What is the Best DPS Ranger Build

All i see in every class are high damage melee builds. Are there any ranged bow builds that even compare.

I am asking because I have the following gear


My build is


I dont have to worry about reflect maps because i do chaos damage. I used to use LMP on my 5l frenzy but to do max dps i swapped it out for culling strike.
I have 30% to shock, is it worth it to drop some lightning skills for critcal strike talents.

But my main point is, can this even begin to compare with the 50k+ dps of melee classes.

Thanks in Advance
Lvl 82 Ranger

Realy, I mean really. They should call this game path of melee. No one has ranged builds everywhere i go its crit daggers this, EK that , or discharge this!!! No one cares about a ranger being ranged anyomre lols. This has so turned into whirlwind barbie lol like in D3. 1 in like 10 posts are about actual ranger skills.

Lvl 82 Ranger

Yo, im doing like this. Party dps with full auras (frenzy ~45k LA ~7.5k if i remember correctly) and of course insta shock stacks because crit.
Thinking to buy kaoms and thunderfists and then spec to blood magic, now using BM gems.

Doing pretty well in maps, lvl 76 cremaboss is nasty with -res but can beat it and double boss in shrine.. well gg then :) 70-75 not problem, and usally sell all 78s.

My gear, have to upgrade amulet and quiver.




http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgIAAF4EfgW1CC4M8g5IEZYVIBXwGY4Z1xrbIXYj9iQ8JP0mlSepKk0s6TBxMHwxnjH6Mgk1kjY9OdQ6QjpYOuE-zz8nSVFKfUrIS3hN41BCUUdVS1b6WkhabWHiZ6BsRm17bqpv8nBScNVybHb3d9d9dX8rf8aHGYd2iGuI8Yw2jX2Nv5UFm42do6CfoaSiLqXLplenXKluqn-quKxZr-u1SLXyu-O95sBRxKLGosqp037UI9UA1ordDd2o4dvjhOdU52PndO2D7g7veu_w8kXz6vlj_Kv8xf4K_o_-uv7I

I have ~6.5k life so if needed moar dmg, spec away some of that scion life ring and get heartseeker multi nodes and maybe change start to get those proj dmg nodes and skip eva/life start.

Bump - come on guys this is a legit question.

Only decent DPS end game Bow ranger build I've seen is LA crit.... I'm guessing they're all using something similar to Blastrophe?


Come on dev's just buff the ranged passives slightly. Whats the point in being ranged when you can just faceroll everything as melee

LA crit is indeed decent. Basically crit is the only way to go with any high dps build. With a very good bow, we're talking high attack speed, 400+ dps and local crit chance, hitting 60-70k dps with a 6-linked frenzy is easy. Blastrophe had a screenshot of 12k tooltip dps LA with chain and LMP, and considering the amount of hits LA does, its not unrealistic to count the real dps somewhere in the 100k region per mob on large packs. :)

But still, this is NOTHING compared to the half a million dps discharge and flicker strike builds, not to mention cast on crit...

I'm pretty new to PoE, so please be gentle.

Why would you get so many +6% elemental damage nodes, and skip the +8% and +15% projectile damage nodes at Ranger starting point? Wouldn't the projectile damage nodes be more damage since it's your entire projectile instead of just the elemental part?

Then you go 4 points past blood magic to get +20% added life, but there is +%28 added life for 4 points closer to home just sitting there.

I know I probably am just a noob and am missing important info, but this seems like an inefficient built to me because of how many points you have to spend going all over the tree.

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spikeyfreak wrote:

I'm pretty new to PoE, so please be gentle.

Why would you get so many +6% elemental damage nodes, and skip the +8% and +15% projectile damage nodes at Ranger starting point? Wouldn't the projectile damage nodes be more damage since it's your entire projectile instead of just the elemental part?

Then you go 4 points past blood magic to get +20% added life, but there is +%28 added life for 4 points closer to home just sitting there.

I know I probably am just a noob and am missing important info, but this seems like an inefficient built to me because of how many points you have to spend going all over the tree.

About the projectile damage, I dont know why I didnt spec them. I have been playing with the build on poebuilder.com and it gave me 80 extra dps to switch out 4 lightning nodes for the projectile damage and the 4 nodes past BM yeah I totally didnt see that. Thanks for being nice about pointing out the brainfart I made. my main reason for going all over the skill map is because I i was going for shock with Resolute techniques. I currently have 30% to shock with Voltaxic rift Bow and nodes.

I sont wanna have to worry about accuracy if I drop RT. and pick up crit nodes.

Is the crit that much more substantial?

yes you need crit my friend

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lewstherrin12 wrote:

Realy, I mean really. They should call this game path of melee. No one has ranged builds everywhere i go its crit daggers this, EK that , or discharge this!!! No one cares about a ranger being ranged anyomre lols. This has so turned into whirlwind barbie lol like in D3. 1 in like 10 posts are about actual ranger skills.

Lvl 82 Ranger

I was able to achieve 117k dps frenzy, 20k split arrow build with the ranger class.

the link is here
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/722089

However, the gears are insanely expensive, i could probably make at least 3+ melee chars with damage over 20k with the currency i invested in this ranger.

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lewstherrin12 wrote:

Realy, I mean really. They should call this game path of melee. No one has ranged builds everywhere i go its crit daggers this, EK that , or discharge this!!! No one cares about a ranger being ranged anyomre lols. This has so turned into whirlwind barbie lol like in D3. 1 in like 10 posts are about actual ranger skills.

Lvl 82 Ranger

i rarely ever see melee in nemesis. go home.