[3.7] [Updated] Cold Scourge Arrow CI Trickster - Very simple and tanky

Here is preview video of Sunken City:

https://streamable.com/t5d5y

I still have my extremely shitty bow, and yes I know I was shooting at here wrong in first phase, I was just extremely annoyed so cba because I had really sweet Atziri vid but then I died so I deleted it :d

EDIT: Sorry for like 3FPS experience, but, yeah, well, that is just how I roll on Linux.

Hey I was hoping you could take a look at my PoB and let me know where I can improve. I am very lost as to how you have so much more ES than me. Even if I added your watcher's eye I would still only have about 8k ES.

Also is blood rage really the best gem to use? Since it's constantly going to be lowering our ES we won't gain the benefit of the always on full ES damage from Energy Leech Support.

https://pastebin.com/MeSDt7kA

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injected wrote:

Hey I was hoping you could take a look at my PoB and let me know where I can improve. I am very lost as to how you have so much more ES than me. Even if I added your watcher's eye I would still only have about 8k ES.

Also is blood rage really the best gem to use? Since it's constantly going to be lowering our ES we won't gain the benefit of the always on full ES damage from Energy Leech Support.

https://pastebin.com/MeSDt7kA

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Well, with 233% increase from tree every small thing matters.

1. Ascendancy - You have quite low rolled body, as we dont need 6 link its definitely worth just going for close to best roll you can find (just going from 184% to 210% gave me extra almost 200 ES.
2. Jewels - Larger ES rolls would be preferred, I belive its not so hard to craft ES + cold jewels with some fossils
3. Strength - You have slightly lower strength than me, and tbh 2nd biggest source of my energy shield are probably gloves. Like 25 extra STR on your char again gives around 100 ES.

Everything mostly just adds up in the end. Then Watcher's eye should boost you up to > 9k.

For the Blood Rage question: You can't have both leeching and have full energy shield on at same time. And leeching buff is stronger than buff on full energy shield. So I believe Blood Rage is best.

Blood Rage with Less Duration could be an interesting option only by degen, does it applies the duration of time reduction when killing an enemy. The problem is that Less Duration has a "more damage". Swift Affliction also has but has a 44% more damage at level 20.

Theoretically you with a Blood Rage level 20 could take less than 4 seconds of duration (25% reduced + 49 less) taking advantage of the excellent attack speed, only by leech, but you would have with drawbacks 63% more damage over time taken, with around 6,52% ES or life damage over time. 26,08% in 4 seconds.

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Carrasco_Santo wrote:

Blood Rage with Less Duration could be an interesting option only by degen, does it applies the duration of time reduction when killing an enemy. The problem is that Less Duration has a "more damage". Swift Affliction also has but has a 44% more damage at level 20.

Theoretically you with a Blood Rage level 20 could take less than 4 seconds of duration (25% reduced + 49 less) taking advantage of the excellent attack speed, only by leech, but you would have with drawbacks 63% more damage over time taken, with around 6,52% ES or life damage over time. 26,08% in 4 seconds.

Hmm, that would be interesting. But, tbh, Blood Rage is already pretty deadly (as you can see from my vid, where I have to manually stop it in order to prevent it from killing me). But also, when in combat, I would just leech every bit of that blood rage damage back, and less duration would definitely help to survive out of combat. But, another issue is that atm there are not many empty sockets for this (and I definitely do not want less duration in CWDT -> Immortal Call setup :D).

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thedeathbeam wrote:

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Carrasco_Santo wrote:

Blood Rage with Less Duration could be an interesting option only by degen, does it applies the duration of time reduction when killing an enemy. The problem is that Less Duration has a "more damage". Swift Affliction also has but has a 44% more damage at level 20.

Theoretically you with a Blood Rage level 20 could take less than 4 seconds of duration (25% reduced + 49 less) taking advantage of the excellent attack speed, only by leech, but you would have with drawbacks 63% more damage over time taken, with around 6,52% ES or life damage over time. 26,08% in 4 seconds.

Hmm, that would be interesting. But, tbh, Blood Rage is already pretty deadly (as you can see from my vid, where I have to manually stop it in order to prevent it from killing me). But also, when in combat, I would just leech every bit of that blood rage damage back, and less duration would definitely help to survive out of combat. But, another issue is that atm there are not many empty sockets for this (and I definitely do not want less duration in CWDT -> Immortal Call setup :D).

I remembered now, this is perhaps more viable because Swift Affliction reduced duration is fixed independently of the level, so you do not have to use a gem level 20, just use the level 1 gem, less damage taken.

edit: I think Blood Rage is not affected by increased damage from support gems. The PoB degen values are not affected when linking BL with support gems. If this is true, you can safely use BL linked to other support gems that reduce its duration, even a BL level 20 (with 5 seconds duration).

A good solution to dangerous moments is use The Sorrrow of the Divine, it increase your damage and also ensures the Zealot's Oath effect while on Consecrated Ground.

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Carrasco_Santo wrote:

A good solution to dangerous moments is use The Sorrrow of the Divine, it increase your damage and also ensures the Zealot's Oath effect while on Consecrated Ground.

Well the issue is mostly that this is not issue at all when in combat because you are always leeching, way more than blood rage is dealing damage to you, and to prevent dying in such situations the defensive flasks I already use are more than enough (very often nothing will simply hit you in the cloud with increased eva etc). The issue is when you end combat, and you did not leeched enough at the end and blood rage is still up.

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And if you mean to use Sorrow of the Divine just to stop BR degen after ending combat, then, tbh, unsocketing blood rage is a bit better because it do not takes flask slot :d

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And for pure damage flask, Bottled Faith is extremely absurdly busted, so if you can afford it, its definitely worth using it in this build, its insane (it adds like 1.1M+ DPS, lol).

Added Aspect of the Spider alternatives to main thread. It is mostly because atm I don't have it, and I wanted to make use of my unreserved mana (after switching to lvl 1 Clarity), so I added Arctic Armour. Another cheap alternative I was considering was Aspect of the Crab. Both are very viable, good defensive options and paired with Infused Channeling and Ghost Shrouds they provide good chunk of phys, fire and overall damage reduction.

would u mind posting a pob with more budget/realistic gear?

thanks for taking your time in reading.