Explosive Arrow Marauder (Updated for Release)

Hi,

how important is Amplify ? does this effect burn or just explosion ?

very helpful post, cheers

it will effect both, just like the support gem > conc. effect

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Torontocanada wrote:

Hi,

how important is Amplify ? does this effect burn or just explosion ?

very helpful post, cheers

Amplify adds a ton of radius. That is very useful just by itself.
It buffs the damage of the initial explosion and thus then buffs the damage of the burn. This is different from stuff like shock that double dips. Shock buffs the damage of the explosion, and then the buffed burn is multiplied again by the shock.

As for how useful amplify is towards your dps, there is a simple way of calculating that.
First you would add up all of your "increased damage" from passives and armor. Personally I have only amplify and a 17% increased fire damage neck. So, the ability does 100% damage normally, 125% damage with both, and 117% damage with just the neck. So amplify would multiply my dps by 125%/117%= 6.84%

So, as can be seen, % increased damage is very important to this spec because it has very little of it in the build.

Is this build dependent on me having %fire damage gear on? or is the damage not very good until the gems are all level 20?

I seem to be having lots of trouble igniting any blue packs of mobs in higher end maps

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Torontocanada wrote:

Is this build dependent on me having %fire damage gear on? or is the damage not very good until the gems are all level 20?

I seem to be having lots of trouble igniting any blue packs of mobs in higher end maps

It should have good dmg even without %fire dmg gear on. It just gets even higher damage with more % fire.

What support gems are you using and what level is your explosive arrow?

explosive arrow, fire pen, inc burn damage, proliferation, blood magic

all gems are around level 15 and quality 20%

im having a lot of trouble igniting even when using flammability curse

edit; im seeing monsters on fire, but they aren't taking any damage, and sometimes they just burn to the ground

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgIAAecCcQSzBS0ILgx9Dq0QfxJpFCAUTRRxFm8XHBjbGS4ZhRmOGjgaVR0UIWAj9iSqJ-0ppTWGNZI26DbpOrM62ECgQapDnETnSn1N2E7IUEdQUFRJVcZW-lhjWfNaSFuvXz9gS2EhZKNmnmegajtqh3F5cql07XTxeu982YFvhO-Hdox2jM-PRpAKkFWYrZuNnaqdrp48nrmiAKcIpzCnhKyquJO5zbndwBrGnsbYz2XQ0NN-1I_dDeNq51LsOO2D7g7vDu_w8B_yL_Pd9kj3Mvjr-tL8xf3P

Your not using chance to ignite? Without Critting (which most of us can't due to res technique) your relying 100% on chance to ignite

Can't remember off the top of my head flammabilitys ignite chance but so far your chance to ignite is flam + ea(qual) ... chance to ignite makes a dramatic difference

20% from ea, 9% from inc burning damage, and 14% from flammability?

so basically I need a 6-link to make this effective with bloodmagic gem?

does my chance to ignite get reduced on fire resist/elemental resist monsters? or just rares and uniques in general?

It doesn't get reduced at all.