Explosive Arrow Marauder (Updated for Release)

I have a similar gem setup except I have lvl 18 explosive arrow and I also have increased AoE instead of blood magic. Blood magic isn't really worth it until you get a 6L imo. The other gems are just too good. The damage of explosive arrow is 40% more from level 15 to 18.

You have a 44% chance of igniting one target with your supports/flammability. With 4 targets hit you only have a 1% chance of not igniting. Sometimes I get a lone, curse immune mob and have to fire in 4 or so volleys before it dies. Right now I am doing so much damage that it dies even without igniting if it takes that long.

hm, well I guess ill just keep leveling gems and ignore my damage for now. thanks for the feedback I really am pleased with how well this builds syncs with all my magicfind

Deltrus u tried playing around much with faster attacks? Literally my fav support due to how much moility / how much it scales out single target

I've tried faster attacks with just explosive arrow and no other links just to see how it feels.

I am not sure it would scale that well against single targets since I have to wait ~1s for the arrows to explode anyway, so I would be going from 2.4s for 5 arrows + the explosion to ~2s for 5 arrows + the explosion. Only 20% more dmg compared to something like conc effect increasing dmg by 69%.

Yes faster attacks would be great if you spend most of your time moving. However, when my setup is complete I should be not killing the enemies with the initial explosion. I would need to wait up to 4s-ish for the enemies to die from burn and then I would have to loot. So overall I would be just standing around waiting for enemies to die to burn to death anyways. An extra 0.4s wouldn't really be noticeable.

If you were going full dps and no blood magic gem then it would probably be a viable alternative to chance to ignite for a 6th socket.

Just died on my level 84 EA marauder in city of sarn. I DCed in a big pack of mobs and came back to default. Had a pretty good day overall tho. Got 4 good legendaries and made like 10 ex.

My two items of most worth that were lost are:


Prob worth like 20 ex put together. Around 30 ex overall lost with quality gems. Not that bummed out about it. I will probably buy an old demi or two and then make a new character in a month when they release more of these awesome patches.

It is too bad I didn't have a few more days to get kaom's. With vitality, grace, determination and more HP I wouldn't die to a DC in any situation.

hi guys,

i started to play this build around 3 days ago and now lvl38 or some and it´s gettin a bit harder without any quality gems and no 5linked items :( i got 3x 4 linked items but not the correct coulor of them :( wasted already many chromatics but did not get the correct ones ... i use quill rain but my dmg on single target es champs is redicoulos bad :D my aoe dmg is quite ok i would say after i skilled pyromaniac.

i´am wearing a blue 4 linked chest with crappy stats of course :D almost all of my gear and the gear of my friend too, suxx !

my highest char is a dual spark witch, which is right now docks merciless but killspeed is not given with her too, so drops or currency don´t occur :(

i don´t want to whine about all this because i love this build and want really to get to the higher content in poe one time to get starting my farming ! especially maps

so i need some advice in which items i should invest my small currency which i got ( some chaos, 1 ex, some regret, some alechmy orbs, many orbs of chance )

also i think i made already a mistake in putting so many scouring, jewellers & chromatics into my quill rain to get a 5 socket ,4 linked one but the colour is still incorrect :(

I would really aprreciate some advices from advanced players :)

I just found out why I died. On kripp's newest vid, he explains that when you start a new instance there is a 45 second period that you cannot leave the game even if you are disconnected. I must have been in the game for a good 25s getting hit by mobs. I knew there was something fishy going on, as this spec has a ton of survibility/regen and I had 6.5k hp.

This isn't really related to explosive arrow, but please be aware that this logout timer is a a very deadly killer. I ran lvl 72 maps like this:

without dying, but a level 61 zone killed me.

Not angry about it at all. PoE is great. Just beware when farming instances and doing 1 minute sarn/ledge runs.

EDIT: To the person above me, you probably want to just save your money, or invest in a lategame item like a 5L quill rain or a 20% EA gem. Most of your damage comes from levelling explosive arrow, and all you need on gear is 90+ hp per item. That alone can make your character very effective and hard to kill. Don't try to 5L the quill rain yourself. Just buy it for 1.5 ex. Like 1% of people need like 800 fusings for a 5L. Don't let yourself potentially be that person.

I thought magic find doesn't work with burn damage, did they fix that?

It still doesn't.

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DeltruS wrote:

I just found out why I died. On kripp's newest vid, he explains that when you start a new instance there is a 45 second period that you cannot leave the game even if you are disconnected. I must have been in the game for a good 25s getting hit by mobs. I knew there was something fishy going on, as this spec has a ton of survibility/regen and I had 6.5k hp.

This isn't really related to explosive arrow, but please be aware that this logout timer is a a very deadly killer. I ran lvl 72 maps like this:

without dying, but a level 61 zone killed me.

Not angry about it at all. PoE is great. Just beware when farming instances and doing 1 minute sarn/ledge runs.

EDIT: To the person above me, you probably want to just save your money, or invest in a lategame item like a 5L quill rain or a 20% EA gem. Most of your damage comes from levelling explosive arrow, and all you need on gear is 90+ hp per item. That alone can make your character very effective and hard to kill. Don't try to 5L the quill rain yourself. Just buy it for 1.5 ex. Like 1% of people need like 800 fusings for a 5L. Don't let yourself potentially be that person.

Cme be my pocket healing cleric while we wait for patches haha :p