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

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Islidox wrote:

Dominus is nuts. But as long as you understand his attack pattern, you just have to be able to tank his second form.

I don't want to spoil the fight for anyone, but the very last phase caught me out.
Next time i'm on him, will make sure i have the correct flasks.

Not running any auras yet, currently running man mode, only using from quests and dropping.
It's a very good challenge. Thinking Grace/Hatred only right now, but what is best for solo in this regard?

Was top 1500 nemesis players, taking a few hours away, then going back to try and kill him for Cruel grind to begin.

Grace and Hatred. Taking the Charisma notable on the Shadow/Ranger border will allow you to run 2 auras comfortably with a RM gem. Until then, stick with Grace. I also leave Purity socketed in case the situation calls for over-maxed rez. When I fought Dominus, I disabled the Hatred aura and left my Grace/Purity auras on. More survivability over DPS when facing him. (The minibosses before him you can use Hatred/Grace.)

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Islidox wrote:

My goodness.

I'll probably get around to editing my posts.

Stay away from BM characters for now. It's laughable to think that you could use the current aura(s) on BM.

Even with the new passive next to BM? O.o"" At least I want to use grace. I guess I have to forget about anger/wrath which drops my DPS even more. And my Bear Traps were already nerved twice, they were actualy a nice addition to your builds.
I still have no new Ranger build, not creative enough to make one of my own. :D But there is also hope from ZiggyD, I followed mostly his Ranger beginners build and your general Tips for the Ranger. :)

@Islidox Is your build updated now? haven't checked it though

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ngek9999 wrote:

@Islidox Is your build updated now? haven't checked it though

I'll update it when I can. You can check out my current tree here:



Basically I put several passives into the ranger/shadow highway that I think are necessary.

My own 1.0.0 phys/crit/evade Ranger has been updated.

I'll take some time to redo the other builds later. They're more of a reference than anything, but it's worth looking at for new people and how to go about making viable builds.

Also, an Avatar of Fire Build with Blackgleam Quiver and Burning Arrow is beginning to pique my interest.

I think new Phase Acrobatics is worthy to try.
4 points in Revenge of the Hunted is a bit less valuable compared to other new HP talent.

Assassinate and those do not say critical "to bow", are you sure that works?

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wesleygjr wrote:

I think new Phase Acrobatics is worthy to try.
4 points in Revenge of the Hunted is a bit less valuable compared to other new HP talent.

The Revenge of the Hunted cluster grants a total of 18% increased life, and 28% increased evasion, and a 4% boost to physical damage. There really isn't a cluster out there that can beat that point-investment wise. Also note, getting Revenge of the Hunted grants me access to Talons of Murder and Charisma notables.

True, you could spend 4 points into something else, like getting the Leather&Steel notable and 2 points into 8% nodes, giving 32% increased evasion and 16% increased life.

Or alternatively, put those 4 points into dodge to get Phase Acrobatics.

At this point in the tree, I may opt out of the 15% bow physical damage nodes by the Aspect of the Eagle notable and start going for Phase Acrobatics. Doing so means that in 3 more levels I can reach Phase Acrobatics at lvl 86. I think I may do that but keep Revenge of the Hunted. After doing the Scepter of the God tower, getting Phase Acrobatics seems to be more paramount. The amount of physical/chaos damage spells in the game is beginning to necessitate it.

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rinxen wrote:

Assassinate and those do not say critical "to bow", are you sure that works?

Yes. Most passives that are not specified to any type of damage-dealing source is considered global.

So critical strike chance passives apply to anything that deals crit.

Compare that to Heartpierce, and you see that cluster dedicated to BOW critical strike chance. It would not apply to any other source of critical strike chance like melee crit or spells.