3.10 NomNom's Galvanic Arrow Raider 14MIL shaper DPS ALL CONTENT
Going to probably reroll out of this build; It's... Not great. The POB is also a bit weird... Where is it getting 3 power charges and bleeding from?
King of the Hill is a weird choice and entirely counterproductive to Galvanic and the shotgunning nature.
Map clearing feels great because Inpulsa and Lightning Arrow, what's not to love there? But bossing is horrible for anything that doesn't die in 2 seconds, since you have a whopping 4k HP and a less than stellar dodge chance, even for an evasion character.
It doesn't stand a chance against bosses, nor medium and up delirium content. Reliance on a Lethal Pride also feels really bad. Lack of auras and whatnot hurt too. It needs a dedicated aura setup, otherwise you're essentially running only offensive auras and it doesn't really help.
Really disappointing, I like Galvanic and Lightning Arrow, but this build is not it, at least, not it for progressing past early 80's and yellow maps.
I enjoyed galvanic arrow vs barrage as it seemed to "miss less" vs barrage projectiles missing smaller bosses but the dps didnt seem up to par. It a fun fun skill , love playing with it but barrage is stronger. Alas i have 2 galvanic arrow fractal mask enchants....
First of, I wanna say that this is a crazy fun build. Flame Dashing around and blowing up entire screens is just fun :). I have a few comments for those who feel frustrated with the build or rather the progression.
It has taken me a while, but I am now able to complete all content reliably except for A8 Sirus, but lets leave that for a while. Simulacrums are great to do and the bosses are easy enough once you learn to dance around them.
Progression:
Levelling can be tough though, as we are squishy and delirium is not good for leeching xp because of all the lag from party play and on death effects. It helps a ton to get well above 5000 life. I recommend not going double Taming until you can get above that in other ways.
Im 95 and I cried getting there. Hitting 97 would be great as we would be able to get some nice cluster jewel action, but I suggest doing breachstones in order to get there though it might be expensive.
Im at 5400 life and 5600 with the rare chest. Which feels much better that sub 5000.
Gear
I use the Inpulse for clear along with the LA enchant helmet and switch those out with the Rare chest and Galvanic enchant helmet when doing Sirus. That is the only swab.
The mana on hit gems is needed I feel like to do simulacrum because of the damage reduction at high waves limiting the mana leech. I got stuck not being able to flame dash away a few times because of no mana
The LA enchant is crazy good in Deliriums, Alva and Simulacrum.
I want to upgrade the watchers Eye for more damage and get a Hand of the high templar with frenzy, crit and elemental weakness on hit. The amulet will be modified with a Jorgin lvl 2 bench. Hoping to hit Crit multiplier.
Sirus
At A8 I just dont get enough damage in in the windows. And so I die when he gets the spinning beams up. A lower levels he melts rather quickly. A7 pains me as well, but is is easier.
I dont have Bottled Faith yet, because 21 ex :/, but I would love some feedback on how to do A8 Sirus cause man that is annoying doing to him.
Last edited by Rugs#6380 on May 2, 2020, 7:49:57 AM
I'm missing like 1k health based on the 4500 health you have on your PoB. Any idea what Im missing? I have pretty much every recommended piece of gear. All heath nodes accounted for. Missing health on my boots but that still wont get me to my goal.
Last edited by seniorfire#1785 on May 15, 2020, 9:12:42 PM
Hello, in your pob u have only 5k evasion rating and evade chance 26%, how this build survive? im using pob for 1 week only, so maybe im wrong, but is not this build a glass canon?
It has Acrobatics and Phase Acrobatics alongside multiple added dodge cases. It has a 75% chance to dodge attacks and 74% chance to dodge spells. In essence, it's pretty solid survival, just need a little bit of mitigation for when you do get hit.
Hello everyone!
i've tried to improve this build so far.
Here is my pastebin link: https://pastebin.com/VZgFuB3y
With current gear <around 120ex>, i can clear all game contents easy.
I think this build could be improved futher more with more new gear and new cluster jewel. It could reach even more 20mil dps with 3 voices 1 jewels<around 500ex more> and a better bow.
For movement i suggest use Dash+ Secondwind and Flame dash. Dash+ Secondwind helps u move really quick and Flame Dash helps u blink on bosses and proximity shield.
Here is my gear:
Last edited by phamkhue#7175 on Jun 2, 2020, 6:36:59 AM
3.10 Changes
Elusive now grants 15% chance to dodge spells and attacks (from 20%)
Flame dash has slightly increased cooldown
Pretty much nothing changed except elusive is somewhat less usefull now
I will update the guide as i play, testing new cluster jewels but the build is still solid without them so i dont see much reason to do so.
PROS
Incredible shaper DPS
Incredible clear speed
Can do all content
Galvanic arrow is a cool skill
Improves a lot with more currency
CONS
Even the budget version is somewhat expensive because tamings
Cant do ele reflect and phys reflect maps
Squishy. Aka " Not a relaxing afk build"
Managing stats can be annoying
Lightning arrow will push your gpu to its limits
BUDGET VERSION DIFFERENCE
No awakened added lightning damage
The Tempest
No watcher's eye
Cinderswallow without crit
Diamond flask instead of bottled faith
Random gloves with resistances and life
Darkray Vectors
Random belt with resistances and life
Hyrri's Demise
5 link Inpulsa's
I forgot to add curse on hit setup on this version in the video so make sure to do that ( Curse on hit explained in "gem explanation")
Budget version gear
(Fire damage is for the cinderswallow urn bonus)
This build is based on galvanic arrow for single target and lightning arrow for clear speed
Damage is way higher than it looks on pob, because galvanic arrow hits once with the cone and once with the arrow thus it hits twice per arrow count.
