[1.0.3] Vaine's Blood Magic & Critical Frenzy/LA Build

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PsychicMuffin wrote:

I'm testing out a skele totem on damage taken now, but since I can't dodge I can't use blind, which is typically the best. So what should I take in the 4th socket? Minion life? Minion/totem ele resists?

How about minion life or enduring cry? :)

Hey how is this build without lioneye's glare but with another bow with some extra accuray.
Does it hurt your dps alot?

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toslowimpro wrote:

Hey how is this build without lioneye's glare but with another bow with some extra accuray.
Does it hurt your dps alot?

Before I got my lioneye's I had a thicket bow with about the same dps and 88% chance to hit. Getting a lioneye's increased my tooltip dps with about 25-30%. :)

Updated; not running auras anymore, for blood magic builds; its just not worth it at all.

I feel the same way, just thinking of specing out of BM completely. Possibly remove chain/fork from LA and replace with BM support, then use Proj Weakness curse.

Blood magic is just a crappy skill, would be viable if mortal conviction was buffed to 40-55% reduction.

BM is still very much viable, just not with any auras running. Party play is amazing. :)

why would you sugest your build over Blastrophe's build?


ive decided to try your build, is it a good idea for 1st character unfunded?
and also could you post a level by lve skill tree? si o know wha tto priorize? and rush?

Mine and blastrophe's build are basically the same builds. Only difference is shadow starting point and iron reflexes/unwavering stance instead of ranger starting point and evasion/acrobatics. I have no idea which is better to tell you the truth. I'm sorry, I wont be posting an incremental build, what i can say is that you dont really need to rush anything as the game isnt difficult enough to warrant it. I got blood magic at around level 40, which worked out fine for me.

I'll always go with vaine's, since more sexy :-)

So anyways, got stuck levelling a twink to 50 the past weekend, now back with my ranger and still struggling to find a 5 or 6linked chest (not great stats needed, since i use a 6S blue atm).

Why not socket the Blood Magic gem into the LA and Frenzy-links? If you do that, you can still have two auras (I was thinking Anger and Wrath) with the Reduced Mana gem as support. Then you wouldn't have to worry about your HP as much, since you just leech back what you just lost using a skill in an instant with one LA or Frenzy.

That would mean you would need 6L, but that shouldn't turn out to be a big problem to fix.