Saint Vitus: Physical crit ranger guide[Always Updated]

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tacodisco wrote:

Hey,

I've been following your build and it's working out pretty nice.
I'm currently lvl70. My current DPS seems fine, i can solo Docks/Magic Maps pretty easily.
My only concern is trying to buff the damage even more, i guess getting more crit and critdmg will be that one thing im looking for.

P.S i think the Lioneye's Glare unique bow is best for this build, as it's pretty hard to find 200+dmg and 1.50+ speed bow.. But damn, that shit is expensive;p

One question tho, Would we benefit anything from Phys + some Ele dmg bow? Or Pure Phys dmg is the way to go? I'm asking that because im currently checking forum everyday + spamming in-game but i can't seem to find 200+ phys dmg 1.30+ atkspeed bow in-game at all. Can they roll that high or it's about 200phys + ele dmg?

They can roll to 450+physical damage, with a triple max rolls harbinger, but youd have be seriously lucky to find or craft that.

Elemental damage on them wont help you at all with this build, if you want to boost your dps use hatred aura for example, or added fire damage support if you have a free one left until you find a higher physical damage bow.

Good bows are pretty common (there is a thread around here caleed"best bow" i think and you can see there are quite a lot of good ones)

I'm currently using 5L Frenzy supported by following:


Added Fire Damage is the single highest DPS boost of Frenzy I currently have. It is better than Critical Strike and Faster Attacks. My Frenzy is currently at 3.8k DPS with 7 stacks and Hatred and Haste aura.

Only way to get its DPS higher would be to replace Critical Strikes with Critical Damage, which oddly enough adds more than 180 unbuffed DPS over Critical Strikes. The reason I do not use Critical Damage support is that I still feel I do not crit often enough--22% crit chance and additional nearly 4% on Frenzy.

I would love to get rid of Mana Leech support that could be used for another damage increasing support but even with 2% mana leech from passive tree, I can barely sustain Frenzy spam. If I miss several hits in a row, or just being careless, I will run OOM.

I have realized that my next bow must have Increased Attack Speed, Increased Critical Strike Chance and ideally also Increased Critical Damage on it--Incrased Critical Strike Chance is very important because it still seems to be multiplicative bonus rather than additive as Critical Strike chance mods on other gear.

i've been using this build since the beginning, but i used Split Arrow instead of RoA

IMO, Split Arrow-faster Attack-Pierce-Faster Projectiles works a little better than RoA on large group from distance

So Victor, can u tell me why do u choose RoA but not Split Arrow ?? (Assume that mana is not the problem)

P/s : i really need gear advice, im 64 now, should i use the instead of (lots of rez for lower evasion)

and this is my whole set gear, any advices to improve what i got would be wonderful

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LIAO wrote:

i've been using this build since the beginning, but i used Split Arrow instead of RoA

IMO, Split Arrow-faster Attack-Pierce-Faster Projectiles works a little better than RoA on large group from distance

So Victor, can u tell me why do u choose RoA but not Split Arrow ?? (Assume that mana is not the problem)

P/s : i really need gear advice, im 64 now, should i use the

instead of

(lots of rez for lower evasion)

and this is my whole set gear, any advices to improve what i got would be wonderful

Use the rez cap until you max your resistances, that thing is like a purity aura.

I use RoA because i like it more than split, its much safer for reflect since you see what you hit, so no stray arrows, and its more fun in my opinion to use it, mana cost is pretty low too, and the most important part: when you use a 6link, you add the concentrated effect support which reduces your area to normal RoA area(after its leveled and qualityed of course) but it gives almost 70% MORE damage, which in all fairness is freaking massive.

What are your thoughts about Warlord's Mark? O:

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kawipogi wrote:

What are your thoughts about Warlord's Mark? O:

Its pretty useful if you dont have enough leech on gear

I'm pretty newbie at this game.
I founded your awesome build. Thank you, Victor ;)
I play on HC, now ending the 1st difficulty. But i realized now that i would have RT and i don't need crit chance and damage. Thats why i'm thinking now about what the best supports for frenzy are. I thought for example about added damage-faster attacks-manaleech, accuracy does not fit, because my hits can't be evaded. Can you give me an advice for that please.

Cheers

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Jimote wrote:

I'm pretty newbie at this game.
I founded your awesome build. Thank you, Victor ;)
I play on HC, now ending the 1st difficulty. But i realized now that i would have RT and i don't need crit chance and damage. Thats why i'm thinking now about what the best supports for frenzy are. I thought for example about added damage-faster attacks-manaleech, accuracy does not fit, because my hits can't be evaded. Can you give me an advice for that please.

Cheers

Yes, thats good enough for frenzy on a 4link.

I will post suggestions for HC skills too now

Just curious, how the hell did you get 17k dps?

I'm sitting at 73 atm with pretty decent gear and my dps is ~5k with 7 stacked frenzy

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razale wrote:

Just curious, how the hell did you get 17k dps?

I'm sitting at 73 atm with pretty decent gear and my dps is ~5k with 7 stacked frenzy

i had around 7.1k single target, with around ~18k hit damage on crit, not 17k.

You can get more now with a good bow, i had about the best physical bow ive seen in CB, which is kinda shit/mediocre compared to the ones im seeing in OB, i see very high potention in dps now.
i hope i get to craft a massive damage harbinger later in the ladder so i can start my ranger again and post some videos, im missing playing this build already.

Although, 17k dps is child'splay compared to some of the other builds i did XD (reached 220k with my shadow last ladder)