[1.0.3] Evantis's Poison arrow build: 4978 chaos damage per second

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MauranKilom wrote:

My suggestion for a 1.1.0 skilltree: Link

Note that i'm not getting as much projectile damage, but instead opt for Acrobatics. This build already has no armor or energy shield, without Acrobatics you're dealing cool amounts of damage but you'll just die. I managed to get the same amount of increased % life, but without touching the (nerfed) Scion life wheel. I spent those extra points into int (i can tell you from experience that you'll be lacking it, especially around the time you start doing maps) and a bit of mana.

If you think you can stay alive/firing without then, put the acrobatics or mana/int points somewhere else (like more projectile damage nodes). Good luck though.
Also, since kiting is way easier with higher attack speed, you might want to pick up the 8% attackspeed near ranger start. Maybe.

TBH i don't approve of this build in Hardcore, as it's not viable at higher levels. Considering the 10 skill points that's placed on sheer dodge chance, not evasion rating (not working with iron reflexes, which is mandatory if you actually want to play the game at HC higher levels) and what you could do with those extra 10 points, i'd rather change that out and grab more aura-benefiting nodes and/or HP/dmg.

I know. The OP mentions this, too.

Once i get back to playing, i'll try my build and an IG build with some rangers i have. The thing is, so far i've had trouble getting along with Iron Grip based ranger builds (you'll have high dex, a lot of which goes to waste with IG), and it always became easier when speccing out of it and into evasion based stuff.

Maybe i was just doing it wrong (were some of my earlier PoE days, and yes, dodge costs tons of points). Feel free to come up with an IG build (so i can try and compare it).

Will try out this build as i'm playing my first ranger and not many people seemed to be using chaos attack.

However i'm probably gonna change things up but your gem idea is pretty good...i couldn't have thought of it myself.

So, played around a bit with my suggested build on a 73 ranger. It feels fragile. Like, a lot. 11k evasion rating with grace plays out to about 53% chance to evade (and you get the acrobatics dodge on top of that), but when you get hit you lose a big chunk of health every time. Risky times (and definitely not useable on HC) when there's stuff leaping/charging/casting at you from all over the place.

Additionally, (when i have an aura up) i can't fire 3 poison arrows without having to mana flask. When there's packs of mobs around, i use lightning arrow + lmp + chain + mana leech to get mana back, but they have to be really close together for it to be a net positive. The ironic part is that this clears packs real fast in itself already.
Point being, i can't live without flasks atm. The new flask types will remedy this to a certain extent, with this guy here i can burn through my full mana pool 4x over the duration:


Poison arrow dps is decent (1k atm according to tooltip), but i'm always combining it with other stuff (mostly fire traps + puncture, which also both get benefits from various passive nodes) since poison dps doesn't stack. Will take a while to get to 20/20 stuff and level 3 empower.

Coincidentally, i found today. Should be a decent boost in clearing speed overall, just have to get the links first.

with poison arrow. you also do phys damage? or it is just chaos damage?

A direct hit deals both phys and chaos dmg (you get extra chaos dmg based on phys dmg). The clouod does pure chaos dmg and only depends on the base value, increased projectile dmg and aoe/dot passives.

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Poison_Arrow

The initial post explains it, too.

In the tree there are a couple chaos damage circles that you skipped? Can you explain to me why? I'm kind of bad/new when it comes to making a skill tree which is why I look up builds

Edit: better wording

Didn't read through all replies, nor anything too extensively to find out if someone has said it before, but a q20 added chaos damage gem adds +10% chaos damage.

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SkuIIunit wrote:

Didn't read through all replies, nor anything too extensively to find out if someone has said it before, but a q20 added chaos damage gem adds +10% chaos damage.

10% increased damage is not really worth the extra gem slot.

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SkuIIunit wrote:

In the tree there are a couple chaos damage circles that you skipped? Can you explain to me why? I'm kind of bad/new when it comes to making a skill tree which is why I look up builds

Do you mean the build in the OP or mine? The former was created before the last skilltree update and so it's broken. Mine includes all chaos damage nodes (did you mistake chaos resistance for chaos damage?)...


Also, latest patch buffed poison arrow dot yet again. This could actually be quite insane:

We could get +2/+1 from bow explicit stats, +4 from corrupted lvl 4 empower (gets +1 from bow). Using a corrupted lvl 21 poison arrow then yields a lvl 28 poison arrow gem.

The OP used ~430 base chaos dps on a lvl 26 poison arrow, so i figure the wiki numbers are already updated (2250 base chaos dps on lvl 28 poison arrow) to after the recent buffs. That's FIVE TIMES the base dps we're looking at here!

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MauranKilom wrote:

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SkuIIunit wrote:

Didn't read through all replies, nor anything too extensively to find out if someone has said it before, but a q20 added chaos damage gem adds +10% chaos damage.

10% increased damage is not really worth the extra gem slot.

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SkuIIunit wrote:

In the tree there are a couple chaos damage circles that you skipped? Can you explain to me why? I'm kind of bad/new when it comes to making a skill tree which is why I look up builds

Do you mean the build in the OP or mine? The former was created before the last skilltree update and so it's broken. Mine includes all chaos damage nodes (did you mistake chaos resistance for chaos damage?)...


Also, latest patch buffed poison arrow dot yet again. This could actually be quite insane:

We could get +2/+1 from bow explicit stats, +4 from corrupted lvl 4 empower (gets +1 from bow). Using a corrupted lvl 21 poison arrow then yields a lvl 28 poison arrow gem.

The OP used ~430 base chaos dps on a lvl 26 poison arrow, so i figure the wiki numbers are already updated (2250 base chaos dps on lvl 28 poison arrow) to after the recent buffs. That's FIVE TIMES the base dps we're looking at here!

hi, i'm very interested this build and 1.1.2ver ur skill tree.

I have 6L ticket bow, but +2bow, and 8%ats,, i can't get +1bow skill..it's so hard.. i think,,

hm,, acrobatic or IR,, which is the best nod?,, i want to know,, ur best nod! pst! (IGN : XBoarde )

or link ur skill tree (latest ver), thx gl hf!!