3.23 EXPLOSIVE ARROW BALLISTA ELEMENTALIST - League-Start to End-Game. Easy mode.

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Rex_Banner wrote:

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Most simply with a DPS race. This allowed me to ignore most of the boss mechanics. For this, 60million DPS are enough.

Thanks for your post I was wondering how much I should upgrade my gear before trying them. I am wondering how you have 60 million dps though. When I load your boss pob it says 24 million ignite dps. Haven't played in a while so I might have made a mistake.

Hello

I just have loaded my POB again and checked if I have done something wrong.
For me, the BossDPS is correctly displayed as 69m.

Here is my configuration.

https://imgur.com/a/3SjElKO

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Dolewan wrote:

Brief feedback on my build...
I have now completed all the new UberBosses.
Most simply with a DPS race. This allowed me to ignore most of the boss mechanics. For this, 60million DPS are enough.
UberSirus has caused me the most problems, especially in the last phase when you have to move precisely.

Here is my POB if someone wants to build in the direction as I played.

(Bossing Setup)
https://pastebin.com/4fY34UTn

(Mapping Setup)
https://pastebin.com/TgaT61gK

EDIT: Simulacrum Wave 30 done with Mapping Setup. I died once in wave 28.

I've done all uber bosses except for Uber Sirus and Exarch. Could you survive Exarch annihilation? I got 84 fire res for the fight and ran in circle when he casted that but I still could not survive consistently. Ball phase is 100% dead.

For Sirus I have 800+ life regen and decent chaos res but still died in less than a second to his ground degen in his last phase.

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I just have loaded my POB again and checked if I have done something wrong.
For me, the BossDPS is correctly displayed as 69m.

Ah now I get it you were looking at the total ignite damage that's 69 million. Your ignite lasts for 2.8 seconds which means 24 million dps.

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Magillanica wrote:

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Dolewan wrote:

Brief feedback on my build...
I have now completed all the new UberBosses.
Most simply with a DPS race. This allowed me to ignore most of the boss mechanics. For this, 60million DPS are enough.
UberSirus has caused me the most problems, especially in the last phase when you have to move precisely.

Here is my POB if someone wants to build in the direction as I played.

(Bossing Setup)
https://pastebin.com/4fY34UTn

(Mapping Setup)
https://pastebin.com/TgaT61gK

EDIT: Simulacrum Wave 30 done with Mapping Setup. I died once in wave 28.

I've done all uber bosses except for Uber Sirus and Exarch. Could you survive Exarch annihilation? I got 84 fire res for the fight and ran in circle when he casted that but I still could not survive consistently. Ball phase is 100% dead.

For Sirus I have 800+ life regen and decent chaos res but still died in less than a second to his ground degen in his last phase.

Hello

I can't say so much about UberSirus....
The first phases were not a big problem because I have sent the boss directly to the next phase with the immense damage.
The problem begins in the last phase. Here I died 3 times in my attempt. 2 times at the degen AOE and once at the rotating laser...

The 4th time I ran in I found a free area and Sirus has just done nothing dangerous and I could kill him quite quickly.



Now to Searing Exarch
Yes the balls are my problem too.... I can't estimate the distance between character and bullet correctly. Theoretically you can position the ballista in a way that the balls roll into the ballista and are destroyed with it (attention: balls do AOE damage).
Just used 3 portals to pay for the ball phase.

When he did Anhilation I ran around the boss in medium distance and used Flame Dash between you. (He still hit me from time to time... but anything over 0 hp is luxury).

Hi guys.

I'm playing EA Ballista totems but my gear is not that good (character EAGoesBoom, below linked gear if someone prefer that):



Have this ring for use but need first gloves with ligh res or harvest craft to fix my resists:



Atm I'm farming currency for upgrades. I need gloves with spell suppresion, blizzard crown, cluster jewels, unnatural instinc, quiver (basically all my gear could be better except bow maybe).

And now I'm wondering did you guys crafted all those awesome items (for example @Dolewan) or just bought it?

I would like to craft my own items if its cheaper but I have no idea where to start. Are there some good crafting posts/guides for EA for every piece?

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Dolewan wrote:

Brief feedback on my build...
I have now completed all the new UberBosses.
Most simply with a DPS race. This allowed me to ignore most of the boss mechanics. For this, 60million DPS are enough.
UberSirus has caused me the most problems, especially in the last phase when you have to move precisely.

Here is my POB if someone wants to build in the direction as I played.

(Bossing Setup)
https://pastebin.com/4fY34UTn

(Mapping Setup)
https://pastebin.com/TgaT61gK

EDIT: Simulacrum Wave 30 done with Mapping Setup. I died once in wave 28.

