The Easiest of the Easy Beginner Build Guides [1.1 SotV UPDATED]
"ZiggyD, is there one-way to steer through the tree so I don't have to make any drastic changes (or any changes) in skills and equipment and finish Act 3 (end my solo game)? Thanks. ~<Ratsneve>~~<Looking for Simple Solo Solutions>~ Last edited by Ratsneve#4656 on Dec 11, 2013, 2:17:42 PM
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" Some tips for you: I pick up blues and vendor them for xmutes, and when I have a lot I trade em for wisdoms and identify inventories full of stuff for alts and alch shards. While leveling I buy a new weapon almost every 4 levels, throw some qual on em with blacksmith shards if I have them to spare, and xmute+alt them till I have good mods, a % phys damage and some additional phys or elemental damage on top of it. Dont worry about rare weps much while leveling, its not worth it. For other gear, when I need an X link armor, I usually buy a 4link white piece, qual it to 20, and alch it. Or I just wear a blue with +life and whatever. Every piece of bm la ranger gear should have life on it. |
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There's no need for a 5/6L at the beginning. And especially not a weapon. I doesn't matter, where you put the gems in.
I used a long time some 4L Gloves and Boots for my LA and Frenzy Gem, since I found these with the right coloured, linked sockets. Later you'll want to get a 5/6L Weapon and Armor to use more supportgems and get more damage with your skills. But getting a 5L should be enough, since 6L pretty expensive with good mods on them. Another way is to find/buy a white 5L(6S) Item and enchant it yourself using Orbs of transmutation, alteration and augmentation on it to get the desired mods. For your bow these are especially high + phys damage% and added +X phys damage. For your Armor you want high defensive and/or evasion rolls. But rolling a weapon/armor could also get quiet expensive and often it's cheaper to buy a item which allready has the desired mods. I bought this bow for 2 chaos orbs (it had only 2 sockets back then) and it'll give a maxdem over 300 after using whetstones on it. Before I used a long time the "death's harp" unqiue which I got for free from another player. My biggest advise is: Don't use many jewellers or even fusing orbs on mid-level items. Especially the fusings are much to worthy to spend them on a plate or bow which you'll skip at level 50. It's much easier to buy a nice item for some fusings, then to spend them on a item which won't get really worthy even with 5L. |
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So I've been running this build for a the last several days. I'm at level 70, and I feel like I'm doing all right in Act 3. Most white take 2-4 hits to put down, and blues take about 4-10 (depending on mods/affixes). I feel pretty tanky and all, but my DPS seems pretty dismal, and I'm not certain what I need to gear into to change that. My tooltip DPS is 676, my Ice Shot is 788, and my unbuffed frenzy is 1200.
My gear:
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Any help will be very appreciated. |
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" Well I can't say for whether or not this may be the issue but I also felt my DPS was lacking and so yesterday I tried to get a lot more attack speed on my gear. This significantly upped my dps and in comparison, my tooltip DPS is 1323, my frenzy is 2349 unbuffed, and lightning shot 1149, ice shot 1666 (I have both). My gear:
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You know, I think you're on to something there. I swapped out faster projectiles in favor of faster attacks, and my DPS went up significantly (on the tooltip, anyway). It grows quite a bit with each level. Then I realized my bow sucked in comparison to those I play with, but I liked the links/sockets. So I scoured it and alched it, only to make it worse. So I did that until I had no alchs and now I have a real piece of shit on my hands. It's lame, but my DPS is just around where I started before I started fucking with it. Kinda bummed because "good" bows are really fucking expensive, and now I;m just gimped. I KNEW I shouldn't have tried crafting it, but fuck, it's hard to resist when it has the sockets I need, you know?
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I thinke +dex on items is rather wortless in this build.
Try to use gear with +str instead, since it boosts your phys damage nicely. Items with +Attack Speed are also really nice, to get your damage up. |
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" Thanks, that's kinda what I'm leaning towards right now! |
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" You know, this makes me want to start a build and take Blood Magic early as well. Through to the end of Act 3 I have no problems not-dying, so why not? I think there may be some optimizing of the passive progression (20 node tree --> 40 node treee --> 60 node tree) for the build, at least on an individual basis depending on your play style. Provided you have the right resists per area it's really hard to get whacked through Normal (well, till Dominus :)). |
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Is it worth to try this build on HC or on Nemesis? Im kinda new... .
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