[2.5] Burning Arrow Proliferation Raider. Fully working league starter build. Up to twin Tier 15.

Well now I'm really looking towards this build. After 1400 hours poured in the game, finally got the achievement :D
http://i.imgur.com/dr1Ifmu.jpg

I just hope it wont end up in standard too soon.

Ayyy gratz. This league was also the league where I got the achievement for six linking something myself.

How do you feel emberwake affects your dps? Im still unsure if I need to use it. I will be using surgebinders so already because of that I feel like every single other item has to have life on it.

Since I play HC, I'm gonna be using Xoph's Blood and Dyadian dawn instead of Nhamahu + Doryani's. So that is going to be a slight dps loss for more defences.

Also probably gonna do the skill tree like this for myself: http://poeurl.com/WLs
Losing some dps again for more life there.

I think you if you can afford a good rare ring with life and 30%+ WED and added fire dmg then its the best option. You don't need emberwake unless you want to use barrage for single target.

Emberwake was originally just a defensive option for me because I didn't have better option.

Between Dyadawn and Doryani's I prefer Doryani overall because of the 10% ignite on flask mostly.

I don't think Xoph's Blood is that big of a dps loss over Ngamahu Tiki, because of the innate 10% pen and the 10% pen from cover in ash, that's along with fire pen and the wed node on skill tree will basically put most enemies to 0% fire res. Overall, it is a superior option, especially for higher red maps.

Try to get a added fire dmg on boots's lab enchant, that is probably the best DPS option, and will help out with you going for more life in HC.

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I'm already starting to feel a huge DPS loss after starting to run T6 maps. For some reason the damage output is incredibly low and it takes the eternity to clear a single map.

I'm starting to think Xoph's Nurture is a bad unique :/

What is your current tooltip DPS for Burning Arrow? With Anger, Herald of Ash and Flame Golem, I have 23k dps with GMP and 40k with Slow proj. However that is almost doubled once 8 Charges are up. So far t15 packs takes a couple shots to clear, unless its something like ele equilibrium 40% ele res enemies. I don't seem to have a problem clearing t6 maps even back when I only have a 5l and using emberwake. In fact I tried using emberwake again and remove firepen from my 6l, still clearing rare underground river quite nicely.

That's weird. I'm only at 14k unbuffed with GMP. White packs sometimes taken half ta dozen shots to be cleared.

Theoretically speaking you should 1 - 2 shots white trash up to t9 maps with that dps.

Yes, in theory.

In that case, I might just as well reroll to a classic Blast Rain character. I've already rolled 5 unsuccessful characters this league.

I took a look at your character shimaran. Unless you've taken gear off, I see that you arent using a drillneck and surgebinders. That's already ~160% projectile dmg which makes a huge difference.

I should be finally getting to merc dried lake and respeccing to this today. Excited to play it. I'm not expecting it to be anything spectacular but atleast it's something different. And after playing around in path of Building, the dps doesnt look that bad on paper. Could be much worse :D.