[2.0] YeahPete's Hardcore Elemental Molten Striker | custom Loot Filter | Affordable

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It is a bit hard to overcap resistances with Atziri's Step but two of my Jewels have various resistances on it to make it easier.

Don't really have to overcap resists. Thats what flasks are for.

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I'm not sure how to increase damage further besides getting quality on a few of my gems

Doryani's catalyst was by far the biggest damage boost for me. Crit and crit multiplier are huge as well. Attack speed is huge as well because of the massive "more" multiplier of multistrike

With this items (84lvl after elemental respec) my dps is around 30k. I don't know how did you get 50-80k.

Should i change my claw?

EDIT: i forgot about lvl on wrath and herald...

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With this items (84lvl after elemental respec) my dps is around 30k. I don't know how did you get 50-80k.

My Tooltip DPS w/ HoT, Wrath, Anger, Ice golem is 40,438. I've seen my tooltip reach 57k w/ onslaught, 3 Frenzy Charges + Molten Shell. Now lets not forget Tooltip damage is just the melee portion of the attack.

SO you got: Tooltip: 40k
Each ball does 60% of tooltip.
Then balls do extra 50% DMG because of Point Blank.
Average times an enemy gets hit by balls: 1.3 times per hit

So to calculate single target dmg:
40,000 + (40,000 * .9 * 1.3) = 86,800 single target dmg per second

Thanks for answer. I have 32k w/ blood rage, 3 frenzy, golem, chaos flask and 3 offensive auras.

I have one more question. What gem/skill is givin' you onslaught buff? I don't see Innervate in your setup.

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What gem/skill is givin' you onslaught buff?

There is a Keystone in the passive tree in that little wheel North of Point Blank. I am using this wheel as opposed to the dual curse node right now. This node clears lower level maps much faster but in higher maps & Atziri, the dual curses are the way to go for more crit chance for flask recovery. So... once I find all the flasks I need I will switch back to the dual curses.

After some more playing I think that dual curse + the Sovereignty cluster aren't worth it in terms of passive points spent. Sovereignty allows us to basically run Anger instead of a herald which is powerful, but it takes five semi-useless points just to get there. Then it takes another five semi-useless points to get to double curse. With those points I instead took Retribution and all the elemental/melee damage nodes at the Templar start, then went down to Heart of the Warrior via Born to Fight for a healthy life increase. I now have 6.4k life (with Belly) at level 87 and three more life nodes to take if necessary, and am running Wrath + Herald of Ice + Herald of Thunder + Arctic Armour. What do you guys think?

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What do you guys think?

I think it all comes down to preference. I really don't mind spending those points for a few reasons. We get the much needed intel. We get that slight dmg buff, the assassing mark is very beneficial for the crit route as far as crit multiplier. An offensive curse is like an additional 25% dmg atop of the dmg we are currently doing.


I haven't been playing at all :(. When I do play I really dislike the grind in standard as well :( Everyone I knows plays in Tempest. Next time I play I will be starting a new char in tempest. When I find the flasks / jewels I need for my char in standard I will swap them over.

After buying a very fast claw with not-so-high elemental damage for 30 Chaos



I later bought another claw which I thought would be perfect for this build for 3 Exalted, with high elemental damage and not so bad attack speed.



While it added about 1.5k DPS (after mastercrafting perfect elemental scaling...less DPS than I thought) I'm actually starting to feel the loss in life gain (both from the implicit and from less attack speed) and almost died to it a couple of times. With four hits per attack and four claw attacks per second it seems that the amount of life gained per hit is even more important than I thought. And the flat increase from Heralds and Wrath favours attack speed heavily. You all already know that, but just for the record: attack speed and life gained on hit are very important attributes for this build.

This is indeed a tanky build, ranged mobs (especially chaos damage ones) are a bit of a problem but often I can whirl into a pack of level 76 or level 77 mobs and Molten Strike away. Activating both Vaal Haste and Vaal Grace before a boss fight makes it safe and fast. Thanks for the build. I'm only now starting to be curious whether using Reave instead wouldn't work even better since I wouldn't be able to actually use the Doryani's as a weapon then.

Finally, wouldn't Static Electricty be a great jewel to use in this build? Unless I misread it completely, it would give me 1-62 Lightning damage per attack in the jewel slot above Herbalism (which I already take) or in the jewel slot above the Ranger start (which I take as well), or 1-52 in the slot west of the ranger start (ditto). That's about as good as a level 15 Herald of Thunder for only two passive points per slot. And it's cheap.

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I'm only now starting to be curious whether using Reave instead wouldn't work even better since I wouldn't be able to actually use the Doryani's as a weapon then.

Wouldn't hurt to test it.

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Finally, wouldn't Static Electricty be a great jewel to use in this build?

Yes it is one of the jewels I am using along w/ mantra of flame. It does add much DPS. Over 3k for me. I really would prefer a double attack speed and life jewel though just for the greater life on hit scaling and hp pool,. but if you can't afford those, yes you could add those two gems.

I'm glad you are enjoying the build. I will keep insisting you get crit though :).


I played a few days ago and transmuted a surgeons topaz flask of grounding :). Garbage disposal broke and a bunch of other stuff so I haven't played since then. I'm really itching to get some time to make some vids. Prolly won't be until 1st weekend of October. Just a ton of work right now working a lot of overtime. I'll still be checking here to answer questions but I can't get any game-time right now.

Hi there :) I play your build, because I liked the idea of playing a tanky melee Ranger.
Now I'm around LV 82 and have some problems. Until here everything worked quite fine, but now I miss the "tankiness" and some damage.
My tooltip says around 22500 DMG for Molten Strike with Wrath, Anger and Arctic Armour on. Defence tooltip says 820 Armour and 4k Evasion Rating. Resistance is all 75%.
If I use Blood Rage, it will nearly kill me, so I sorted this gem out.

Is there anything wrong with my tree, gem setup or Equipment? Maybe you as the profi of the build see a big mistake I eventually made.

My tree (began to respec):
https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwIAAF4B3AguC2ENjQ-rFHUVIBa_Fy8ZihmOGbQaOCP2JIsmlScvLOktgzBxMHwyCTKJNZI31DpCOtg8LUd-Sn1KyEt4TZJRR1VLVdZX4lnzW69h4mTnZU1mVGaeZ6Bo8mxGbqpvO3IPcmx343fleA19dYCkgpuDX4PMhNmGs4d2jDaNfY2_kFWUb5cGm42iAKOKpMKpbq9sr-u18rc-u-O9Nr6nwBrDOsSixq7TftQj2L3dDd2o4XPjn-UZ7SDtP-2D7g7vevAf9qP60v4K_o_-ug==?accountName=Shatiya&characterName=ShatielII

My Equipment:


Thanks for any help!^^