Saber's OB elemental bow Ranger experience (lvl 76)

Hello fellow rangers are other,

I want to share my current Ranger build (inspired by Petrov & Feels in cb) and my experience about it.

1) Lets start with the build itself:



2) Next is the gear & gems:



Gear also includes the skill/support gems i use aswell as the flasks. And note that most of the gear is not high-end stuff at all.

Adding the main skills i use:

Split arrow - faster attacks - weapon ele damage - chain - life leech
Elemental Hit - faster attacks - weapon ele damage - added cold damage

Wrath - Anger - Grace - reduced mana
Elemental Weakness

3) Now its time for the numbers (stats):

Note that these stats are with Grace, Wrath and Anger auras and at level 76

Health: 4002
Resistances: 80% to all (chaos -50%)
Armor: 5500 (34%), 15k+ with either Granite flask up (60%)
Liferegen: 100
Runspeed: 26%, 93% with runflask

Default Attack: 1800
Elemental Hit: 4350
Split Arrow: 1760
attack times are 0.31sec on all

4) Gameplay:

Pretty easy and basic stuff considering offense - start off with elemental weakness curse and spam split arrow, the life leech gem will outheal your lifecost/use and even let u facetank most of the white mobs. Use Elemental Hit for single target dps, mostly for rares and bosses (decoy totem can help, or just kite if needed).
Now a litle about defenses/survivability - use Granites when tanking physdmg mobs and if u get overwhelmed by hard hitting mobs pop the runspeedflask (also instaheal pots if needed) and u should be able to get away safe.

Currently the 66-68 blue maps are a cakewalk (cant get much easier/faster). The highest lvl map so far was a 70 rare Coves with 90qual, 50% reduced recovery, 90% more light dmg. Also had alot of flicker and fast mobs, a pretty hard map yes but i managed to complete it without a death.

Also a little about premap farming in Coves - i did a complete run in less then 4 minutes when i had some nice gear already. Took about 10 mins at early levels of farming there.

5) Reserved for more stuff later =)

Hope i helped u get a more clear picture of what u can expect from a high level elemental ranger. Also open to any suggestions, advice, questions... etc.

Cheers, Saber

this build for hardcore?

Saber, nice job. Any chance you could use a regret on Iron Grip and tell us all your various dps figures with and without it?

P.

to xocelolprox

No, mostly becouse of my stone age pc my game tends to crash alot :(

to Petrov

def: 1711
split: 1711
elehit: 4230

almost no difference at all :)

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sabercar wrote:

to Petrov

def: 1711
split: 1711
elehit: 4230

almost no difference at all :)

Saber - many thanks. And kinda what I thought. I think people who don't have massive phys damage builds overestimate the value of Iron Grip as (only) a general rule. And this is with a pretty high strength build (284).

P.

Could you please compile a skill gem list and Link scheme?

I know u posted your gear, but it takes FOREVER to look at the gem of an item in this forum, don't know if its just MY bug, but it would take me like 5 minutes just to look through all gems. =/

If I'm the only one with this problem, what should i do to fix it? :P

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mrpetrov wrote:

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sabercar wrote:

to Petrov

def: 1711
split: 1711
elehit: 4230

almost no difference at all :)

Saber - many thanks. And kinda what I thought. I think people who don't have massive phys damage builds overestimate the value of Iron Grip as (only) a general rule. And this is with a pretty high strength build (284).

P.

mrpetrov, Do you think this build is better than your tankier + shock stacking" build?

Better health and dps.

Thanks for answer.

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RuckingFetard wrote:

mrpetrov, Do you think this build is better than your tankier + shock stacking" build?

Better health and dps.

Thanks for answer.

I dont think that this build has more dps if u take into account the shocked effect of MrPetrov

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Legebril wrote:

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RuckingFetard wrote:

mrpetrov, Do you think this build is better than your tankier + shock stacking" build?

Better health and dps.

Thanks for answer.

I dont think that this build has more dps if u take into account the shocked effect of MrPetrov

And survivability?

Hoost: yes i think its a bug for you only, but i will make the gem list with all the links no problem.

About damage and survivabilty:

I play mostly solo so mob packs die in few hits (1-3seconds), shock stacking in this case wouldnt do much.
But in group play shock stacking should help alot with general dps yes

Survivability is mostly based on gear and knowledge about game mechanics (knowing the hard mobs and how to engage them), so i suggest that before starting maps you max out resists and get over 3k hp and you should be fine with most good builds.