[1.3] Sidra's Necromancing Ranger of Chaos (Poison Arrow) Videos/Atziri capable

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No and No. The only thing that would shock would be the actual on hit attack. And to that you'd need to shoot with the Volt... but since you do basically no on hit damage, it either wouldn't stick or the duration on the single enemy would be too quick to notice.

That's a shame. What would you suggest as a way to proc shock on bosses then? I've been experimenting with shock nova, arc etc. What do you think about Three Dragons with fire trap/desecrate - detonate dead?

To be honest, a lot of times even Lightning based builds made for shocking can't shock bosses. If you feel it's necessary, I guess you could try Vaal Lightning Trap. Three Dragons seems like an awful idea - the whole point of using fire traps is for burning totems dead, or burning blues or rares that are chaos resistant to speed the speedbumps up a bit. If it doesn't cause burn it has much less value, even if it briefly shocked.

But one of the strengths of the build, as is, is how well it kills bosses.

What ones are you having problems with?

cool build.

but did you try to use poison arrow as a direct dps skill?
leaving the points "north" of shadow tree out and speccing more into +phys. dmg?

2x ming's heart -> +40% of physical Damage as extra chaos damage
1x poison arrow lvl 20 -> + 49% --"--

plus: the magnate (+25-40% phys dmg)

and maybe try out snakebite gloves (as you can easily run bloodrage ;o) ) -> poison and poison arrow's cloud dont stack, but so its maybe easier to compensate the damage depending on its initial dmg hit (18.8k of "your" cloud vs. ?!?)

as poison dps of cloud can be increased with vulnurb. curse and DoT passives, so does poison on hit ;o)

I am curious about the dmg..

edit: nonono.. need to try that out, cant wait

Hmm... you could scale the single target portion - it's a physical skill with "added" just like Burning Arrow. Not not sure why you'd want to do that though - you are giving up AOE dmg to do a little more on hit. And since a +2/+1 Bow only has one prefix left, even if you had one perfect roll for what you want it's be missing % or flat physical - you couldn't put enough lipstick on that pig to do considerable single target on hit dmg.

And then you'd run into a playstyle issue. The build gets is strength of the fact it only has to shoot once, and then can safely hide offscreen, running, or behind a minion wall. Forcing yourself into a position where you have to keep shooting to damage something would be counterproductive, in addition to the fact that Poison Arrow is a ridiculous mana hog.

burning arrow gives you +30% of phys as fire dmg.
added fire dmg another +38%
maybe wear blackgleam (cheap) or quillneck or broakstroke

2x ming´s heart + poison arrow gets you much higher up on plus dmg.

you for sure need to skill need to skill phys dmg (like split arrow build),
thought of something like that:


not a +2/+1 bow is used, but a pure phys. dmg bow.

its just an idea though, i "love" your PA aoe build ;-)

Your cloud won't be enough to clear when you start trimming a lot of levels, and I'd assume gem slots (Concentrated Effect, Empower) off it - so this build would probably work for using Poison Arrow for single target damage, but you are going to use another skill for AOE.

yeah, dmg so far isn that high, split arrow is around 30% higher (without mings heart, LMP drops poison arrow dmg vs splitarrow), couldnt get my hands on a quilneck though.
i am back to the cloud ;o)

sad thing is, that +3 lvl bows with some nice other stats like +resist or whatever, are damn hard to find and kinda expensive..

Yeah, I kind if figured that would happen. The single largest determining factor in Poison Arrow's damage is it's level, if you start removing multiple levels like that it's gonna hurt.

Don't worry about a resistance, I got lucky has heck yolo exalting that onto mine. +2/+1 is really what's important. And if pricing for that is too steep for ya, just get a +2. 5L Bows with +2 Bow skills cost under 1ex, and is good enough to start Maps as you save more. It's even pretty cheap and easy to craft - would nail it with a few stacks of alts (be sure bow at least ilvl 64).

Here is what I started Maps with:

i ruined it quite a bit trying to 6S lol, now i am waiting for new +2/+1 bow, however, wont invest too much - waiting for new league ;o)

Ah cmon man lol. Make that a 4L. And if you can't get an Empower, at least get a Concentrated Effect in there.