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

Good to know. LGoH vs. Leech?

LGOH on my Split Arrow to heal on adds when/if needed for the first 2 fights.

On Atzri - I leech with my Frenzy, although from gear not from gem. If you watch my videos, I literally hit all my flasks and facetank one of the 4x Atziris. I have found this much easier than running. And it ends those portions of the fight ridiculously faster..like in under 6 seconds. And even on the single from, look how fast my life comes back when I am attacking her. 100% necessary.

Atziri Fight Flasks:



My last fight, my only death was from getting to the 4x stage with no flask charges up. I think I will spec into Herbalism for the next fight - which should prevent that from happening.

Congrats on your drops and flawless kills, dude! :D

Edit: I think I found a solution to my ES regeneration problem...


Gonna level up as many of these as I can carry and then give it another try.

What stats should I be looking for in a bow for this build? I'm level 56 now so I can't use a harbinger yet, but it's time for me to upgrade my bow while leveling.

Here is my current bow with 205 physical DPS, I just got to Act 3 merciless and I'm starting to kill things much slower.

You want to incrementally increase crit rate and pDPS. So look for a bow with like 250 pDPS and 6% crit. Here would be an example:



Also since you are using a fast bow, until you do upgrade, keep an eye out for flat + physical damage rolls on Rings/Ammy/Quiver. As long as you have a fast bow, those scale DPS nicely.

So apparently a bow build did uber Atziri, thoughts on that?

http://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/25wftv/the_stats_you_need_to_do_uber_atziri/

Nope - not surprised at all. Really, the only difference between Atziri and Uber Atziri is that the stuff that normal Atziri hits you with doesn't quite kill you, whereas with Uber it does. You need to play perfectly whereas normal is more forgiving.

If you look at his tree, it's basically mine modified a bit for more movespeed so it's easier to run dodge everything. Kudos to him - amazing job. But I am not at all surprised, no. I would be more surprised if we made it another month or two without a bow ranger doing it.

When looking for a bow with this build, what stat is most important, high physical DPS or high crit? For instance, if there are two bows I can afford, one with 320 physical DPS and 5.5 crit chance and another with only 275 physical DPS but 7.5 crit chance, which bow would be better and give me more damage?

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Panini_aux_olives wrote:

It's a combination of crit chance, attack speed and damage. For example Lioneye's Glare has 5% crit chance but it's still a very good bow for crit build because it has high attack speed.
Basically, the 7.5% cc bow will have 36% more crit chance than the other one. if you have 42% chance to crit with 7.5% cc, you will have 30.8 with 5.5, which is about the minimum acceptable value for a crit build.

If you want to do near exact calculation, you can check this thread.

I just took a look, and the damage formula that guy used is incorrect. 2 reasons:

1) The game already takes accuracy into account when calculating tooltip DPS - so including it in the crit and not in the non crit hit will lead to inaccuracy. But if you are using manual DPS, eg. taking the flat numbers out of the tooltip and multiplying by speed, you need to multiply it all by the accuracy rate once.

2) He is multiplying the crit chance for the crit part, but not the non crit chance for the non crit portion. The correct calculation would be:

{Accuracy*[(1-crit chance)*DPS)]+[(Crit Multi/100)*DPS*Crit Rate]}

In order to get the non crit chance DPS, since you can't get 0% - you need to add up all the damages in the tooptip, divide by 2, and multiply by the attacks per second. Total PIA - glad the game does this. And fortunately, we don't actually need to do all that to answer this guy's question.

Since all modifiers would effect both bows the same, you can use Bow DPS as DPS in the above formula and ignore accuracy, and while it won't give you true tooltip DPS, it will give an accurate comparison between the bows. You just need to calculate your own crit chance with each bow by adding up all your crit chance from tree and gear, and multiplying it by the base crit chance of each weapon.