What Am I Doing Wrong With My Ranger Build

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Thanks for all who helped.

JIN

You need to un-private the characters in settings, otherwise they can't be seen.

Except that, Furty's builds are weak, the whole poe vault website is full of builds that were good years ago but nowadays aren't.

How people get good damage? By knowing what stats they need on their gear and how to obtain them. There's no 1 magical switch to push the build from bad to great.

Oh I didn’t even know there was a private setting for characters.

Ok managed to switch them all off. Able to see it now?

Yep I can see it.

This character is a mess tbh. Why would you pick 2 small ascendancy nodes instead of 1 big one like tailwind for example ("gathering winds").

Even after filling full cluster jewel and picking Alira in POB it says you have 1 passive point not allocated. Did you did all quests that give them? Did you actually help Alira or do something else? Command is /passives

Radius gems do not need those points picked, i.e. you only need 40 dexterity existing in the vicinity, they don't need to be skilled. That path between survivalist and aspect of the eagle is very inefficient.

Also you have 2 grounding flasks but nothing for bleed or freeze that are 2 most deadly debuffs.

The medium cluster with heralds seems pointless because first herald jewels got nerfed like 3 leagues ago, second you don't even use a herald so it's wasted.

Siege ballista + life gain on hit - I don't know what kind of build suggests this, because I've seen it before and it's a stupid idea. Life on hit will leech to the ballista totem not to you when linked with it. If you want something to distract mobs, you should use decoy totem as it taunts mobs to it.

If you sacrifice 4 link for a snipers mark, you could have picked focal point on ascendancy. However I don't see the point of wasting 4 gem slots on this when you have 10 second base duration and and some leagues ago marks became single target skills so I believe inc. aoe does nothing.

Your resistances are not fixed properly, you have too much fire, too little lightning, and most importantly, you should never waste an aura slot for purity of elements. Just get more resists on gear, jewels, clusters, etc.

Generally your auras are poor, purity of elements and grace are 0 dps.

This is the current top dps ele hit player I saw on poe.ninja:
https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds/char/%EA%B0%95%EB%8F%84%EC%82%AC/%EC%A7%84%EC%8B%AC%EB%AA%A8%EB%93%9C

1st thing he has is Wave on Conviction setup for applying exposure (-25% resist to mob). Auras: anger, skitterbots, precision lvl 4 (you don't lvl it too much because it takes too much mana).

Check his passive tree, it looks much better than yours, you can just skip the parts that relate to frenzy charges cuz you're a deadeye and he's a raider.

Check what he puts on medium clusters, cuz yours needs replacing.

Starkonja is a weak helmet, you can use frostferno as a bossing setup. Kinda like this guy: https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds/char/BlackBudgie/EHKlavik (since the other one didn't use it).

Generally check what people are doing. Faster attacks is a crap support only good for things like blink arrow not your main attack. Inspiration would be a much better choice.

You're also not capped on accuracy (that low lvl precision could help with this if you add it).

That magic find flask won't help you if you don't have a magic find focused character, use a flask that would make the build stronger instead, like diamond flask, you can also use wise oak if your highest resist is fire (atm it is) or cinderswallow like that guy I linked as long as it has the extra crit roll on it (there's 4-5 versions I think?)

If you have problem capping resists properly drop some of the less important uniques like bubonics (abyss jewel stacking was nerfed multiple times in various leagues) or starkonja and use rares, that should also up your life. Respec your tree into phase acrobatics and more life (for example herbalism wheel) and drop resist nodes like cloth and chain, far away nodes like aspect of the eagle, and weak stuff like vaal pact (only used by slayers tbh or deadeyes with offering of the serpent gloves) or graceful assault (again I'm wondering how the heck do you spec so much into onslaught stufs and don't even pick tailwind ascendancy? if you wanna be faster that should be your first pick?).

And why do you pick so many mana nodes? Revelry, Mana Flows, Soul Siphon, that node behind Druidic Rite, unspec all of them. Spec Essence Sap if you need more manaleech.

Also check what ascendancy deadeyes pick: https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds?class=Deadeye&skill=Elemental-Hit&weapon=Bow&skillmode=Normal&sort=dps
Most don't pick the mirage archer one only far shot or ricochet, consider that.

But most importantly, fix your links and auras, see what other utility skills you can use outside of enhance / empower / enlighten in every free slot (I don't even know how old a guide needs to be to consider those gems for curses and vaal skills in the abundance of other, more useful links). Tbh he doesn't even have that: https://www.poe-vault.com/guides/elemental-hit-deadeye-passive-skill-tree-gem-links#gems And he has a section about frostferno.

