[2.6] Flash Freeze Ice Shot Ranger

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Xenovenom wrote:

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Mr_Tact wrote:

I have myself up to lvl 83 on this build and I have a question about the mechanics. I see this even on maps 8-10 levels below my level: Sometimes when I approach a pack I'll fire a single Ice Shot and everything freezes, shatters, and disappears, other times I sit there Ice Shot after Ice Shot DPSing the mobs slowly down. So, what is happening there (the non shatter)? A lack of crits?

Without seeing what happening it does sound like you aren't critting. Based on what I see with your gear you could quickly pick up some cheap crit chance and multi by switching your gloves out for Maligaro's Virtuosity. Also if you can re-color your chest to have one red socket and drop Added Cold damage and put in Weapon Elemental damage, which will give you a nice boost to damage.

What amount of crit should I aiming/hoping for? Can you give me a range of what is "sufficient", what would be good, what would be great?

Currently my critical strike chance (no charges) with the Ice Shot is 27.75% and a 344% multiplier.

http://imgur.com/a/7S32V

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Mr_Tact wrote:

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Xenovenom wrote:

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Mr_Tact wrote:

I have myself up to lvl 83 on this build and I have a question about the mechanics. I see this even on maps 8-10 levels below my level: Sometimes when I approach a pack I'll fire a single Ice Shot and everything freezes, shatters, and disappears, other times I sit there Ice Shot after Ice Shot DPSing the mobs slowly down. So, what is happening there (the non shatter)? A lack of crits?

Without seeing what happening it does sound like you aren't critting. Based on what I see with your gear you could quickly pick up some cheap crit chance and multi by switching your gloves out for Maligaro's Virtuosity. Also if you can re-color your chest to have one red socket and drop Added Cold damage and put in Weapon Elemental damage, which will give you a nice boost to damage.

What amount of crit should I aiming/hoping for? Can you give me a range of what is "sufficient", what would be good, what would be great?

Currently my critical strike chance (no charges) with the Ice Shot is 27.75% and a 344% multiplier.

http://imgur.com/a/7S32V

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Imgur has a link made for forums but a simple url link is fine for me. Yea that crit chance is really low and I found an earlier post when someone asked the same thing -

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Xenovenom wrote:

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Might be a dumb question, but how much crit change are we looking to get? Ideally as well as whats good enough?

I sit at ~60% with just the golem out which I would say is good enough but more is always great to have. I go up to 78.5% with full charges which doesn't include the Slivertongue's 100% increased crit chance on arrows that fork.

Ahh, the page I was on at imgur didn't have that, but I found it. Thanks.

Is the increase to Critical Strike chance from "Increased Critical Strike Chance" linear? Assuming it is and I did the math correctly, to get to 60% I'd need to add an additional 645% of Increased Critical Strike Chance...

Since you are there, I assume it is possible. But wow...

How does "Increased Critical Strike Chance with Bows" interact with "Increased Critical Strike Chance"? Additive?

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Mr_Tact wrote:

Ahh, the page I was on at imgur didn't have that, but I found it. Thanks.

Is the increase to Critical Strike chance from "Increased Critical Strike Chance" linear? Assuming it is and I did the math correctly, to get to 60% I'd need to add an additional 645% of Increased Critical Strike Chance...

Since you are there, I assume it is possible. But wow...

How does "Increased Critical Strike Chance with Bows" interact with "Increased Critical Strike Chance"? Additive?

I don't believe it is linear but that is further down in the mechanics than I've needed to look. I do have a Rat's Nest and Maligaro's virtuosity which are giving me 120% crit chance and power charges (5 gives another 250%). Looking at your tree you are missing 125% crit chance that I have from True Strike and the nodes from Aspect of the Eagle to Aspect of the Lynx. These add up really fast and could change things around for you.

As far as crit chance with bows and Increased crit chance (passives I'm assuming is what you are talking about) they are additive.

hm, is the Curse on Hit gem are correctly work with Assassin's Mark? I tried it for my Marauder and it doesn't work..

Hi - I've put a fair bit of time into this build now and am having a few problems. The main issue is my single target is really, really bad and anything over t5-6 maps I struggle with the bosses or high hp rares. Ice shot is great though, I can instant kill shaped strand mobs. The second issue is I get one shot by almost everything past t5-6 again.

Would anyone please be able to check my character and let me know where I can to go to improve the character. I really enjoy the gameplay and would like to be able to continue to higher maps. The char is named "KlorIce".

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Kloral wrote:

Hi - I've put a fair bit of time into this build now and am having a few problems. The main issue is my single target is really, really bad and anything over t5-6 maps I struggle with the bosses or high hp rares. Ice shot is great though, I can instant kill shaped strand mobs. The second issue is I get one shot by almost everything past t5-6 again.

Would anyone please be able to check my character and let me know where I can to go to improve the character. I really enjoy the gameplay and would like to be able to continue to higher maps. The char is named "KlorIce".

nearly no life on any gear except boots. get 80+ life on every non unique gear. sibyl is not needed if played catiously, replace it with a good rare ring. get atleast 4.5 k life at lvl 80 and 5k+ at 90. u have 2.5k atm which is very very low.
crit chance is ok. AND get ur ascendancy points fast. they are huge boost to damage.

Hi guys
I checked this build so far in low maps up to T5, and clearing speed is quite good. But I have problems with single target damage.
Also, I feel very squishy (maybe I should use Decoy Totem?), especially if a melee mob hits me before I blink away.
My stuff

First of all, this build is f'ing amazing. I tried this build because I was honestly bored of LA and TS, and thought it looked cool. Boy was I right, Ice Shot looks amazing. Especially with crit + chain + fork + pierce. Love this build, OP.

Now my question is how to get more life. I think my gear is halfway decent, but I'm still at ~4.3k life at lvl 86. (Ik my gems are weird)

Gear:


Tree:


Maybe I should swap out maligaros for some rare gloves, or get a life jewel?

To the person above me: If you're using rare gloves, invest in more life on them. More life on gloom gyre and ammy.

Hey all! I started playing an Ice Shot build on SSF about a week and a half ago and have been really enjoying it. I had a quick questiom about ascendancy, how should I rank my ascendancy under the assumption I may not ever complete uber lab? Currently I'm on chain and on my way to endless munitions, but maybe rupture or the arrows return to me node would be better until I complete Uber?

For gear I have a 6L queen of the forest, devotos, really nicely rolled gripped gloves, gifts from above, doomfletch, and rare gear. I plan to use opus or doomfletch (upgraded) whenever I can actually get the prophecy.