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

That bow should work well for a while stats wise, I'm at 56 and using a worse bow than that.
I think the main problem is that your weapon is where you can get more than 4 sockets.

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pansarshrek wrote:

How viable would this bow be for this build? Does the extra DPS from an added cold roll really do that much difference?

Well its all about percentage elemental damage, phys. damage is irrelevant for this build, so calculate eDps of your bow and you will know how good that bow for this build is.

For example, my bow which is mid-class:



does 170 eDps

Yours does... 133. So it's so-so, good if you cannot afford better.
I have 5L bow very similar to mine in my shop for price of 2,5EX if you're interested btw (shameless self promotion :)

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Thorien_Kell wrote:

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pansarshrek wrote:

How viable would this bow be for this build? Does the extra DPS from an added cold roll really do that much difference?

Well its all about percentage elemental damage, phys. damage is irrelevant for this build, so calculate eDps of your bow and you will know how good that bow for this build is.

For example, my bow which is mid-class:

Spoiler

does 170 eDps

Yours does... 133. So it's so-so, good if you cannot afford better.
I have 5L bow very similar to mine in my shop for price of 2,5EX if you're interested btw (shameless self promotion :)

Thanks for the info and the shameless self promotion ;) However, I will be looking for bows in domination league, thanks anyway :)

How does this build work out in nemesis? Thinking about trying it.

could we have a video?

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Thorien_Kell wrote:

Ok, another update by me :)

My tree needed more att. speed that is the only thing I've seriously lacked in new re arrangement. So I've made few more swaps ... Abandoned pure 8/8/12 % life nodes on two places, grabbed one by templar tree and grabbed beserking IAS node ... Several regret orbs back and - This is my new tree;

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgQBBLMUTRUgFx0XLxmFGbQaOB0UJKoksCftKaUqTSzpMgkyiTWSNuk5ljrhPC0_J0p9SshN404qVcZW-lfiWfNaUluvY6dmnmegZ71sRm6qcmxyqXflfNl9dYCkhtGHdo1-j0aQCpBVmy2boaIAplenhKiaqW6sqrXytz63trvjvqfAD8AaxKLE9sauytPNmM9l0NDSTdN-3Q3dRt7G42rqYuw47g7ub-968kX6sfrS_E78xf4K_o_-ug==

Results are extremely good, remember folks, my stats pre 1.00 were

8600 Frenzy /2825 SA dps (fully buffed)
3542 Life
3075 Armor (28% red.)
All resi 75 /chaos -13

And Now
11221 frenzy /3259 SA
4300 life
And with my "cast on dam. taken" gem my damage reduction much better then before (molten shell + end charges)

Difference in DPS is unbelievable, maybe numerically speaking it doesn't seem so impressive but it's difference from soloing lvl 71 maps to soloing lvl 75 maps.

Only if I could incorporate wake of destruction boots, you need badass resi gear then ... It's understandable ofc ....

And then all I need is voltaxic to drop (because I'll never be able to afford one ;)

Wake of destruction is only good if you have a massive amount of dps from your gear and your passive tree so those 1-120 lightning dmg will be very noticable else just use rare boots with life/res/movspd.

Note: Windscream boots are very good if you arent using voltaxic because x2 curses > wake of destruction...

Note to Note...: I forgot to say , if u rlly want to skyrocket your dps try focusing in a 6l and getting attack speed since at some point attack speed gives way more dps than elemental dps , im not saying u hav to focus in attack speed instead of dps c: just try balancing both and get as much atk spd as u can.

If u take a look at the pictures i posted before u may notice i got 0.24 attack time for Split and 0.21 for frenzy so that makes 4.xx attacks per second , you can compare that with your dps to know how much you need to improve.

Edit: If you use voltaxic then you hav to get a very good quiver to recover the dps u lose for not using lioneye ( Weapon Elemental Damage 25%+ / Attack Speed 9%+ ) in the other hand voltaxic has WAY MORE DPS THAN ANY LIONEYE IN THE GAME WHY!!!? chaos damage will make you hit way harder because very few mobs have chaos resistance and u will notice that even if your dps is a little lower the amount of damage taken by the monsters is higher than before c: also the purple shock effect and the purple cloud effect for attacks is very cool xd

So the conclusion is if u want wake of destruction then wait a little until you get a voltaxic and your dps is 4500+ and of course you cap your resist, meanwhile if you want more dps you can perfectly use windscream and for voltaxic try getting a very good quiver and focus all the ele dps in your gear to lightning damage c:<

Srry for my awful english...

I'm running a char with this build currently and I'm using a Pierce support for Split Arrow instead of Fork until I find Chain and/or Blood Magic support gem. I'm wondering how viable it would be to not replace Pierce with Chain further along, what with lower mana/life cost and without the damage penalty of Chain.

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Pertan wrote:

I'm running a char with this build currently and I'm using a Pierce support for Split Arrow instead of Fork until I find Chain and/or Blood Magic support gem. I'm wondering how viable it would be to not replace Pierce with Chain further along, what with lower mana/life cost and without the damage penalty of Chain.

It never ceases to amaze me how some newbie players, or even more experienced ones, think they can have "this great idea" of how to improve that what was already pushed to perfection, long time ago. I follow this thread/build for long time and again and again I hear same "new and great" ideas about iron grip or RoA or different skill tree or whatever.

Excuse my grumpiness and short temper. It seems that my old age has finally caught up with me.

@Pertan, you can use pierce, it's even better when large mob group (really large) is dead ahead of you and you have clear shot. In all other scenarios chain is better and don't let it "low" dps fools you. Just follow the build to letter, everything has already been explained over and over on this very thread. Every detour from -exact mechanics- that this build works and that is been so nicely described will, I assure you, reduce strength, dps and toughness of your character.

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BIGLITRO wrote:

Wake of destruction is only good if you have a massive amount of dps from your gear and your passive tree so those 1-120 lightning dmg will be very noticable else just use rare boots with life/res/movspd.

WOD boots do increase DPS pretty substantially. 500 points or more (SA) iirc. However difference in movement speed is something that I would never tradeoff, even to such powerful boots. I feel slow and clumsy as snail. I love my characters to be quick and nimble, I use quicksilver flasks even repeatedly on them if I can.

Windscream also seem good although they are (again) little bit slow. IMO boot with less then 25% MS is no boot at all. 2 curses are also tempting, Ele weakness increases 30% or so flat dps, I usually cast it on every group /boss I encounter. Second curse would be clumsy to cast like that - on every target but it could help you with bosses. Worth it? hard to say, for me I think not.

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Note to Note...: I forgot to say , if u rlly want to skyrocket your dps try focusing in a 6l ...

6L is and will probably be forever out of my league. I have pretty nice and sturdy gear (2 x 5L) but I don't play farm THAT much (2hrs per day tops) and I don't use RMT so real endgame gear will be just lucky drop for me, if.

Doesn't matter, best maps I can find /afford with this char is piece of cake (lvl 71-72)

Just started, level 16, how do you guys do with the Auras since they are %-based, mainly grace/wrath on low level then wrath+grace/anger later on?
Where do you get the int from? ty.