Saint Vitus: Physical crit ranger guide[Always Updated]

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poepoepoepoepoe wrote:

General Experience using this build
Do not use if you are unwilling to kite, kiting is essential, especially if solo and a new player like me with crap for gear. You can progress through just about all the non-boss content (partied for cruel piety and merciless vaal so far) slowly but surely if you pull mobs slowly and shoot them from max range. This includes the dreaded flicker strike shipyard cave. You will die if you get sloppy esp on merciless.

I know what you mean, I'm using split arrow and have the pierce skills, problems only arise against enemies who just ceaselessly run at you no matter what. However, I usually have a feeling if I just curse projectile weakness on a group and stand and shoot split arrows, they'll all get stunned to death by crits and I won't have to run.

My bow's an absolute beast, I've sunk nearly 10gcp into making it back on my previous ranger, who had 1.2k dps and 1.8k life and just simply could not progress any further, it was too difficult. I'm currently lvl 60 with 2.7k dps on 5 frenzy charges, about to try and murder Oak and Alira for +1 frenzy charge. 3% mana leech support completely sustains frenzy and split arrow, I usually have to move around and while moving I'm not using mana so the queued regen from previous crits and such brings me back up to full.



I'm aching to upgrade to a slow bow because I feel that I'll benefit from stuns a lot, just spent around 5 gcp worth of chaos, alchemies and scourings on a Citadel Bow, learning my lesson, don't try and make shit if you haven't got divines/exalteds...

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Random Tips
Try to get 2% life leech by the time you hit cruel act 2 or so its a very significant quality of life upgrade.

I've yet to find ANY gear with life leech, excited to hear it confirmed it's valuable, hoping to get my mitts on some soon...

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Keep a set of resist rings in your stash and switch them around accordingly to the bosses you fight merveil for example is an absolute joke if you equip two cold resist rings even on cruel or merciless.

That's excactly what I've found so far, a full stash row of rings is a viable strategy, get cold resist for Merveil, lightning resist for Vaal so you can tank one laser, Fire for Gravicius and then lightning again for Piety, I feel that bow characters really don't care about any of her phases and can just pierce her face with multiple arrows when she's not in fire form and not casting lightning balls.

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Grace adds a very significant amount of survivability do not skip this make sure you get it early and level it all the way!

Do you use iron reflexes?

Glad to see people using physical rangers, so far I believe it to be the most efficient way to play because of so few monster mods that work against you.

Question about the INT requirements for Am I supposed to just get enough int for it from my amulet?

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Erionn wrote:

Question about the INT requirements for

Am I supposed to just get enough int for it from my amulet?

Get some in the passive tree until you have enough from gear.

Did you update the passive tree in 1st page yesterday? Or am I that blind and screwed up the build totally...

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Rawson wrote:

Did you update the passive tree in 1st page yesterday? Or am I that blind and screwed up the build totally...

"Last edited by VictorDoom on February 10, 2013 8:11 PM"

that's only when i introduced a level 80 step in the walk-through section, i havent changed the final build since the new skill tree came up with open beta.

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VictorDoom wrote:

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Rawson wrote:

Did you update the passive tree in 1st page yesterday? Or am I that blind and screwed up the build totally...

"Last edited by VictorDoom on February 10, 2013 8:11 PM"

that's only when i introduced a level 80 step in the walk-through section, i havent changed the final build since the new skill tree came up with open beta.

Alright, thanks.
Now that I have you on the line, do you max out your auras/curses or do you stop at a certain point for the manacost? Is there any spells you don't max out on the go?

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Rawson wrote:

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VictorDoom wrote:

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Rawson wrote:

Did you update the passive tree in 1st page yesterday? Or am I that blind and screwed up the build totally...

"Last edited by VictorDoom on February 10, 2013 8:11 PM"

that's only when i introduced a level 80 step in the walk-through section, i havent changed the final build since the new skill tree came up with open beta.

Alright, thanks.
Now that I have you on the line, do you max out your auras/curses or do you stop at a certain point for the manacost? Is there any spells you don't max out on the go?

Max out everything on this build, nothings worth keeping at a certain level here.

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VictorDoom wrote:

It is worth it, the faster leech rate is very useful. It is the first gem i recommend using gcps on for this build.

Actually it would be a great idea to add a Priority list of which gem to get Quality on First with some explanation with it.

Hi, im having some problems with this build

im lvl 50

Skill tree http://prntscr.com/sg8fj
Weapons and gear http://prntscr.com/sg8wp
character stats offence http://prntscr.com/sg950
defence http://prntscr.com/sg99y
arrow skill gems are around 12 lvl
and crude diff act 3 sarn slums are kicking my ass. im so f*cking weak on lvl 50 when fighting with monsters, they have to take average 4-5 fire arrows (highest dps from my arrows 488) till they die..not talking about blue or yellow enemies. rain of arrows(318 dps) is useless here since even 4-5 monsters im tanking are able to kill me till i rain them down :( sometimes i use grace with +300 evasion but its not that much of a difference

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jonath102 wrote:

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VictorDoom wrote:

It is worth it, the faster leech rate is very useful. It is the first gem i recommend using gcps on for this build.

Actually it would be a great idea to add a Priority list of which gem to get Quality on First with some explanation with it.

Yea i would appreciate that as well.



Regards,
Sengalo