Chaos Acolyte [Poison Arrow, Viper Strike, Shock] [IR/EB/MoM/AA] Potential 1.2.0 Tree in Latest Post

Rearguard is most definitely worth it. Going from 0 to 20-24% block chance is a huge buff to damage avoidance/mitigation. 12-15% Spell Block certainly can't hurt either - and you can scale that number up a bit more if you choose with Rainbowstrides or Lawhzar although with no real way to increase the block number, you'd get less bang than builds generally get doing that.

Projectile Damage DOES increase Poison Arrow's cloud damage. The only other way to get a damage buff for Poison arrow on a Quiver is Drillneck which doesn't provide near the defenses this quiver does. If you are on Invasion and can get it - it's a must own for the build.

awesome, i didnt know poison arrow worked like that

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Zartyno, that seems like a fine plan to me. Let me know it goes.

So, i'm level 66 (yeah i lvl very slowly, my loading take a few minutes sometime :p), i still don't have more than a +1 bow, and no empower gem, i'm going slow projectile+faster projectile+concentrated effect(not sure about this one tho, the dammage in the tooltip don't change).
My dammage are not bad, if the ennemis don't have chaos resist, rare and magic ennemies with chaos resist take sometime but it's kind of ok.
I think now i'll go ahead and use more traps, i may use them with desacretad ground and summon some zombies on it, to tank for me and keep ennemies in the could.

Anyway, thank you for all the help!

The +2 to bow skills mod (Sharpshooter's) is a level 64 mod. Seriously - pick a bow up off the ground and throw a few alts at it.

Concentrated Effect does work, but does not show in the tooltip. However, the damage increase from Projectile damage added via Faster and Slower Projectiles does show.

Hi there i'm kinda new still and have a lot more to learn about the game and mechanics...but if this build is posted for use as a ranger when are the skill tree points posted as witch?

It used to be a build for Duelist, and was in its forum. Then when the official release of the game came, Ranger became the best for it, so I asked support to move the thread to the Ranger forum. After some more patches Witch became optimal. Having it moved again won't do much because it's primarily a Dexterity build and the optimal classes for it will always change, so I've just kept it here because users of it would already know it's here.

would a viper strike version of this build with geofri's crest, redbeak and a solaris lorica work?

damage should be insane right? or is a +3 sword still stronger?

something more or less like this:

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgIAr-sB0f4JJyGVyN-YYlokndN-73ruDlb6_MV0Qd0Nd9fdX1uvfyu7TRjbMHzWimf8rUpRR1Kvjb_NJgW1zeq0xejWIuqbtcM6GYqJ4MpK-wnmWG-e9tqTH4MJGo9JE0ZxtAzhiJMn6rodqhzcPI5_xqKjwcURlsHz7Bhwu1yKbRm00cNt2RM74XaCL2_i98gMpyuLervWEVArCsEA2xoQe_VLvjo=

wanna try new char with your poison build, looks fun and unusual, for me atleast ^_^
but with shadow at start

just was wanted to say "thank you" for sharing :)

Here's an updated tree for the new JSON data.

Considering how Viper Strike was changed, this build will no longer include it.