[1.2.x] Oos' Crit Dagger Capped Block Ranger (Reave / Flicker / Double Strike) Acrobatics or IR

High crit roll Bino's will beat any dagger that isn't at least ~280 pdps and 9% crit in damage

I had a 300 pdps dagger with 7,5% crit and Bino's does more damage, for the price of 8 exalts in ambush there is no better dagger you can buy at the moment and for endgame you do not need a better dagger than Binos

With 20/20 gems and only a 5L my Bino's does 41400 dps at the moment at lvl 90

I can faceroll 78 maps even with hard mods, i don't even want a better dagger than it, only upgrade i realistically want to do is get a 6L eventually because i will need it for my next build, if i planned on just playing reave 5L would be more than enough, i did a 77 map yesterday with my MF gear and 29k dps and didn't have any trouble


@zoinkjr in melee phys builds, especially crit ones your first gear upgrade if you're struggling is always dagger, unless you have like a really low amount of health(below 3,5k) then get some life on gear, once you're in a 3,5k-4k range you can focus on getting more dps, but your first upgrade is a weapon, because killing stuff faster not only gives you better clear speed but also more survivability because there's less chance of enemies hitting you if you kill them fast, your dagger is pretty low dps, you should aim to get at least 250pdps with 7% crit minimum to do higher lvl maps, you could buy a dagger like that for 2-3 ex on ambush, idk about other league prices

I ve one question.I am gonna buy mirror dagger with 2 attack speed.Cuz of two auras how can i handel mana cost? I think mind drinker ll be not enough.So it seems i need mana leech at gloves and rings.So i can hit 8% mana leech.So whats your advice about that issue?

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Holyjustice wrote:

I ve one question.I am gonna buy mirror dagger with 2 attack speed.Cuz of two auras how can i handel mana cost? I think mind drinker ll be not enough.So it seems i need mana leech at gloves and rings.So i can hit 8% mana leech.So whats your advice about that issue?

mana leech won't make a difference, coz the pace of the recovery will be limiting, and it will be based on your max mana and not on the % of mana you leech.

Perhaps you can run a less mana consuming setup like:
reave + faster att + multi + melee phys + crit chance + crit dmg (costs less than any combo with Conc Ef, inc area, added fire).

or remove faster att in favor of some other support so you reduce mana usage/s

apart from that get 2 items with 50%+ mana regen, and perhaps have a lvl 7-10 clarity (or so) instead of tempest shield.

you will have probs on 50% mana regen maps so bring a mana pot.

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missuse wrote:

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Oosband wrote:

I haven't been playing PoE that much recently, couple hours a week maybe. So I haven't fought Atziri yet.
I think it's possible with this build but it would be hard to get to a point where you can farm her consistently.

I'd wear those two items, maybe even:

Then use Purity of Fire instead of Tempest Shield. It will be a hard fight still, you'll need to use Whirling Blades a lot. But I think it's manageable.
You cant do the fight with just ele flasks, you'll need a shield+aura to boost your max res.

I'll probably try and kill her soon.

Farming atziri with this build is a piece of cake.

for the fight I take

purity of fire + purity of lightning lvl 20 instead of hatred and tempest

on ambush I would also wear

due to saffel being 80% instead of 120% spl block

I bring 2 ruby, one topaz flask

with 4,5-5k hp, ele auras on and using flasks, you do not need to run away from anything apart the double flameblast. Preferably you save some flask charges for the 4 clone stage. Just postion your self so you don't hit the one holding a mirror by mistake and you will be good. 30-40k dps is more than enough with reave for atziri.

Bigger problem are the trio bosses. They need to be fought in the right order (cyclone, Roa, double),longer confrontation should be avoided. They need to be killed in corners. Lots of Endu cry + IC usage. I use EC manually and have IC+Inc Dur on CwdT.

I respeced to IR for them, since it was very hard with Acro cluster, but after a few 10s of runs, when I learned various aspects of the fight (invisible RoA rain...) I respeced back. Can still die there sometimes....

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Wow awesome, thanks for the info, very helpful. I'll probably try it out then when I come back to playing properly :D
Maybe it's better to do it in a small party? 2-3 people, then you can take aggro from the 3 bosses and be safer overall.

I am not sure, never tried it in a group. The thing is, the bosses are not that hard when there's 3 of them. They become very hard if you: 1. kill in the wrong order (killing dual-striker before last makes exploding minions spawn which make the fight insanely hard for melee. Killing in the middle makes the black degen there, which will cause a lot of dmg to you and will make it very hard to hit any boss in the middle, also you will have very limited space to move. Leaving the cyclone guy last will make him insanely strong....). 2. kill in the middle. 3. RoA dude starts bugging so u get dmg from invisible RoA rain (happens only on the middle of the map, as far as I gathered).

The fight also bugs often, lags and desyncs, so its a another cause for frustration.

Bino's is a great dagger, a crit roll is extremely important on daggers because all your crit from gear and tree scales with that base. So a 9% dagger will give you 50% more FINAL crit chance than a 6% dagger. Bino's will greatly increase your dps, and because rare daggers are so hard to roll, there's probably not anything comparable on the market right now.

