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

Your build looks honestly quite impressive. Path of the Warrior, is it so good like it sounds? If yes ... that's INSANE (*Kripp's voice).

Thought about adding Aura Effect?

First of all, thanks for this awesome build, donaldf. Its really fun build to play!

I started this build as shadow in nemesis and its doing well.

im currently lv 61.

My gear:


final skill tree:

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GrimmGerim wrote:

Your build looks honestly quite impressive. Path of the Warrior, is it so good like it sounds? If yes ... that's INSANE (*Kripp's voice).

Thought about adding Aura Effect?

Certainly, both are very good options. If you have good gear, you could sacrifice some of the extra crit nodes for Path of the Hunter and Elusiveness. Aura Effect would be useful if you were running 3 auras. Obviously this build is made to take advantage of blood magic. You could also drop the points around Thick Skin, pick up 4 more life nodes around the Scion starting area, and save yourself a point for Aura Effect.

Again, the advantage of Scion in general is the flexibility.

Sentinel and Leather and Steel make a great combination.

If you wanted extra life, remove the 4 to the right of Steel Skin and instead, take the 5 to the right of Sentinel. That opens another 4 8% nodes available to you.

I prefer going to the right of Steel Skin for the extra Int/Str nodes, which hopefully prevents needing Wisdom of the Glade or something similar to meet the requirements for a platinum kris or high lvl pure str gear. It's a nice bonus.

If you didn't want to go the blood magic route, you'd have to rework the tree some, but you'd have access to more mana regen nodes by taking things like Shaper, Path of the Savant, and Mana Flows.

http://www.twitch.tv/vaesauce/c/3275174

8 Minutes of me clearing a level 67 map. I'm currently level 71.

Loving the build so far and still looking into how to improve my build and how to play.

I went with a mixture of 4L ST+CoCS+LMP+EK and the OP 5L Cyclone+CoCS+EK+EK+MS.

(Since we're all Desync heroes with Cyclone, I found ST to be very helpful to be able to just flail away. Once your EK procs off of ST and it hits the mobs in front of you, you're pretty much back in Sync to go back to Cyclone spam. It's pretty much used as a marker while also playing it safe xD)

Until I can get a 6 Link, it's all i can do for now. I've ran level 70 maps and it's essentially the same results, you kinda just plow through everything.

I'm a little squishy though, 2.3K HP and 11K Def with Grace and 75% Resist all across the board except for... Chaos haha.

Here is a video of me flying through a lvl 66 map. It first map i ever did (about 30 mins ago) so please excuse the inefficiency! http://www.twitch.tv/viper1987/b/481700671

As requested earlier:



Unbuffed


Haste and Hatred


Current Defense :(


Here is the where we are in the tree and where Vaal pact is which I think might be a great option for this build... looks like it would cost 8 points. Thoughts?

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TheBigNasty wrote:

If you didn't want to go the blood magic route, you'd have to rework the tree some, but you'd have access to more mana regen nodes by taking things like Shaper, Path of the Savant, and Mana Flows.

Would a non bloodmagic sion still be better than a ranger in your eyes? Considering rerolling scion for improving my survivabilty now that I got the gear.

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TheBigNasty wrote:

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GrimmGerim wrote:

Your build looks honestly quite impressive. Path of the Warrior, is it so good like it sounds? If yes ... that's INSANE (*Kripp's voice).

Thought about adding Aura Effect?

Certainly, both are very good options. If you have good gear, you could sacrifice some of the extra crit nodes for Path of the Hunter and Elusiveness. Aura Effect would be useful if you were running 3 auras. Obviously this build is made to take advantage of blood magic. You could also drop the points around Thick Skin, pick up 4 more life nodes around the Scion starting area, and save yourself a point for Aura Effect.

Again, the advantage of Scion in general is the flexibility.

Sentinel and Leather and Steel make a great combination.

If you wanted extra life, remove the 4 to the right of Steel Skin and instead, take the 5 to the right of Sentinel. That opens another 4 8% nodes available to you.

