[2.2] Arly's Lightning Arrow - Elemental Pathfinder

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_Zerk_ wrote:

Witch ascendancy class will be better for this build? Assassin\Deadeye\Raider?

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Nephalim wrote:

-First thing is to get 8 bow ias or lightning damage + projectile damage jewels. Get resists on these as well as it will help a lot with the remainder of the build.

-Then get a large amount of resists/life on non dps oriented pieces. Helm is fine but boots/gloves/belt could all gain a lot more life and resists at little cost.
-upgrade both rings to have as much flat elemental damage as possible aiming for cold flat as this will help herald of ice/pcharge generation as well as ideally some resistances. These are incredibly cheap and will vastly boost damage.

You'll want something like this - which was only 1 chaos albeit very early in the league and im sure people are starting to realize how strong flat ele and so readily hopped on the voltaxic rift hype train is at this point so expect prices to be a bit more than 1-2 chaos like they were.

With less than a 40 chaos investment and smart gearing you should be able to double your damage output.

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Nephalim wrote:

That looks good to me. You should try to get exactly 135 total res and use a swap for ele weak maps if you want to really optimize. Your amulet could use a lot more dps affixes but its providing useful regen.

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Pwd wrote:

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Nephalim wrote:

That looks good to me. You should try to get exactly 135 total res and use a swap for ele weak maps if you want to really optimize. Your amulet could use a lot more dps affixes but its providing useful regen.

Sweet thanks for the input. What do you mean by using a swap for ele weak maps? Sorry I'm still learning all the POE terms.

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Nephalim wrote:

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_Zerk_ wrote:

Witch ascendancy class will be better for this build? Assassin\Deadeye\Raider?

Assassin assuming its not nerfed to the ground on release, and it will be.

Next up would be deadeye for extra chain.

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Your dps seems fine to me, keep in mind my jewels are all perfectly optimized to provide dps as well resists and my bow will outdamage a voltaxic in some scenarios. One issue is your hit rate is very low. Try to get accuracy on ring quiver or amulet. I'd aim for 88-89% hit rate at level 90.


Second, you need to use the link combination I posted so you can generate power charges/Hoi shatters which is an integral part of the build. Right now your crit chance is only 30% ish and the build is heavily reliant on crits to burst and shock.

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Gloves - BM - Ice golem - Assassin's mark or blink arrow | anger [GRX-R]

The anger is unlinked to BM. thus the "|".

Optimization this point will be the following:
reallocate a portion of str and dex to your ring/amulet/passives so you can free up those 2 jewel slots. Find out how much str and int you can squeeze from the tree, how much you need from gear and if its under 50. Get jewels with 8 IAS or 16 lightning damage + 10-12 projectile damage and a secondary affix like resists or crit.

Alternatively, try using this tree which will have 154str/134 int. Wit a 24/24 int/str amulet you will have enough for wrath and be short 13 str for koam's. In prior patches it was beneficial to go to marauder which was more than enough str but no longer.

Then, upgrade your diamond ring to have more flat elemental damage since you gained some resists from jewel. Your paua ring has exactly the right stats but not the best base since mana is totally worthless for the BM variant.

Both your quiver and amulet are at an ideal cost/performance point.

After this point, you have to really work to squeeze every last once of damage and life.

Spoiler

LA+Aura+Golem:
LA+Aura+Golem+Charges(7F/3P):
LA+Aura+Golem+Charges(7F/3P)+Vaal Haste:
LA Stats:
Defenses: