3.23 EXPLOSIVE ARROW BALLISTA ELEMENTALIST - League-Start to End-Game. Easy mode.

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Hey guys, i started this build two days ago and need some help with my next upgrades order...

now i have 5 div to invest (and im keeping farming), my objective is using this build to make the challenges.

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Asinoeh wrote:

A question regarding crafting the helmet:

So as a first step I need elevated faster ignites on the helmet itself, and -12% resistances on the other helmet I am mrging it with.

To get there I need a second influence modifier for the orb of dominance. What is the most efficient way to get there? Just Alt spam for the influence modifier you want, then augment/Regal and hope one of them is an influence modifier. Back to alt spam if it is not?

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Asinoeh wrote:

Speaking of that helmet ...

How close is 'nearby' in that 'nearby enemies have -12% fire resistance' affix? At first glance it looks to me like I never want to voluntarily put myself into a position to benefit from that buff ...

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Headtourist wrote:

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Hey guys, i started this build two days ago and need some help with my next upgrades order...

now i have 5 div to invest (and im keeping farming), my objective is using this build to make the challenges.

Hey. Took a look, here are a few ideas to begin with, and mid long term investment too :

- Get ignite proliferation implicit on your gloves so you can swap your gem for elemental damage with attacks (requires red socket instead of blue though)
- Get awakened burning damage instead of regular one. Cost seems to be 80c for a level 5 gem. Same with Deadly Ailments ! (Awakened ele damage may cost too much for now, you'll get it later)
- Anoint watchtowers on your amulet, even if you keep herbalism for the moment, that's 5 points you can use to allocate more damage, maybe Dirty Techniques on the bottom side of the tree.
- Don't use rain of splinters for now, it reduces your damage and you already have ignite proliferation for clearing. Replace it with a more useful jewel but don't buy an expensive one.
- Keep levelling your bow gems ((ballista totem...) and add quality where needed
- Get a devoto's devotion helmet with +15% explosive arrow enchant (i still use mine for mapping even though i have an expensive double elevated blizzard crown, so I can promise it will be useful in the long run. Prices vary, sometimes 50c, sometimes 100c... Cheap investment, more dps, more speed, more chaos res.

Mid term :
- Buy unnatural instinct, you'll need it later anyway (2-2.5d) Will grant you all the small avatar of the hunt + gladiator's perseverance nodes AND points to reallocate somewhere else.*
- *Maybe into jewel sockets to get rare jewels with good stats for the build, but not things that will cost too much though.

Long term :

Work on making a nice crucible tree for your next bow :
- +1 to bow/dex gems
- lifetap
- +32 to fire damage over time multiplier/...
- aspect of the eagle/avatar of the hunt...
Lifetap node is very important as it allows you to socket Empower instead of Lifetap.
There's something like 40-45% more dps to get from a crucible + full crafted bow. (easiest one being on pages 290-291 of the guide, may cost something like 10-12 div to craft from scratch).

Remove all nodes on the right side of Elemental Equilibrium to reallocate/get cluster jewel setup (take a look at our characters to get some ideas).

More jewel sockets on the tree : a nice lethal pride, a nice watcher's eye, maybe impossible escape...

PS : I just realized you are not spell suppression capped.
At least take the reflexes node for 2 points, that will be 14% more. You want the value to be 100%, either from items, from tree...
And/or you can also get atziri's steps boots for now. You're overcapped in elemental resists and they are really cheap. You're lookint at 20-26% spell suppression from them instead of your current 13 on boots.

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Keylors wrote:

one more question, we using the molten shell on left click, right ? and the enduring cry, we should be using in what cenarious ??