[2.0.1][Tempest] Begsplosive's BM Solo-MF EA Duelist of Frugality [Cheap and Beginner-Friendly]

Added small bandit blurb to skill tree section, and yes that's correct ceral!

Why not go for amplify? Never did EA, but shouldn't it be worth it?

It helps, but it takes two points from my build to get it. Those two points are better spent IMO on accessing any jewel. Instead of 16% radius and 8% area damage you can easily get Jewels that have some combination of fire, projectile, area damage or attack speed. (For example, I am running a 16/12/10 tri damage jewel). The radius and AoE of the skill, especially with GMP and/or Increased AoE, is usually more than sufficient that you don't need to get specifically AoE nodes.

Makes sense. :) What about Ele Equilibrium? If I'm doing this in SC and can afford to lose some def points, think it's worth going for it for the extra clear speed? Proc EE with rain of arrows...

Sure, that makes sense. I also wonder if you had a ring or gloves that added lightning or some other kind of elemental damage to your attacks, if that would work for EE since the elemental damage from that hit should technically apply before the fuses explode and deal fire. Not entirely sure if this is optimal or efficient, it would allow you to save some gem slots.

Boo this man. He wouldn't even offscreen village ruin in a 72 zana map and he's outchea talking like his build is good? Ok bro's, this man is untrustworthy and i have it on good intel that he has a chairman mao poster in his bedroom.

Considering adding a maps section and maybe talking about some of the bosses, but if you're running thin with maps in the mid to high 70s, consider buying and running some Olmec's Sanctums instead of the maps directly. Sanctums are currently available for 5-6 chaos, and are incredibly easy to run with this build - you can literally kill every single boss in the map by running in circles and shooting when you have a free moment to do so. The final totem drops ilvl79, so you can get some real goodies including some valuable maps off him.

Great job with this build man!
I see you have AA and Grace in your gear, are you using them?
I hope you'll keep working on this build, cuz i'm enjoying it really much

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ceralguy wrote:

Great job with this build man!
I see you have AA and Grace in your gear, are you using them?
I hope you'll keep working on this build, cuz i'm enjoying it really much

Thanks ceral! I kept them in to level with me incase I needed them, but I haven't really had to use them at all. I think if you want to be super efficient or super safe for certain bosses and maps, they can be utilized, but I'd prefer to keep the life pool relatively untouched.

I'm running this build as my first character on an HC league ever, currently level 75 breezing through maps. (He wasn't kidding about single target being bad though).

I ended up tweaking my tree a bit, I spec'ed out of the BM keystone which free'd up 5 passive points, in exchange I lost about 500-1k hp, however I'm able to run Grace and Purity of Fire on Mana (While using a BM Gem on Explosive Arrow).

So 500-1k hp, for + max fire res (I'm at 79 fire res), 2k+ armor, and 5 passive points to spend elsewhere. I think it's a nice trade off, if you think want to go IIR you can swap out Slower Projectiles for the IIR gem, you'll have less damage than this current build, but you're less vulnerable to Reflect, and a couple other small things. It's all preference though.

Edit: In the long run, I'd like to get a 6l +3 bow, and change my armor into a Kaom's or Belly. Easily get over 7-8k hp.