Saint Vitus: Physical crit ranger guide[Always Updated]

Yeah, totally wish i had specced ele, so now i'm speed racing my new 17 ranger loloolol. And survivability goes way up.

I'm sorry guys i got a respec and ill be heading to elemental now :(

Selling ma bow and armor: c/o is 1 exalt

do we get the bandit rewards reset?

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alvincheng wrote:

do we get the bandit rewards reset?

No.

Updated the walkthrough for both versions!

Thanks Victor for the really quick update, i just started a Ranger in HC as my lvl 60 melee mara just started to get really boring, and dint want to mess up. My question tho is - what is your opinion on the skill tree changes around the duelist? Do we actually benfit from it or is it a bit of a waste for the ranger? Thank you for all your work!

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morrowind666 wrote:

Thanks Victor for the really quick update, i just started a Ranger in HC as my lvl 60 melee mara just started to get really boring, and dint want to mess up. My question tho is - what is your opinion on the skill tree changes around the duelist? Do we actually benfit from it or is it a bit of a waste for the ranger? Thank you for all your work!

We benefit, you gain projectile damage, and big attack speed.

I must say I'm mildly happy with the end results of the skill reset. The changes in Duelist area have forced me to change the build branching in Shadow tree but I have ended up with tad bit more HP and tad bit more DPS. Only downside is the fact I have slightly less mana now because I took all 3 nodes of Mana Flows previously but now all 3 give 4% less mana. Not big deal though.

Good day to all.
First of all thanks (again) master Doom for that build wich I still enjoy.
I got a little question tough. about the life leeching, when it comes to gear, not gems (wich you aparently do not need) do you use the percentage leech or the other one ?
at the moment I use the percentage leech and enven if I can heal myself quite quickly with it, It fail at keeping me alive when under multiple quick attack (voidbearer are a good exemple) even when I use RoA on a large pack. I understand that there is a HoT mumbo jumbo going on with the %life leech depending on the max health. But I was wondering if it was possible to build a decent life leech with the other kind of life leech (wich you may be using, thus explaining my question).

I don't know if I made myself quite understandable here ... forgive the clunky english, it is not my mother tongue.

nonetheless master Doom, thank you again, and have (if not already so) a delightfull day.

Lazareus

I think SaintVitus needs reviving in some form or another... Do we phys rangers really are that underpowered compared to those LA mainstreem players?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcrEJ01zv7U

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wWizard wrote:

Hey Rangers,
My name is wWizard, and I hate every single one of you. All of you are blonde, retarded, LA-spammers who spend every second of their day looking at quality Chains you can't afford. You are everything bad in this game. Honestly, have any of you ever thought of your own unique build? I mean, I guess it’s fun copying others because of your own insecurities, but you all take to a whole new level.

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Beardlas wrote:

Hey any1 help me with gear upgrades? I'm lvl 67 and can barely solo merci ducks.

Ty for ur time

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Lifendeath wrote:

I feel like cypher, why oh why didn't i respec elemental. I enjoy phys ranger, but ugh trying to solo maps is becoming frustrating kite, kite, kite fuck no room left. Oh this unique boss flickers and viper strikes can't kite or facetank. Granted some of my failures are mine some are desync. My damage feels low, my survivability feels like a wet noodle.

atm i'm pretty much solo player and solo'ing maps atm is frustrating.

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linkstatic wrote:

However, I am now a full Ele build! Ele is OP

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alvincheng wrote:

the lightning rangers clear so fast =(

is ele reflect as dangerous as phy reflect?

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linkstatic wrote:

Not even close. Phys reflect is mitigated by Armour, which mitigates less and less the bigger the hit. Phys build = big crits = VERY low % mitigated by armour = 1 shot many times.

Ele reflect is mitigated by our resist, which reduces the same % no matter the damage.

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Gremlion wrote:

Current situation:
On items you can find 200+ elemental damage.
Physical damage barely reach these numbers.

Then you can add elemental damage auras.
Then passives which buffs elemental damage and auras.

Physical damage you can only buff by critical strike passives.

Then look at supports - weapon elemental damage - 60%. Faster projectiles - 10%.

Then you run into reflect mobs.
Elemental damage mitigated by % of your resistances. because of this many players take Elemental adaptation (+5%max)

Armor mitigation - in your character screen it shows as %, but it is calculated vs normal monster of your level, not vs your godly 400 damage bow with 1000% critmultiplier and 200% damage from passives. (400*10*2 = 8000 damage). This calculation doesn't include fact, that it could be split arrow+chain (6 arrows*3 targets*0.8(split arrow effectiveness)*0.5(chain)=7.2 * 8000= 57600 damage from reflect.

So, I would suggest to look into Naala's static blow eleranger.