R.I.P. [2.6] Explosive Arrow - Elementalist Build Guide (multi class + version, in depth theory)

Hello,

I've been thinking of starting with EA next league. How would you build if you wanted to focus on killing tough bosses, primarily uber Atziri and T16+?

I know most builds can kill them, but if you were to really optimize for it? (I'm hoping you don't say patfinder :p)

Thank you.

You don't have to do Pathfinder. Although it is good others are good too. Elementalist might be the easiest one to start a league with in my opinion. Are you going SC or HC? This is actually quite important to know. The Champion is for HC and Berserker is interesting in SC as well.

Now about endgame content. EA relies on burn. Some of the endgame bosses are immune to ignite. Now EA can do any content but these encounters are not going to be easy if you cant ignite the enemy!



For example Argus took me 3 minutes to kill when I first started farming the uber lab. Now I kill him in 2-3 shots. Even at the start the fight was doable (not hard) but it took a bit longer to do it.

This new amulet Xoph'ethula's Heart looks quite interesting with an additional 10% Fire pen.

Yes but Ngamahu tiki is still better for EA.

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Greengroove wrote:

Yes but Ngamahu tiki is still better for EA.

I'd assume and so is Quill of Rain compared to that new bow with free proliferation

Yes, In fact I could argue that Quill rain is also better than a +3 bow. While you get more damage output with a +3 bow with Quill rain you get to attack faster. You get to stack more arrows and you get to blink out of danger faster!

I'm thinking of following this guide for next league. This league I was clearing t13 maps and would like to understand what mandatory gear you feel is needed to be able to clear t13 maps. My end goal would be to farm the gear to make this t16 viable but want to check if it's viable early maps with low gear.

Yeah sure. Take the tree that is easiest to level for convenience. Check the leveling section. You want a 4 link in act 4 merciles to farm Dried lake. With a 5 link you can already do maps like T13. Tabula is a good starter option. Someone on this thread said he was running T15 with a tabula. You can also use a 5 link chest in the beginning.

The EA gem must be as high as possible! This is the single most important thing. You can use Hyrri's bite quiver in the beginning if you have dex problems. As far as gear goes try to get Ngamahu tiki, maybe winds of change. Later on maybe Doryani's invitation when it gets cheap. All gear can be rare. Try to get some accuracy rating on gear maybe.

Then slowly towards the end game gear.

Is this build would be good as starter for the Breach league? Cuz i wanna play bow build but dunno which one to chose. Also seems like that this league would be more bow build oriented.

P.S. going to play Scrubcore (Standart) version of the league :D

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gopotan wrote:

Is this build would be good as starter for the Breach league? Cuz i wanna play bow build but dunno which one to chose. Also seems like that this league would be more bow build oriented.

P.S. going to play Scrubcore (Standart) version of the league :D

Short Answer: Yes.