[1.1.x] Party-Friendly, Multi-Purpose, Bow Crit (Physical CoC/Puncture/Lightning Arrow) Guide

So, now I have maxed resistances and sitting at 1700 life. Build is a ton better for me and working on the rest of my skill points. Question, should I start running AA as I just found this flask and want to keep it up the majority of the time.

Glad it's working better for you.

AA is something to either put a low level one on CwDT or just run it if you are likely to die from physical/fire reflect. I'm not sure how well Thief's keeps up with it. You might need Clarity to sustain it and also flask/attack while moving or it will drain.

I'm currently experimenting with a non-CoC setup (same spec):



36.8K Split Arrow self-buffed. I'll have to do some more testing. So far it clears way faster but I hit myself harder on reflects. Not sure if it's worth the trade off.

Is the build your playing similar to Math's elemental Windripper build ?

Sort of. His tree is nearly identical to my Windripper tree (except he's higher level so has the extra 11 points for Vaal Pact), but I'm playing it using my standard Physical tree and running Physical Projectile Attack Damage on a 5-link instead of Blood Magic on a 6-link.

It's definitely more consistent than CoC but I just feel too squishy. Maybe the difference is Vaal Pact.

Yeah, now that I'm capped on resistances and I'm pretty happy with my gear, I might go towards vaal pack and just start going towards Vaal Pact & more health nodes maybe a few crit multiplier. I don't really see me going towards elemental damage / spell damage as it would be insta-death when reflect comes around sooo... I need to level up a ton more ahaha

What's your setup look like now?

Tree is still the same

*edit* the more and more I think about it the more I think it was better to roll a Scion to hit more life nodes and grab vaal pact. It's still very possible to hit high 80's / 90's crit chance which is more than enough for this build given the attack speed and stuff, and even with 2 percent leech on life gear should be viable to deal with reflect easily.

Here's my tentative plan for grabbing Vaal Pact. It actually takes fewer nodes than from the Scion tree.


I'm concerned about giving up all that physical damage negating my mana leech.

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This is probably what I'm going to aim for, beefing up my evasion rating quite a bit, a bit more resistances to play with ( even though I'm capped gear may change ) giving me Vaal pact, and really not worrying about mana so much because I have made Thief's Torment a mandatory in my build. My mana never dips low anyways and that should put my life after hitting the Scion wheel in about the 3200-3500 range, plus a 50 percent chance to evade and 30 percent chance to dodge, when I pop a flask I should have around a 65-75 percent chance to evade. This is just theory crafting and have a ton of leveling to do ahead of me lol.

Nice. I really wish I had started as a Ranger to take those evasion and life starting nodes.

The other option is Blood Magic + Life Gain on Hit/Leech, but that takes way too many sockets for me since my bow can't be recolored. :\