[2.2 Video Guide] Beginners Bow Build - Crit Split Arrow & Blast Rain [Atziri & HC/SC Viable]

HI,

I like yours offered build. Pretty impressive actually. Iam intrested what bow would u reccomend for highest levels. ?

Hi,

what unique bow and quiver i should use? If rare, what kind of stats are most important on bow and quiver?? Thank You.

Hi.. let's say I want change life gain on hit as 6th link of my split arrow and get a gem to increase even more my damage... what would u suggest guys? critical multiplier gem?

I'm doing this build and it's very fun and good, my worst problem is to deal with bosses since it's painful to kill hard bosses with 1 arrow + frenzy + aiming to them... however, my frenzy DPS is around 40k + criticals + assassins marks ( maps that enemys cant be cursed is a problem here ) I'm still able to kill them very fast

Thanks!

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vkikas wrote:

Hi,

what unique bow and quiver i should use? If rare, what kind of stats are most important on bow and quiver?? Thank You.

You don't need a unique bow or quiver here bro.. any bow with good physical damage and critical status.

Quiver same thing, try to get one with critical status and ( on my case ) elemental resistances + life that was what I needed on my quiver. Depends on which status you're looking for ^^

Oh well, my ranger split arrow ripped yesterday after being hit by 2 or 3 mobs that EXPLODED in front of me.

My feedback about this build:

1) Very fun to play, good clean speed and up level
2) Very expansive if you want get a good bow 6link with good physical damage and a lightning coil.
3) Build is incredible good to clean maps and incredible BAD to kill bosses. You have just frenzy skill with one single arrow to kill bosses. When you fighting HARD bosses this is really annoying and bad. I can't see ANY POSSIBILITY of this build be viable on Atiziri since you may have troubles even fighting Piety or malachai on mercilles, as I did.
4) Honestly, now that I ripped, I don't think this is a HC viable build since at level 85+ it's hard to pass the 4k hp life and any high ammount of damage that you'll encounter on high level maps will destroy you.

I thought I was safe with lightning coil to counter physical damage, but I died easily to some random fire damage mobs that exploded near me.

My personal thinks about this death is get a 5k, 5,5k or 6k+ hp character-build to play as hardcore or forget it.

As you can see, I had a VERY GOOD stuff, all resists capped, also 30% chaos resist.

Unfortunately doesn't really matters, any T10+ maps with hard mods and mobs doing high ammounts of damage will completly destroy you. 4k HP proved be nothing playing in a hardcore league.

This was my 2nd character, I still have a Witch level 92 and a Scion level 85 on Hardcore Talisma. Just giving you my real feeling about this build, of someone that invested lots of currency on it and ripped on level 85. I had fun but, avoid it if you're planning to do a rush on hardcore league. :)

Check my stuff:

cya and rip ranger =/

I'm having a similar experience. I'm just playing standard. Level 87. Progression has stalled. I was thinking I just needed better gear, but I'm thinking about ditching this character now that I see your struggle. I agree about frenzy being challenging to use against some bosses. My health is 4,100.

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JohnGodspeed wrote:

I'm having a similar experience. I'm just playing standard. Level 87. Progression has stalled. I was thinking I just needed better gear, but I'm thinking about ditching this character now that I see your struggle. I agree about frenzy being challenging to use against some bosses. My health is 4,100.

split arrow DPS with a 6link bow and 350physical+ is just awesome. You can clean any T15 map without problem. What's your bow?
If you're standard player build is perfect, clean speed and damage is awesome.

But, the main problem of this build, despites be a lot fun play with it is the low survivability ( not viable in HC, really ) and BOSSES. Any hard boss is a huge problem and you just have to skip them if u want still alive.

As I'm a HC player I just ripped in the firsts T10+ maps that i was doing since we can't deal with high ammount of damages even with lightning coil chest. 4K hp is just nothing for a HC character.

First off, I can't tell you how much I've loved this build, it's been a lot of fun!

Quick question, have you considered using Faster Projectiles over Slower Projectiles with your Frenzy attack? At level 20 they both increase damage by 29%. At 20% quality FP gives 10% attack speed vs SP giving 10% projectile damage. While I would rather have the 10% damage over attack speed, it's pretty close and the difference in projectile speed seems pretty huge. There's also the mana cost. FP is only 110% while SP is 140%.

I was just hoping to get your thoughts.
Thanks so much!

The build has been updated for Ascendancy!

The ascendancy specialisation for this class is the ranger. It makes the build MUCH tankier, and adds a ton of damage. Furthermore it allows us to generate frenzy charges without using Bloodrage or Blood Dance boots!

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lucas_zabeu wrote:

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JohnGodspeed wrote:

I'm having a similar experience. I'm just playing standard. Level 87. Progression has stalled. I was thinking I just needed better gear, but I'm thinking about ditching this character now that I see your struggle. I agree about frenzy being challenging to use against some bosses. My health is 4,100.

split arrow DPS with a 6link bow and 350physical+ is just awesome. You can clean any T15 map without problem. What's your bow?
If you're standard player build is perfect, clean speed and damage is awesome.

But, the main problem of this build, despites be a lot fun play with it is the low survivability ( not viable in HC, really ) and BOSSES. Any hard boss is a huge problem and you just have to skip them if u want still alive.

As I'm a HC player I just ripped in the firsts T10+ maps that i was doing since we can't deal with high ammount of damages even with lightning coil chest. 4K hp is just nothing for a HC character.

I agree that 4k is nothing for tier 10+ maps. That said you should easily be able to reach 5k health on this character. In your case it would be a matter of simply getting higher life rolls on your gear and make sure to pick up all the life nodes :)

That said - the updated guide should allow for 6k health (with good gear) and it has much better mitigation due to the Raider ascendancy class. In the video I am running around with 4.6k health with mediocre gear and still being able to pick up 22% life :)