Ranger - (3.16) NERFED DO NOT PLAY THIS Raider Archmage BF/BB [CHEAP, Tanky, HCSSF viable, (100m+ dps) - Forum

" Tesrali wrote: Heyo I am struggling with damage on this build. What am I doing wrong? I'm level 90 on SSF and I have 7k mana, a mistwall, and the penetration cluster jewels. Any help would be appreciated but I just did a Shaper and my dps can't be higher than 1million. Character name: TES_SSF_RAIDER_ULT Mistwall is great for defense, but it'll seriously hit your single target damage. Another weapon is a big improvement. The usual advice here is, Mistwall for mapping, 2 weapons for bossing. Speaking of weapons... yours is in serious need of an upgrade. That wand is 88% lightning spell damage in total, and 101 to mana. The flat lightning damage isn't much of a boost. You can buy better weapons for 5 chaos. Hopefully you're not in SSF. 2 mana flasks are unnecessary, and the enduring affix is on the wrong one, it should be on the Eternal. Poison flask is likely not needed either, I haven't run into chaos damage that I can't out-heal with Agnostic yet. Gloves with faster casting would be nice. Divine that helmet to 21%. Current league IGN: Teldra_Anc_LAD Feel free to message me in game if I'm on.	Posted by grimjack68#6087 on May 27, 2021, 7:52:28 PM Quote this Post
" grimjack68 wrote: " Tesrali wrote: Heyo I am struggling with damage on this build. What am I doing wrong? I'm level 90 on SSF and I have 7k mana, a mistwall, and the penetration cluster jewels. Any help would be appreciated but I just did a Shaper and my dps can't be higher than 1million. Character name: TES_SSF_RAIDER_ULT Mistwall is great for defense, but it'll seriously hit your single target damage. Another weapon is a big improvement. The usual advice here is, Mistwall for mapping, 2 weapons for bossing. Speaking of weapons... yours is in serious need of an upgrade. That wand is 88% lightning spell damage in total, and 101 to mana. The flat lightning damage isn't much of a boost. You can buy better weapons for 5 chaos. Hopefully you're not in SSF. 2 mana flasks are unnecessary, and the enduring affix is on the wrong one, it should be on the Eternal. Poison flask is likely not needed either, I haven't run into chaos damage that I can't out-heal with Agnostic yet. Gloves with faster casting would be nice. Divine that helmet to 21%. Ty for taking a look. I am in SSF. I usually play melee and I did Sirus 3 times on my melee but I stalled out on Maven content. (I played last in Delirium.) Maven is too much for me so I was hoping to roll up something tankier. I got a helmet and a mistwall so I thought this build would make sense. I totally see that dropping mistwall on bosses makes sense. I will do so as soon as I can unfuck my resists. Great advice. Replacing my shit wand is definitely priority number one. I'm targeting harvest now and picking up everything tier 3 and up for rare bases. Last edited by Tesrali#1596 on May 27, 2021, 9:17:58 PM	Posted by Tesrali#1596 on May 27, 2021, 9:16:41 PM Quote this Post
Hey team, Should my next step be swapping to clusters? Looks like it gives me a decent boost to damage (from about 5m to 7m) on POB but i lose a little HP. Not sure what else i should be doing other than trying to get like a 20-30 ex conductibvity ring with some resists on it, or a hunter % health belt for about the same price. Sitting on about 40ex.	Posted by ynnad#2049 on May 28, 2021, 2:02:37 AM Quote this Post
" cetru wrote: could anyone suggest me the next upgrades I should go for? https://pastebin.com/dHRHZqPM do you guys have any suggestions to increased the damage? survivability is ok most of the time. Should I switch intensify with increased AoE? Is it worth it? I see some builds do this. Thanks for the help and the great build!	Posted by cetru#5121 on May 28, 2021, 3:11:05 AM Quote this Post
" ynnad wrote: Hey team, Should my next step be swapping to clusters? Looks like it gives me a decent boost to damage (from about 5m to 7m) on POB but i lose a little HP. Not sure what else i should be doing other than trying to get like a 20-30 ex conductibvity ring with some resists on it, or a hunter % health belt for about the same price. Sitting on about 40ex. Conductivity ring can be crafted for a lot less than that - or just bought outright. I don't think I paid 2ex for mine. Quality on a bunch of your skill / support gems for sure. You could get some alternate quality gems as well - Anomalous Concentrated Effect is nice, and it's less than 100c. And 21/23 on both arcane surge and cloak. I'd divine your watcher's eye until you get 6% on both life and mana, but that might just be me. :) A second weapon for bossing would likely speed up tough bosses by quite a bit. Mistwall is great for mapping, but otherwise... /me grimaces. After that I'd go for the big $$$ upgrades - unnatural instinct and clusters. With 40ex you should be able to do all those, including the UI & clusters, I think. Current league IGN: Teldra_Anc_LAD Feel free to message me in game if I'm on.	Posted by grimjack68#6087 on May 28, 2021, 3:12:02 AM Quote this Post
