Saint Vitus: Physical crit ranger guide[Always Updated]

Trying to tweak my build, and I'm interested in you taking IR, is it better than staying on evasion and having some armor from items?

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Odoakar wrote:

Trying to tweak my build, and I'm interested in you taking IR, is it better than staying on evasion and having some armor from items?

in my opinion its better for this build because stacking a decent ammount of evasion and armor would take too many points, with some decent eva gear and this build you can get over 10k armor easy, which is quite a lot of damage reduction

Holy cow that bow and quiver are ridiculous! Triple physical modifiers, attack speed and crit chance. Have you checked to see the affix ranges they are in to see if Divining either could improve the stats (probably have, but just cheking)?
Have you compared what your damage would be with Meginord's instead of The Magnate? I think if you spent one extra skill point to get Alchemist, the 25% flask recovery rate on Meginord's could be worth sacrificing some damage for, as it could let you switch out one more health pot for another Diamond Flask (Do you even use the mana potion? Seems like you have tonnes of manaleech and a good chunk of mana regen).
Also, what do you think about using Frenzy+LMP+Chain+CritChance+CritDmg instead of Rain of Arrows?
I ask because I'm doing fairly well with this Build, and I don't have gear even half as good as yours (I use Frenzy+LMP+Chain+ManaLeech since I don't have a 5L or manaleech on my gear).

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Lezli wrote:

Holy cow that bow and quiver are ridiculous! Triple physical modifiers, attack speed and crit chance. Have you checked to see the affix ranges they are in to see if Divining either could improve the stats (probably have, but just cheking)?
Have you compared what your damage would be with Meginord's instead of The Magnate? I think if you spent one extra skill point to get Alchemist, the 25% flask recovery rate on Meginord's could be worth sacrificing some damage for, as it could let you switch out one more health pot for another Diamond Flask (Do you even use the mana potion? Seems like you have tonnes of manaleech and a good chunk of mana regen).
Also, what do you think about using Frenzy+LMP+Chain+CritChance+CritDmg instead of Rain of Arrows?
I ask because I'm doing fairly well with this Build, and I don't have gear even half as good as yours (I use Frenzy+LMP+Chain+ManaLeech since I don't have a 5L or manaleech on my gear).

Yep with meginords i do less damage and not a big increase in life, this build would have higher life if didnt have this gear, i only have life on quiver, helm and rings and low mods too, i think with some more decent gear it could go to 2.5k life.

I mostly use the mana potions just to start off the frenzy since it starts attacking slow until the chagres come up and i can rain fast on enemies.

Yep using frenzy like you do is probably better for farming than using Rain, but i only did the build to show that physical damage and rain of arrows are usable quite nicely and that they can be fun.
Otherwise you can use what ever skills you fancy with this build, even split arrow works very nice with it.

updated for new skill tree

Hey,

May I ask which Gems/Skills you use?

I modified your build to fit some personal strategies and focus points of mine. I personally love cold damage on crit builds for the freeze effect, and relied on it alot in the past for safety, and have therefore taken out some health nodes to make the build more achievable at lower levels. After this, I'll probably add some evasion or what I feel the build lacks the most.

I will probably be using Ice Shot for physical immunes seeing as I work with cold damage more than anything else. Perhaps Burning Arrow might be better seeing as it's also more effective against physical immunes with said quiver..

I will be using Frenzy for single target damage with the hatred aura(Why not? Perhaps I should go for the evasion aura instead, perhaps both?)

And split arrow with lmb,pierce,crit% to freeze and decimate mobs. (for 4 link, I'll probably improve this one first when I get a larger link seeing as my aoe lacks the most damage, and if it doesn't I'll add in some projectile speed or crit multiplier)

Perhaps the most important of all things I've changed is adding in movespeed. I consider it an essential part of survival too, especially when you're ranged. Perhaps this is out of fashion, but I've not played ranger in over a year.

What do you think about my changes? Are they still viable? Will I lack too much attackspeed to freeze enemies/deal damage fast enough before I die? I'd love some feedback. Also, I'm starting to feel like a Shadow based around crit, ES and bloodrage might be the way to go for this build.

@ Lavalya

thats exactly the build im going for in OB ^^
just want to mention that you have a wasted +10dex note in there (left to fitness) that has no purpose. instead id put it in finesse which is +30dex/+4% speed with just 1 point.

also i wonder if its worth to pick up Arcing Blows + the 3 Elemental Damage notes later on and go for a mixture of lightning+cold in combination with crit?

like this (yours +6 level), also added Fitness in the Shadow-Area

Luve, I'm glad you posted. How do you feel this build is working in OB? Surviving well enough? Decent damage?

I think the Luve build is great 10q one more think Luve what arrows you are using