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

I been developing a Poison Arrow tool tip calculator which takes your stats and show a simulated tool tip display you see in game. This makes it user friendly so it requires little explaining of what to do. So far most if not all of the errors has been fixed thanks to the Reddit community who did extensive testing. If OP enjoy this tool, I suggest to add it to your guide to help newbies and experienced players alike. Many thanks.



https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AHvJd65_7AnEiLHJ_BAGprOquq4H7aCrOQoC5oaQnLI/edit?usp=sharing

Hmmm - it seems like a lot of work considering it takes me like 15 seconds with a calculator (I show how to calculate the real damage in my thread). Although assuming the calculator is accurate which I have not verified, it can show future DPS across different gem levels, qualities etc. which could be useful for planning.

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Hmmm - it seems like a lot of work considering it takes me like 15 seconds with a calculator (I show how to calculate the real damage in my thread). Although assuming the calculator is accurate which I have not verified, it can show future DPS across different gem levels, qualities etc. which could be useful for planning.

I think it pretty good for people who don't like math and prefer a tool to do the work. Although it is for sure faster to do it by old time digital calculator. I'll just leave it to the choice of people to decide how they will calculate their PA damage.

I was wondering if you put MF on your gear if that works with poison cloud of does it only apply on the hit?

MF gear does work on cloud kills. At some point in the past it didn't but they viewed it as a bug and fixed it a while ago.

whats your thoughts on the 2.0 changes regarding this build? Will you use chaos golem and skip EB?

I am not sure yet to be honest...I just got a beta invite but with so little time left I am probably just going to wait until release to play. A Chaos golem is certainly a possibility, as is the Flame Golem. The EB change will require some play testing, definite nerf but could still be a good defensive mechanism - the issue will be less mana thus mana regen which could trigger other issues given the high mana cost of this build's skills. On the other hand, given the build already sort of having a minion investment, as well as basically an "open" body 5 or 6L slot, the concept of the golems in general will probably help this build more than most.

So many changes I am actually looking forward to re-imagining the build.

For what its worth. I had a scion to respec recently and in looking for something new and different I came across an mf poison arrow build. Enjoyed the build so much I decided to do one using the ranger without the emphasis on mf. Over the last couple of weeks I made it L 81. I will say the ranger benefited from "hand-me-downs" from the scion and I share the bow between the two. Knowing that EB and the CWDT set-up were in for some changes I purposely left them out of the build. I do not run MOM either. I try to find gear with mama on it already or craft-able on. I also got as much mana regen as I could find on jewelry. I also went for movement speed on gear and the tree. It took till the mid 70's but I can now run clarity, grace and L 11 arctic armor (mostly for the 7% increased movement speed) with enough mana left over to shoot as much as I need. Just to test out the build I ran a ledge map at level 56 with no problems. I've ripped 4 times in 81 levels. Twice to multiple simultaneous hits from flicker strike monsters and twice because I wasn't paying attention (IE preventable). Haven't run torture chamber, necropolis or palace map yet but have beaten all other bosses. Got Ohlem's in a Zana last night and completed that map clean. Haven't tried Atziri yet but intend to when all gems are leveled. I have followed the tree in this thread, for the most part, with the exception of the differences I already talked about. Bottom line: this build is viable without MOM, CWDT and EB and should be doable in 2.0.

I recently started looking at PA. Asidra help me out here: in Section IV of your FAQ you say your tooltip DPS was 11,339.8. Then you added in the base chaos damage per second from the cloud and did the modifiers to find your actual DPS including the cloud.

So just to confirm the 11,339.8 is just the PA DPS for the actual HITS and excludes the cloud damage? And if so, why are you including the conc. effect's 70% more multiplier on this damage instead of only on the cloud damage. The 70% is for area damage so should not apply to the hit DPS (11,339.8), or am I missing something?