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

Regarding additional arrow, I wrote a detailed explanation a while ago on this topic. I would highly recommend you to take a look in the OP.

Paste it here for convenience.

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WolfieNa wrote:

Scourge Arrow Mechanics

From the wiki:

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Scourge Arrow is a channelling bow skill. Channelling the skill charges up an arrow that creates spore pods as the arrow travels when released. The pods explode to fire thorn arrows around them. The arrow and pods deal physical damage converted to chaos damage.

But there's a catch. The thorn arrows from the same pod cannot all hit the same target since they are emitted at the same time. See Chris' notice:

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All projectiles now behave like arrows. Multiple projectiles emitted at exactly the same time can no longer hit the same target. Their area of effect damage can still overlap, dealing damage to the same target multiple times. Many skills have received balance changes as a result. We now have far better ability to balance projectile skills because Multiple Projectiles support gems aren't absolutely mandatory any more. Many skills that we have previously been unable to create due the presence of projectile shotgunning are now possible. In addition, melee characters aren't at as much risk from monsters with multiple projectiles.

So it's the number and position of the spore pods with regard to the target that determines the damage dealt on that target by thorn arrow hit.

All that said, I recommend +1 arrow for your SA, mostly for the purpose of dealing maximized DPS against single target.

With one arrow (+0)
If you have one arrow, you still can maximize DPS by positioning your cursor when you release SA.


With two arrows (+1)


With three arrows (+2)

Wolfie

I tried the way you suggested, using caster seeds on cluster jewels. And managed to hit 3 mods + 1 jewel socket on 9 passive jewel.

Grim Oath
Touch of Cruelty
Misery Everlasting

Is this combo good enough to use 8 passive points or should I just try some better ones?

Hey Wolfie! Great build so far, progressing through the upgrades slowly and really enjoying it.

Crafted my Enduring Composure gem yesterday (First time really dabbling in Jewel crafting) so I am looking forward to using that!

If you have time would you mind suggesting any obvious upgrades / changes for my current setup? Made a few changes (Precision/Clarity) so I'll look to remove them but I believe my hit chance is too low without them currently. Damage feels great so far for what I'm running (Maps seem to drop so scarcely, hardcore farming T4's mainly to get a map pool but have done the odd t10+)

Currency seems extremely hard to come by this league so things like Darkscorn/Cinderswallow are off the table for me at the mo. So I was thinking of selling my Deaths Opus and opting for the alternative bow you suggested yesterday to have more currency to invest?

Thanks again & I hope the league is going well for you! :)

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JackieHann wrote:

Hey Wolfie! Great build so far, progressing through the upgrades slowly and really enjoying it.

Crafted my Enduring Composure gem yesterday (First time really dabbling in Jewel crafting) so I am looking forward to using that!

If you have time would you mind suggesting any obvious upgrades / changes for my current setup? Made a few changes (Precision/Clarity) so I'll look to remove them but I believe my hit chance is too low without them currently. Damage feels great so far for what I'm running (Maps seem to drop so scarcely, hardcore farming T4's mainly to get a map pool but have done the odd t10+)

Currency seems extremely hard to come by this league so things like Darkscorn/Cinderswallow are off the table for me at the mo. So I was thinking of selling my Deaths Opus and opting for the alternative bow you suggested yesterday to have more currency to invest?

Thanks again & I hope the league is going well for you! :)

Protip - craft 300+ flat accuracy on any 2 items. You can ditch precision aura.

Enduring Hybrid flask lets you ditch clarity.

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faraazahmed wrote:

Protip - craft 300+ flat accuracy on any 2 items. You can ditch precision aura.

Enduring Hybrid flask lets you ditch clarity.

Awesome, will give that a shot - Thanks a bunch!

JakieHann,

Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad that you are doing well.

Yes, the economy this league doesn't look too good; so I would highly recommend Voltaxic Rift over Death's Opus. Also, if you don't plan to re-use your Tabula, I'd suggest that you sell it and get a corrupted 6-link with proper coloring for SA setup. I bought mine for around 13c.

On precision replacement, you would either want to spec onto Weathered Hunter (+accuracy, +18% all ele resist) and add flat chaos damage to your rings/amulet so that Voltaxic Rift shocks with greater effect, or craft accuracy on your ring as faraazahmed mentioned. Better way is to get a ring with accuracy mod. You can also try Duskblight boot for higher DPS/shock/chaos resist if you can manage your ele resist.

