[3.22] Cheapbunny's Snipe Burning Arrow Ignite MOM Elementalist | WidowHail

Updated to 3.22 - Trial of The Ancestors League
Added POB for 3.22, no change to the build



Introduction
This build is my league starter for Crucible league, I actually had hard time in early league, it struggled a bit without good gear, and snipe playstyle is not particular pleasant either when your dps is low. With some gear investment however, it turns out to be quite balance between offensive and defensive power, and carries me to the endgame. This build also has some quite interesting mechanic and defense archetype (MOM+evasion) that i never tried before. Although I find it fun to play, I would not recommend it to new player due to the playstyle, as well as certain more complex knowledge is required to not break the build mechanic.

Build Thought
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The build idea started with the new unique bow Widowhail, i find it quite interesting and wanted to make a build with it.


This bow boost your quiver bonus by a lot, but it has the following downsides.
i) low flat damage
ii) low attack speed
iii) low critical strike chance

Why Burning Arrow, Snipe and Ignite?
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Snipe Burning arrow + Ignite negates the downsides of Widowhail very effectively.


Burning arrow provides large amount of flat damage, ignite does not care so much about critical strike chance and both ignite & snipe makes attack speed less relevant in dealing damage.

A rare quiver can also provide a lot of damage over time multiplier, which is very good for ignite when combined with the bonus from Widowhail.



How to scale flat damage further? Why Evasion+MOM and Elementalist?
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One of the mechanic in POE that's grant a lot of flat damage is Mana.

By stacking mana, we could get a lot of flat damage from Mind of the Council and Arcane Cloak, and because of stacking mana, MOM would be a natural choice.

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Mind_Over_Matter

Other than mana, Hyrri's Ire unique armour also provide a lot of flat damage.

Since Hyrri's Ire provide so much evasion and spell suppression, another defense layers I decided to go with are evasion+spell suppression.

You may already noticed, all the flat damage above are lightning or cold damage, which can not ignite by default, so I went with Elementalist for Shaper of Flames ascendancy nodes, which allow all type of damage to ignite.

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Shaper_of_Flames





Build Mechanic
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Storm Brand
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Instead of calling this Burning Arrow build, it might be more appropriate to call it Burning Arrow Storm Brand build, as Storm Brand alone boost the build's dps by more than double, so you always want to make sure Storm Brand is up against tougher enemy.


This build uses Storm Brand to apply -50% Fire Exposure, 47% Shock effect and Culling Strike.

Fire Exposure
Fire exposure is applied through Elemental Equilibrium Keystone, so need to prevent getting any fire damage on Storm Brand. Together with Mastermind of Discord ascendancy node, Storm Brand is able to apply -50% fire resistance exposure.

Shock
With Shaper of Storms ascendancy node, Storm Brand is able to shock enemy with 18.75% base shock effect (15% * 125%). This build further scale the shock effect by taking Static Blows cluster on tree, and allocate lightning mastery "Increase and reduction to maximum mana also apply to shock effect at 30% of their value". Together with other source of ailment effects, this build has about 150% increase shock effect, which bring the guaranteed shock effect of Storm Brand to 18.75% * (100% + 150%) = 46.88%.


Mind of the Council Downside
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Mind of the Council helmet has a downside to cause the bearer has 20% chance to be shocked. To counter this downside, i use Soul of Garukhan Patheon and a reduced shocked effect on rare jewel to reach 95% reduced shock effect.







Videos
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Crucible League

T16 Coves + Al-Hezmin
https://youtu.be/Mzjo49LaQzE

T16 Chimera
https://youtu.be/bHV2S7-ArKk

The Twisted & The Hidden
https://youtu.be/_CNinXmNEMk

Uber Shaper
https://youtu.be/9Z0qxc96iu0

Uber Maven
https://youtu.be/KRQNlO-WA2o

Uber Eater of World
https://youtu.be/tqccttNNqHE



Skill Tree (POB)
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Kill all bandits.
17 Aug 2023 - [POE 3.22] 98 lvl skill tree (Latest)
https://pastebin.com/eeDZL7XN

29 Apr 2023 - [POE 3.21] 98 lvl skill tree
https://pastebin.com/P02urdH3



Leveling
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I suggest to level as fire spell caster (I used blazing salvo) and switch into Wave of Conviction ignite during the campaign. Change into Burning Arrow after campaign when you got decent bow and quiver, I suggest not to use Snipe support on Burning Arrow until you have really decent ignite damage.

My leveling video can be found here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tN9NQ3xjuY
https://www.youtube.com/live/NO7H_-FObIE


Ascendancy
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Shaper of Storms -> Shaper of Flames -> Mastermind of Discord -> Heart of Destruction



Gears
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Weapon
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Early Game (Spell/Spell Ignite)
Rare spell damage damage wand

Mid Game (Burning Arrow Ignite)
Ele Damage rare Bow or Xoph's Nurture


End Game (Snipe + Burning Arrow Ignite, after obtaining end game quiver)


Key Crucible passive : +24/32%% to Fire Damage over Time Multiplier/-30% to Fire Resistance


Off-Hand
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Early Game (Spell/Spell Ignite)
Rare spell damage damage wand

Mid Game (Burning Arrow Ignite)
Damage over time multiplier/Flat damage/Damage with Bow rare quiver


End Game (Snipe + Burning Arrow Ignite)
High Damage over time multiplier/Flat Fire damage/Damage with Bow/Life/Chaos Resis rare quiver


(Note : We want high flat fire damage on quiver to make sure highest damage dealt by Burning Arrow is always fire to trigger Shaper of Flames ignite bonus.)

