Petrov's Ranger Build: Lightning Strike or Reave+Abyssus+Lightning Coil+EB+MoM+VP

the dps of your projectiles are less important than your melee attack.

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Lightning_Strike

Sick build like all your other ones.

Ranger master race!

I wonder how this concept works with the new ranged skill :)

Hey, not sure if you've answered this already but with 1.03 new support gem Phys Projectile Attack damage, would it be correct to assume it would be higher priority than Faster Attacks on LS? (so 5th gem slot) Seeing as how its a "more" multiplier I think it will end up with more DPS. And is there any particular reason to use LMP on LS rather than chain?

Also if you have time, it'd be awesome to have some feedback on the build I slightly edited to make use of dodge mechanics and then use Lightning Coil's damage reduction to survive any hits that get through (level 90 finish):

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgIAAF4EfgUtBbUF-QguDPIOSBGWFfAY2xmKGY4Z1xqPGtshYCP2JDwk_SaVJ6kotSo4LYMvbzBxMHw2PTpCOlg-z0CgSVFKfUt4UUdVS1YtVvpaSFptW69gS2HiZ6Bte3BScLt07XTxeu9_K3_Ggh6FMocZh3aH24hCiGuMNo19jb-XBpuNm7Wdo565pcumf6c0p1yqf6q4rH-xs7VIvebAUcHFwzrEosai037UI9UA1orZE9sL3Q3dqOOE51TndO1B7YPuDu9O73rv8PPq9tr5Y_sJ_Kv8xQ==

I'll also be using Darkray Vector boots + use frenzy charges so I figured I could opt out of some of the damage nodes and go for more survivability. I'm also debating using Iron Reflexes or not with this build since overall evasion should be fairly high with max frenzy stacks (and would also let me spec out of Ondar's Guile)

Cheers

Hi there Musicas.

I don't have time at the moment to go through your build quite now, but I'll try to later.

As for the other questions:
- Yes, i'd certainly consider the new phys ranegd supoprt gem over FA. However, this support gem won't benefit the melee component of LS, so clearly if you like to get close and do melee damage with Ls, then this gem would be a waste. If you generally kill with ranged projectiles, then this gem will certainly be good. That's the tricky bit about LS - it's both melee and ranged, and it's not easy to min-max for both parts of the skill.

- Chain? I wouldn't use it. LS pierces a lot (especially with quality), and chain doesn't proc when a projectile pierces. So you wouldn't get much bang for your buck using chain with LS.

P.

Ah ok, I was just wondering if concepts from LA passed onto LS.

Also it's occurred to me that MoM is probably not viable with Acrobatics, however with an additional 40% dodge I'm wondering if the 50% armor/ES loss will still work out.

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Musicas wrote:

Ah ok, I was just wondering if concepts from LA passed onto LS.

Also it's occurred to me that MoM is probably not viable with Acrobatics, however with an additional 40% dodge I'm wondering if the 50% armor/ES loss will still work out.

I don't think Acrobatics is going to work with this build. Dodge is great when it works...until it doesn't. Also, this build doesn't stack life, and when dodge fails (and it will), you really need some more damage mitigation.

P.

Was wonderng if this build works for 1 handed axe also ( i allocated more in to melee phys damage and % crit chances ... srry dunno how to link items in to the forum ) My axe has around 370 DPS and while i'm lvl 62 atm and only got LS 4 linked ( no luck on 5 linking lightning coil after 132 fusings ) my DPS is only 3.8K with Hatred and now i'm really strungling act 3 mercilles.
I know life and mana is verly low atm, only 1.5K life and 0.7K mana without EB taken cuz i still have low energy shield, with light coil equiped its only 99.
But too refer to the actual question : is this build only viable with daggers and claws or is a high dps axe also viable ?


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found out how too link items ;P

Catching up with replies, sorry for the delay.

any updates to the build or still work?