[1.0.6] Lunys' LA / Frenzy High End Crit Ranger GUIDE (in-depth analysis) 3 VIDEOS

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Darkaleb wrote:

Hi! :-)
A personal question: as an alternative you think could be a good idea to not spec in blood magic (using blood magic gem on LA and frenzy) and run two auras like hatred and haste (for example)?
According to you is more effective to have wed on LA or hatred as aura? What is the best choice for maximize the damage?
Even Considering that speccing in blood magic requires 4 skill points...

Yhx for help and very compliments for your guide!

WED is defenitely more effective for LA, running hatred + haste would result in slightly higher frenzy dps... i guess.
Anyway, if you really want to run 2 auras... run hatred + wrath not hatred + haste and do not drop WED, drop Faster Attacks to do so.
I personally wouldn't recommend running auras with this build though. If you read the guide, you know why.

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Darkaleb wrote:

Ah sorry last question, i have this bow:

Do you think it could be better than a lioneye's glare for your build? Or not?

Thx very much!

Jup, should be much better than lioneye's glare. Better crit chance and about the same dps.

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Futon wrote:

This might have been answered but I didn't find it. When using the Lioneye's Glare bow (5L) and a 5L evasion armor how do you suggest I deal with reflect? Will I run into any other survivability issues? I'm level 80 if that matters.

Also should I be gearing with evasion items or armor items? Does it matter? For an example if I can find a 5L armor chest with great stats vs a 5L evasion chest with not as good stats which should I go for?

You can go for armor or evasion or both. It doesnt matter if you use Iron Reflexes.
If you don't use a Kaoms Heart though, you may run into health issues. Especially when you encounter phys reflect.

I understand the OP built this guide with the idea being that he will have good buffs in group play.

But I like playing solo a lot too, so because of this I think these changes would be optimal:

1.) Get life leech from physical dmg on gear (10% or higher doable). Also worst comes to worst, I can use a Carnage heart in the meantime, knowing that the 25% reduced life is additive, not multiplicative. So it wouldn't be that bad, especially with a kaoms.

2.) Spec out of blood magic saving 4 passive tree points.

3.) Replace life leech gem with blood magic gem on both LA and frenzy links.

4.) Run Hatred and Wrath on mana

5.) Lastly, use those 4 free passive tree points for more dmg nodes or health nodes.



The other option is to run Added fire gem in place of life leech keeping the blood magic keystone, but I'm pretty sure running hatred + wrath + 4 passive tree points would yield a greater DPS than the added fire gem

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jtrand wrote:

I understand the OP built this guide with the idea being that he will have good buffs in group play.

But I like playing solo a lot too, so because of this I think these changes would be optimal:

1.) Get life leech from physical dmg on gear (10% or higher doable). Also worst comes to worst, I can use a Carnage heart in the meantime, knowing that the 25% reduced life is additive, not multiplicative. So it wouldn't be that bad, especially with a kaoms.

2.) Spec out of blood magic saving 4 passive tree points.

3.) Replace life leech gem with blood magic gem on both LA and frenzy links.

4.) Run Hatred and Wrath on mana

5.) Lastly, use those 4 free passive tree points for more dmg nodes or health nodes.



The other option is to run Added fire gem in place of life leech, but I'm pretty sure running hatred + wrath + 4 passive tree points would yield a greater DPS than the added fire gem

I thnik the problem is PHYSICAL leech on gear while LA does ELE dmg mostly

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I thnik the problem is PHYSICAL leech on gear while LA does ELE dmg mostly

Yeah I understand that, that's why I'm thinking of having more leech on my gear. However I feel 10% leech is sufficient, however I still have to test it out.

I'm wondering if anyone can answer this - Assume you're following Luny's passive skill tree and you are at the 90 passive tree point mark.

What would you do if the POE god gave you two choices and you could only choose one of the following:

1.) He would grant you 6 extra free passive tree points that you can ONLY spend on DPS nodes

2.) He would grant you the ability to run the Anger or Haste Aura


What would you choose?


I know I phrased my question in a silly manner, but it was to make it more interesting. I really do need serious opinions though. Keep in mind, I am using a mirrored Glyph Mark bow. Basically, I'm running hatred and wrath auras with my character. However, using Alpha's Howl unique, along with SIX passive tree points (to get to the Charisma reduced mana reservation cluster), I can choose to run Anger or Haste as well. However, I'm not sure if I should do that and run the aura OR just use those 6 points in dps nodes (maybe the two 10% crit multi nodes, two 15% physical increased physical damage w/ bows, and two 3% attack speed nodes)

If you can use alpha it would be the biggest buff to your DPS if you add anger. Party play I would go for aura also regardless if anyone is running it

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jtrand wrote:

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I thnik the problem is PHYSICAL leech on gear while LA does ELE dmg mostly

Yeah I understand that, that's why I'm thinking of having more leech on my gear. However I feel 10% leech is sufficient, however I still have to test it out.

I've been toying with the idea of running blood rage for the high life leach but also putting a point into the 1.5% life regen node to partly counter the chaos dmge on blood rage.

Actually it is possible to run blood rage as I already have 2.5% regen nodes on my passive tree just by chance. To run blood rage, I would need a minimum of 3.8%. I can get an extra 1.4% from the Growth and decay cluster for a total of 3.9%.

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jtrand wrote:

Actually it is possible to run blood rage as I already have 2.5% regen nodes on my passive tree just by chance. To run blood rage, I would need a minimum of 3.8%. I can get an extra 1.4% from the Growth and decay cluster for a total of 3.9%.

Why would you guys run regen with vaal pact?

Also my experience with this build so far is you don't need auras to solo. You just murder mobs it's unreal. The only thing I have to deal with now is I'm no longer as tanky as I used to be but it's ok because you just do so much damage, things melt. I've had cullers not want to group with me because I don't let them cull. I can't stop the damage.

As far as wanting auras for party play, most people have enough auras to help you out and make it easy peasy.

The only issue I've ever had with this build is you just don't have passive regen anymore which makes chaos damage mod on maps annoying.

That's true, I forgot about not being able to regen. But anyways, if you can run auras solo, why not? I play solo a lot, so it makes sense for me to run hatred, wrath, and anger.