Saint Vitus: Physical crit ranger guide[Always Updated]

How can you use your main skills? Mana leech? Regeneration? Blood magic? I don't see this being mentioned anywhere.

It's mostly mana leech. You get 2% with the mind drinker passive, and should try to get some more on your gear. (This is mentioned in the gear section of Victor's post). Imho it's not that easy though, since frenzy has pretty high mana costs. Personally I still use the mana leech support gem.

Anyone know what the best 5L for Barrage would be?

I've been following this build from day 1. I am now level 79 and the build has worked out quite nicely, but with a couple modifications.

1. Putting "Gain Power Charge on Critical" linked to ROA or SA is crucial for the crit build. I picked up a "+1 max power charge" along the way for a total of 4 power charges. I can consistently maintain my power charges raising my critical strike chance to 52-53%.

2. Picking up a decent DPS bow with high crit chance drives your critical strike chance by a ton. The difference between a bow with 5% critical chance and 6% critical chance are night and day. I got my bow for pretty cheap (slightly over 3 chaos orbs I believe). It only has 280 DPS with 20% quality, but it does have 6.75% crit chance.

3. I am using the Blood Dance Boots and it's helping me out with survivability immensely. It gives me 1% life regeneration per frenzy charge. With the addition of 1% life regen node mentioned in the guide, my life is constantly regenerating at 8% of my health. I recover over 200 HP per second which is insane. I have absolutely no problem with burning patches, bleeding, and chaos damage mods on maps, simply because the rate I recover my life is so high.
Combine life regen with life leech and you have a sub tanky ranger as long as you are attacking.

4. I've found that chain works better with SA than pierce. It takes a bit getting used to, but once you get the mechanic down, you are rapidly bouncing arrows back and force. If used correctly, it can do even more damage than frenzy for single targeting within a mob.

5. In situations where mobs seem to be running over your character, use Summon Skeleton linked to Spell Totem to keep the mobs busy. It's all cheap shots while the totem keeps the mobs busy with skeleton spamming.

6. I wasn't able to keep my mana pool up with how fast frenzy fires. Blood Magic gem is a must.

With 11 charges built up (7 frenzy and 4 power), which only takes seconds, my frenzy DPS sits somewhere around 12,000. My SA linked to chain does a little under 3,000 but that number is leading considering how fast arrows bounce back landing 2-3 hits per shot. Combine all this with diamond flask and my arrows are wiping out anything it grazes. I can down unique monsters in low level 70 maps under 10 seconds.

Only downside to my character is that my life is only 2,700 but as I mentioned I manage to be tanky with my crazy life regen and life leech. It does take a lot of microing and skill, but that's what makes this build fun.

My next steps from here
1)Pick up only life nodes each level
2)Upgrade my bow to +300 DPS and +6.5 critical strike chance
3)5 link my bow with SA
4)GCP all relevant gems to 20%
5)Maybe run 3 auras using Alpha's Howl (hesitant because I will have to sacrifice resistance and life)

Update: I just upgraded my weapon to a +300 DPS and 7.45% crit bow. My frenzy DPS jumped to over 16,000 now. Awesome!

Hello,

I highly recommend this Version of the Build!

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgIAAF4EfgW1CC4M8g5IES8RlhXwGY4Z_hrbGwEhdiLqI_Yk_SmlMHwx-jIBMpQ2PTnUOlg-z0p9TipRR1b6WhpaSFuvX-FirGegayRv8nBScNV293fXfwJ_K4bOhxmHdohrjX2Nv5UFlembJpuNnaOdqqCfoSKiQKXLpuCnNKp_qriv67Ewshm2Qbb3vebAUcSiyqnN6s96037VANad2cbdDeOE51To1usU7YPuDu_w9Pj5Y_yr_MX-yO96JJ1iWuHboaQzDP4rGdX_3vBC8-rcFafUd9QF-Q==

My Current Stats:

Fullbuffed + Charges Frenzy: 25.000
Fullbuffed + Charges + Chain SA: 6.000
Life: 4.200
DMG Reduction with Determ. Aura: ~60

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maxboo wrote:

Hello,

I highly recommend this Version of the Build!

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgIAAF4EfgW1CC4M8g5IES8RlhXwGY4Z_hrbGwEhdiLqI_Yk_SmlMHwx-jIBMpQ2PTnUOlg-z0p9TipRR1b6WhpaSFuvX-FirGegayRv8nBScNV293fXfwJ_K4bOhxmHdohrjX2Nv5UFlembJpuNnaOdqqCfoSKiQKXLpuCnNKp_qriv67Ewshm2Qbb3vebAUcSiyqnN6s96037VANad2cbdDeOE51To1usU7YPuDu_w9Pj5Y_yr_MX-yO96JJ1iWuHboaQzDP4rGdX_3vBC8-rcFafUd9QF-Q==

My Current Stats:

Fullbuffed + Charges Frenzy: 25.000
Fullbuffed + Charges + Chain SA: 6.000
Life: 4.200
DMG Reduction with Determ. Aura: ~60

What is your equipment?

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In case you want to use Split arrow, grab the piercing shots passive, and use projectiles weakness with quality for full pierce chance.

The OP says this, but which passives would you drop to pick up piercing shots? It would take like 4 skill points to get to it. Is it really worth it if you plan to use Split Arrow? Or should I just go with linking SA to Chain or something.

You could do that or what i do is carry aaround projectile weakness. It has piercing built into it. Find a nice quality one as the base pierce chance goes up .75 per quality. Gem's in my bow's offslot.

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Cipherrr wrote:

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In case you want to use Split arrow, grab the piercing shots passive, and use projectiles weakness with quality for full pierce chance.

The OP says this, but which passives would you drop to pick up piercing shots? It would take like 4 skill points to get to it. Is it really worth it if you plan to use Split Arrow? Or should I just go with linking SA to Chain or something.

While i'm here. Thought i'd share my variant i grabbed from a friend. So basically the only major difference is I run with a Voll's Protector and picked up an extra power charge from the bandits quest and one from the skill tree. So i have 5 Frenzy and 5 power charges.

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgIAAF4B0QR-BbUILgiJC5EM8g5ID6sV8Ba_GY4Z_hsBIXYi6iSdJP0mlTB8MfoylDnUOlg-z1FHVUtWLV1oX-Fh4mJaYqxjQ2skbWxte2_ycFJw1Xb3d9R3138CfyuGzocZh9uMNo19jb-TJZUFlema8ZuNm7WdqqCfoSKhpKJApcum4KfUqn-quKx_r-uxMLTFtUi95sBRwzrEosqp037VANaK1p3ZxtwV4dvjhOdU53To1usU7YPwQvPq9Pj5Y_7I

It ends up working out pretty well. You can see i have a pretty nice harbinger with tons of crit. I sit @ 49% w/o Power charges and 66% w/ 5 charges up.

Frenzy DPS w/ 10 charges 5power/5frenzy im sitting at 20k dps

@Cpt_Lustblood

your build looks bad

Care to share your thoughts? I didnt say it was perfect. I don't mind criticism if it's constructive.

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maxboo wrote:

@Cpt_Lustblood

your build looks bad