[3.8] Arly's Ice shot bower

- End Game gear -

4.5M+ dmg vs shaper on PoB. ( with mirror archer)
1.2M+ dmg with LA on PoB.( with mirror archer)

up grade dmg :

- Vessel of Vinktar ( add 3X to 13X lightning dmg) but u loose move speed or life flask
- vaal Haste

5.3/5.4 K life // Good esquive // Good evade // Very good life leech

eye jewel = life + flat ele DMG
unique eye jewel = 40% of Physical Damage Converted

skill tree lvl93 :

up-grade tree 99/100 :
- 3 node for 1 more eye jewel
- 3 node for claw of the pride


PoB : https://pastebin.com/e2BKecak

Is there a chance that you could make a flask section, for like endgame / luxury / mapping/ bossing setup?

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fleshpuppet wrote:

Is there a chance that you could make a flask section, for like endgame / luxury / mapping/ bossing setup?

Flasks will not change from what I have posted. You can opt to replace the life flask for a dps flask once you reach a point where you no longer care about grinding exp.

Lvling this build atm,got a couple of questions:
1) I guess chin sol is the best wep for st damage,which bow i can use in swap for mapping for faster clear or qol?
2) Im really cant decide what chestpiece to use,i already have 6l belly,but i also look at kaom's heart and qotf, belly doesn't give that much hp tbh,and with good 6l bow in swap i guess kaom's overally better, but what about qotf?
3) If it is not hard for you,can you tell a bit more about your 4l skill gem choices,why you choose exactly that ones and what alternatives can be there,would be very nice
Thank you!

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knehtq wrote:

Lvling this build atm,got a couple of questions:
1) I guess chin sol is the best wep for st damage,which bow i can use in swap for mapping for faster clear or qol?
2) Im really cant decide what chestpiece to use,i already have 6l belly,but i also look at kaom's heart and qotf, belly doesn't give that much hp tbh,and with good 6l bow in swap i guess kaom's overally better, but what about qotf?
3) If it is not hard for you,can you tell a bit more about your 4l skill gem choices,why you choose exactly that ones and what alternatives can be there,would be very nice
Thank you!

1. Death's opus as described in the first post.
2. You can use koam's heart if you can make up the links elsewhere as it strictly has more life than belly. You can use Qotf and a jade flask if you want more movespeed at the loss of dps or life.
3. In the first post, sorted by order priority by dps or utility. There is no explanation other than it is what PoB indicates as the optimal sequence for maximum dps.

There is a lot of variation in bow builds but the core remains the same. You can use jewels like lion eyes fall, other bows like fletch or yriel's or rat's nest but in the end what I have presented here is what I believe to be the best combination of clear speed, ST, survive, and cost efficiency.

With that said, the build is not really going to function that much different if you swapped the chest piece or used a dps boosting unique other than what I have presented.

Great build Nephalim. I hope you don't mind if I ask something.

What if I would use Tombfist, LightPoacher and Bubonic Trail. What would be my gem choices, factoring in each of the items has 2x abyssal sockets. We take HoI, Wrath, ice golem, Blink arrow, but what else I should take? Or this path is not worth going due to stats that we would lose. Could you advice please?

Hey! sweet build, reached lvl 90 and I'm pretty happy with how the build is going. I'll soon enough get a Dying Sun, might farm some shapers soon. I was wondering, and I'm sorry if you've already been asked about it, what do you think about the new shaper/elder quivers that add an additional arrow?

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dotlegend5 wrote:

Hey! sweet build, reached lvl 90 and I'm pretty happy with how the build is going. I'll soon enough get a Dying Sun, might farm some shapers soon. I was wondering, and I'm sorry if you've already been asked about it, what do you think about the new shaper/elder quivers that add an additional arrow?

Those would be exceptionally good for this build but I did not include or mention them simply because they would likely be too rare or expensive and there would be a high chance players would attempt to get a +1 or +2 arrow quiver with little or no other good stats and be left broke and only with marginally more dps than an alternative at .1% of the cost. Luckily PoB exists so you can check how much those extra arrows give.

Similar, a shaper rare amulet with maximum life leech rate is exceptionally good for this build (acts as a vitality void without the point investment effectively netting you 3 passives) but its unrealistic to expect players to be able to afford or obtain one. You can push this build even further than what I've shown here but the price investment becomes exponentially high at that point.


I did not spend more than 50c on any of final rares I used and some were as low as 10C or self found. Spending 10 exalts for 6% dps gain is not worthwhile unless you are drowning in exalts.

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KilerAgent wrote:

Great build Nephalim. I hope you don't mind if I ask something.

What if I would use Tombfist, LightPoacher and Bubonic Trail. What would be my gem choices, factoring in each of the items has 2x abyssal sockets. We take HoI, Wrath, ice golem, Blink arrow, but what else I should take? Or this path is not worth going due to stats that we would lose. Could you advice please?

This is not a good path because you are giving up to much life in order to be a glass cannon - it could work if you have best in slot generic jewels (8 bow attack speed, 7 life, 10 all resists, 12 multi) since the scaling from flat sources would still to wind down at that many abyssal sockets. At the very highest gear level, the build will already crush shaper and additional dps past this point t the cost of life is somewhat self defeating unless you need to make 3:45 minute shapers into 3:38 minute shapers. Additional stats (dps) is meaningless unless it produces a tangible result in map or boss clear speed.

1. LA + GMP + WED + pierce + ICS + mirage archer
2. Barrage + WED + ele focus + ice bite + slower projectile + added cold
3. culling + ice golem
4. Vaal haste + wrath
5. Herald of ice + blink arrow

Well thanks for the reply. Could you take a quick look at my gear? I know I could upgrade some of my jewels and rings, but capping my resists has been a bitch this time around. I'm open to advice.

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dotlegend5 wrote:

Well thanks for the reply. Could you take a quick look at my gear? I know I could upgrade some of my jewels and rings, but capping my resists has been a bitch this time around. I'm open to advice.

You should try to get 30 movespeed boots and diversify your jewels to have 6-8% attack speed if crit recently as stacking so much flat elemental damage will start to diminish in power after a certain threshold. I don't see any glaring weakness in terms of gear otherwise besides lack of reduced flask charges in belt.

Subbing out the onslaught flask for the jade flask + onslaught jewel is a very clever idea though. You should be using an alchemist QS and a flask with the warding suffix.