[3.0] NeverSink's ♣ INDEPTH Tornado&Archer Guide ♣ Beginner friendly ♣ Rapid clear ♣ All bosses

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Y0UR wrote:

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Jirai wrote:

Hi i have a question regarding drillneck:

My current equipment

Since I wear drillneck my damage decreases for puncture 4L -2.6k dps and for tornadoshot 5L -1.5k dps....I had to replace faster attacks for pierce (puncture) and I had to replace critdmg for pierce (tornadoshot)(I know to replace such both gems because of this guide). My pierce-gems are level 17 and 18 and I skilled piercing shots in the talenttree for sure.

I thought my damage would increase after i saw all the hype about drillneck.

Can anybody help me?

You're reading too much into tooltips. The tooltip DPS might be slightly lower, but the clearspeed is higher, due to the amazing boost from the actual pierce. You will also offscreen a lot more enemies and keep enemies away from you due to the stacked knockback all the time.

Puncture on the other hand fires a bit slower, but it hits harder and applies the puncture effect to every enemy it passes through... which is amazing.

This allows you to snipe bosses in packs, helps with clearing dangerous doorways etc.

In addition, while you lose attackspeed, you gain actual damage, which improves the bleed.

Finally you WANT quality on pierce, it adds +15% pierce chance, which improves actual damage and the pierce rate a lot.

...this question is asked way too often, I need to add a picture for that.

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arch_st wrote:

Question - Is this gear good for act 1-2 on merciless? Or i shoud buy/find/farm currency after i kill cruel's dominus?

Thanks for reply.

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TinyKaleshi wrote:

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arch_st wrote:

Question - Is this gear good for act 1-2 on merciless? Or i shoud buy/find/farm currency after i kill cruel's dominus?

Thanks for reply.

Hi man! Personally im at 65, still using my deaths harp, didnt buy any other uniques for levelling and im at act 3 on merciless (bloodlines) It's been a great bow, doesnt cost much and i personally havent been able to find any better bows yet :)

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eragon1111 wrote:

Well, so i did the build (crit phys variation) and i must say that it just feels supbar compared to my other Ranger build aka crit cleaver :S

At least for me TS clears slower bcoz of exposions going on every way sometimes missing few mobs. (mby split chain would be better no idea).

Char moves very fast. Sure it can offscreen but bosses clear speed with it is just not so impressive when you did run one of these 100k+ dps builds.

My cleaver has 150k dps tooltip and doesnt need even QS flask to run fast thx to whirling blades. Takes him few sec to kill 6 man dominus.
While TS feels more safer but will never be able to accompish the same it seems.

Here is the gear im using on TSer:

Spoiler

TOOLTIP dps on TS is ~ 11k GMP. With Frezy in 5L as main skill 15k (tryin to 6L body arm atm). 88% crit chance with charges.

Here is the tree :

Spoiler

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgIAAF4DHgW1BiMILgiJDkgWvxmOGbQfQSF2I_Yk_SU_JpUqCyzpMHEwfDH6MgEylDY9OdQ6Qkd-Sn1LeE2SUUdVS1b6W69daF3yYeJirGNDZU1noGyMbWxv8nBScNV1y3b3d9d_An8rhs6HdonTivCMC4w2jX2Nv5AKlQWa8Zsmm42dqqCfpuCr0q_rsKuyGbVIuXy9Nr6nwTPEgsqpytPPetN-1CPWitnG2o3dDd2o45_nVOd06NbqYuyw7YPuDu968-r8xf_e6UY=

With drillneck it will probably jump to 15k but its still low compared to cleave :S

I can get better 400 dps bow, 6l it etc but it will never break 20k it feels like. Rest of the gear seems pretty decent to be honest :S

While the price of such bow would be close to 50 ex, the price for 300 pDps+ 6.8 crit sword is close to 2 ex ... Even price wise crit cleave outperformes TS :(


Any idea how to make it better without puring into 100 ex ?