Explosive Arrow Marauder (Updated for Release)

I've updated the original build to reflect the same thoughts DeltruS has... As I prefer it for the same reason (no added danger versus reflect).

Really nice build, im almost 75 in hc and and having a lot of fun mapping with this char.

Im at 3.8k hp, 80 all res, and a little 8k armor.

Btw burning dmg gem is really one of the best you can put.

hows this build compare to the stronger builds ( LA Rangers , Dual totems )

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BChizzzle wrote:

hows this build compare to the stronger builds ( LA Rangers , Dual totems )

-below are estimates-

This build does around 18k-25k dps without conc effect. The top end dps has qual fire pen + % fire damage jewelry.
EA has very high hp and regen, meaning you are pretty safe from disconnects and are overall very tanky.

LA does much less dps at ~10k depending on how clumped groups are.
LA has similar survivibility compared to EA.

Spark has a huge range of dps because of its huge gear requirements. It can go anywhere from 25k dps with pretty good gear to 150k+ dps with Dominion level gear.
Spark is vulnerable to disconnects and extra damage goatmen.

Kripp's freeze pulse does around 20k dps and has the same defences but a bit less HP than EA builds.

Overall I think that EA has the lowest gear requirement of any of the other builds, while having pretty good dps and great tankyness.

I think the most amazing thing about the EA build is, that you can really stack IIR/IIQ, while still clearing maps quick and pretty safely. Thats just absolutely great and unique to this build in my opinion.

Im finally almost lvl 64 and about to equip my current gear and gems.

I currently have a 9% EA lvl 11, but I think Ill get into trouble because I wont make enouth damage for act 3 merciless and on.

So here's a question Im really struggling with: Should I buy a lvl 17, 16% Explosive Arrow for 6 GCP, or will I be alright with my 9% EA, once it gets ~lvl 15, and rather invest the GCP into better gear?

^ 6 GCP would be a steal. It is worth that much unleveled and you would do like triple the dps with it rather than your level 11 one.


I was playing around with the blood magic gem for a few hours today. I got the easy endurance charge and had 69% phys reduction with 4 charges and no granites. 90% with granites. But overall not being able to use my lovely blind + chain + split arrow + ranged attack totem made me really not like it. I couldn't find any way to make things work efficiently. I think I will stick with the blood magic passive no matter what until a patch changes something.

I also got to test out whether the 1-2 fire damage on my quiver would trigger EE. If I link split arrow with chain, the tooltip says that it does 0 fire damage. My culling strike + split arrow + IIR/IIQ however does 1 fire damage. Overall I think I can live with that since I would put down my totem first and it would trigger EE before I shoot.

I checked the exilepro guide and it says there:

"May not synergize well in group play depending upon group composition"

Can anyone explain this to me? I am playing this game on Default league, casually with my gf who's rolling a caster fire witch.

Thanks, I thought it was a good price too. Just took the b/o, hope the guy does respond quickly.

Had a nice deal for a quiver yesterday as well:
for 2 Chaos 1 Chisel

I basically gives me all the dex I need, so I can get finally rid of my crappy gloves and get ones with +life, +IIR + IIQ, EV/AR and maybe even some resists. Or do you see any alternative items, like unique IIR gloves?

I try to get a low Andvarius for 1 ex now, so my starting gear would look like this:



Do you think I will make it through act 2 and 3 merciless and maybe even further with this stuff? Im currently at act 2 and still using my cleave + domination blow build for leveling.

I never saw any point to wearing Alpha Howl with this build... You really lose out on a ton of hp, and the only aura you're running that would really benefit from the +1 gems is grace--and it really doesn't matter that much.

Everything looks good except your chaos resistance. I had worse gear than what you listed except I had around -20 or so chaos resistance at merciless, and the whole thing was such a breeze.

As long as you can cap your elemental resists, you might want to swap out your least useful item for a 15-20% chaos resist item or two. It doesn't have to be good, just high chaos res, a low-medium roll on life, and maybe some elemental resists.
For reference, this is all the chaos resist my EA build gets (and one 8% passive):


At -17 I think, I can pretty much stand in poison clouds all day.