[3.9] Ice 9 Kills \m/ -Not Budget :( 9+ attacks/second-Chill/Freeze)

3.6 Update: Skill trees are updated. The only gear choice I'd make is to possibly use the new Maloney's Mechanism quiver. It has up to 3 sockets and triggers a socketed bow skill with a 1s cooldown (according to what I've researched) I'd stick a 3rd Ele Hit in here and get another 100k DPS. So, with all 3 of our Ele Hit's going, we would be close to 500k DPS against bosses.

Or could be used solely for utility. Stuff like Frenzy, Culling Strike, Blind, Mana/life Leech.

•9+ Cold Elemental Hit attacks per second, keep everything chilled/Frozen!
•Ele hit on a RAT for more dps
•Asenath's Chant procs Frostbite curse and Arctic Breath to apply Bonechill
•Bonechill buffs your Ele Hit dmg
•Super fast attacks synergize well with life/mana on hit from Thief's Torment
•Budget build! League starter! Easily under 2ex. (according to day 1 prices from Delve league)
•Only needs a 6l rare chest, Quill Rain doesn't need to be 6 linked


Pros:
•Kill stuff from far away + super fast movement speed
•Good defenses from evasion and dodge. 50% or more Melee evade, 89% or more projectile evade, 74% attack dodge, 64% spell dodge.
•Cheap items!

Cons:
•Not a ton of room to min/max without just making it a typical bow build.
•Cannot do Ele Reflect maps
•Low life pool on budget gear, so like most bow builds, you will have to dodge dangerous attacks and have good management of Vaal Grace uptime for tough encounters or bosses.
•Bow builds are a little harder to level without leveling uniques, so might be rough for new players.

Pro to some, Con to others:
•Some people like active playstyles, some people just want to fly through a map only pressing 1 button. Soo....
•Should clear packs with just 1 button: Elemental Hit.
•Boss figthts will require dropping RAT Totem, Blink Arrow and then kiting around. +Popping Vaal Grace when something really nasty might hit you.

I don't have a ton of time to farm, which is why I make budget builds. Therefor, tier 10/11 is the highest I've done so far. But you can get an idea of the build's playstyle and hopefully soon I can gear up better and have some better content to show off!

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/348298813

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/348298651

Refer to the "Skill Gems Setup" part of the guide below to see what gems you should always be on the lookout for and add them as you can!

Starting Tree + Tips


Tree/Gear at 71 pts


102 pts : Tree and Gear


Planned tree for lvl 90:

1. Quill Rain - need this for super fast attacks
2. Asenath's Chant - to cast lots of Arctic Breath's
3. Thief's Torment - to sustain mana and also lots of life gain on hit


Not Required but really good:
4. Drillneck Quiver - CHEAP and extra pierce is great!
5. Hyrri's Ire - Gives us a massive DPS boost + more dodge.
6. The Pandemonious - Cold Pen for dmg, Blind for defense. Expensive :(


Flask:
1. Atziri's Promise
2. Wise Oak
3. Any Sulphur Flask
4. Quicksilver Flask
5. Bubbling or Seething life Flask
6. Soul Catcher

-Expensive flask options
7. Dying Sun (Easier to hit targets + good against fire dmg)

•Body Armour: Elemental Hit - Ele Dmg with Attacks - Hypothermia - Slower Projectiles - Faster Attacks -GMP (for mapping) - Cold Penetration (for bosses)


•CWDT(lvl 2) - Frost Bomb(lvl 11) - Immortal Call (lvl 4) - Lightning Golem

•Helm: Arctic Breath - GMP - Bonechill - Frostbite

•Herald of Ice - Vaal Grace - Blood Rage - Blink Arrow

Quill Rain: Ranged Attack Totem - Elemental Hit - Hypothermia - Added Cold - Cold Penetration - Elemental Damage with Attacks

•Class: Ranger
•Ascendency: Raider
1st: Rapid Assault
2nd: Avatar of the Chase
3rd: Way of the Poacher
4th: Avatar of the Slaughter

•We go Rapid Assault and Avatar of Chase first because the free Onslaught and then double Onslaught and evasion will be much more useful than Frenzy charges early on. Especially since we don't really want to take Frenzy nodes early. Life, increased damage and jewel slots are much more efficient.

Major: Soul of Lunaris -
•Capture Capture Thraxia in Spider Lair Map
•Capture Sebbert, Crescent's Point in Moon Temple Map
•Capture Lycius, Midnight's Howl in Lair Map

-We have practically none, so phys reduction will be useful.
-Projectile and spell dodge on top of what we already have is great.


Minor: Garukan or Ralakesh would both be good

Garukhan
•Capture Stalker of the Endless Dunes in Dig Map
-Even more evasion
-6% movement speed

Ralakesh
•Capture Drek, Apex Hunter in Fields Map
-Bleed avoidance is nice, but maim slowing us and blind hurting our attacks would really suck. Being immune to those is great!

•A 6 link Hyrri's Ire will give you about 100k more dps.
•Pandemonious amulet is another 100k or so dps.
•A Lioneye's Glare Bow gives us about 60k DPS
•A lvl 21 Ele hit will add about 30k dps.
•Dying Sun flask - does't technically increase dps, but more projectiles will make it easier to consistently hit bosses when you don't have in GMP. This should be a dps increase cause you should be hitting more often when kiting around.

•Path of Building with all of these changes:
496k boss DPS from our main attack
240k boss DPS from RAT
316 boss DPs from triggered Ele hit in Maloney's Mechanism

https://pastebin.com/dAa22iRC

I've been asked this a lot, so I'll add a section.

Bow instead of Quill Rain: Lioneye's Glare is a DPS boost but will be very expensive early league. You can use it around lvl 66 if you can afford it. Frostbite and Arctic Breath should still proc reliably.

Expensive Rare Bow?
Short answer: 1ex rare bow gives you nothing. Multiple exalts to see a notable increase in DPS.

Long answer:




Other rings instead of Thief's Torment:Sadly, we're pretty much stuck with this. It's just too good for our build. Even with a slower attacking bow like Lioneye's Glare, we still have nearly 5 attacks per second, which is around 250 mana per second needed to sustain.

I allocated the 2 easiest mana leech nodes from the tree and still only had a little over 200 mana leeched per second. Not to mention the fact that we'd have to pull those 6 points from somewhere else that would mean losing damage or life.