[2.0] Raquinvil's Blood Magic Explosive Arrow Marauder

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zyzzarzaz2 wrote:

Regarding items:

Drillneck is useless for the build, because Explosive Arrows that pierce enemies do not leave a fuse on them. Hence pierce should be completely avoided.

Devoto's Devotion is a very good option for the build.

The only downside it has (10% reduced physical damage) is irrelevant.

For boots, two good options are
- Blood Dance

(Frenzy charges on killing mobs meaning you can drop blood rage, and 1% life regen + movement speed per charge. Also, some dex. The downside is they have no life.)

- http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Brinerot_Whalers
(projectile damage is nice as it applies to EA, but the best is immunity to shocking ground - these boots could be kept in inventory as a switch for maps).

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zyzzarzaz2 wrote:

Regarding skills:


Fire penetration is better than Slower Projectiles even in AoE setup because of better effect on mobs with high fire resist.
E.g.: if a mob has 50% resist, you will be doing 50% of your damage.
- Lv.20 Slower Projectiles will increase it to 65% total (50% + 0.3 * 50%) - that's 30% more
- Lv.20 Fire penetration will increase it to 87% total (resist is 50-37=13) - that's 74% more
Fire penetration becomes worse only on mobs with negative resists, but is better by a huge margin on resistant mobs.

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zyzzarzaz2 wrote:

Less duration is also a good support.
With Quill Rain, you will have somewhere around 3.5-4 APS, and will apply five stacks in about 1.5 seconds. Then you'll have to wait 1 second for detonation. This is 2.5 seconds total to apply your damage.
Lv.20 Less duration cuts the waiting time by ~50% (~55% with quality), so you'll apply the damage in 1.5+0.5=2 seconds.
The less shots you fire, the more effective the gem is (because waiting for explosion becomes a bigger part of the damage application cycle).

You can use Frost Wall + AoE setup instead of single-target setup.
Mechanically, Frost Wall allows you to stack your arrows on it, just like a mob. Cast it near your target and try to stack arrows so that multiple explosions overlap.

Consider using Blink Arrow as a movement skill. With Quill Rain it is almost instant.

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Vulgar_Display_Of_Power wrote:

Does aded fire dmg from rings and ammys work on EA?

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Vadler wrote:

Fire Penetration is actually better than Slower Projectiles in any case because penetration does not work like reduced resistances in this game.
Even mobs which have overcapped resistances, like 150% for example, have an effective fire res of 75% (just like players). If you have 30% fire penetration, you don't care for the overcapped resistance and chunk right through the effective fire resistance of the mob and he will be considered to have 45% fire resistance in this case.
Considering this more than doubles your damage on a mob with 75% fire resistance, it is without a doubt the best support you can get to increase your fire damage on any skill, especially EA.

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danteafk wrote:

best way to level up?