[1.xx] Islidox's Build tips/critique section for Rangers

Great stuff, and lots of work here, though I was thinking of one change to the Elemental Ranger build. What if you're someone that doesn't want to rely on Blood Magic? What if instead you just want to have mana and don't mind managing it and tweaking your skills and gems to accommodate? I know it might not be as streamlined as a Blood Magic, but can still work...at least to me it seems that way. Here's the build:



I did take a few extra points for a large mana cluster, but if you exclude that then the build only uses 87 total points, which is only 2 more than the BM build. I also switched around one life cluster to pick up the life regen nodes as well as the 12% life node at the end of it for a little help with some maps that might have a life drain going. With that said, I picked up mana nodes and got 3 nodes to help reduce mana cost of skills by 15% total, and that will also help with reducing the need to rely on mana leech gems some.

Getting the extra 5 points allows for a 40% boost to the mana pool and potentially allowing for the use of a second aura if you show choose beyond say...Grace. Could use Haste, or even Wrath if you want lightning damage, or Hatred if Ice Shot is your thing. Of course, you might have to shift stats around on your gear to have a little more mana early on, or whatever you need. However, in the end it should allow you to keep both life and mana pools separate if that is something you want to do. :)

Sorry for the bad english first.

I am new to POE and going to play a blood magic elemental ranger.
I am plan to use split arrow be my main skill.

My future passive tree.


Does it work fine?
I am appreciate for your advices.

New to PoE, started ranger.

Don't know what I was going for in a build. Read up on the skills etc and decided to spec it this way.

Ultimately if it fails, I'd rather spend a lot of expense in game to buy Orb of Regret.
Or use any remaining respec points I get from leveling normally.

Build link

Was wondering if I should remove some of the attack speed skills and repurpose the points to something else. Like more evasion & armor, life, or strength. Or something else like movement speed.

The mana skills are enough, to keep regen at pace with any spells I use in game.
If I run out of mana, I use a mana pot. Not that hard.

I think getting more defence stats will be better. Again, new to this.
Don't know what I'm missing or what I should get.

If I get some good advice I'll post a revised version later.

"

Krinny wrote:

New to PoE, started ranger.

..

Ultimately if it fails, I'd rather spend a lot of expense in game to buy Orb of Regret.
Or use any remaining respec points I get from leveling normally.

Build link

...

You will die, a lot, due to ignoring life nodes. You also move very strangely around the passive tree wasting lots of points on just pure stats (definitely case of the north part above ranger starting position). There are other strange choices such as Iron Grip with very low strength (IR is good choice with around 200 STR or so). You did not decide on your defense mechanism--you have not picked Iron Reflexes or Acrobatics/Phase Acrobatics. Again, you will be heavily pressed to survive in Act3 or later difficulties.

I suggest you check first page where Islidox posted sample builds. That post is slighly lower on first page.
It is a good starting point if you are new and looking for directions. It is of course possible to build your own character but you should follow certain patterns, which can be observed in those sample builds.

Hello everybody!

Yesterday got killed at 25-th lvl and want to analize maken mistakes. As for death itself for me it is obvious now, I thought that magic could be evaded. Well will be keeping that in mind. But after I read this wonderfull thread (Big thanks to Islidox) I understand that my death was just the matter of time.

My first vision of a perfect build:

Idea was that 1 shot - 1 kill. And try tyo evade the problem.

And this is the idea of Frenzy oriented build:


Pls comment If you have some time.

Whew I'm glad the post in the start of the thread with all the builds validated a lot of the choices I made. If nothing else I think my ranger will be able to perform to at least some capacity in endgame.

But then again I always intended to reroll at some point fairly early on once I felt I learned enough.

Still debating on whether to go hardcore or not, but it seems like the thing to do in this game.

Hi. This is my first characer Ranger. Which strategy is right at the beginning? I found, whether it is good to start with? Can anyone recommend interesting build :) Sorry for poor English, I learn it only :P

"

Vaas92 wrote:

Hi. This is my first characer Ranger. Which strategy is right at the beginning? I found, whether it is good to start with? Can anyone recommend interesting build :) Sorry for poor English, I learn it only :P

First page contains 8 different biulds. You copied a 3-rd build based on evasion + energy shield.

Great post and nice builds in the links, only lvl 20 atm and loving it, this will be my first port for information.

Please give me your thoughts on this physical-ranger made for HC:

My aim is to get much life, lots of movement speed, arrow dodging and all of the energyshield+evasion-nodes I can get together with enough resistance.

Offensive nodes like Heartpierce, Deadly Draw and Assassination can easily be traded for more life nodes and/or all/chaos-res nodes.

What do you think? Is it currently too offensive-specced for a HC-char? Are the nodes put in MS unnecessary? Energyshield+Evasion bad for survivability in general? Let me hear your thoughts.

Cheers,

Casume