Saint Vitus: Physical crit ranger guide[Always Updated]

is it possible to run a physical build utilizing evasion/dodge instead of armor/iron reflexes, without too much of a budget (aka none, as its domination)?

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eckart wrote:

is it possible to run a physical build utilizing evasion/dodge instead of armor/iron reflexes, without too much of a budget (aka none, as its domination)?

Sorry but no, physical builds are pretty gear dependent :(

Well, to be fair, all builds that want to be map-viable end up having to be gear up pretty hard. That's just a matter of fact.

@Victor: what do you think of the patch? I found that the BM notable is almost laughably unusable with a single aura (unless you've got 6k+ life or have the mana reserve passive cluster by the Templar).

The entire Tower was like a giant middle finger to Ranged builds. Bubble shields and nuke spells and lightning traps... died once in a corner trapped and died once to Dominus on his first form. His second form nearly killed me for 3 instances until I got into his bubble shield.

Phew!

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Islidox wrote:

Well, to be fair, all builds that want to be map-viable end up having to be gear up pretty hard. That's just a matter of fact.

@Victor: what do you think of the patch? I found that the BM notable is almost laughably unusable with a single aura (unless you've got 6k+ life or have the mana reserve passive cluster by the Templar).

The entire Tower was like a giant middle finger to Ranged builds. Bubble shields and nuke spells and lightning traps... died once in a corner trapped and died once to Dominus on his first form. His second form nearly killed me for 3 instances until I got into his bubble shield.

Phew!

Thats true isildox, if you want to go past level 70 maps you better be geared.

Well i found it to be quite nice to be honest, but yeah the BM notable for auras is pretty ridiculous even with the reduced mana on tree and a reduced mana gem youll still sacrifice a lot of life, like 15-20%?

The middle tree is hilariuos, 84% life, absolutely massive, i took it for my templar build, the temp now has 320% increased life hahahaha

Some new additions really please me since we did suggest these way back, like life+specific weapon damage, armor+speacific weapon damage, life+mana nodes, i love those!


I kinda like what they did though, it seems very nice and a good change i was getting bored of the old one, did and seen pretty much every viable build with that one, now its time for some fresh ones!


I havent gotten to the tower yet, im doing an Infernal blow crit witch now(ill post a guide for that too if people are interested), ill probably get there today, thank fuck im melee XD

I saw how they connected the entire life/ES/EVR circles... should be pretty ridiculous if you do invest into it.

Agreed, I like the new passives/notables, especially the clusters by the Ranger/Shadow border.

As for BM, 1 aura is 60% * .7 (notable) * .71 (RM) = 29.82% of life reserved, without any RMR passives invested. That's crazy. Depending on how many RMR passives you take, you can range from 23 to 26%. That's still a lot. I've respecced my DW Ranger to crit and BM... isn't working out, lolz. :P

The tower is actually pretty easy for melee characters (be wary of mobs setting off Ltraps in front of you). Ranged... it's quite the challenge.

I'll get my new build/numbers up soon.

Here's the new stuff:

My current skilltree at lvl 83 with Oak/Oak/Kraityn quest rewards: 100 points

What my final build at lvl 100 will become: 117 point build


My Current gear:


Current numbers: (with my 2 rare Diamond Rings)

Going from 20 passives to 40 confused me a bit, you first added to evasion and life and finesse, then they are missing in the 40 one, so you wanted me to remove those?

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rinxen wrote:

Going from 20 passives to 40 confused me a bit, you first added to evasion and life and finesse, then they are missing in the 40 one, so you wanted me to remove those?

Fixed!

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Dephylr wrote:

Not sure if answered already but my archer has the lion bow and was curious If I still need resolute technique for this build or if I could just grab some different nodes.

You dont need resolute technique or accuracy nodes when you ahve lioneyes glare, grab some other nodes, if youre doing the hardcore build grab evasion, life or phys dmg instead of RT.

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VictorDoom wrote:

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rinxen wrote:

Going from 20 passives to 40 confused me a bit, you first added to evasion and life and finesse, then they are missing in the 40 one, so you wanted me to remove those?

Fixed!

Thanks, you might want to check your other builds though I think they had the same issue.

Also I took a look at your build and someone else who posted a bit earlier, what do you think of this Build?

Build (Note this build is based on Evasion, I'm not sure how I feel about Iron Reflex)