IllustriousDjinni's Elemental Spectral Throw Ranger Hardcore Viable Build (Buzzsaw) 2.0 patch!

The point at which you 'Do Damage' is dependent on the amount of attack speed, flat elemental damage and Weapon elemental damage you have (Assuming you have resolute technique). Perhaps your gear or gems are just under leveled at the moment. For example my current level 82 character is feeling a bit short on damage due to a sub-par weapon and almost no Weapon elemental damage on gear.

Trickery, Ancestral Knowledge, and Retribution all give me a little bit of Int but other than that only a few +10 int nodes from the pathing and 19 from my amulet.

What gems would you recommend getting Quality on first. I'm 84 in Bloodlines now with this build its doing great for me so far! I assume spectral throw / elemental damage would the main 2 but I'm not 100%

Nice, Yeah Spectral throw and Wed. Lmp and Faster attacks too. Just anything that gives you more attack speed or elemental damage.

I saw that you got the elemental equilibrium node, but if you have all three elements on your damage, it actually adds 25% res all to mobs. Which is detrimental to the build..

I also leveled this build twice. First time ripped at 63. I'm on the second character with 16 hours played in HC lvl 71.5.

Leveling as spectral throw is super slow, and if you use tabula rasa for 6 socket, be prepared to exit game a lot due to not getitng enough life back from life steal.

Second time leveling, I followed the same tree, but went tornado shot til I can get gear for spectral throw(around 64). I didn't use my spectral throw til I got . Even then the damage is super low because this build is very reliant in those late game nodes + high leveled auras

I didn't actually get Elemental Equilibrium, you must have clickedon it and I know it gives monsters more resistance. It's better to use Life gain on Hit with a low dps. The damage is actually really good once you have Alpha's Howl and if need be you can level with physical Spectral Throw which levels quite nicely.

You must've just updated the passives, because I made both hunters around tuesday this week. First one ripped at 60 leveling as purely spectral throw due to stupid corpse explode mechanic.

The second one, I followed the skill build, skipped a few nodes ( EE and vaal pact as one of them), and got to 71 in 12 hours played, was streaming entire time. I now see that EE and vaal pact is no longer on there, but I was refreshing the guide everytime I check it to follow.

I found that leveling as tornado shot using the same passives is still better than spectral throw, plus I leveled all the same gems anyways. Just had spectral throw gem on the side leveling as well. I'm now 13 hours into it, 3/4 HC challenges and 72, and still doing only 2.4k spectral throw dmg.

Update:

I just did a 24 hour challenge 1-80 stream, finished at hour 22.

Leveled 1-60 with bows, tornado shot. Switched gear into spectral throw at 60-64 when I can wear the necessary gear and grinded the rest through maps.

Decent build, very low damage early on - need to be in mid 70s to do good damage. I ended up with 4.7k with GMP

I found this a minute ago running a map and added the accuracy roll to it. How is this in terms of an Ele Buzzsaw sword?

It's not particularly good even though the tri ele damage makes it seem good. You want at least 2 attacks per second and you don't need accuracy if you're using resolute technique.

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UPDATED FOR PATCH 2.0!

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