[1.1] Davos Seaworth's Elemental Split Arrow Build - Solo every map with ease!

I just realized that with the two other 4% reserved nodes and an Alpha's, you can run Purity on mana too.(!) So if you can get an Alpha's, then I think that is definitely worth it. The main question is whether or not I can afford to chrome my Alpha's RRBB to get the +2 on Anger, Wrath, and Purity. I will probably have to be happy with RRBG if I can even get that. I already spent all my chromes getting my bow RRRGG...

Lol what? Did I understood correctly you want to run -4- auras? Its madness! LOL. No joking aside, its sane plan, if you have /can afford /alpha howl or you are building character from zero - you can maximize your MF that way which is nice.

On the other hand have relatively decent gear and rebuilding my char is my last option. I couldn't take it, psychologically or financially :)

About your CoDT experiments, well I've made few of my own. Distraction skills work I would say best. Decoy totem and raise skeletons as second best. Defense is good but not even being attacked is better. Then usual stuff: molten shell and end. cry as flat damage reduction skills (artic armor is brilliant idea really, so good that I'm afraid it would be nerfed :)

Immortal call combos are good but you have to have second leveled gem for that. It should fire off only if you're in serious trouble.

After that, if you socket color forces you, cold snap is fairly decent soultion. Curses like enfeeble are not bad for melee char, but most of my chars need specific (and offensive) curses - this one too.

Lightning warp in my experience works pretty fast, but if you have slots extra to why not.

As for me I'll stay on 1 CoDT gem, more seem just like pushing it. It's OP as it as already.

Yeah, so I though I might post my thoughts about this.

I actually ripped my first char at lvl51 in nemesis which was something like split arrow, power charge on crit ranger before this build came along.

I'm atm playing nemesis league with level 79 scion with similar build than in OP posts.
My experience so far has been good. The build is really enjoyable WHEN you get it up and running, I'm not sure about the early levels and I kinda recommend leveling with spectral throw since it's really good. I didn't have much fun before I accuired my 5link since it was really hard to solo and going with groups takes so long.

I have been soloing easily some 66-67-68 maps and doing some piety runs in merc. Only struggling sometimes with bosses.

I'm running something like 2164 split arrow DPS and 5723 frenzy DPS (Both DPS are without frenzy charges and with anger and wrath), with frenzy charges like split arrow DPS is something like 2444 and frenzy around 7600.

My physical dmg survivability isn't that high since I'm running anger and wrath and not grace atm. My HP is at 5000 and DR only 17% (~1900armor). I'm capped at 77 with resistances of course.

I'm running Cast when dmg taken, decoy totem, end. cry and molten shell. Using enfeeble, ele weakness as curse.

My current gear:

For this early on in the league, it's decent, nothing special, just getting capped with resist and trying to accuire as much life as possible with some decent damage along.

I was orginally running/planning to run a bit different build but it didn't feel so good with a lot of wasted points and not that much damage so I ended up changing it a bit:

My current build:

Build is really bad atm. I think I kinda made a mistake going to marauders starting area from UW and now I'm trying to respec out from there since I don't think it's worth much going there just wasteing a lot of points.

Probably will be respecing into something like this with couple levels on:

Yeah, really identical with OP. Most likely gonna get rid of lava lash as well since it's like 13.5 more avarage elemental dmg from the weapon.

For that point on, not sure yet, might be going for one more aura for more survivability or maybe some more damage, mostly likely will be heading towards the ranger tree.(or maybe Inner force(?), just need to figure out how much of an upgrade to DPS and survivability it is.) In the end I was thinking about getting Voltaxic Rift with this build.

If you have any questions, tips, etc. feel free to comment or PM, thanks.

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Thorien_Kell wrote:

Lol what? Did I understood correctly you want to run -4- auras? Its madness! LOL. No joking aside, its sane plan, if you have /can afford /alpha howl or you are building character from zero - you can maximize your MF that way which is nice.

