[3.15] Crimson Bow Gladiator, RoA + Puncture | Pure Bleed Build | All Content | In-depth

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MajorSadist wrote:

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What is the best cluster jewel setup for this build? Including a large, medium and small. Do you aim for DoT multi? Curious to see what you all are running.

I was thinking a combination of any of the following:
Large cluster:

Smite the Weak
40% increased Attack Damage against Maimed Enemies
Attacks have 10% chance to Maim on Hit

Heavy Hitter
30% increased Attack Damage
10% reduced Enemy Stun Threshold
20% chance to double Stun Duration
30% increased Damage with Ailments from Attack Skills

Martial Prowess
20% increased Attack Damage
6% increased Attack Speed
15% increased Global Accuracy Rating
20% increased Damage with Ailments from Attack Skills

Medium Cluster:

Rend
+12% to Damage over Time Multiplier for Bleeding
30% increased Bleeding Duration


Compound Injury
50% increased Damage with Bleeding you inflict on Maimed Enemies

Wasting Affliction
20% increased Damage with Ailments
Damaging Ailments deal damage 10% faster

Brush with Death
+10% to Damage over Time Multiplier
Recover 1% of Life on Kill
Recover 1% of Energy Shield on Kill

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chockdoo wrote:

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Thinkin about running this for the next league, SSF. Seems like a great leagestarter, especially for SSF.

Plan is to farm "the Lion" in act6 mud flats for Jewel, chest, bow and even the boots.

Does the boots "Trigger Level 5 Rain of Arrows when you Attack with a Bow" work with curse-on-hit ? should be a great ghetto-cursing if so.

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DankawSL wrote:

I've been neglecting answering questions again, didn't i? After losing my meme character i had no reason to log in PoE, especially with how rarely questions are asked anyway. With new league announced which i look forward to i should be quick to answer everything again.

Despite short time since league announcement, there's one buff coming up to this build and it's Wind Dancer keystone availability. Not only it's precisely what this build needed for defence. It doesn't solve all issues, but this change is welcome. Keystone is currently placed in location which this build paths through. Assuming that passive tree won't change much that, this means just 1 passive is required to gain all benefits.

As usual, i won't answer older questions because they're almost certainly outdated by now.

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MajorSadist wrote:

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What is the best cluster jewel setup for this build? Including a large, medium and small. Do you aim for DoT multi? Curious to see what you all are running.

I was thinking a combination of any of the following:
Large cluster:

Smite the Weak
40% increased Attack Damage against Maimed Enemies
Attacks have 10% chance to Maim on Hit

Heavy Hitter
30% increased Attack Damage
10% reduced Enemy Stun Threshold
20% chance to double Stun Duration
30% increased Damage with Ailments from Attack Skills

Martial Prowess
20% increased Attack Damage
6% increased Attack Speed
15% increased Global Accuracy Rating
20% increased Damage with Ailments from Attack Skills

Medium Cluster:

Rend
+12% to Damage over Time Multiplier for Bleeding
30% increased Bleeding Duration


Compound Injury
50% increased Damage with Bleeding you inflict on Maimed Enemies

Wasting Affliction
20% increased Damage with Ailments
Damaging Ailments deal damage 10% faster

Brush with Death
+10% to Damage over Time Multiplier
Recover 1% of Life on Kill
Recover 1% of Energy Shield on Kill

You can find information about cluster jewels in passive tree section. PoB also has suggested cluster jewels.

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chockdoo wrote:

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Thinkin about running this for the next league, SSF. Seems like a great leagestarter, especially for SSF.

Plan is to farm "the Lion" in act6 mud flats for Jewel, chest, bow and even the boots.

Does the boots "Trigger Level 5 Rain of Arrows when you Attack with a Bow" work with curse-on-hit ? should be a great ghetto-cursing if so.

Deja vu? I feel like i've read this post few months ago.

FAQ: How does it perform in SSF?
A: Mediocre. Due to limited gear acquisition you will often hit a wall starting from ~white/yellow maps transition. It's caused by Ryslatha's Coil being ridiculously rare which heavily hinders the build. It forces you to have 100% bleed damage elder mod which also might be hard to obtain early on. Same issue with acquiring oils for amulet annointment. All combined slows progression considerably. If you're fine it, feel free to try.


Based on your plan, i already know you didn't even check my build - because it sure doesn't use any of these uniques other than bow.

Yes, RoA triggered from these boots can apply curses. You can even throw Maim on top of it. It will make it easier to clear maps for sure, but you should hit a wall at certain point eventually.

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chockdoo wrote:

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My reason for believing in this build(especially for SSF) is that this is gonna be a "crafting-league", just like beastiary was when i last played SSF. And a good few streamers have been playing this and they all have said it's a great starter.

Grinding the lion divcard to gear up with some solid gear before maps and then follow up with crafting. How many builds can farm 4usable items from one common divcard :P should be cruisecontrol into yellow-maps!!

This build can be played with slight variations aswell, which perfectly suits SSF.

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burdd wrote:

Anyone got any tips for levelling with this at league start? I was planning on doing a variant of this build in Harvest.

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Valant wrote:

Why do we use Rain of Arrows ?

I am trying Puncture with GMP and feels nicer for both clearing and single target

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xXx_Kamikaze_xXx wrote:

First time of trying a bleed build. Feels pretty smooth after you get some good Gear. I tried to selfcraft all my Gear with Fossil (mostly jagged + pristine). The only item i bought was the explode chest and the bow. Crafted on my own a 450 pdps bow but got some money leftover and mirrored the currently #1 in league.

At the Moment I have like 11m-12.7m dps depending on the pride aura efffect after 4sec with perma Frenzy charges uptime.

https://pastebin.com/hzmwy4Pa

could go for even more dps with Cinderswallowa nd bottled faith flask, but it isn't necessary at this point.


Also tried to league start with this build ins ssf. Leveling was smooth on a 4 link, and mapping feels good in <T10 maps if you have a 6-Link setup for puncture and split arrow. wouldnt recommend to go for the red Tier maps until you got a elder bleed bow or cluster jewels for dps.

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