The Herald of Ash : A Physical Bow Build

After burning over 600 chromatics trying to get RRBB on an evasion piece I dropped Increased AOE from my HoA setup. Been playing without it for a week or so now and I haven't felt much of a difference other than I can now run Grace without the -mana reserve nodes near the Ranger area or Alpha's Howl. Still destroying packs and Puncture melts rares and bosses.

Got lucky and found a Drillneck and a pretty good phys bow so I've been running Pierce in the 5th link on Ice Shot.

Been playing a variation of this build on Beyond and haven't had many problems so far. Killed every beyond boss except Abaxoth but I haven't encountered him yet. Na'em is pretty scary if he spawns in a bad area though.

Here's my current build (level 85) if anyone's interested.

Enjoying this build so far; I'm at 69 and starting to do maps. Where should I gear up from here? (In particular, I have about 80% accuracy, which really sucks.) Ideally I'd like to keep the boot and gloves, since I'm actually using some MF gear to farm; I'm thinking of replacing the quiver with something with a nice chunk of accuracy. (This is for the non-Infractem version of the build.)

Polar, the first thing I would do with your gear is forge with your masters. None of it is ex worthy, so I would at least add useful stats to all of them until you find something better. It isn't going to cost much and could help you big time.

So Im debating some things:

Is Doryani belt worth it? If so - Fire should "boost" me the most when I solo, Phys when I party, I assume (killing vs overkilling).

Now my question is about burning support for Herald. I really am not sure how effective it is and am debating how to incorporate grace or some 3rd aura and that seemed to be one spot.

Damage is superb solo, in party Im not so sure since I mostly solo for the speed.

Hey, rolling a somewhat different version of your build and just got to merciless.

Some questions:

why don't you take DoT nodes, they help the puncture and the burn?

How do you feel about an auxiliary 4link:

Split Arrow - PCoC - Curse on Hit - Vulnerabilty/other curse?

Best,
muesli

Will try both those ideas when I get to higher levels.

Update for my build.



I just about have the money to afford a drillneck, so I'll grab one and fill in the rest of the resists I require.

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biomuesli wrote:

Hey, rolling a somewhat different version of your build and just got to merciless.

Some questions:

why don't you take DoT nodes, they help the puncture and the burn?

How do you feel about an auxiliary 4link:

Split Arrow - PCoC - Curse on Hit - Vulnerabilty/other curse?

Best,
muesli

Will try both those ideas when I get to higher levels.

The Entropy cluster might be a good idea, I'm still weighing it in my head. As for your SA suggestion, I don't think it would be a good idea as I'm already heavily gem limited. Unless I drop the CwDT-EC-IC-ID 4L, there's no room to fit in in. Right now, I'm using assassin's mark for power charges.

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biomuesli wrote:

Hey, rolling a somewhat different version of your build and just got to merciless.

Some questions:

why don't you take DoT nodes, they help the puncture and the burn?

How do you feel about an auxiliary 4link:

Split Arrow - PCoC - Curse on Hit - Vulnerabilty/other curse?

Best,
muesli

Will try both those ideas when I get to higher levels.

If the dot nodes aren't in the build, they got left out accidentally.

Hi,

I've recently hit level 55 in Beyond, and have Infractum, Drillneck, Three Dragons and some pretty nice jewellery. My ice shot dps is over 6k.

I'm terrified of reflect. Can you explain (like i'm 5 years old) how evading the reflect works? I understand that dodging the arrow with Ondars is a thing, but how does the ele prolif get dodged? Wouldn't we just burn to death?

I'm strongly considering speccing out of this build and converting to tornado/pure phys because it sounds safer to me and will allow me to use a leeching bow.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I have a 5L Lightning Coil waiting for me at 60. I'm considering speccing out of the ele prolif, getting an Alpha's Howl and just going for a safer phys build; unless reflect is safe!

Why don't you use Pierce support gem?
Should be quite the dmg increase?!?

Taling about the non-Infractem-version

Edit: and Drillneck ofc