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

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rviacroze wrote:

i have a noob question

why take passiv bonus projectiles damages over physical damage with bow ?

Because I deal more elemental damage than physical damage, and projectile damage nodes affect damage of any kind.

is this build good for a first character? or should I go one with cheaper gear in mind

This build isnt very gear dependent, I started out with very cheap gear myself. :)

Did you back out of Fury Bolts? If so, why?

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rumsey wrote:

Did you back out of Fury Bolts? If so, why?

I went for the crit nodes down to the right and by the piercing cluster instead. It gave me more dps than the projectile damage by the duelist start. :)

Thanks for sharing your build, is following it on my new ranger.

It's on ladder and I have no gear/resourses, so could you give some tips on how to tweak the build for "self found/crap" gear? Since you have lionheart and require no accuracy.

Also, at what level should I get Blood magic? It seems like I could get it at lvl 50-55 as earlierst.
When could I start playing with LA?
Leveling with Poison arrow now

Thanks and Regards
Beast

Hey vaine

Running this in Domination, lvl 52 atm and doing OKish for the fact that I cannot equip the weapon upgrades :-) Act 1 Merci is doable with that A2 Cruel bow i have in decent groups.

I run into the situation that I won't have enough INT for the blue gems. How did you bridge this phase of non-all-attribute gear? Really having trouble to level the gems properly, they are at half of the level of my main ones (LA, Frenzy). I took the two big +30 int nodes on the way, and I can spend the next 4 nodes on +10 int, but this will just delay the problem.

cheers and keep up the good work

Like I said earlier, I didnt get my Lioneyes til around level 80 myself, and I didnt spec into any accuracy nodes before that, just try to use gear that has some accuracy on it. I got blood magic at around level 45ish, when my hp pool could sustain it. Start using lightning arrow as soon as you can IMO. Poison arrow is just way to mana costly to be worth it. To tell you the truth, I had so low mana before I got blood magic that I pretty much just autoattacked my way to level 40. :P

edit: Regarding high INT gems; I've worked my way around this problem by getting alot of intelligence on my jewellery.

Thanks for the support and feedback.

Will follow your guidance!


Regards
Beast

You're welcome. :)