[2.1] Blast Avatar, Crit Pure Fire Blast Rain, 22K x4hits, 5KHP Acrobatics

Test Run - The Dried Lake
Test Run - lv77 Merveil kill

1. Convert 50% physical damage to fire damage by Avatar of Fire. With another 50% damage conversion from the skill itself, Blast Rain now do pure fire damage.

About Damage conversion see here

2. Use Lioneye's Fall to transform melee skill node to bow's.


3. Defence:
Life regen version: Stack life/regeneration for survivability.
Keystone Unwavering Stance and Iron Reflexes are options.

Acrobatics version: Get around 4% life regen to cover blood rage, then more life after that.

Get as much Dodge chance as you can from gear and buff.

4. Leech life and mana from attack damage (new skill cluster at Duelist section).


5. 'Pyre' is an option, you can play this build without it, but it's strongly recommended

It converts all cold damage to fire damage which makes 'Hatred' more effective. It also increase burning damage.
And the last affix works just like 'Shatter'. It grants the ability that destroy ignited enemies, thus prevents some on-death effects by monsters that could cause further damage.
About 'Freeze and Shatter' see here.

Pros:
-Rapid clear speed with 'Increased Area of Effect', great DPS with 'Concentrated Effect' for boss fight.
-Decent survivability with Acrobatics
Great chance to dodge attacks and 46% chance to dodge spell.
With Vaal grace, 10sec 70+ dual dodge!!


-If go Life regen Version: Fair life regeneration rate. 7.6% at lv85 now.
-Remote elemental AOE attack, slight delay, solid hits, clear packs at safe distance. I like it. xD

Cons:
-We don't have VP, no instant leech, so Elemental damage Reflection could be serious danger even we have 80% fire resistance with purity of fire.
-Poor Jewel sockets in skill tree.
-Lack of DEX and INT. Either Harbinger Bow or Assassin Bow requires 212 dex to equip with. Need find some on gears or use Fluid Motion to convert some strength to dex.

Jewels:



lv50 63points

Bandits:
Normal help Oak/ Cruel kill all/ Merciless kill all.
You can start with Tempar /scion /Duelist.take life,life regen, crit.

Before you get a nice bow like mine(xD 100% self loot and crafted. just can't get it 6L yet.) There are options that offers fair DPS. For example:

Tool tip DPS when you use 'Chin Sol' may seems a bit low, but if you fire Blast Rain around your character you'll find it does a great job. (take down Voll merciless Dried lake in 6 seconds, I guess it's not that bad.)

This is the 6L before I get a 6L bow.

Kaom's Heart is the goal once I have a 6L bow.
Fire damage and 500 life! love it.
(Actually I'm using my 5L bow and Kaom's Heart. 5k life, no problem with DPS for now)

If you want to focus on AOE coverage and dps Carcass Jack might be an option for you.

5L/6L Blast Rain
General set balanced for both clear speed and boss fight:

Gem order by priority, about Penetration see here
If 5L, switch between 'Increased Area of Effect' and 'Concentrated Effect' for clear speed or higher DPS for boss fight.

If you want more dps with 6L, PPAD is an option, though you need to consider socket colour changing.

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4L #1 CWDT set.

This set separate you and melee attackers also block projectiles from ranged monsters after you take damage and trigger 'Frost Wall'.
'Immortal Call' gives over 0.6s physical invulnerability with 'Increased Duration', it'll last longer if we have 'Endurance Charge'(which we get often from critical strike. xD), it's a very effective defense method.
When it comes to party, 'Frost Wall' is annoying. Here's some option:

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4L #2 Aura / Buff / Movement

Extra cold damage from 'Hatred' will be converted to fire damage by 'Pyre'.
Besides extra fire damage, HoA ignites 130%+ overkill dmg to nearby enemies, you'll find out monsters out of BR AoE could just burned down by HoA.

On-demand option

Try get a RBGW 4L for this set, easy swap purity of elements(fire/ice/lightning) means better adaptability.
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4L #3 Vaal Grace / Vaal Haste / Blood Rage.

This build has enough life regen to cover the 4% degeneration of 'Blood Rage'.
Though we don't do physical damage, therefore no extra leech for us, it's still a strong buff with increased attack speed and chance to gain 'Frenzy Charge'. It refresh its duration while we clear mobs, so usually we just cast 'Blood Rage' at the beginning.
Both Vaal Grace and Vaal Haste take advantage of increased duration support. They offer Great Dodge chance and boost DPS / movement speed to a higher level for 10 seconds.
Vaal Grace
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