Anyway poe.ninja is a goldmine, you might not have same gear as some people since they tend to have mirror-tier items sometimes, but you can check passives, ascendancy nodes, auras, main links, flasks, nodes on clusters, basically everything else. And all that matters not just whether someone has perfect double corrupted chest or not (which matters, but isn't easy to replicate).

P.S. Replace flame dash with dash or blink arrow and drop that +30 int node you will no longer need.

So, I've imported your build in PoB.

1st thing, you're not res capped. I'm guessing you're using divination distillate to cap your lightning res, but that not reliable and could cause a few one shots.

4k hp is really low.

You do not have any anti bleed in your build. You should drop divination distillate and your mana flask.
A good flask setup would be :
Dying sun
Bottled Faith
Divine Life flask with anti bleed and instant healing
Then 1 defensive flasks. For evasion builds, probably Stibnite or quartz with anti freeze.
The last flask is either a quicksilver or an other defensive flask with anti curse.

DO NOT NEGLECT FLASKS. They are about 50% or your damage & defense.

You also need a jewel with the "Corrupted blood cannot be inflicted to you" corruption. Since you're on standard, you should fine a lot of combat focus with this on it.

Bow & quiver are pretty good.
Starkonja is fine... You could use a Crown of the Tyran aswell for more added fire and more life. Getting a good enchant on it is important for your dps (ele hit 40% increased damage is +5% dps and ele hit attack speed +15% is +6.6% dps)

Not a big fan of loreweave. I think for a build like this you should go for an explode chest. Look for a zodiac leather with the following mods :

Mandatory :
Ennemies you kill explode
Attacks have +x% to critical strike chance
Added life (90+)

If you can afford it, also go for some of these :
%increased maximum life
Frenzy on hit
Chance to dodge
Powercharges on crit
Resists
etc

Gloves are OK.
Usually you get mostly life/res/atk speed from them. To uprade them you can look for :
Blind on hit
Crit chance
Added fire in general/On crit

Bubonic Trail is a really trash unique. It's only good for clearing corpses, but explode chest does it better.
Replace with, ideally, boot with elusive on crit+high life+35% movement speed+res

You didn't annoint your amulet. Get either Constitution for more life, or heart of flame for +20% dps.

You need to change your rings.
Go for opal rings, and the following stats :
Life (70+)
Any resist you need (including chaos resist)
Int (You need a lot of int, so aim for 40+ on each ring)

Only then can you add damage :
Attack speed
Elemental damage with attack
Crit
etc

Use fertile catalysts on both rings and also on the amulet for more life.

Your belt is OK. Replace it with a headhunter when you can afford to.

On rare jewels :
You need to have 8% life on all of them. Then you can get damage mods on top.
Abyssal ones are correct, but you can get better on standard. Aim for 45 hp+, then for extra damage. No need to have onslaught twice.
Clusters are bad. Don't use them. They give you 9% damage for 14 points, that's really bad.


Your tree is a big problem overall. You're wasting too many points on very bad nodes. Why the F do you have 15 points spent on mana ? That's litteraly -15 levels for you character.
I'll just redo it completly and post it later.

You gem setups are bad aswell. Do you have PoB ?
I'm going to rectify a lot of stuff on PoB and send you a new build. If you don't have PoB, just google "path of building" and install it.
I'll post again in a few hours when I'm done with the PoB.

Quick edit : The guy upper is right about what he says.

Okay so here's the PoB :
https://pastebin.com/Bt5fTEPq

With some good gear (still realistic, especially for standard) you get about 5m dps on your single target setup while mapping and 2.5m dps on the mapping setup.
With mirage archer on top, your actual single target should be around 6-7m dps on melee range.
Cover in ash will proc only if you get hit, so it wont proc most of the time. That's basically -20% dps on those 6-7m.


On a Sirius fight you'd have about 2.7m single target, + mirage archer from your mapping setup. With cover in ash not procing, you can expect about 2-3m realistic dps on Sirius.

Gear at your pace.
Put a big priority on flasks and capping your resists.
Feel free to pm me IG if you have questions.

Ohh ... thank you all for all your kind advise and recommendations.

Will try to study all of them and rebuild accordingly!!!

I have tried entering the pastebin link ...

Not too sure why it is not loading properly. It tells me that the passive tree version is not updated. But I ensured its the latest POB.

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GOHSHUJIN wrote:

I have tried entering the pastebin link ...

Not too sure why it is not loading properly. It tells me that the passive tree version is not updated. But I ensured its the latest POB.

Update to community fork version: https://pathofbuilding.community/ Old one doesn't work.