Explosive Arrow Marauder (Updated for Release)

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DJSRP wrote:

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pwntato3s wrote:

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DJSRP wrote:

omg I hate my rng luck!!

already spend like ~200 fusings on this one! f*** it

just to make sure Im not completely stupid: an ilvl 65 armor like this can be 5L right? yes sure it can. man I HATE it... aaagh, Ive spent everything I got on this, for completely nothing.

EDIT: how does this new quality thing work by the way? should I use an armor scrap everytime before I try to fuse it?? can anyone explain this mysterious ***** to me? god sorry Im so angry now lol

Bad luck is feeling like a tough guy and blowing through 500ish fusings and still failing at linking a 5 or 6. I had no self-control last night and thought I could link up my Quill....

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Yup... 500 later and still nothing. I also used roughly 250ish Whetstones and still linked S***. FML.

BTW...

Wtf are doing spending 200 fusings on that pile of s***... Send me a pm in game and I can trade you something better than that LOL

oh my gosh mate :D feel so effing sorry for you! thats really a pity. and still there is this new fusing mechanics I know shit about, do scraps really help? any official announcement that it works with 1% quality?

and what armor is this youre selling? whisp me mate, Im desperate already and havent even spent 500 ^^

Yeah I will be online in an hour or two, but this is what I got atm...



Or...



Selling that for 1 Gcp b/o if you want that aswell... LOL

About the scraps and stones... I am 100% sure that any quality you put into the item will technically "increase" the chances of higher links... (As the patch notes states) However, I do not know how much greater the chances are if you were fusing a 10% Q vs. a 20% Q item. From my experience so far I have only tried fusing a item that is 20% Q. Like I said, I used roughly 250 Whets in a row, which would be 12 "attempts" at 20% Q and had no luck linking. I would like to know if it is even worth fusing at 20% Q.... Does it it makes sense to fuse at 10% Q? or even 5% Q?

Anyways, I will post my results on my next fusing haul, and hopefully I'll be able to 6 lol

Make sure you guys aren't fusing a 5 socket. 6S are much more likely to get a 5L and you have a chance for a 6L.

exactly, thats the point. its nice that the chance is increased - but huge amounts of scraps and whetstones are still pretty rare in Anarchy, thats why I wonder if its rly worth it. just a discussion with a russian progamer about this, he said it is really amazing on white items, as you just need 4 scraps, but he would not use it on rares/uniques and rather invest the currency into more fusing than scraps..

maybe Ill buy than Carcass of you, still it has no links then :D well talk when ure on mate

Time for me to start saving fusing aswell. I'm really broke at the moment.

Got really lucky, purchased this quill rain when it only had 1 socket for 1 regret, 2 alch, 3 fuse, 20 alteration (whatever that converts to).

Invested 65 jewelers and 25 chromatics. I plan on saving up about 300 fusing and as many wheltstones as I can get my hands on before I start. I will also keep an eternal orb, incase I 5 link I can revert. Ugh.

Also shopping around for a 15%+ increased burn damage. Ill be increasing my ele prolif to Q17 and my explosive arrow to Q20% tonight.

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Gryphyn wrote:

Time for me to start saving fusing aswell. I'm really broke at the moment.

Got really lucky, purchased this quill rain when it only had 1 socket for 1 regret, 2 alch, 3 fuse, 20 alteration (whatever that converts to).

Invested 65 jewelers and 25 chromatics. I plan on saving up about 300 fusing and as many wheltstones as I can get my hands on before I start. I will also keep an eternal orb, incase I 5 link I can revert. Ugh.

Also shopping around for a 15%+ increased burn damage. Ill be increasing my ele prolif to Q17 and my explosive arrow to Q20% tonight.

Take that external and use it for more fusings if ya can't 6 yours imo... Great thing about our build is that a 4 link is very very strong. IMO the dps btw 4 vs. 5 isn't that big, so I would just try for a 6. I would also get a 20% EA asap before anyother Q gem.

t('.'t)

So i have been playing this build for a couple of days now, just reached 66, and have a quick question in regards to the skill order. Does it matter if you cast flammability before stacking fuses and then spamming split arrow? I tried watching some videos online and it seems like everyone casts the curse at the final moment before the explosion. Is this just a style thing? Or is there some kind of benefit to doing so?

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pwntato3s wrote:

Take that external and use it for more fusings if ya can't 6 yours imo... Great thing about our build is that a 4 link is very very strong. IMO the dps btw 4 vs. 5 isn't that big, so I would just try for a 6. I would also get a 20% EA asap before anyother Q gem.

t('.'t)

Well, my explosive arrow is q16 now, just need to find some people to trade me 4gcp vs 12 chaos :(

I was going to buy a 12% increased burn damage and while I was waiting for the guy to log on a 11% increased burn dmg dropped for me :). burn damage will be my next 20% gem since that adds another 9% chance to ignite.

I cant wait to try it out with 20q ea, 20q burn dmg, and 20q flammability, 43% chance to ignite Is going to rock.

I've never had a character higher then level 65 (yeah im a noob) since I always played hardcore. This is by far the strongest solo build I have played. Started farming fellshrine 5 levels to low for the area, wrecking stuff. Melted (literally) vaal merc' at level 61.


Going to try to polish off act 3 after work today. Cant wait to get to maps.

Would a CI EA build work for anarchy/onslaught ? Or is the mana cost too high to sustain without bloodmagic ?

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MajorMudfish wrote:

Would a CI EA build work for anarchy/onslaught ? Or is the mana cost too high to sustain without bloodmagic ?

The crazy high attack speed combined with the high mana per shot would make this very hard to sustain. Minimal physical damage output makes mana leech on gear kinda useless as well. Mana leech gem might help; however, It means losing a DPS slot in your 6 link.

sounds like Conc Effect is detrimental late game.

is there no way to mimic the Vaal Pact / CI / Ele cleave build and ignore reflect?