To get the actual dps, multiply the dps number on pob fork with two.
For Gems see "PoB and My gear"
Pantheons: Soul of the brine king and soul of the shakari
Bandits: Help alira for the crit multiplier and resistances
Weapon
You can use The Tempest and it will still be great but if you can get a bow with at least 1.4 attack speed and 7.5 crit chance with t1 lightning damage on it it will be better. They are usually very cheap so only real money spend on our weapon is 6-linking it.
For crafting i suggest using the Spine Bow base as it has the best crit chance to attack speed ratio. Since we dont convert a lot of phys damage to elemental damage, physical damage of the bow doesnt matter for us.
For the rich ones out there the dream bow would be:
Spine Bow
Socketed skills deal %20 more attack damage
Adds 11-30 to 348-394 lightning damage to attacks
Damage penetrates 12-15 lightning resistance
11-13 increased attack speed
35-38 increased critical strike chance
35-38 to global critical strike multiplier
This bow above gives you about 80 to 90 percent more damage over The Tempest but it is very VERY hard to get.
Example bows:
Quiver
Look for a Spike-point arrow quiver with life, Bow attacks fire an additional arrow, critical strike multiplier and critical strike chance
As a budget option you can use Hyrri's Demise
Armour
Chest
Inpulsa's Broken Heart is an excellent option.
If you are not capped on crit chance and you got money to spare, an armour with: Life, Killed enemies explode and crit chance to attacks will be better but dont worry if you cant afford that since Inpulsa's is very good.
Explode is not absolutely necessary here but it is really useful for clear speed and you will never ever die to corpse explosions again!
As a more defensive option you can use daresso's defiance. Since we dont get hit much thanks to evasion and dodge you will have almost permanent endurance charges in places it matters like delve and clearing maps.
Helmet: A rare helmet with nearby enemies have -9 to lightning resistance and life is the best ( You dont need aspect of the cat as we dont use it) Starkonja's is also great
Gloves:If you link conductivity to your wave of conviction link the curse on hit is not necessary. Critical strike chance to attacks is also good if you are not capped already
Boots: Nothing beats Tailwind and elusive is really good since it will give you up to 20% chance to evade attacks and spells
Darkray vectors is a good option also
Jewellery
Taming's are pretty much best in slot for dps here because our skitterbots will shock the enemy and getting just 1 point of fire damage is enough to ignite, thus we get almost full benefit from it. Get 2 Tamings and you are golden. If you want more life just go with an assasins mark ring with mark of the elder and a resistance belt althought you will lose dps.
all three are great options
For min-maxing purposes a rare amulet with crit chance crit multi and life is about the same dps and will give you life on top of it
What to allocate?: If you have the money for two golden oils and a silver oil allocate constution for sure. For two silver oils and a black oil you can allocate Discipline and Training which still gives you tons of life. As a more budget option you can allocate static blows, or farsight if you dont have 100% hit chance
Because we get a lot of resistances from tamings we can take the offensive route here
Flasks
Instant recovery and bleed removal are necessary
No money? No problem. Use a diamond flask instead. They are very close in terms of DPS
This one is very good since it gives us two more projectiles thus we hit 4 more times. ( Explained at the start of the guide) Look for reduced charges used so you can use it twice.
Get one with critical strike chance
All you need is curse removal here
Jewels
We use this to turn claw nodes into bow nodes because it is really efficient. Claw nodes from it will also give you life-mana leech and chance to blind enemies.
Just look for Damage penetrates lightning resistance while affected by wrath on this
All you need on this is chance to intimidate
Chance to deal double damage is also good
Strength from it will also help you use a higher level steelskin which is a big improvement to survivability
Passive Tree and Ascendancy
Go avatar of slaughter then Avatar of the veil
PoB and My Gear
PoB pastebin link: https://pastebin.com/mLFwHjHX
On the bottom left of the tree window you can choose between level 93 and 100 passive tree
My Gear:
Gem Explanation
Barrage support: Barrage support is absolutely necessary here because it causes a "shotgun" effect for the galvanic arrow so it hits more times
Summon Skitterbots: Skitterbots give 15% base shock which means 15% increased damage taken by the enemy. We have a lot of shock effect increase which bumps up our shock damage increase to around 30%.
Precision: We use high level precision because precision gives us accuracy. Getting 100% hit chance will maximize our dps. And added crit chance is nice too.
Wrath: Nothing to explain here. It gives you more damage.
Enlighten support: This can be expensive especially at the start of the league.It will make your skills reserve less mana. If you cant get this just use lower level precision until you feel confortable with the amount of mana you have.Get an enlighten as soon as possible though.
Inspiration support: Makes our skills cost less mana and gives us more crit chance and elemental damage.
If you dont have mana problems you can use hypothermia over inspiration. It will give you slightly more damage
Cast when damage taken and steelskin: Some kind of CWDT setup is necessary for all builds because it will give you free defences basically.
If you dont have lethal pride you are gonna struggle to get steelskin to level 18 because of the strength requirement. So if you dont have enought strength for a level 16-18 steelskin just use level 1 CWDT and level 1 immortal call.
Flame dash: One of the best movement skills imo
Wave of conviction: Reduces enemy lightning resistance by 25%. It will be very usefull when you are lacking damage. If you dont have any kind of curse on hit, link conductivity or elemental weakness with curse on hit support so when you cast it you will also curse the enemy. You can drop Vaal Haste and Vaal grace to do it.
If you want a more defensive setup you can drop wrath or skitterbots and get aspect of the crab(and some herald in case of dropping wrath). But this will result in about 20-25% dps loss. You will still have enoguh dps to do everything confortably though.
QnA
Why not use barrage instead for single target?
Galvanic arrow is the same dps and is cooler
