear is the phys to cold on helm and frenzy on hit on armor. So my Mirage Archer is only active for 6.5 right now and I can't figure out what's missing. Granted I'm only 86 but I really only trimmed one jewel and life right now.

https://pastebin.com/5cJEgEFV

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Ghostboner wrote:

Yeah I'm doing option 3 right now, damage is fine I'm just a perfectionist. So one other question I followed the exact gems, skill gems and everything, spared no expense the only two things I'm missing from your gear is the phys to cold on helm and frenzy on hit on armor. So my Mirage Archer is only active for 6.5 right now and I can't figure out what's missing. Granted I'm only 86 but I really only trimmed one jewel and life right now.

https://pastebin.com/5cJEgEFV

On the Blast Rain setup in your PoB, a quick swap Aw Deadly Ailment for Increased Duration Support (20/20) would give you exactly what I have. The PoB I included in the first post must have the experimental Aw Deadly Ailment on the Blast Rain setup that made you confused. Apologize for that.

Question: the resistances in your PoB don't look capped. Was some actual gear missing in the PoB?

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Question: the resistances in your PoB don't look capped. Was some actual gear missing in the PoB?

Working on that, taking a big hit on my ring slot for the curse right now, using resists on flask. Yes I followed the level 98 POB looking at the 95 I see the increased duration. I'll try that out. Also I don't know if you noticed I'm running greater volley over GMP is that bad or matter at all?

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Ghostboner wrote:

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Question: the resistances in your PoB don't look capped. Was some actual gear missing in the PoB?

Working on that, taking a big hit on my ring slot for the curse right now, and yes I followed the level 98 POB looking at the 95 I see the increased duration. I'll try that out. Also I don't know if you noticed I'm running greater volley over GMP is that bad or matter at all?

I noticed that Greater Volley in you PoB. GMP (20/20) gives you 10% inc AS which makes it a slightly better choice than greater volley. Although it's entirely not necessary, if you aim for even higher yield, you can take Aw GMP for +1 additional explosion (a little bit faster to cap 15 withered stacks + a small inc DPS).

Thanks, how did you get your impale modifier in POB to 1.8?

I really hope that cluster jewels are easily available next league as I'm definitely planning to start with this. I've never league started as a bow build (well, toxic rain mines but that wasn't an actual bow build... Just used it to be able to cast the skill) so I'm excited haha.

As someone who hates flask management, is this build, or a comparable variant, achievable on a different ascendancy choice?

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Ghostboner wrote:

Thanks, how did you get your impale modifier in POB to 1.8?

I think that's all from Dread banner (19/20) although I pay no attention to impale since we convert almost all phys to chaos. The point of Dread Banner is to gain extra evasion chance.

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jeremy_u_s3 wrote:

I really hope that cluster jewels are easily available next league as I'm definitely planning to start with this. I've never league started as a bow build (well, toxic rain mines but that wasn't an actual bow build... Just used it to be able to cast the skill) so I'm excited haha.

Unlike those herald/aura-boosting cluster jewels, the ones being used in this build are all quite regular and easy to craft in the end game, so it'd be surprising that any of them will become difficult to obtain next league if GGG decides to adopt cluster jewels into the core game. However, there's no guarantee.

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GeneralDurph wrote:

As someone who hates flask management, is this build, or a comparable variant, achievable on a different ascendancy choice?

It's a very challenging question to answer. lol

There are two pillars in this build. On one end, it's the cluster jewels and selection of flasks that boost the build's defense and offense. The other end is the use of a secondary skill set by Blast Rain/MiA to build up and maintain withered stacks in a reliable manner.

I don't know if it is possible to replicate the same build on a different ascendancy. Perhaps it's possible, or may be it's not.

However, if you can change the question, it'd be easier to find an answer. For example, instead of trying to do exactly the same thing on different ascendancy, you can think about adapting the setup I organize in this build into a build that has a similar structure such as Trickster Toxic Rain. If you'd do so, you still inherit all the offensive setup: blast rain + withering touch on MiA to generate withered stacks to boost chaos-based DPS. And you can also have Fortify from flask even though it's more challenging to keep it up during bossfights.

Hope it helps. Let me know if you can find a solution that works for you.

https://pastebin.com/pgME7TQB
Here's my take on the build. I'm still working out the kinks and min maxing it. I'm going to buy the despair gloves after I figure out how I want to apply wither (fenumus or Embalmers). Need Woke Gems Too. My problem is single target damage and in general lack of damage. I'm not sure what I directly need to upgrade, however?