" cetru wrote: " cetru wrote: could anyone suggest me the next upgrades I should go for? https://pastebin.com/dHRHZqPM do you guys have any suggestions to increased the damage? survivability is ok most of the time. Should I switch intensify with increased AoE? Is it worth it? I see some builds do this. Thanks for the help and the great build! Honestly, not a lot to suggest. You're likely pushing out a fair bit more DPS than I am. Why Enlighten? The only gem it supports is Grace, and you should only every be using Vaal Grace. Also, might want to throw some armourer scraps at your helmet, boots, and gloves. And catalysts at your amulet, ring and belt while you're there. Current league IGN: Teldra_Anc_LAD Feel free to message me in game if I'm on.	Posted by grimjack68#6087 on May 28, 2021, 3:20:18 AM Quote this Post
" grimjack68 wrote: " cetru wrote: " cetru wrote: could anyone suggest me the next upgrades I should go for? https://pastebin.com/dHRHZqPM do you guys have any suggestions to increased the damage? survivability is ok most of the time. Should I switch intensify with increased AoE? Is it worth it? I see some builds do this. Thanks for the help and the great build! Honestly, not a lot to suggest. You're likely pushing out a fair bit more DPS than I am. Why Enlighten? The only gem it supports is Grace, and you should only every be using Vaal Grace. Also, might want to throw some armourer scraps at your helmet, boots, and gloves. And catalysts at your amulet, ring and belt while you're there. thanks a lot! Enlighten is there only to be leveled up, I removed righteous fire because I don't really like the slower mana regen it causes. Might try it again... Any opinion on intensify vs conc effect for blade blast? Last edited by cetru#5121 on May 28, 2021, 3:23:55 AM	Posted by cetru#5121 on May 28, 2021, 3:23:24 AM Quote this Post
" WorderMostFoul wrote: " grimjack68 wrote: " Xeeoph wrote: @WorderMostFoul Is there a quick way to turn regular RF off when I want to be able to regen instead (like when running through traps or hazards)? I tried it before, and I had to unequip a bunch of things to get my fire res low enough to drop to 1 life for it to auto cancel. If so, I'll give it another shot. I can remove increased duration on my weapon, or faster attacks on my shield (Vigilant Strike). Guess I'm back to grinding lab to find the AoE enchant for my helmet. Not too bad because I was going to do a bit anyway to get the Arcane Surge enchant for my belt. Thanks for the suggestions! I just leave it on all the time. My regen with it on is ~1400, with it off is ~2000. I can stand still in the lab traps with RF up and I don't take any damage. The only way to turn RF off is to change zones, as in, portal out and back, use a flask with immune to ignite, or let your health drop to 1. That definitely USED to be the case, and it was insanely annoying. But I thought they made an update last league or this league so that it turns off if you unsocket the gem? Guess I'll test that later when I'm at home. @Xeeoph: I would just buy a helmet with the enchantment you want; mine was only 1 ex a few weeks ago. Even with this league's change to helmet enchantments, I don't think it's worth trying to farm one particular one. You could realistically run the lab hundreds of times without ever seeing the helmet enchantment you want! Following up on this, you CAN indeed turn off RF by unsocketing the gem. If you resocket it before leaving the area, the spell will trigger again.	Posted by WorderMostFoul#7154 on May 28, 2021, 3:28:15 AM Quote this Post
Just wanted to pop in and say thank you for this build. I honestly didn't know that Arcane Cloak or Archmage existed, so it's a very unique build for me. I'm playing on PS5 and created a CoC raider and the desync was crazy, and because I relied on flasks and movement to live I couldn't make it through an Ultimatum. I re-geared for this build instead and now I'm not desyncing nearly as often, and I have enough eHP and damage mitigation to survive when I do. Thanks!	Posted by liquidfiend#9031 on May 28, 2021, 11:34:23 AM Quote this Post
" cetru wrote: thanks a lot! Enlighten is there only to be leveled up, I removed righteous fire because I don't really like the slower mana regen it causes. Might try it again... Any opinion on intensify vs conc effect for blade blast? Hopefully you mean Intensify and Increased AOE? There's a spreadsheet floating around that shows the effectiveness, as I recall it's: Awakened Increased Area of Effect > Intensify > Increased Area of Effect Current league IGN: Teldra_Anc_LAD Feel free to message me in game if I'm on.	Posted by grimjack68#6087 on May 28, 2021, 3:38:38 PM Quote this Post