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Orion72 wrote:

Re: SSF

Quill rain is really non-negotiable for late game, but you can do the rest of the build via crafting/fossil crafting and quill rain is not hard to chance. Someone did an experiment and estimated it's about 1 in 175. You can do this on every short bow you can find or buy from vendors--save your chance orbs. Since you don't need a 6L, just a 6soc, you can add the extra sockets via jews later. Early leveling will be fine even without QR--just look for the best attack speed bow you have access to without worrying too much about other stats.

Thief's torment and gluttony are significant upgrades, but the build can function without them. Farm for elder rings when you get to maps and craft with Pristine fossils to get life gain on hit. Spend your first 20 GCPs to quality your LGOH gem. For the mana, you will need to take revelry early, and then craft jewels using alts to get the +mana on hit affix. You will know when you have slotted enough of those by feel. Until then, you will need a mana flask.

For the helm and glove fossil crafting, you won't have the leveling uniques, but i can confirm that the build will work fine without them up through low-mid maps, since i have done something similar as a league start. Once you get to maps, you will farm for elder helms and gloves and you will farm for sulphite to delve for the fossils you need. The craft for the gloves is a corroded & or shuddering fossil. The craft for the helm is a bound fossil. Last league I was able to self craft both the 6 link gloves and helm using this method.

(bonus for adding a pristine fossil to either craft if you have lots of fossils, but otherwise I would not use pristines to give greater likelihood of the mods you need--you can craft life after)

Hope that helps. Good luck!

-O

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Orion72 wrote:

Re SC: There is a method in which you can largely keep the spirit of the build, but sacrifice significant tankiness for extra dps in SC. Follow these steps:

1. Drop Kaoms in favor of a 6L Coming Calamity. Slot HOA there with these links:
HOA>Minion Damage>DOFL>Pierce>Vicious Proj>Empower.

2. Drop Arctic Armour in favor of hatred. This will require all of the aura reservation reduction nodes we are already next to (4 nodes) or a lvl 4 enlighten (expensive). You will drop 4 life nodes in favor of these.

Per POB, the overall result will boost your damage by approximately 60%--you will hit close to 1M dps. It will drop your maximum life pool from +/-9500 at lvl 95 to +/- 7200 at lvl 95. This version is much more likely to find places it can be one shot, but you might enjoy it more in SC if you don't care about that happening occassionally.

-O

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Orion72 wrote:

Btw, you know you don't need a 6L QR for this build, right? :)

-O

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In the lvl 95 build, you can drop 2x 5% life nodes and get Heart of Oak from the ranger side. This causes you to lose 51 life but gain 87.7 life regen, and leaves you with 2 open 5% life nodes when you level if you want more life.