Explosive Arrow Marauder (Updated for Release)

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westbryan wrote:

Hello,

sorry if the question has already been answered :


I plan on playing EA marauder with a Freezing Pulse friend.

Not sure about how Elemental Equilibrium would work :o


1) FP = weak to fire
2) explosive arrow, boom = weak to cold

and from now on, what about the burning ? considering my friend spams FP after the explosion

Does the burning continually proc EE, even if it's overwritten by spammed Freezing Pulse ?


Thanks

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EA is a projectile attack. Reflect damage can be dodged. So 60% less reflect damage.

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HiddenoO wrote:

You should reconsider that idea. If your friend freezes enemies, they'll shatter and not spread Burning with EP.

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Status Ailments encompass a variety of detrimental effects. Those associated with an element are collectively referred to as Elemental Status Ailments. Status Ailments are similar to Curses, but there is no inherent limit on the number of different Status Ailments a target can have at any given time.

http://en.pathofexilewiki.com/wiki/Status_Ailment

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DeltruS wrote:

Gonna try switching my build to this:

Spoiler

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEAxthYY1BQjM_2SF8_VEnnUu8Oud3yL9SPGS4n7cT2892sqjwtcqlZ88auTP982cAatz7-Cq9sZp6QVXq48kXFivrSrpPnY_AfNukdFLXyplcEs6IAJKrjapitj0apbjrhFE0CcRmF0NB4DU3jiPGDOBpsz2VYr6xZnYDvfJ2uVcY26P6PEmk6UmSjFxzfvxpVcXlhIYTvdO1672BLBS1AoO9OIWAyCXTxGNtDnA6tFHUppXRBd9d_KzB81opRR02SqrifJ42_qn8FtYcZ1CPdqMaiMHFLeDpC

If I can't dodge the reflect from EA explosion, I should still have more EHP against everything but reflect and shield charge. Should be fun!

I might drop conc effect for faster attacks, because I don't currently have room for the berserking node, and it would also help me VS reflect. I am definetely experimenting with stacking attack speed. It is so good combined with life on hit now that life pools are smaller. Acrobatics also makes your EHP larger compared to your life pool. I'm going to get a 20% split arrow, gloves with attack speed, and the 8% attack speed bandit in the future.

The alchemist node is insanely good. It brings my HP regen from ~330 to ~660 when I use my sapping potion.

EDIT: Decided to not get faster attacks on EA, and instead get attack speed on passives/gear so that it benifets life on hit too. I've also ditched ranged attack totem for decoy totem so I can have life on hit always available. Before it wasn't needed because I regened so much HP. Now it is much better because my life is much lower.

EDIT2: You can dodge rhoa hits with acrobatics. Strong.

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DeltruS wrote:

Best way to level an EA marauder imo is to use frost nova 1-25 with mana potions and then swap to ele cleave. You would rush straight from marauder and go to the templar area nodes.

I personally like to level as ele cleave from 25 ish to level 70ish. EA just isn't that fast for levelling, especially if you don't have a 5L. Just make sure to get your qual EA gems asap to level them up.

@DJSRP I am going to farm a lot with EA. I've got 137% quantity and 175% rarity. I wanna become something like Ghudda but with HC builds that are really effective. Maybe Invalesco would be a better example.

I don't want to do the new leagues. HC is hard enough for me and anarchy isn't HC.

As for EA in a new league... hmmm. You still want to level without EA for a looong time and then you need to have enough currency to 5L a quill rain. If you have very long term goals then go for it, but I don't think it is worth it if you aren't planning on going deep into maps.