On the other hand have relatively decent gear and rebuilding my char is my last option. I couldn't take it, psychologically or financially :)

I figure if I'm reserving all my mana for auras already, might as well throw another one in there. I already have the alpha's, it's just chromed for a different toon. With Purity I could probably use Lightning Coil or Wakes and still be resist capped.

I hear you on the regearing part, that's why i didn't test out a split crit build. I would have needed a different ammy, some maligaros and a new quiver.

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Empiire wrote:

Yeah, so I though I might post my thoughts about this.
If you have any questions, tips, etc. feel free to comment or PM, thanks.

Frenzy dps will go up by a huge amount on a 5L with WED.

With a scion start, I'd be aiming for something like this:



As far as IF/aura buffs go, my SA/chain dps is around 1350 with no auras. Anger and Wrath get me up to 4k, and I'm not even using my Alpha's Howl yet (maybe another 300 dps?). With the new improved auras, the aura improvement nodes are even better.

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andaval wrote:

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Empiire wrote:

Yeah, so I though I might post my thoughts about this.
If you have any questions, tips, etc. feel free to comment or PM, thanks.

Frenzy dps will go up by a huge amount on a 5L with WED.

With a scion start, I'd be aiming for something like this:

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http://pathofpoe.com/builds/passive-calculator/share/AAAAAgABAnEDlgSzDH0QfxRNFSAWbxcvGYoZtBo4Go8dFCSwJ-0ppSpNLOktgzIJMok1kjbpOuE7KDwtPydKyE4qVcZX4lnzWhpaUmBDZp5nvWqTbBZsRm49bqpybHKpd-V82X11gKSDCYPbhtGI8Y9GkFWXBptdm6GiAKZXpwinhKiaqW6sWayqr6e18rZBtz64k7vjvqfAD8AaxKLE9saexq7K085xz2XQ0NJN037V7eNq52PqYuw47m_vevAf8kXyl_Pd9qP22vqx-tL7CfxL_gr-ug==

As far as IF/aura buffs go, my SA/chain dps is around 1350 with no auras. Anger and Wrath get me up to 4k, and I'm not even using my Alpha's Howl yet (maybe another 300 dps?). With the new improved auras, the aura improvement nodes are even better.

Scion has better dps than ranger since she can take the ranger / duelist / templar starting trees and get even more dps from her starting tree

is 'The Bringer of Rain' viable for this build?
for example 4L Frenzy-WeaponElementalDamage-LifeLeech-AddedLighningDamage in this helmet
so with BOR it should have Blind+FasterAttacks+MeleePhysicalDamage, melee maybe useless, but it would work vs bosses (blind+5L)

wht do u think about it ?

Hello, I am looking for the point progress. In your link, all the 30,40,50 point passive trees are the same. Is some problems happened? Thank you!

@up: read his post again, especially first part, or at least that line

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there is no skill tree progression since 1.0 update because passive tree has changed.

@topic:
i bet u should use , for example
4L AR Boots with:
Cast on Damage Taken - Molten Shell - Decoy Totem - Enduring Cry

this will boost ur defenses if they hit u hard

on 4L Gloves i would recommend:
Faster Casting - Elemental Weakness - Spell Totem - Summon Skeletons

in that way u can put a totem that will cast curse on all the mobs (white/blue) or skeleton totem to 'tank' rare/unique npcs.

and in my opinion the best helmet for this build would be alpha's howl, since with passive node 8% reduced mana reserved, u can use Wrath+Anger+Grace connectedd with reduced mana lvl 20 ;p

not yet finished but it will work ;p

Is this build good for beginners? I dont rly have good equipment nor the orbs.

And how much Orbs of Regret do you need for this build? There is so much you have to redo, like "Mana Flows". Skill it, 20 lvls later, remove it. woot?

And the way of skill progression looks like route 66. You go a rly long route around the skilltree. Aren't you loosing some specializations and lots of HP or Damage?

OK you don't crit, and need no mana. But miss some life+ and armor+ notes.

I would rly try some archer class. But this seems a bit odd to me(newbie).