[Build of the week S4E8] Havrd's Burning Arrow Marauder [Bloodlines][1.3]

This is the first time I'm following like 100% anyone's guide. It's one of my favourite concepts along with the Scold Bridle thingy unfortunately its price wasn't on my reach...

I decided to try it in the 1 month softcore challange and this is how it's looking so far hope you find this enjoyable!

Lvl 71 oak-kill-kill

Gear:



Tree:



The only REAL problem I encountered is phylacterial link packs, yes, everyone's problem but since they trigger your traps and you only hit one mob per trap its very very hard to deal with, sometimes you need to pull mobs from the area to start proliferating leading to an inevitable split... Most of the times is dodge or spend your whole life trying to kill it.


Works wonders and unless prolif get's nerfed I greatly encourage giving it a try.

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Korhildon wrote:

This is the first time I'm following like 100% anyone's guide. It's one of my favourite concepts along with the Scold Bridle thingy unfortunately its price wasn't on my reach...

I decided to try it in the 1 month softcore challange and this is how it's looking so far hope you find this enjoyable!

Lvl 71 oak-kill-kill

Gear:

Spoiler

I'm looking for a good rolled Mokou's embrace but people is either afk or selling it overpriced U_U

I found a nice decimation bow and decided to test it before lvl 62 and it worked pretty well!

Edit: Adding the bow I'm talking about:

Tree:

Spoiler

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEAAecEswYOCfYUIBRNFHUWbxiRGNsaOB0UIWAirySqJy8n7SmlMfsyfjboNuk4UzwFPfxAoEZpRtdOKlBHVbVXDVhjWfNbr14TXz9hUmP9Zp5o8nGFcql08Xasdud65nzZf-OCB4KbhmCHKYzPkFWaO57Nn8uiAKTCpzCsqq2Nr42xQryfwBrAZsEExPbG2M9-0iHUfNlh4XPjauSx6hjsOO8O707vfPAf8kHzEfZI9zL60vxL

The only REAL problem I encountered is phylacterial link packs, yes, everyone's problem but since they trigger your traps and you only hit one mob per trap its very very hard to deal with, sometimes you need to pull mobs from the area to start proliferating leading to an inevitable split... Most of the times is dodge or spend your whole life trying to kill it.


Works wonders and unless prolif get's nerfed I greatly encourage giving it a try.

I see that you are using Conceffect in the 4L with Vaal Burning Arrow, if it has prolif aswell it tends to help out alot with Phys Link packs, as you 1shot the one with the buff and have a chance of igniting him.

I understand that the reasoning is that you dont have a prolif gem at the moment, but if the case is that you dont think you need one. Think again.


Other than that, thanks alot for the kind words and following my build, i see that you are using the new Jade amulet, i considered it to be a quite weak in my build because of all the other uniques without resists and flat fire/phys (very important). But i would love to hear your thoughts on it.

Oh yeah I wasn't taking into consideration the fact that Vaal BA is AOE :P tried it today with a prolif gem vs PL and it helped quite a bit ^^ ty

I like playing pseudo solo-selfound: I only buy unique items and quality gems and almost never buy anything unless an extreme case (running out of chromes is the best example). With that being said I had a bit of luck and bought the amulet for testing purposes, I'm capped (not overcapped) with the resists and you are right, it isn't that big of a deal. Anyway I still need to adress the skilltree and get rid of all the dex/int nodes I dont need.


I'm not having a lot of luck with jewelry and I'm considering using the Elreon mastercraft "Adds 10-13 to 20-26 Fire Damage to your Attacks" for only 3 alchs and the Vaal implicit "(6 to 12)% increased Elemental Damage with Weapons".

Glad you liked it :D I'll edit my post once I think I improved my gear and tree good enough heh.

Saluts!

I built this char in the 1 month race and had a lot of fun so far.

Results after about 2 days of play time / lvl 67 / 10 chaos invested:





In the OP you mentioned, that no chance to ignite is required for Vaal Burning Arrow. In fact I often see it NOT igniting an enemy. Has there been a change to the ability since you built the character?

Right now my plans are to get a 5L and add chance to ignite to Vaal Burning Arrow.

Which gems should I get quality on?

Any other suggestions?

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Irongunner wrote:

I built this char in the 1 month race and had a lot of fun so far.

Results after about 2 days of play time / lvl 67 / 10 chaos invested:

Gear

Tree

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEAAecFLQYOCfYUIBRNFHUYkRjbGS4aOB0UIWAnLyftKaUyfjboOlg8BT38QKBG104qVbVVxlcNWGNZ81uvXhNfP2BLYVJj_WaeaPJxhXKpdPF2rHrmfNl99YIHgpuGYIcpjM-PRpBVmjuboZ7Nn8uiAKTCpzCsmKyqrY2vjbFCvJ_AGsEExPbG2M9-0iHUfNlh2rnhc-w47w7vTu988B_yQfZI9zL31_rS_Es=

In the OP you mentioned, that no chance to ignite is required for Vaal Burning Arrow. In fact I often see it NOT igniting an enemy. Has there been a change to the ability since you built the character?

Right now my plans are to get a 5L and add chance to ignite to Vaal Burning Arrow.

Which gems should I get quality on?

Any other suggestions?

Great to see that you are having fun with my build, ill go through everything i see that is nice about your contribution to this concept and what also what i think you should focus on in the future.

1. You definatly have got the right idea about getting flat damage on your jewlery, like the neckless you are wearing. The ring should be upgraded soonish.

2. Getting 1-2 5L in this build is going to provide a gigantic boost to the character as a whole.

3. Bloodmagic on curse - Great!!

4. Perfect Mokou's <3

5. You have only been playing the build for about 5 levels, once you level up your character and gems you will really feel it. Espescially when Anger levels, oooohhh baby.