I had a near top roll Bino's and it;s slightly lees sheet DPS than the rare dagger in my first post, but only really because of the way attack speed scaled with reave/multistrike. The regen+crit makes Bino's extremely strong.

After dagger get a 6L yeah, but after that it will be hard to improve your character beyond 20/20 gems and perfecting gear. You have nice gear.

It may be hard to upgrade your rings because it looks like you rely on them for resistance, but yeah, crazy phys/life/res rings will be a great upgrade.



First off, that Vaal Cyclone + Cast on Melee Kill + Detonate Dead is a really cool idea.

Your gear is overall pretty nice, but I feel that your dagger is the weakest point. It has inflated dps due to its fast attack speed, and no crit. You're attacking very fast for lots of small hits, due to the way armour works you're doing less damage than a slower, more powerful dagger.

I talked a little about daggers in the above post, so I wont repeat is here, but a good crit dagger will be great for you, then you can swap out crit chance, for crit damage gem and boost your damage a lot.

The rest of your gear is pretty nice, crazy two stone ring. When you level a couple more times and get more life nodes, you may want to consider buying either Maligaros or Rat's nest, although your helm/gloves are decent.
So after the dagger upgrade you may want to just buy a solid 6L and then you'll e able to crush any map.

Let me know how it goes, gl.



I'm guessing you mean this:


I tested my friend's one, it's the best dps dagger in the game, but it may be hard to manage the huge mana cost.
Like missuse said, you'll need a much larger mana pool to keep up with the leech cap (12.5% of max mana per second).
You'll want to drop faster attacks, probably for PCoC or Crit Chance gem.

I don't play this Reaver much anymore, but it's used for PvP and I recently bought:

Higher crit, less dps and slower, but better for Flicker Strike (my main PvP attack). You might wanna consider buying one of those instead (cheaper than a mirror+fee of Ambusher).

But with a larger mana pool and dropping faster attacks for a crit gem, the Ambusher is completely insane, have fun with it if you do decide to mirror it :P


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Thanks to Justifi3d and missuse for helping people!

Yeah i'M gonna change passive tree too.It seems that we ve enoguh damage especially with ambush insane dagger.I ll try to get high mana and so i can leech more and gonna take some mana regen on gear too.I ll post what happen when i take my dagger.Yeah thanks all for help.

So I saw this build and thought it would be fun. I am enjoying the crap out of it right now, but getting towards "mapping" I am looking for some upgrades.

Current Gear

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ricklington wrote:

So I saw this build and thought it would be fun. I am enjoying the crap out of it right now, but getting towards "mapping" I am looking for some upgrades.

Current Gear

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Ok sweet. Most characters need to replace most of their leveling gear when entering maps.
I'd say first make sure you have your defenses worked out then focus on adding dps stats.

Phys damage rolls on jewelry is very strong, accuracy where you can get it, and getting a good crit neck will help a lot. Carnage Heart is nice for leech but the lower life hurts.

I'd replace:
Helmet (hp/accuracy/res/evasion)
Boots (hp/res/evasion (ms not needed with whirling blades)
Necklace (hp/phys dmg/crit/accuracy/leech)
Rings (hp/res/phys dmg/accuracy/leech)

Then when your res/hp is sorted invest in a good dagger. I'm not sure what your budget is but a good crit dagger is the most important part of the build.

Also, your shield can roll up to 80 life so maybe invest in a 75+ life one considering they very cheap.

Then fix up your gems (look at my gear first post, most optimal I believe). With a good phys dagger you'll be able to drop mana leech gem and wreck maps.

Let me know how it goes, gl.

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Oosband wrote:

Thanks to Justifi3d and missuse for helping people!

thank you for this great build.

Also I wanted to share an observation, anyone running a acrobatics spec of this build needs to try:


Sure it has a big drawback, bit if you can overcome it, than it becomes probably the best chest for acrobatics chars. I dropped tempest shield for purity of lightning and switched some items to get the higher light res.

Before I dealt with phys reflect like this:
take out melee phys dg and inc crit dmg from my 6L making reave 4L. Cast EC, and let IC trigger from phys reflect, repetitively until clear map. Now I do not have to do anything of the sort on most maps (vouln, 50% regen and the sort (combined with phys reflect) still require EC/IC combo.

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missuse wrote:

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Oosband wrote:

Thanks to Justifi3d and missuse for helping people!

thank you for this great build.

Also I wanted to share an observation, anyone running a acrobatics spec of this build needs to try:

Sure it has a big drawback, bit if you can overcome it, than it becomes probably the best chest for acrobatics chars. I dropped tempest shield for purity of lightning and switched some items to get the higher light res.

Before I dealt with phys reflect like this:
take out melee phys dg and inc crit dmg from my 6L making reave 4L. Cast EC, and let IC trigger from phys reflect, repetitively until clear map. Now I do not have to do anything of the sort on most maps (vouln, 50% regen and the sort (combined with phys reflect) still require EC/IC combo.

Yeah man, Lightning Coil is completely broken. I've used it on similar builds on HC and if I was to remake this character I'd use it, dropping Tempest Shield for Purity of Lightning.
Light Coil makes you so tanky, especially with Surgeon's Topaz/Granite up for all fights too.

what is better in ambush? maligaro's or rat's nest?
legacy maligaro's was better, but now i dont know