Quill Rain build: Shade of the Quill Rain (CI Shadow)

I have the Quill Rain bow, and some nice quivers; I've tried it on my rangers and don't see any potential for a ranger to gain great mana production. So I'm looking at the shadow to make the most of the bow with auras and bow gems. frenzy may play a part as I am just starting to understand it.

Basic build
Shade of the Quill Rain

CI Version (this could use some editing)
CI Shade of the Quill Rain

I think, that Quill Rain won't get you much in the late game. It's pretty good when you use explosive arrow but other than that it has way too low damage. For your non CI build you need a lot more life and therefore less critnodes. I don't have experience with CI so I haven't looked at it.

If you are running quill rain I would suggest using a primary damage skill that scales super hard on its own like Elemental Hit. Then take elemental damage and projectile damage nodes and ignore all + physical bow damage nodes because they don't benefit you with the piddly amount of physical damage you have when running quill rain.

I theory crafted a vaal-pact ghost reaver + life on hit build with a friend. It goes like this:



I rush down to the survivability from golem's blood + diamond skin and then eventually refund the points to reconnect through the middle.

Major problem with this build is mana regen, but I think I can itemize past that as long as my mana pool is sufficiently large