6. Once you get more currencies and get into higher level maps try to upgrade your gear to get evasion and armour, this build really shines with alot of it!

7. Temp chains in Cwdt i found was better than inc dur, but you are on SC so it shouldnt be that important. I just found that Temp chains helps with alot of the leapers and devos that can be a pain when we don't have Clever Constructions. It actually also helps against storm call nemesis mobs!

8. Your tree looks nice, remember that you might get some mana problems later, fix that by either grabbing Righteous Decree OR Deep Thougths (this was a problem for me at like lvl 87)

9. Onto the last point, your question about ignite chance and vaal burning arrow. You cannot judge it yet, get some more levels and spec into Breath of Flames!(do this before you get Heart of flame)

Your Flammability will level up and provide more ignite chance aswell.

I have stated this both in my build-guide and on questions here in the thread.
Increased Burning is a sub-par stat for this build, on the tree and on the gem.
BUT
i do suggest getting a high quality one and using that in vaal Burning Arrow, mine is 20% now. Giving 10% ignite chance. (not bad at all!!)


10. What quality gems are great?
Not ranked in order.

A)Well, Burning arrow has a fantasic Quality bonus ( Ignite Duration )
B)Vaal burning arrow can actually have Quality aswell ( Ignite Duration ) This is better than on normal BA because it helps burning bosses with alot of HP.
C) Trap gem gives trap throwing speed! REALLY GOOD!!!
D) If you still want to use Increased Duration that has a really good bonus (more duration)
and even if you want to try out Temp chains, that has a insane quality aswell!!
E)Blink Arrow -> Faster escapes yo.


Final thoughts.

Instead of getting a regular 5L i would suggest buying a Carcass Jack Unique Chest. It shouldnt cost that much in SC, Then after a while go for 5L on it. When you have done that you can either drop the trap boots or stick Vaal Burning arrow in them. Your first 5L should be for regular Burning arrow with a Quality Trap gem. This will make the character feel alot faster! Getting a normal 5L with alot of Evasion is a great choise aswell, just remember you need BBRGG on the chest, so it should be Evasion!!! This is why Carcass is so perfect, it is EVA/ES perfect for our colours. And I think you should get more armour/evasion on your headpiece.

Other than that it seems that you have got a good grasp of the character and are well on your way to stomping maps. Remember to get overcapped on all resistances and get a good amount of HP and Armour.

Please tell me how it goes in the future, i love hearing about it!!

@1: My plan is to enchant flat fire damage onto the ring until I got currency to buy a good upgrade (I am dry atm).

@7: I'll look into it. I could also just add a second CWDT link with just Temp Chains on it (e.g. by getting 4S on my chest with 2L-2L). Only an option until I get 5L though...

@8: No mana issues so far, as I tried to get high mana rolls and a bit of mana regen on some items. I got about 50 mana unreserved which is enough for 2 consecutive traps. Anyway I'll keep an eye on it.

@9: Breath of Flames is what I go for right now :)

Two more questions:

Did you think about going for dual curse? I could imagine that Ele Weakness (offensive, manual cast) and / or Enfeeble (defensive, cwdt linked) are a powerful addition to the build? Even if you don't use these, having Flammability and Temp Chains up on the same target can be handy?

Did you consider going for either Catalyse or Lava Lash nodes (last one is quite accessible)?

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Irongunner wrote:

@1: My plan is to enchant flat fire damage onto the ring until I got currency to buy a good upgrade (I am dry atm).

@7: I'll look into it. I could also just add a second CWDT link with just Temp Chains on it (e.g. by getting 4S on my chest with 2L-2L). Only an option until I get 5L though...

@8: No mana issues so far, as I tried to get high mana rolls and a bit of mana regen on some items. I got about 50 mana unreserved which is enough for 2 consecutive traps. Anyway I'll keep an eye on it.

@9: Breath of Flames is what I go for right now :)

Two more questions:

Did you think about going for dual curse? I could imagine that Ele Weakness (offensive, manual cast) and / or Enfeeble (defensive, cwdt linked) are a powerful addition to the build? Even if you don't use these, having Flammability and Temp Chains up on the same target can be handy?

Did you consider going for either Catalyse or Lava Lash nodes (last one is quite accessible)?

In my build there are no real sockets left to get a second CWDT... unfortunately.

Getting a 5L chest should be a priority so you can drop the trapper boots later.

Going dualcurse is possible, but why would you need to? Seeing as we one-shot prettymuch anything already....
Sure it would be handy to have more than one curse active at the same time, but we only use flammability to get one good hard BurningArrow hit, after that i just run past them -> they do some damage to me -> they get temp chained and die from the burn. So having both at the same time doesnt really do anything.

Catalyse was something i planned around in the start, i might have used it on my old Beyond character, dont remember though. My current build is using Lava Lash, i think it should be visible in my skilltree in my guide, if not... SORRY!

Just finished 4/4 challenges. Thanks again for the brilliant guide. Leveling was very smooth and the beginner gear is super affordable.

Final results (lvl 80, gems ~lvl 18, capped res, 4.65k hp, 4.35k BA dps, about 15c spent):

im doing this build. so, will doryani's invitation work with leech? which is better between doryani's and a rare?

And for hardcore leagues what should i get next from lv90? soul of steel vs. holy fire vs. forces of nature?

I'm levelling up the character still (currently at L56) using Flame Blast, and is finding that this combination helps a lot keeping things still for Flame Blast.



I keep the Conversion Trap at L1 since keeping the duration down makes things easier.

The worst problem using Flame Blast was killing Cruel Piety... She runs around all the time, meaning hitting her with a decent Flame Blast is very hit and miss. The above combination didn't help there as there are few/no other monsters.