[2.2] Phys Crit Iron Commander Siege Ballista || Atziri Down || Budget

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SirAnoobis wrote:

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Point Blank + Far Shot (Ascendancy)
You may have noticed Point Blank was taken in the passive tree. This is because when you pair it with Far Shot, from Deadeye, much of the negative is actually neglected. This means instead of -50% damage at max range we are only -20%. So as the projectile travels half its distance it will go from 150% to 115% and dropping to 100% at around 70% of its travel. But don't stress about this. Siege Ballista has a stupid long travel time, 3 screens or more, so the damage drop off is completely irrelevant. This is a monster boost for us.

Point Blank range is based off of a fixed distance (http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Point_Blank), you say that "Siege Ballista has a stupid long travel time, 3 screens or more, so the damage drop off is completely irrelevant.", to my understanding you mean "SB has such a long range that the penalty will come very far away so it will be irrelevant" right? But that would be incorrect since Point Blank is based on a fixed distance, not on a % of the total projectile distance, thus making Point Blank + Far Shot far less powerful than what you say it would be for this build? Especially since we rely on the knock-back on critical hit.

I think it would still be worth to go for one of the two, maybe Far Shot + knock-back since you want to keep enemies away from you but from ballistas too? Point Blank and maybe no knock-back on critical might still be nice too, but will force you to spawn ballistas on enemies' face thus setting them up for fast death.

I really like the build anyways, and apart from this thing (which may also be me interpreting your words wrongly actually?) the rest of the theory is very well thought and I enjoy understanding the how and why of the strategies and eventually making my own build instead of just copy-pasting the skill tree.

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BeRse wrote:

@Kartikdon

what do you think about placing Lioneye's Fall in the jewel slot in the Duelist area?
nodes like Wreaking Ball or Executioner should give a huge dps boost

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Kartikdon wrote:

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BeRse wrote:

@Kartikdon

what do you think about placing Lioneye's Fall in the jewel slot in the Duelist area?
nodes like Wreaking Ball or Executioner should give a huge dps boost

if you were going non-crit it would be something to look at for sure. But it is a very heavy point investment to get those noteables, one that we can't do with crit. You could drop totemic mastery and get this going a little bit but I find that to good of a QoL cluster to pass on.

with the right gearing combo we ca drop dex points to work towards this. I think if you were fine with 800 dex (5 totems) you could definitely make wrecking ball work. But if you wanted more totems then this then I would not chase after Lioneye's. I personally would keep going for more totems.