Burning Arrow Duelist

What i thought when i heard the title was 100% pierce GMP burning arrow.

Want to try that at some point.

updated my tree

I think the previous objections to using burning arrow in this way have been "why not use explosive arrow instead?" It is the standard for proliferating ignites w/a bow for a reason. Disclaimer: I have no experience w/either build but my understanding is explosive arrow has much greater damage potential w/o any need of insane gear. If burning arrow can achieve similar base damage to a max-stack explosive arrow I could see an argument for it, but it would take a LOT of crit multiplier before you manage 4k+ base fire damage w/burning arrow (what explosive arrow already does).

I suppose there is a convenience argument in that there is no time delay for burning arrow. I really don't mean to be overly critical, I don't think a build is useless simply because there is a "better" alternative. If that were the case, almost every build would be useless. Playstyle, aesthetics, individuality are all important too. I'm just curious whether burning arrow has a niche that explosive arrow does not already fill.

I stated that I wanted to make use out of burning arrow. Just because there's a "better" way to play a burning duelist doesnt mean I should try other stuff.

The gear I use is super cheap. Your weapon costs only a couple of chaos. A random 5L like mine is cheap too.

Also I dont know if you have read the guide or not, but I don't use the crit mechanic to scale up my damage. So I won't need "a LOT of crit multiplier".

With point plank and the Chin Sol mod you always have an inherent 1.5*2 = 3 multiplier in close combat.



My max fire dmg is 1.8k so with multipliers it is 5.4k max fire dmg per shot. That works just fine.

I'm assuming you chose HP, Phys Dmg and Endurance Charge as bandit rewards? What did you choose? Please I need to know :'(

Yes, these are my choices.

with avatar of fire back, this build is gonna be sweeeeeet. burning arrow = 140% damage with 40% fire. Plus black gleam would be 90% fire and 50% physical. Now avatar of fire kicks in and BAM 140% damage all fire. holy shit this is gonna be aweeeesome.

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r3val4ti0n wrote:

with avatar of fire back, this build is gonna be sweeeeeet. burning arrow = 140% damage with 40% fire. Plus black gleam would be 90% fire and 50% physical. Now avatar of fire kicks in and BAM 140% damage all fire. holy shit this is gonna be aweeeesome.

Indeed, I will update the build soon.
Basically, Cast On Damage Taken solves the mana issues at all (no more expensive curses). Chin Sol got buffed a little bit as well as a crit variant of this build.

However, with my old gear and the nerf to wed and the movement of iron grip in the passiv tree(I am not going for that anymore right now) my damage stayed roughly the same.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oRbx7VYh_Z4

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/931335