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

My first time playing HC and I just ripped in Tidal Island on Merc using pretty crap gear. The Evasion + ondars guile makes you incredibly durable.

This build is super solid and even pretty affordable. Thanks a lot for sharing it

Hey Asidra, really liking your Poison Arrow build, I am currently toying around with my own version of this on the Rampage league and am liking the direction you've taken.

One thing I would say from my experience is that Trap + Poison arrow is amazing as it adds another more multiplier on top of conc effect. I'm using Poison Arrow Traps with the Sunblast belt and it is quite amazing.

I tried Trapping Poison Arrow for a little bit. For me, the extra damage wasn't worth the clunkyness and inablity to place my cloud exactly where I want it. I find shooting the arrow much smoother gameplay.

But if you are enjoying Trapping it, cool man. You may want to tinker with the build though in case there are Trap damage nodes that are more efficient than the damage nodes I've taken.

I had that experience as well, but I got used to sort of leading packs to the traps, I find all that extra damage is really worth it and with the Sunblast belt your traps will detonate themselves (instead of just expiring) after a bit. So all and all, I find it to be similar to the standard poison arrow gameplay (for me anyway).



I hadn't thought about the EB/MoM synergy with arctic armor, it's a really solid idea. I am using your build as a foundation to help me wrap my mind around the PA stuff. It's a lot different than running your conventional DPS builds.

As a side note, with all the DoT buffs we grab, I also run searing bond. Searing bond with Arctic Armor up, leading guys through the clouds of death is satisfying. I'm only level 44 at the moment, so we'll see how things shake out once all the skills are in place.

Anyway, GL out there and thanks for the comprehensive build guide.

Just curious why the 30% pierce node was left out of this build considering the quiver?

Because I am already at 95% chance to Pierce, so that 30% would only give me 5% more damage.

Big kudos to you Asidra for this great build. Looks like a good balance of DPS, survivability, affordability, and most important of all it looks fun! Lay down your fart clouds and let the enemies bask in them while you run around staying alive.

I plan to run this build for my next character, and I'm going to use some currency for a few Q20 gems. If you were to prioritize say ..... 4 Q20 gems to start this build, what would you recommend? Thanks!

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Clone05 wrote:

Big kudos to you Asidra for this great build. Looks like a good balance of DPS, survivability, affordability, and most important of all it looks fun! Lay down your fart clouds and let the enemies bask in them while you run around staying alive.

I plan to run this build for my next character, and I'm going to use some currency for a few Q20 gems. If you were to prioritize say ..... 4 Q20 gems to start this build, what would you recommend? Thanks!

Thanks Man

Poison Arrow
Arctic Armour
Raise Zombie
Slower Projectiles or Pierce if you are going to use Drillneck

Alright, I got to 81, got a +2/+1 4L bow.

My gear atm



I dropped Atziri's amulet for some rarity - still can sustain AA.

Tooltip dps is 3.4k, should be a good bit more not showing. However when I run 68-70 maps with other people I feel like my dps is lacking compared to almost any other player. They all obliterate mobs in 2 secs while my poison arrow takes much more time to kill even white mobs. I don't have drillneck yet, will this make any noticeable difference or does this build has overall weaker dps potential than the most popular tornado shots and whatnots? I still like the relaxed playstyle this build brings, but I can't see much space for improvement here. I've done some 72 maps, in most I was fine - in Jungle Vallet died about 5 times in boss fight cause the dps was just not enough to keep them from swarming me.

My damage was never really lacking, although I don't remember tooltips at specific stages. I think the first step would be to 5L your bow and get another damage support in. After that, you will have a few large DPS increases as your Empower levels, and your poison arrow gains it's final 2 levels. Each poison arrow level brings about a large dps boost.

Drillneck does make a big difference. 95% projectile damage is the equivalent of like 8-10 dps nodes on the tree. But I don't remember feeling weak without it.

Someone else was having problems with jungle valley - that's a hard boss. I put a video up of me doing it it's on page 27, second post from the top.