Btw, I'd strongly recommend grabbing an Enduring flask, either enduring mana or enduring hybrid so that you don't get mana-blocked when channel 5-stage. I personally go with an Endurng mana flask with +% attack speed (100% uptime since mana flask lasts long and consumes little charges), and a life flask with bleeding immunity. You dont' need Clarity as an aura.

You want Enduring cry (with or without Enduring composure) linked to second wind.

On Cinderswallow replacement: Unpredictable Offensive would be helpful until you are able to get Cinderswallow with stun avoidance.

Good luck and let us know how it goes. :)

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JackieHann wrote:

Hey Wolfie! Great build so far, progressing through the upgrades slowly and really enjoying it.

Crafted my Enduring Composure gem yesterday (First time really dabbling in Jewel crafting) so I am looking forward to using that!

If you have time would you mind suggesting any obvious upgrades / changes for my current setup? Made a few changes (Precision/Clarity) so I'll look to remove them but I believe my hit chance is too low without them currently. Damage feels great so far for what I'm running (Maps seem to drop so scarcely, hardcore farming T4's mainly to get a map pool but have done the odd t10+)

Currency seems extremely hard to come by this league so things like Darkscorn/Cinderswallow are off the table for me at the mo. So I was thinking of selling my Deaths Opus and opting for the alternative bow you suggested yesterday to have more currency to invest?

Thanks again & I hope the league is going well for you! :)

Really enjoying the build! It's my first time playing with a channeling skill like scourge arrow. Never thought I could be so tanky as a ranger either.

I'm starting to struggle with dps and I'm not sure what the best upgrade would be for me. I'm almost lvl 87, still using 5L Death's Opus and Drillneck.

I want to buy Darkscorn but I don't have enough currency yet. I'm 10 watchstones in and haven't had an exalt drop :( Using Embalmer atm for gloves. Will upgrading to Fenumus' Weave add a lot to my dps? Maybe I should get despair on hit on a ring and just replace some resist items? I also saw you mention Dusktoe boots in a previous post.

I think switching to Darkscorn would also make me lose the DPS from additional arrows because of the scourge arrow mechanics. I might have to craft quiver for that too?

Currency is a big problem. This build also has a lot of items from crafting. I've never crafted any of my items before lol.

Can someone provide some insight as where I should head? I've been trying to keep up with all the posts and it's constantly changing and all that.

My current gear:



My current "to do" list:

Recap Resistances (Uniques messed them up)
Improve rings, amulet, and belt (for resistances and stats)
Complete Uber lab.

Afterwards, I want to focus on improving my other gear, six-linking, bow/cluster crafting. I just want to know if there is some special unique that I should be heading for now or some change in the tree that I'm missing. I mean, apparently people have swapped to duskblight now over stormcharger?

Current PoB:

https://pastebin.com/EZCiqBZA

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GenuineProdigy wrote:

Can someone provide some insight as where I should head? I've been trying to keep up with all the posts and it's constantly changing and all that.

My current gear:

My current "to do" list:

Recap Resistances (Uniques messed them up)
Improve rings, amulet, and belt (for resistances and stats)
Complete Uber lab.

Afterwards, I want to focus on improving my other gear, six-linking, bow/cluster crafting. I just want to know if there is some special unique that I should be heading for now or some change in the tree that I'm missing. I mean, apparently people have swapped to duskblight now over stormcharger?

Current PoB:

https://pastebin.com/EZCiqBZA

Some of your current gear can be made better by harvest crafting.
For example your helmet. There is a tier 1 seed craft which removes life mod. Use that on helm to remove that low life roll and craft better life yourself with crafting bench in your hideout.

Similarly do this for other rare items, you can remove lower rolled resistances/ defense mods etc and craft something else which you need.

If you don't have any currency,farm low tier maps which you feel comfortable with. Make your current gear better with harvest crafting. Or if you can't find right crafts there,buy cheap good rare items.

And get your uber lab done, ask someone help if you need. 4th node adds much DPS

whiteyfang,

That looks OK to me except it only has +1 socket. Did you try with a level-75 cluster base? Btw, the caster method only guarantees for the chosen mods in our flask cluster. Depend on each type of the cluster and desired mods, we would roll with different Harvest options, and look like that the caster seeds are quite versatile.

Having said that, I think you still have a good starter cluster setup with a large cluster + 1 decent (medium + small). A good first step paves the way for later success, I guess.

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whiteyfang wrote:

Wolfie

I tried the way you suggested, using caster seeds on cluster jewels. And managed to hit 3 mods + 1 jewel socket on 9 passive jewel.

Grim Oath
Touch of Cruelty
Misery Everlasting

Is this combo good enough to use 8 passive points or should I just try some better ones?