[3.13]🏹 Poison Barrage-VF / Scourge Arrow / TR PF | Bottled Fortify | The Tankiest Ranger + High DPS

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Sandevasfootball wrote:

I've evolved my own variant of the build that relied on using Hyperboreus for easy uptime on Focus + other goodies, but with the return of Harvest you can get the benefits of Hyperboreus in a belt-and-boot combo set. Behold!

These two together allow for a roughly 9 second cooldown on Focus (instead of the 8 on Hyperboreus) but critically allows for all sorts of tasty mods that the belt can take like +Max Life.

Aside from that, I've been going full hog and making dumb bows that kill stuff good with the power of Oshabi:

League good, build still good.

Awesome innovation as always!

Could you share how long your Molten Shell CD is with +32 CD recovery from boots and belt? Assume you have the following setup:
Molten Shell - Second Wind - Inc Duration - Withering Step.

Btw, did you try with tailwind boots + 12% CD recovery instead of +1 max endu charge? There's 10% faster poison mod to go with tailwind, so more incentive to go that route.

Can anyone take a look at my gear and recommend me the best upgrades?

Im not really sure what to work towards next.

I was wondering if I could do some end-game t16 mapping and farm A8/A9 sirus with decent survivablity and dps on a 50-55ex budget? Otherwise this is a very comprehensive guide and I look forward to building it!

yhhh, invested so much into this build time and money already and still doesn't feel that comfy... Still happen to die on t16 maps with 100k armour, 5k life, 75+ all res capped. Pretty weird, I feel like I miss some vital information.

My pob: https://pastebin.com/seD79Rap

Do I switch to transcendece? How does that work, maybe that would help?

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PandaSauce0 wrote:

I was wondering if I could do some end-game t16 mapping and farm A8/A9 sirus with decent survivablity and dps on a 50-55ex budget? Otherwise this is a very comprehensive guide and I look forward to building it!

I have spent around 9-11ex on my build i would say, and I just killed all four guardians in Mavens map. I cruise most T16 maps with ease. Even though I get slammed some odd times when i slack too much. With 50ex you should be able to be godly tanky I think.

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Kaenshin_ wrote:

yhhh, invested so much into this build time and money already and still doesn't feel that comfy... Still happen to die on t16 maps with 100k armour, 5k life, 75+ all res capped. Pretty weird, I feel like I miss some vital information.

My pob: https://pastebin.com/seD79Rap

Do I switch to transcendece? How does that work, maybe that would help?

What kills you? You have nothing to mitigate regular bleeds. Bleed crits was one of few things that would get me quite often before getting anti-bleed flask (even with corrupted blood jewel).

Seems like i should be able to target the stun/block recovery and evasion rating. They share the mod and it's "defense" I sohuld be able to remove defense craft no? also could I uncraft the life mod since it's a bench craft and craft foritfy?

Why wouldnt i be able to target it?

There are two block and stun recovery mods, one on prefix and the other on suffix. The suffix cannot be target. From the info you shared, it's not possible to me to know the one you had was on pref or suf. If that the hybrid ES/stun recovery on pref, you can remove it by remove Defense.

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thegreekgod wrote:

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Kaenshin_ wrote:

yhhh, invested so much into this build time and money already and still doesn't feel that comfy... Still happen to die on t16 maps with 100k armour, 5k life, 75+ all res capped. Pretty weird, I feel like I miss some vital information.

My pob: https://pastebin.com/seD79Rap

Do I switch to transcendece? How does that work, maybe that would help?

What kills you? You have nothing to mitigate regular bleeds. Bleed crits was one of few things that would get me quite often before getting anti-bleed flask (even with corrupted blood jewel).

I agree with thegreekgod. You should first try to address the question what gets you killed first. 100k armor with MS ~6sec rotating with Focus-Fortify, and if you still die frequently, there is something wrong. Perhaps, start with the bleeding question raised by thegreekgod first.

Also fyi that duplicated prefix or suffix on flasks don't work together.

I have noticed that armour version of this build is getting more traction now, but people playing it without transcendece and that suprises me.
I'm planning to switch to transcendence when i get every bit of gear i need for that, till that im still playing dodge/evasion build.

So for armor stacking to mitigate physical damage:
While stacking armour gives us more physical defense, we also loose 40% dodge and lots of evasion. We already have lots of physical mitigation due to fortify, and flasks, so im not really sold to armour stacking. I dont see that additional mitigation would make up for the avoidance we loose.
From my testing armour version: Mobs actually were hitting me, and i was taking some damage (usually very small amount, but armour cant reduce 100% of damage), that means i would need some version of sustain - and that i couldnt fix to reasonable level. In the end my conclusion was that while damage taken is less spiky, im forced to use my life flask more often due to the constant drain of my life.
I would appreciate opinions on that subject and potential solutions/tweaks to that problem.