Mathil's Voltaxic Crit LA/Blast Rain - Cruise control the entire game. Uber Atziri Viable 2.2 ready

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NewbieDOTcom wrote:

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Splift wrote:

Thing is you aren't just losing 1 chain, but also a 4 point ascendant bonus you could have used for something else.

If you add up 1 chain vs 2 chain with less multiplier the total damage may be similar but really you are trading the gem slot for the 4 point asendancy. going assassin you would end up with more crit and damage that would also fully apply to blast rain as well ( chain does not do shit for blast rain).

I think mathils comments hit the spot. Assassin if you can stand the micro of keeping charges up or asszerker if you are lazy.

I guess I am new at this patch. How are you getting a choice of asszerker or assassin - they are not even in the ranger subclass option (deadeye, ranger,pathfinder). If you mean go scion I fully understand yet some of us are using a ranger. What did I miss. Is there a way to be a ranger and start at a different tree converting the character to a scion without starting a whole new chr?

ah I see, you are talking about options for respeccing standard rangers.

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Splift wrote:

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NewbieDOTcom wrote:

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Splift wrote:

Thing is you aren't just losing 1 chain, but also a 4 point ascendant bonus you could have used for something else.

If you add up 1 chain vs 2 chain with less multiplier the total damage may be similar but really you are trading the gem slot for the 4 point asendancy. going assassin you would end up with more crit and damage that would also fully apply to blast rain as well ( chain does not do shit for blast rain).

I think mathils comments hit the spot. Assassin if you can stand the micro of keeping charges up or asszerker if you are lazy.

I guess I am new at this patch. How are you getting a choice of asszerker or assassin - they are not even in the ranger subclass option (deadeye, ranger,pathfinder). If you mean go scion I fully understand yet some of us are using a ranger. What did I miss. Is there a way to be a ranger and start at a different tree converting the character to a scion without starting a whole new chr?

ah I see, you are talking about options for respeccing standard rangers.

HaHa well yes I was some may not have been. If I were to remake I would probably go scion like you have mentioned.

On a side note: Charges up (5 frenzy/3 power charges) and no flask damage added at all:

LA = 90.680k base with auras and ice golem & 77.2% crit chance. With 5 frenzy charges & 3 power charges = 145k with 21/20 crit chance gem instead of chain and 89.2% Crit chance.

BR = 71.264K base with auras and ice golem up & 76.08 crit chance. With 5 frenzy charges & 3 power charges & crit chance gem instead of poison gem = 116.4k with 20/20 crit chance gem instead of poison & 87.93% crit chance.

This is all with just power charges. This does not include flasks and vaal haste, etc.

Not bad numbers and I really do not see any downside to the removal of the chain gem and the ricochet nodes (4 spec'd). I have not done merciless yet and have no idea where I will put the last two. Farshot seems sorta useless since everything is dead so fast anyway. Its all just paper dps though and I will be testing poison gem vs crit chance gem for a few weeks on standard to really give both a chance to see what seems to work better on end game map bosses.

Honestly, I feel what one can do is drop maligaro's and replace them with snakebites (aka free poison at full frenzy). With avatar of the slaughter, you get +72% increased duration, and will lose 80% at 8 charges from avatar of the slaughter...though it also would mean that you'd have to nix darkrays since the frenzy reduction at -140% would be unbearable.

But if you have no intention of using darkrays, for losing a little bit of crit/crit multi, getting a free link to both LA and blast rain seems worth it.

It's the gloves ad1ce used on his way to 100 with voltaxic in THC.

Hello, i was wondering if someone could give me some insight on what to roll on my standard ranger. Been playing Neversink's build for a while now using BR+LA with full ele conversion. Would a Voltaxic build perform better or is phys the way to go? Thanks.

Why is it easier to level as ranger?

Is there a tree available for this without Voltaxic :)?

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ressiv wrote:

Is there a tree available for this without Voltaxic :)?

Iv basically copied the skill tree except for the chaos dmg nodes. Im lvl 76 hofully getting a voltaxic after iv done work depending on the prices.

For lvling i just did split arrow till i got rain of arrows then went full blast rain and im still blast rain on a 5l belly

Tree wise i rushed to king of the hill then the life leech nodes near duelist then just filled crit out first but thats me. Cruel was cake walk after i had everything set up

Hey, just switching up to this buid. Can anyone tell me what gems should I use on a 5L setup? Both for chest and Volt, using LA and BR. One more thing: does my LA need to be on the bow? Is there any reason behind it?

Appreciate the answers! Thanks!

Edit: Something I also would like to know: I always thought IC setup and Acrobatics + Phase Acrobatics were absolutely necessary for Bow Rangers. How does this build make up for the lack of both? How does it hurt its survivability?

If you aren't going Voltaxic then I would advise you to look at Neversink's guide.

This has probably been said already but can you please please update your tree to 2.2? I'm trying this build in Perandus atm and having your tree would be really really helpful:)

Ty