[1.0] Balanced MF/HP/DPS --LA/Frenzy Ranger Build.

1.0

With 1.0 a lot of things has been changed. The most significant one is probably the aura change, which has a huge impact to blood magic build although the developers keep saying its making BM stronger. Generally speaking the character is definitely a lot weaker than before but it's still some what manageable. Although the change did take out all my motivation to continue playing.

the summary of current state at level 92
9999HP/6999 with wrath aura
148/297mf or 173/357 with MF pot.
all resist 77
3.1k LA (chain-lmp-4stacks frenzy)
14k frenzy (4 stacks)
17% chance evasion
14% physical reduction
540HP per sec HP regen
-52% chaos




Note from 0.11x
Just a final review for my build for my friends and people that are interested in my spec.

Quick update for post patch. Dropped Unwavering Stance and grabbed 4 of the new notables. Also dropped IF due to the nerf and took the 3 8% projectile damage instead. Don't feel any difference for survivability. Dropped inner force since I only use grace, anger and wrath, and went deep into the AOE path instead.

Had a significant LA and frenzy DPS boost after all the changes. LA went from 2300 to 3700, and frenzy went from 11000 to 17000.

the summary of current state at level 92
7674HP
148/297mf or 173/357 with MF pot.
all resist 77
3.7k LA (chain-lmp-5stacks frenzy)
17k frenzy (5 stacks)
31% chance evasion
14% physical reduction
414HP per sec HP regen
-60% chaos

I solo 90% of the time so I am trying to get a really balanced build.
Other than the main tree, a lot of the minor choices are unconventional. A lot of the choices are possible because of Kaoms, not suggest to drop all the defensives if you don't have Kaoms. Since Kaoms provide very little base defensive stat (tiny armors and no evasion), I just don't think any armor or evasion boosting passives are worth it. Instead my main defensive stat are HP regen and HP pool.

Gears. Since I am trying to achieve a perfect balanced build, I geared my character to make it as efficient and to have as little waste as possible. Also I am trying to get away from using any uniq, but too bad the quiver and kaoms are unavoidable since there is no rare replacement. The typical Lioneye + thunderfist + wake of destruction + kaoms + Alpha howl is very boring..

I think it's only worth improving if there is something you can't really do with this build. Improve its weaknesses. If not, you are just done! :-)

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Filousov wrote:

I think it's only worth improving if there is something you can't really do with this build. Improve its weaknesses. If not, you are just done! :-)

oh gosh I don't want to be done.. May its time for a new toon then..

15k dps on frenzy with IIR and IIQ gems linked.

No need to swap all the time.


Also, frenzy is fast enough by itself, doesn't culling strike will do more then faster attack? Since you don't have crits your dps are narrow, and 10% from HP is 10% dps on single targets.

Yeah but he has no other 6 links for his LA, giving that up I don't think is worth the IIR/IIQ linked with frenzy.

How do you deal with chaos damage? -60% is massive..

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kentgrav wrote:

How do you deal with chaos damage? -60% is massive..

7k HP? He laughs at chaos damage.

chaos damage is a joke lol only reason to ever get chaos resist is if you run specific builds like Shavs and RF.

Also if you are having issues with clearing big packs because of LA, you can just grab another 6L lionseye to use on switch ^.^

screw that axe tho

OR if you want to keep the mace you can always just use it to get the killing hits (with culling strike) witch is what matters for bosses / rare monsters.


That way you can run 6link LA and 4 link frenzy. And for the kills you switch to the axe thay has a IR bonus

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BuDiu wrote:

chaos damage is a joke lol only reason to ever get chaos resist is if you run specific builds like Shavs and RF.

Also if you are having issues with clearing big packs because of LA, you can just grab another 6L lionseye to use on switch ^.^

screw that axe tho

OR if you want to keep the mace you can always just use it to get the killing hits (with culling strike) witch is what matters for bosses / rare monsters.


That way you can run 6link LA and 4 link frenzy. And for the kills you switch to the axe thay has a IR bonus

Yes chaos really doesn't do much at all, chaos monster are rare and 7K HP can handle it fairly easy.

Running 2 bows is actually not a bad idea at all, I never thought about that. But since I need to switch, its probably not going to make a big difference compare to use the axe then? since leap slam is a range skill to start with too. I only use that axe for yellow and orange boss for that extra 38% IIR.

I just got a new bow to replace lion eye.. for... pathetic 200 dps increase lol, sucks I don't have much elemental modifier to take full advantage of that. Just want to be a little different I guess, but seems lioneye still gives the best value.

why don't you exalt your helm/belt? I see you put loads of currency in this gear and quality gems , might as well pop a few exalts to have an instant upgrade.