[1.2.0] Lightning arrow bow ranger (3 Auras/ life based/ max dps/ good survivability)

For the very beginner questions I recommend to read the mechanics thread or just play the game and test stuff yourself or ask in global as people will help you there usually.

LA becomes strong endgame. You need a 5-link at least with: LA, life leech/Life gain on hit, faster attacks, chain, Lower multiple projectiles. Also you need a strong bow, optimally get a Lioneyes or a good Hardbinger Bow/Thicket bow. Lioneyes is only like 1 ex in price.

Before you reach endgame you can use anything, split arrow, burning arrow, tornado shot, whatever you like.

You can also swap attack gems to react accordingly when it comes to maps. For example if Ele reflect is active, I like to remove LA and put in Tornado shot right now (as LGOH seems to leech not enough, but it's not a quality gem yet). The rest of the supports usually stays the same anyway.

You could use frenzy as a main as well, but split arrow is better if you have charges from frenzy already. Also nothing compares with LA and chain tbh...I played split arrow in the past and it's just not as much fun when chain is missing. If you use split with chain however it seems to do less damage than LA. That being said, referring to my build of course. But it can be perfectly used for any high phys build as well as the tree is pretty much the same.

I have somes difficulty to survive currently... I'm 48, here's my gear



And my Skill Tree : http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgIAAdEILhGBGYoZ_hqPGwEj9iU_LOktgzB8Sn1LV02SUzVW-mOnZ6BvnnfXfyuDCYd2jX2QCpcGm42btaEioaSiQKOKp9Sr0q_rvebA48M6xKLKStaK2o3cFd0N3Ubh2_Gz9Pj22vlj-wn8xf7I

When I use blood magic, life isn't leeching enough and I'm always dead -_-

Any suggestions :) ?

The amulet is bad (-25% is too much...), the rings have no life. Also the quiver has no life. Honestly most of your gear has no life/res... Also you can craft better blue stuff than certain uniques/rares in the beginning. For example a ring with 79 life + 1 high res (and 2 implicit ones) etc.

A 6-link uses a ton of mana at the beginning. You need to make tests until you can sustain your life pool permanently. You can also try life gain on hit instead of life leech, especially if you don't have vaal pact.

Why you don't use acrobatic and phase acrobatic or iron reflexes? Because it's one of way survival in the end of game. (sorry my english)

See page 1, updated the guide. I am actually using acrobatics atm. In comparison the build has a bit less life, but a decent dodge chance and also spell dodge. The survivability has increased vs peak damage a lot (especially devourers).
The 30 Str and Int nodes are taken so I can wear my current gear. If you don't need the stats don't skill those nodes.

Hi Dan1986,

Quick question, what do you think of as armor? The gain in evasion and acrobatics seems really awesome.

It's certainly a decent chest, but it does not have any life or resist. On the other hand you don't have to spec into acrobatics so you could spend the free points on these lacks. It's always a trade-off.
From my experience though a 6-link rare chest is better than most uniques. Really the only thing which could bash that is a shavronnes and a low life build (but what does it not bash?)

Why do you get the Elemental damage at shadow start instead of the physical damage?

I was wondering how much your current gear costs for each piece if it isn't too much to ask.

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Dan1986 wrote:

The amulet is bad (-25% is too much...), the rings have no life. Also the quiver has no life. Honestly most of your gear has no life/res... Also you can craft better blue stuff than certain uniques/rares in the beginning. For example a ring with 79 life + 1 high res (and 2 implicit ones) etc.

A 6-link uses a ton of mana at the beginning. You need to make tests until you can sustain your life pool permanently. You can also try life gain on hit instead of life leech, especially if you don't have vaal pact.

Worked well... But still dying again -_- What's wrong now ? (I'm lvl 62, and my DPS is shit) I'm fkin stupid with that kind of game, can't figure out what to do and I'm french so english is a bit hard for me..




Other question, with Vaal pact, I still need +life gained by enemy hit by attack ?