Low-Life Bow Witch - Ele Crit + Skeletons - 40K LA

Critical strike bow witch with low-life, based on elemental damage and summon skeletons


This build is for those with high level witches that want to play a witch-based bow build and destroy everything.


BUILD IN PROGRESS. Testing out.
- Testing many things including Lightning Arrow vs. Split Arrow
- Single
- My witch is only level 77 atm, and I still need to upgrade some gear pieces and redo some links for skeletons and auras.

Inspiration for this build came from:
Bed: "Witch Shotgun Bitch" elemental crit (http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/528927)
Dsfarblarwaggle: Ranger Low-Life high aura Windripper (http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/912390)


Why Witch?
- Looks cute
- Mana regen, and can easily use heavy mana skills like Summon Skeletons in 4L and Elemental Hit
- Close to high spell damage nodes for CoE
- Close to strong elemental nodes such as Lightning Weaver, Heart of Ice, Blaze, Shock, Freeze
- Possibility to go dual perma curse with Hex Master and Whispers of Doom


Key Skills:
- Split arrow for AOE and PCOC
- Summon Skeletons: shield + distraction
- Frenzy: single target and frenzy charges
- Elemental Hit: high single target damage


Passive Tree at level 77:


Planned Passive Tree at level 90 (crit multiplier, Freeze, Shock & Blaze & bow crit chance)


Key Nodes:
- Flask Effect Nodes
- Witch spell damage nodes
- Critical Strike


Gear:



Reflect:
- High resistances help against elemental reflect, but I have stacked crit multiplier very high
- Can do elemental packs, but CANNOT do elemental reflect maps unless you have Atziri's gloves
- I decided not to go Vaal Pact - stretches the passive points way too much and you can do fine with leech + playing at range + summon skeletons for distraction
- For elemental reflect pack - pop a resistance flask for +max resistance - you 1 shot them anyway


Notes:
- Feels safer than spectral throw - can offscreen easily and do not have to get close
- Use summon skeletons as a shield, this serves as great distraction and meat-shield and I can avoid A LOT of damage and just DPS from range safely
- I love the flask buff nodes on the Witch
- Use Divination Distillate for defense for max resistances and spam a heavy mana skill like elemental hit to keep it in action. Flask recovery is 30% increased so you can use Div Distillate very frequently. Also works well with magic find with Windripper
- Originally was using Split Arrow, but now I am running with single LA - it gives enough AOE and with Projectile Weakness curse you get even greater AOE capabilities. LA quality also gives greater shock duration. Still looking into LA mechanics, may incorporate Frost Wall