Saint Vitus: Physical crit ranger guide[Always Updated]

Can anyone tell me what items to change on my ranger to get more dps,pls i know i did something wrong and i don't know what...just click on my avatar and on my ranger pls i'm in serious trouble right now

Hello Victor and others who fallows this tread:)im following your guide and becaouse you publish Hc version what is quite different can you tell me the differences betwen both in terms of dps and survivalability.hc build use strenght to pump dps but crit nodes are not there like in main build.i will be happy to hear from you Thanks

Hey VictorDoom, thanks for the build. I'm lvl 30 and its working great so far.
There is just one thing i don't understand. How do you use Increased Critical Strikes and Increased Critical Damage as support gems, when in fact they need so much intelligence?


What other viable options are there if I can't come up with enough int?

I would be very pleased if you gave some well working combinations for Poison Arrow, Frenzy and RoA.

One other thing: Does it make any sence to combine Faster Projectiles with Frenzy/Poison Arrow or is this support gem only usefull for AOE skills?

Thank you very much in advance!

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Baron01 wrote:

Right, you refer to City of Sarn as the first map when you enter Act3. I was a bit confused because Act3 itself is called City of Sarn too. :P

Now, City of Sarn is a map I would love to farm only if there was not that unique boss monster that throw bear traps on you. If I get caught by the trap, I'm 99% dead, which is not a very good considering 15% exp. penalty. The trap lasts long enough for him to throw another one on me before I can move away. It also almost kills me so unless I have 100% increased recovery on low life pot on me, I'm dead when 2nd trap hits me.
Oh, the trap can kill you even after the boss dies. It happened to me.

I will continue farming Fellshrine until 70 or so. I hope to get some gear with added life and resistances by that time to move deeper into Act3 maps.

You can just solve the problem in city of sarn by not going to the right part of the area, if you just stick to the left walls you wont get near the boss, and you wont die.

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mikimathew wrote:

Hello Victor and others who fallows this tread:)im following your guide and becaouse you publish Hc version what is quite different can you tell me the differences betwen both in terms of dps and survivalability.hc build use strenght to pump dps but crit nodes are not there like in main build.i will be happy to hear from you Thanks

The HC version i haven't tested personally but it should do very good DPS and have quite a big amount of life, i also took RT because critting on reflect mobs can kill you, so by taking RT i avoided that possibility completely thus making the build more viable for HC.

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Steppenwolf wrote:

Hey VictorDoom, thanks for the build. I'm lvl 30 and its working great so far.
There is just one thing i don't understand. How do you use Increased Critical Strikes and Increased Critical Damage as support gems, when in fact they need so much intelligence?


What other viable options are there if I can't come up with enough int?

I would be very pleased if you gave some well working combinations for Poison Arrow, Frenzy and RoA.

One other thing: Does it make any sence to combine Faster Projectiles with Frenzy/Poison Arrow or is this support gem only usefull for AOE skills?

Thank you very much in advance!

You must spec +30 intelligence nodes in your passives if you do not have enough of it in your gear, that is pretty obvious. It iwll take like 2 points to get 60 more intelligence which should be enough with a bit of it on gear too.

Poison arrow is best used with added chaos damage support, concentrated effect, lmp and of course vulnerability curse. Frenzy and RoA suggested supports are in the guide.

Faster projectiles is only useful for RoA from the bow skills.

Would you still use the same Linked gems on Hardcore? or would you add something like life leech or life on hit?

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Inkkubuz wrote:

Would you still use the same Linked gems on Hardcore? or would you add something like life leech or life on hit?

Well since you dont need crit supports cause youre using RT on HC you can replace them with gems that give you more general dps like added fire damage

I followed your build as best as I could, and as I'm posting this I have a level 48 Ranger.

Here is my skill tree: http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgIAAdEEfgX5Dq0UdRUgFfAkpSU_KaUs6TB8Olg6sz7PSn1RR1b6Wz1noGqTbBZuaXRBd9d_K4PbhxmHdo19ks2bjaJAp9Sqf6q4q9KsR6_rtBq95sAPwdjEosS4znHV-NwV3Q3igOLL9Pj5Y_xL_MX-yA==

If I could post some suggestions for your walkthrough..

1. at lower levels (below 65-ish), I recommend using burning arrow linked with added elemental weapon damage and added fire damage materias.

2. for aoe targets, use lightning arrow linked with lesser multiple projectiles and added elemental weapon damage (and optional mana leech materia)

a. I tried using chain with lightning arrow, lesser multiple projectiles, and added elemental damage. It was awful. It would fire 3 projectiles, and 2 of those projectiles would chain 1 time only, which made me do way less dps for my mana spent. Thank god i was able to sell that chain back to someone else. also, i got lucky and found my own chain materia right after testing this out with a chain materia i bought for [1 gcp, 4 chaos orbs, divine orb]. Re-sold the chain in disappointment for [5 chaos orbs, 1 alchemy orb, 3 enchantment orbs]. Found a chain materia from a drop near oak in act 2 cruel and traded it for a broadstroke quiver.

The build is probably the BEST at like.. level 80. I have no doubts about it, but it should be worth mentioning that marauder (http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/44201) is probably the best character to power-level on an empty account. I guess the trade-off is that ranger is much more fun to play, and it has more late game dps potential.

My only issue so far is with simply getting enough damage so that mana (and life) leech aren't laughable concepts.

I love the physical damage build for single target (using frenzy with 7 charges maximizes effective use of life leech from equipment for sure, along with VERY good dps potential), but for your aoe right click skill, you can't beat lightning arrow with lesser multiple projectiles and added elemental damage. Burning arrow isn't incompatible with this build though, at least not for 70% of the actual leveling up that's involved.

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Schaleh wrote:

2. for aoe targets, use lightning arrow linked with lesser multiple projectiles and added elemental weapon damage (and optional mana leech materia)

Been using this combo like it's going out of style. Great damage on clustered targets since the lightning will strike the same target multiple times.

Hello. First of all thanks for a grat guide, I'm lvl 50 and so far your build working pretty well, however, I have a few questions.

In the original post you said you've got - Critical strike chance: 335%
while I could only find 280%. Assuming that you already counted 3 nodes next to Bloodthirst there is stil 10% missing.

Second thing is, it is really worth to use Iron Reflexes? If yes, could you explain me why?
Thanks in advance!