[1.0.6] Poison arrow/fire trap EB MoM degen build (Cheap and effective and BUFFED CRAZILY IN 1.0.6)

This build looks completely doable by a Duelist, am I right? Acceleration, Mana Flows and Fury Bolts do seem to complement the build fairly well.

Edit: is there any reason to get "+ phys damage with bows" nodes such as Master Fletcher while following this build? As far as I understand, buffing physical will buff Poison Arrow damage as well. Although wiki says that projectile damage nodes are better...

It will increase the damage of the poison arrow hit, but not the Poison cloud damage. Projectile damage does both, although in most builds the damage of the arrow itself is irrelevant.

bought my +3 bow yesterday, gonna start this build soon. any ideas how to incorporate the desacrate skill? i think the poison arrow dps will still be higher, and it should do the same. and do we really need corpses?

i'm not sure about that...

I leveled a witch to Act 2 today to get desecrate, and was playing around with it and poison arrow on my 60 chaos ranger a bit. It's damage is considerably less although still relevant. Vuln > Poison Arrow > Desecrate, and the HP decline speed increase after desecrate was cast was noticeable. Unlike Poison Arrow, the concentrated effect correctly shows in the desecrate damage tooltip.

But we need to make use of the corpses, or I don't see it being any better than tossing in a fire trap or Explosive Arrow.

i was thinking about detonate dead instead of the fire traps. and use the corpses for an initial blast, because with the posin cloud everything dies nearly at the same time.
i'll just level firetrap/desecrate and try everything once the levels for the gems are about 14-15.
luckily the support gems for detonate dead/ firetrap are the same. and the both benefit from the same passives.

youre doing a lvl66 map in that example video.....i just laughed :D

What is the actual DPS of this build?
I saw you mentioned 1.1k aoe somewhere ... I hope that is not true. It has to be at least 10k at 75+ to have any value.

jeeeebus!

I fired this build up yesterday after reading the patch notes on an old 41 ranger with an open respec, and I cant say how it scales later, but I just did a fast run b4 bed last night when I got the toon going, and I was just MELTING shite, just using PA to see how it was with the nodes I had never used b4. just using a silverbranch I had. I would like to see it with a plus 3 for both attacks, I didn't even try out viper yesterday, I need one more level to use my quality one.

I allways level any toon I make, since open beta with a silverbranch and PA, its just such a quick way to blow thur the early game, but usually get rid of it around level 30ish or so, when it drops off without further investment in passives, and there were very few passives in the day. but I allways loved just basic PA and FT combo. simple and effective. but it never scaled well late game. with the new nodes and the buff from yesterday, I really wanna see how this will fair at later levels now. otherwise, very similar to my AA,EB,MoM EK scion defensivly, so I like the defense and life of the build in concept, should be pretty tanky. I really like AA if you can regen the mana for it. ill post back from maps if I don't reep!

thanks nico for a fast build I could put together to check out the newer PA changes. seems pretty solid. I have a feeling more people will be trying out PA builds in the coming weeks.

Why using conc effect on poison arrow ?
It doesn't change anything for me on the DPS tooltip.

From:
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Poison_Arrow

Concentrated Effect: Concentrated Effect will decrease the size of the AoE and increase its damage. However, due to the nature of the skill and the wording of its modifiers, the damage increase will not appear on the tooltip.