Saint Vitus: Physical crit ranger guide[Always Updated]

"

Surferofnsb wrote:

I found both unique quivers witch one should i use for the physical damage build?

Spoiler

Broadstroke.

"

WoJo311 wrote:

"

Volkarrr wrote:

will we ever be able to outdps ele ranger? i feel so inferiour compared to ele ranger. Thinking of buying regrets in bulk and reroll lightning arrow ranger.

they nerfed LA already but i think every1 and their mother is STILL using it so we must wait and see what happens when the game goes live :/. i would just reroll and save ur character for now since no wipes. IMO!

Wait for good physical bows and use concentrated effect with RoA.

"

Kuyamik wrote:

can we also use this

?

FOR LIFE LEECH?

Yes.

Thanks for the guide once I first tried rain of arrows I fell in love with it. Then I saw your guide and it helped me out a lot. I have a question though my build slightly differs from yours so far because I planned on going straight evasion. Although I'm not so sure now. I'm curious if Iron Reflexes is much better then going straight evasion (with phase acro/acro/arrow dodge). Because lately I've heard about how good or even op Iron Reflexes is. Just wanted someones opinion on it because I'm only level 29 right now on my ranger so I'm not sure which way I should go or what is the "better choice".

"

wafflemaster wrote:

Thanks for the guide once I first tried rain of arrows I fell in love with it. Then I saw your guide and it helped me out a lot. I have a question though my build slightly differs from yours so far because I planned on going straight evasion. Although I'm not so sure now. I'm curious if Iron Reflexes is much better then going straight evasion (with phase acro/acro/arrow dodge). Because lately I've heard about how good or even op Iron Reflexes is. Just wanted someones opinion on it because I'm only level 29 right now on my ranger so I'm not sure which way I should go or what is the "better choice".

Evasion is good for the first 30 levels but then you need iron reflexes, monsters just do too much damage so even if you evade youre lucky to survive mobs, Iron Reflexes is very good especialyl for rangers because you can get over 10k armor with some decent gear and this build.

Evasion works best for melees that have high life, regen, and high block chance.

Our biggest problem is how RoA works vs LA
To do decent damage all enemies need to be close for roa to hit whereas most enemies are spread so you hit 1-2 out of 10 mobs. that sucks monkey balls.



thats my gear currently.
Any big improvements to be made?
If i had that gear eqv as an ele I would own everything yet i do mediocre dmg.

"

Volkarrr wrote:

Our biggest problem is how RoA works vs LA
To do decent damage all enemies need to be close for roa to hit whereas most enemies are spread so you hit 1-2 out of 10 mobs. that sucks monkey balls.

thats my gear currently.
Any big improvements to be made?
If i had that gear eqv as an ele I would own everything yet i do mediocre dmg.

You forget about reflect and stray arrows that can be shot with LA ;)

You also forget that RoA can be used with concentrated effect granting you 70% more damage and no other major downside because as roa levels it beats the 30% aoe reduction :)

Use culling strike with frenzy, not faster projectiles, try to get a quality culling strike too the quality is awesome on it you gain attack speed.

Improvements are basically your bow could be better and you have very little life on gear.

"

VictorDoom wrote:

You forget about reflect and stray arrows that can be shot with LA ;)

You also forget that RoA can be used with concentrated effect granting you 70% more damage and no other major downside because as roa levels it beats the 30% aoe reduction :)

Use culling strike with frenzy, not faster projectiles, try to get a quality culling strike too the quality is awesome on it you gain attack speed.

Improvements are basically your bow could be better and you have very little life on gear.

And hit nothing at all gg.. The base AoE of RoA is far too small to be effective in groups. I feel like its mandatory to have increased area of effect.
Maybe if you solo and everything runs to you.
RoA needs an AoE buff desperately.
Sometimes i believe i do more dmg if i remove the concentrated effect gem because i hit much more.

"

Volkarrr wrote:

"

VictorDoom wrote:

You forget about reflect and stray arrows that can be shot with LA ;)

You also forget that RoA can be used with concentrated effect granting you 70% more damage and no other major downside because as roa levels it beats the 30% aoe reduction :)

Use culling strike with frenzy, not faster projectiles, try to get a quality culling strike too the quality is awesome on it you gain attack speed.

Improvements are basically your bow could be better and you have very little life on gear.

And hit nothing at all gg.. The base AoE of RoA is far too small to be effective in groups. I feel like its mandatory to have increased area of effect.
Maybe if you solo and everything runs to you.
RoA needs an AoE buff desperately.
Sometimes i believe i do more dmg if i remove the concentrated effect gem because i hit much more.

You can always replace conc effect with crit muli and keep the aoe if you want more area, i did quite well without any conc effect or area gems, just the 5l links (crit,dmg crit chance etc) with a bow similar to yours. Mind you physical damage was shit back then, no one did physical rangers, and RoA was MUCH slower so you needed a lot of projectile speed mods.

"

VictorDoom wrote:

You can always replace conc effect with crit muli and keep the aoe if you want more area, i did quite well without any conc effect or area gems, just the 5l links (crit,dmg crit chance etc) with a bow similar to yours. Mind you physical damage was shit back then, no one did physical rangers, and RoA was MUCH slower so you needed a lot of projectile speed mods.

So you are basically saying phys range was the worst build ever CBT and now after they buffed it it still sucks... but hey here is a guide let everyone make an inferior build?


either the next 15 skillpoints will boost me from no dmg to woohooo or i wasted alot of time.

€dit: And you know why this build is bad. The skill rain of arrow itself is bad. Its poorly designed doesnt hit enough mobs is rather bad in group play and even worse on fast moving enemies. It's just a bad skill. And frenzy is a freaking single target spell which gets outdamaged by ele hit. So we are starting our build basing on two shitty skills. GG

Maybe there should be cons listed in every guide not just some magic dps number.

"

Volkarrr wrote:

"

VictorDoom wrote:

You can always replace conc effect with crit muli and keep the aoe if you want more area, i did quite well without any conc effect or area gems, just the 5l links (crit,dmg crit chance etc) with a bow similar to yours. Mind you physical damage was shit back then, no one did physical rangers, and RoA was MUCH slower so you needed a lot of projectile speed mods.

So you are basically saying phys range was the worst build ever CBT and now after they buffed it it still sucks... but hey here is a guide let everyone make an inferior build?

either the next 15 skillpoints will boost me from no dmg to woohooo or i wasted alot of time.

I'm pretty sure no1 forced you to do this build. So if you wanna blame, blame yourself.

"

Texazon wrote:

"

Volkarrr wrote:

"

VictorDoom wrote:

You can always replace conc effect with crit muli and keep the aoe if you want more area, i did quite well without any conc effect or area gems, just the 5l links (crit,dmg crit chance etc) with a bow similar to yours. Mind you physical damage was shit back then, no one did physical rangers, and RoA was MUCH slower so you needed a lot of projectile speed mods.

So you are basically saying phys range was the worst build ever CBT and now after they buffed it it still sucks... but hey here is a guide let everyone make an inferior build?

either the next 15 skillpoints will boost me from no dmg to woohooo or i wasted alot of time.

I'm pretty sure no1 forced you to do this build. So if you wanna blame, blame yourself.

I'm not mad at victordoom he helps alot and answers alot of questions. But maybe it should be mentioned at the first page that there are other builds out there and that Elemental is still > physical.