[1.2] Sidra's Guide: Acrobatics Based Physical Crit Split Arrow Ranger (Atziri Kill Video Inside)

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Asidra wrote:

Assuming all of those are options, crit chance is superior to IAS.

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feyith wrote:

You can see the one guy who posted a non-crit build thread. He's using dual 6-link mirrored gear and does like 1/3 to 1/2 of the damage as us critters with 5-link gear and doesn't have nearly as much survivability either.

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Asidra wrote:

The fact all of those crit nodes are in the tree (between gear and tree crit builds are generally around + 600% crit chance, much more if using power charges) is exactly why crit chance is the better of the 2 mods, assuming normalized quantities. Crit chance on weapon isn't an additive bonus to that - it changes the local crit value that all of the other crit chance scales off of.

So, assuming 600% chance to crit, the difference between a weapon with 7.5% and 8.5% crit chance would be 45% versus a 51% crit chance - it's substantial.

Don't get me wrong, IAS is a good mod, and will help DPS. But a good crit build needs local crit. It's the reason you see a lot of these builds with Lioneyes, a great bow, lagging behind on DPS in these crit builds. And even a lot of the builds here - my Frenzy DPS is 56K in s 5L. And my gear is pretty mediocre, yet there aren't a lot of 50k+ Frenzy's around - and it's mainly because of my bow, with a solid but certainly not earth shattering 313 dps - fortunately comes with 8.65% crit.

If you prefer math - here is how you could look at it. In the example above (and let's use a conservative crit multi of 500%) you now have a 13% (moving from 45% to 51%) chance to do 500% more damage. So 65% more damage, on average. An 15% IAS roll gives - 15% more damage.

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returnofsnow wrote:

I was wondering if this build would be viable to start in the new leagues, without having the items ready. Would it work?

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Stormnight wrote:

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returnofsnow wrote:

I was wondering if this build would be viable to start in the new leagues, without having the items ready. Would it work?

I think its not hard to make it work. There is a bow-master for us, you dont need fancy items, just a high physical bow.

And if leveling is getting hard, you can swap with spectral throw and level even faster. ;-)

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Stormnight wrote:

Hey Sidra

i made a phys/crit split arrow ranger, inspired by your build and items.

It has 4k hp 50k dps. (50% Chain-DMG loss is not calculated!!)

https://poebuilder.com/builds/stormnight-physsplitarrow

What do you think?