Crafting Guide
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Step 1 - Get a ilvl 85/86 T1 fractured chaos resis Primal Arrow Quiver


Step 2 - Use Deafening Essence of Anguish until you hit T1 Dot Multiplier with Attack



Step 3 - Annul mods that is not
i) Flat fire damage to Attack
ii) Dot Multiplier with Attack
iii) High tier Damage with Bows
iv) High tier life
with one suffix open

In the example above, we want to annul off the Cold Resistence
If the annul failed, go back to step 2.


Step 4 - Craft "Cannot Roll Attack Mods"


Step 5 - Exalt slam, it guarantees "Maximum Life" and "Damage with Bows" Mods


Step 6 - Craft "Attack Speed"






Helmet
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Early/Mid Game
Life/Resis Rare Helmet

End Game

(Enchant : Burning Arrow damage)



Body Armour
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Early/Mid Game
Life/Resis Rare Body Armour

End Game




Gloves
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Early/Mid Game
Life/Resis Rare Gloves

End Game
Life/Resis/Flat Damage Rare Gloves

Eldritch Implicit : Spell Suppression + Fire Damage Overtime Multiplier


Boots
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Early/Mid Game
Movement Speed/Life/Resis Rare Boots

End Game
Movement Speed/Spell Suppress/Life/Resis Rare Boots

(Eldritch Implicit : Ignite deal damage faster/Drop Scorched Ground while moving)
(Enchant : Add lightning damage if you haven't killed recently)



Belt
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Early Game
Life/Resis Rare Belts

Mid/End Game

Quality : Elemental Damage Modifier


Amulet
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Early/Mid Game
Life/Ele Damage/Resis Rare Amulet

End Game


(Anointment : Crusader)
(Quality : Life and Mana Modifier)


Rings
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Early/Mid Game
Life/Accuracy/Resis Rare Rings

End Game
Left Ring :


Right Ring : Mana/Mana Regen/Accuracy/Resis rare ring



Jewels

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Rare Jewels

Reduced shock effect/Fire Dot Multiplier/Ignite deal damage faster


High flat bow damage rare abyss jewel

Unique Jewel

(Slot in specific jewel socket, refers to POB)



Flasks
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(At least one life and mana flask)




Gem Link
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6L Burning Arrow (Weapon)
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+

Map Clear


Single Target - Normal


Single Target - Uber Bosses




4L Manafroged Frenzy
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Storm Brand/Arcane Cloak setup
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(Bind Arcane Cloak to left mouse button to auto cast while moving)


2L Blink Arrow
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1L Skill/Aura
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My other build guide

Last edited by cheapbunny#0890 on Oct 1, 2023, 4:33:54 AM
Last bumped on Sep 15, 2023, 11:10:18 PM
Update
17 Aug 2023
- Updated POB skill tree to 3.22
Last edited by cheapbunny#0890 on Aug 17, 2023, 9:46:47 AM
Looks fun! How do you level this? Any twink unique or so
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Tecken1407 wrote:
Looks fun! How do you level this? Any twink unique or so


I leveled with blazing slavo and change into WoC ignite.

You can checkout my league start stream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tN9NQ3xjuY
POB is missing skill.
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xabe wrote:
POB is missing skill.


Fixed
Hi, this is the first league where i had enough money to buy a mageblood. Can i use mb in it? Like 3 elemental flask + phasing one and get more damage from other gear???
Updated to 3.22
Would you consider this SSF viable without awakened gems and Mind of the Council (especially an enchanted one, but it can be hard to get Mind of the council). reat build by the way. Do you suggest just using a great flat ele bow until you get widowhail and what changes do you make once you find a widow hail (I haven't found one yet in either crucible or TOTA)

How do you handle the Dex/Accuracy problem early on? Any SSF solutions?
Last edited by wreathe_incarnate#2464 on Aug 21, 2023, 9:25:56 AM
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wreathe_incarnate wrote:
Would you consider this SSF viable without awakened gems and Mind of the Council (especially an enchanted one, but it can be hard to get Mind of the council). reat build by the way. Do you suggest just using a great flat ele bow until you get widowhail and what changes do you make once you find a widow hail (I haven't found one yet in either crucible or TOTA)

How do you handle the Dex/Accuracy problem early on? Any SSF solutions?


I think you need at least the Mind of the Council, it is fine not enchanted. You should use rare ele bow until you got a very good quiver.

I level as a spell caster, WOC ignite, use precision aura to solve accuracy issue when i switch to bow.

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