Dude you flame surge doesn't deal damage so it doesn't ignite so you never have combustion buff, am i right?

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Asag wrote:

Hi guys.

I'm playing EA Ballista totems but my gear is not that good (character EAGoesBoom, below linked gear if someone prefer that):

Spoiler

Have this ring for use but need first gloves with ligh res or harvest craft to fix my resists:

Atm I'm farming currency for upgrades. I need gloves with spell suppresion, blizzard crown, cluster jewels, unnatural instinc, quiver (basically all my gear could be better except bow maybe).

And now I'm wondering did you guys crafted all those awesome items (for example @Dolewan) or just bought it?

I would like to craft my own items if its cheaper but I have no idea where to start. Are there some good crafting posts/guides for EA for every piece?

Honestly most of the stuff I bought (except helmet and quiver) ... However, EA-Ballista is quite cheap, I spent last league massively more for the LS-Raider to get the same DPS.
The most expensive thing I bought was the bow for 15ex.
The rest is priced somewhere between 3-6ex per item.

For the helmet, I hit it with essence of greed until I had Life + % Accuracy, then a Luck Warlord Ex-Slam for "Gain Accuracy Rating equal to your Strength".
I use this page to see what I could get with an Ex-Slam. https://www.craftofexile.com/

The quiver was a base from Ritual... where I annulled a stat away (and luckily hit it).

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PoliteElk wrote:

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Dolewan wrote:

Brief feedback on my build...
I have now completed all the new UberBosses.
Most simply with a DPS race. This allowed me to ignore most of the boss mechanics. For this, 60million DPS are enough.
UberSirus has caused me the most problems, especially in the last phase when you have to move precisely.

Here is my POB if someone wants to build in the direction as I played.

(Bossing Setup)
https://pastebin.com/4fY34UTn

(Mapping Setup)
https://pastebin.com/TgaT61gK

EDIT: Simulacrum Wave 30 done with Mapping Setup. I died once in wave 28.

Dude you flame surge doesn't deal damage so it doesn't ignite so you never have combustion buff, am i right?

Well when I look at the POB -> see https://imgur.com/a/vsZvbYr

I hit the boss with FlameSurge and thus apply Combustion Support to the target.

Am I missing something?


EDIT:
Oh I see what you mean "Cannot Ignite" on the Flame Surge.
I honestly didn't notice that at all. I have to investigate again if this is really the case that no Ignite is applied or the "Cannot Ignite" is cancelled out by the 25% Ignite chance from the Combustion Support.

EDIT 2:
Flame Surge doesn't applie Ignite.
So i switched my links:
Helmet 3-Link - Anomalous Flame Surge - Lifetab - Arcanist Brand and not linked Blood Rage
Gloves 4-Link: Anomalous Frenzy - Combustion Support - Culling Strike Support - Lifetab

Thanks for the hint PoliteElk

Hello all! I played this build last league and had great success with it, but I wanted to be sure I fully understood the mechanics of EA before i got too far into making my 3.18 character.

My character in 3.17 had 43.5 million ignite dps using only 5 totems. I managed this by exploiting the duration mod. I loved this setup as I felt that going from 6 to 5 totems was a decent bit of quality of life, and it allowed me to completely ignore Watchtowers and spend those points and my anoint on other things that boost by ignite dps.

Using my numbers from my 3.17 character: 2.39 attack rate * 100% chance to hit * 1.8 duration * 5 totems == 21.5 fuses under ideal circumstances. As I understand it, the duration is the time the "Hit by Explosive Arrow" debuff has before it explodes, consuming all other arrows, unless it hits 20 arrows first. This means that I have 1.8 seconds from the time my first arrow hits the enemy to stack 19 more arrows for big deeps. And, as the math shows, I should normally be able to do that.

I've poked around various pobs that have been posted in this forum and don't really see a whole lot of other people with this setup. I understand it might be a gear issue as hitting high aps and accuracy can be tough, but duration is fairly easy to extend. I also understand that it can make clearing a bit slower, but I never felt like this was a problem in 3.17. I just want to make sure that I'm not gimping my damage in some way that PoB doesn't show me before I move ahead with this setup for 3.18. Thanks for any helpful input!

My 3.17 pob for reference: https://pastebin.com/kqYjTa9v

Hi all,

I'm really loving this build although I'm having trouble with getting one slapped in my T15 farming maps. I'm not sure what piece/pieces I need to upgrade or change to provide more defense while keeping most of my dps or if I need to change up some of my passives on my tree and add some jewels to help with that. Any input would be much appreciated!