[3.0] Explosive Arrow, Ignite focused. Elementalist, Life, MoM, 600k-700k ignite dps (WIP)

Welcome, this is an idea I have been working around for a few days now trying to create something based around the new updates to damage over time, and I really want to make something work with ignite, anyways this is essentially what I came up with, I tried different ideas and classes es, life and I will include them both in this wip build so others can share their opinions and collaborate with me.

- firstly, this is a work in progress idea, it is not completed.
- secondly, looking for criticism such as: changes, item ideas, sustain, and opinions / thoughts.
- lastly, things may change on release so take everything lightly.









Thanks for your support, ideas, criticism, and opinions. Credit will be given in credit section if I decide to use an idea posted.

Due to nerf incoming to new gems & Pefect agony, we will have to wait & see b4 theory craftin this .

yeah unfortunately... wasn't too happy to read the perfect agony nerf, I think the gems and keystone nerf were a bit overkill, but I guess wait and see if anything gets changed around hopefully they will realize it was a bit much.

having more ignite chance decrease the ignite dps somehow...

yes, I would assume this issue is related to the keystone passive "Perfect Agony", because technically when you crit and you get ignites from critical strikes the damage is affected from critical damage because of Perfect Agony, but when you just have chance to ignite the critical damage is not affecting this so this would make sense why the ignite damage would be lower than compared to when you actually critically strike an enemy.

This is what I got inspired from what you have.

All of this is before the Perfect Agony nerf.

Both screenshots have on Kaom's Heart, Facebreaker, Garukhan's Flight, and Marylene's Fallacy.

The rest are life, res and stats fillers including diamond rings except the bow and quiver which kind of expensive.

I decided to avoid everything mana and everything ele dmg with attacks.

Ruby Flask for reflect instead of Rumis.

Enduring cry for life regen, blood rage for frenzy dps, and orb of storm + PCOC for power charge.

You have to go blood magic to go near 10k life I believe.

The life leech is from the quiver corrupt, for shits and giggles.

And enemies are on full life.

I'd like to keep my build secret just ss and specs for now.

Assassin Level 100


Assasin Level 68 for Kaoms (with 10 free pts from quests, and without all jewels)

yeah, the only issue I have with assassin at the moment is i'm not 100% sure of how the mechanics of explosive arrow work, from my understanding is an arrow is shot and applies a debuff (fuse charge) and then after 1 second by default if no extra charges are added (arrows fired on same enemy) then the charge timer reaches 0 seconds and the fuse explodes dealing aoe elemental damage with a chance to crit of its own.

the problem I would have is that the arrow itself before the fuse being applied deals damage of its own (I think?) so that would make the enemy no longer on full life thus resulting in the aoe blast from explosive arrow having an initially pseudo critical strike chance on paper, and overall a reduced critical strike chance and possibly pointless to go assassin for that reason, if thats not the case and the arrow doesn't do any damage then yes assassin would be great, but i'm unsure thats why I tried out other variants.

other thoughts would be that it could still be one of the better options because even if that is the case you could use the aoe to crit other enemies and benefit from the assassin ascendancy, and just use ignite prolif to bring it back to the initial enemy you were targeting.

Am I missing something or why don't you get EE when using Orb of Storms?
And I always think its a shame not to take Acrobatics if you're 2-3 points away from it.

Clicked around a bit in PoB and came up with this: https://pastebin.com/RYfNp4jn

Still some problems like Vaal Pact without leech, no frenzy generation etc.

Yeah absolutely you can rework some points around if you wanted to acquire having acrobatics its an option, but I choose not to take it personally because its 6 points away and I wanted to focus on obtaining hybrid gear arm / eva and try to stay away from acrobatics just because of the distance, but you are free to try and adjust some points around and EE is also an option for sure!

Looks cool, gl.

How are you going to sustain mana tho?