I prefer going to the right of Steel Skin for the extra Int/Str nodes, which hopefully prevents needing Wisdom of the Glade or something similar to meet the requirements for a platinum kris or high lvl pure str gear. It's a nice bonus.

If you didn't want to go the blood magic route, you'd have to rework the tree some, but you'd have access to more mana regen nodes by taking things like Shaper, Path of the Savant, and Mana Flows.

35 pages into the build thread (after watching it since it was 2 pages) I finally decided on a variation I liked... yours :) I like the Scion option, I almost started a ranger had her decked out in twink gear ready to go but still level 1, then I read the last few pages where you made this post - and I decided to change to Scion.

But I made a very slight variation to your variation - i figured that it took the same number of points to either get to Steelskin or to get to the path connecting Iron Reflexes and the Thick Skin HP nodes, and this way I get IR much faster - and also have easier access to Elusiveness and Path of the Hunter which you yourself recommended as an option, to another reader of this thread :) Getting IR made my damage reduction jump from 7% to 40% !!

I know the int and str nodes would help with gear requirements but what do you think of the benefits of this route regardless? I also lose out on the Berserking cluster - would take an extra point then.

I do have another question for you TheBigNasty - relative to my variation, how important is Master of the Arena - does the increased melee range really affect cyclone in a way that benefits this build noticably, or is it just a means to an end (the 2x life nodes) ? Reason I ask is that I was thinking of delaying or even skipping these duelist nodes perhaps for something else? Or should I make my way there right NAOW? :)

I'd like to read how the Scion version plays out. My concern is that the chance to hit is too low given only 100 or so dexterity.

Tell us how it goes and post your chance to hit from time to time.

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TheBigNasty wrote:

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GrimmGerim wrote:

Don't be a dick, post your build.
Pretty please :).

This is what I'm using for Scion.

Spoiler

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgABAAYB3AV9DkgRlhX2F9gb-hzcJDwl3yepKaUqCy2oL28xnjSTNZJGcUd-SVFKfUrITeNOKlBCU7hW6lpSWm1br176YnljcGVNZ6BoDmo_bmluqm-ecFJwVnC7cNV4DX_GgwmE2YVVhxOHdohCiPGJ04w2jX6QG5MnmhObXZyknaOiLqQZplenXKiaqW6sWbGQtAy18rZBt7a31r6KvqfAD8BRwcXNmNA50O7STdhN2RPbWdvU3Q3jhO_j8h3yl_Pq96P8q_zF_o8=

You end up with more total crit, more evasion, more all resists, more life (with more available if you feel you need them).

Overall I feel the Scion gives more flexibility than Ranger for this particular build, but certainly both can work.

color me crazy but could not find a way to make scion a viable option for my version of ranger build

Wow my post completely fucked up... i'm not gonna bother typing the whole breakdown again...


anyways, your's would give more damage on EK, but the ranger version more than makes up for it in accuracy, attack speed, and frenzy/power charges. Not to mention the HP and armor/evasion is almost double with ranger

Life: 212% vs 144%
Armor (after conversion): 214.4%(+20% from frenzy) vs 128%
Atk speed: 55%(+10% from 2 additional frenzy) vs 24%
Crit cyclone: 515% vs 640%
Crit EK: 330% vs 415%
EK damage: 43% vs 92%


I guess both do have merits, but IMO the extra damage is not needed and survivability always helps

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PandaCodeRed wrote:

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TheBigNasty wrote:

If you didn't want to go the blood magic route, you'd have to rework the tree some, but you'd have access to more mana regen nodes by taking things like Shaper, Path of the Savant, and Mana Flows.

Would a non bloodmagic sion still be better than a ranger in your eyes? Considering rerolling scion for improving my survivabilty now that I got the gear.

Better is so subjective.

BM fits my playstyle and I prefer not having to dump points into mana regen or run clarity. Others would certainly disagree or find another method suits their style.

Either one are equally viable.

In terms of Ranger V Scion as it relates to BM, I think it's a wash.