Petrov's Elemental Bow Ranger Build(s) (0.10)

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Nitroximus wrote:

Is the "Old Open Beta Build" still a viable build? I'm level 40 and don't really want to reroll again.

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Eredia wrote:

It seems like the FoTM among rangers is to skip the center WED and Iron Grip and take the path along the south border of the passive tree. I guess this was made popular by Nugiyen due to it's superior survivability, especially when going into the Marauder start.

However I'm playing on scrubcore, since I wanted to get familiar with the game before dying several times in the hardcore league. I'm currently specced like this, which is just a small variation of the same old cookie cutter builds. Most notably I went for Inner Force, which I believe is overlooked by way too many rangers that run the usual Grace, Anger & Wrath aura combo. The DPS increase from it is big.

Anyway, would anyone care to take a look at my tree to see if I can make any small improvements? This is no theoretical tree, but rather how I'm actually specced right now.

http://tinyurl.com/erediaranger3

Something to note is that I currently have 3x 6% all resist nodes, which I need to max out all my elemental resists at 80%. With better gear those will be placed into more health and/or health regen.

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xiaozozo wrote:

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Eredia wrote:

It seems like the FoTM among rangers is to skip the center WED and Iron Grip and take the path along the south border of the passive tree. I guess this was made popular by Nugiyen due to it's superior survivability, especially when going into the Marauder start.

However I'm playing on scrubcore, since I wanted to get familiar with the game before dying several times in the hardcore league. I'm currently specced like this, which is just a small variation of the same old cookie cutter builds. Most notably I went for Inner Force, which I believe is overlooked by way too many rangers that run the usual Grace, Anger & Wrath aura combo. The DPS increase from it is big.

Anyway, would anyone care to take a look at my tree to see if I can make any small improvements? This is no theoretical tree, but rather how I'm actually specced right now.

http://tinyurl.com/erediaranger3

Something to note is that I currently have 3x 6% all resist nodes, which I need to max out all my elemental resists at 80%. With better gear those will be placed into more health and/or health regen.

no idea why inner force, and also no idea why iron grip (unless you have a deck'ed out phy bow) other than that, i think ur build lacks hp overall. just my opinion, cheesr :)

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Eredia wrote:

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xiaozozo wrote:

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Eredia wrote:

It seems like the FoTM among rangers is to skip the center WED and Iron Grip and take the path along the south border of the passive tree. I guess this was made popular by Nugiyen due to it's superior survivability, especially when going into the Marauder start.

However I'm playing on scrubcore, since I wanted to get familiar with the game before dying several times in the hardcore league. I'm currently specced like this, which is just a small variation of the same old cookie cutter builds. Most notably I went for Inner Force, which I believe is overlooked by way too many rangers that run the usual Grace, Anger & Wrath aura combo. The DPS increase from it is big.

Anyway, would anyone care to take a look at my tree to see if I can make any small improvements? This is no theoretical tree, but rather how I'm actually specced right now.

http://tinyurl.com/erediaranger3

Something to note is that I currently have 3x 6% all resist nodes, which I need to max out all my elemental resists at 80%. With better gear those will be placed into more health and/or health regen.

no idea why inner force, and also no idea why iron grip (unless you have a deck'ed out phy bow) other than that, i think ur build lacks hp overall. just my opinion, cheesr :)

Actually Inner Force and the 2 points leading up to it boosts my tooltip dps of Elemental Hit by over 600dps in total with lvl 18 Anger and Wrath which is kind of huge, and not to mention the extra defence from Grace. As I said, people don't seem to understand how powerful these points are.

Iron Grip just sit there on the path I'm taking, so figured why not for 1 point.

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xiaozozo wrote:

no problem at all, but that's for scrubcore like you said. Irongrip on the way doesnt sound logical to me, because by all means you are limiting yourself to gear > High phy bow. If you can afford it, why not? But if you cant, it doesnt worth the point does it?

On top of that, inner force and iron grip doesnt quite roll together. Inner force > elemental dps, iron grip > physical dps. Im afraid you will have to run Hatred instead. Sure for more dps, but dont you think other nodes would be better? Sorry i cant give an alternative to your passive tree, these are just some of the points I have in mind.

Cheers mate.

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iamjim wrote:

What are your thoughts on this? Lately I've been reading through a lot of posts and I'm starting to regret getting Iron Grip because of low phys base. Will cost me about 15 respec points to fix... One extremely noob question for anyone to answer: LA converts 50% phys dmg to lightning, so why is it not important to have some phys dmg as well?

Thanks,

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FearTheHammer wrote:

Hi everyone,

Forgive me if this question has been asked already, but I was wondering why so many of the elemental oriented builds don't take advantage of the crit chance/dmg nodes with bows? Why do so many people (Petrov incl) go for the Resolute technique? Is there some mechanic about how crit works that has to do with physical damage that I'm missing?

Thanks a lot