Speedy Puncture + Pierce Split Arrow / Reflect Safe or Glass Cannon / Level 100 & Uber Atziri Farmer

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1. It depends on what you want to do. If you want to be pierce, yes. Otherwise, no.

2. No, it's technically 7.5% projectile damage per point. You'd be better off taking 2 10% physical damage nodes in the shadow, but the build is already point tight getting all the good damage nodes there isn't room to pick up weaker ones

3. If you're killing single targets really quickly with puncture and are using puncture in combination with split (which should have pcoc on it) then you shouldn't have too much trouble keeping up charges. It's a quality of life extreme to have pcoc on puncture.

4. Blood rage is a yolo choice, as you will drain quickly not having much normal regen. Having 3 frenzy charges up is just 15% attack speed, so frenzy charges aren't needed at all by any means. If you were to use blood rage, use it for the leech, not the charges.

I will also note when I was leveling in Ambush from level 98-100, I used Kaom's Heart, 6L split in my bow, and a 4L puncture. I also had Acuity. It is an insane setup and it's really really difficult to die. Even though Kaom's is slightly weaker than it was before, it's still powerful.

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Ark20 wrote:

I need advice for Drillneck. I'm currenctly using this:

To be able to use a Drillneck I'd have to replace my gloves and get similar ones with 2% mana leech, which will cost me a good exalt or two unless I find a brodeal. My jewellery would be too hard to replace and even more expensive. Do you think the Drillneck would be worth this investment?

Edit: Just in case, yes, I'm using pierce SA and currently levelling another pierce (for puncture).

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candypants wrote:

Absolutely loving leveling this char, definitely the sort of play style I was after.
However is there any chance you could update the leveling passive trees or make a list of node cluster/keystone priority?

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Precaso wrote:

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candypants wrote:

Absolutely loving leveling this char, definitely the sort of play style I was after.
However is there any chance you could update the leveling passive trees or make a list of node cluster/keystone priority?

The passive tree can almost be seen as a straight path. You start in the ranger, swoop below it and pick up everything as you go, loop up the right edge of the tree, and swing into the shadow. I'll go into more detail with leveling trees soon.





As a side note, I finished crafting a ring on standard

I've been pretty interested in trying to magic-find with this character, so this is a pretty nice hybrid ring. I don't think it's viable to stack insane IIR/IIQ values with this build, but it should be really effective to keep clear speed high and run high quantity maps with around 200 IIR (and about 50 IIQ if you play in Standard or Hardcore)