DonaldF's EK DANMAKU Ranger Extremely High DPS /Jan.14 little update [Videos]

Life goes down waaaay too fast when 4+ voids are throwing up on you

Has anyone tried dual strike - multistrike - coc - life leech - ek - ek ? (low mana cost so nn bm)

I think that might be safer for nemesis.

I would try it myself but I only have shield Scion on nemesis(no dualwield passives). I'm rerolling as a Ranger. Ranger skilltree is MUCH better for this spec. Only benefit with scion is that it's easy to cap resistances without purity because of her start. Otherwise you need almost perfect tri-res stats on every gear if you use Tabula.


My current Scion is lvl 80 on nemesis and... I don't know. I have 4k life, capped resists, 6k armor, 44 block 22 spellblock.. And I feel its not even close to safe. It's so easy to get stuck with cyclone and then get beating for 1-5s and you must tank it all. Yesterday I had so many close calls on easy 68 maps that I just do lunaris and Piety for now.



Group is easier, but solo I found desync on cyclone very dangerous.


If you want to take this build to high lvl maps in nemesis, I think you would need REALLY great gear. 6 link armor with amazing stats etc and +5k life, near max block, 10k+ armor.

Or maybe I should just try to get enough mana regen to run cyclone without bm, so I could use 5-link armor with stats instead of Tabula rasa.


Just watch videos posted here. The video couple post ago shows dominus kill. But look at his life, he gets under 500 many times and close to 0 atleast once. Looks like you would get killed pretty fast in nemesis.

I think it's a great and fun build.. just need to figure how to make it safer.

Yeah, the cyclone version of this build isn't designed with safety in mind. At level 81, I can farm Dominus reliably, but I can still die to him every now and then when I desync or when cyclone gets me stuck in some odd position and I can't leech.

I played this build to level 78 and would want to start investing GMPs into this build, what would be the most important skill gem to increase quality? I am currently torn between EK and Life Leech. Any recommendations?

Anyone interested? C/O 2ex

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Moksis wrote:

Anyone interested? C/O 2ex

no cs spells... no thank u. besides its very average in every way.

What do you think about this tree?

With Rathpith and The Anvil + tempest shield, I would have 72 block and 36-43 spell block.

You could even sacrifice some life and that all resist node for some block nodes under the shadow. That way you would cap your regular block in high levels.

Anvil would give you life on block and tempest shield+ pcoc + reduced mana + increased crits would give you power charges when fighting against big packs.

Resists will be hard to cap and the Anvil's reduced movement speed sucks.. so I would need boots with movement speed, life and high triple resis. Expensive..


Maybe these would work nice in nemesis:




Or like this:



Or this version where more block nodes would be available at high level:




I guess I need to lvl my ranger..

I only at lvl 87

What is more goods next nods from my passive?

passive here

i need help thanks

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IchiMorghulis wrote:

I been playing this build a lot the last few days (I'm actually a shadow but the idea is the same). I learned a few things along the way, others may already have said it but 100 plus pages is a lot to go thru.

Whenever I think I'm desync I hit Lightning Warp (even if its the same spot) and I'm resync again.

You may want to try Discharge/EK instead of EK/EK, I can remove one or the other depending on the map being physical or elemental reflect.

And lastly, Accuracy is really important. I sub in a ring and helmet with high accuracy and my chance to hit jump by about 12%. Accuracy doesn't increase the damage of EK or Discharge but they're procing more often.

Accuracy has always been a slight issue for the shadow due to the lack of dex nodes. Rangers don't necessarily have that issue.

Can i get any tips on what i can do to improve my build?