The Infernal Poisoner Archer (Ranger or Witch)

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Nithryok wrote:

I have tried this build out pre-ranger respec, and it is utter trash, dark scorns damage is to low compared to lion's eye to even make it remotely worth it. You do more chaos dmg with lion's eye than darkscorn even after conversion.

Yes, with exactly the same passive points, the Lioneye's will deal more dmg than the Darkscorn. That's kinda obvious. However, defensively, the Darkscorn provides 25% physical resistance (with CI), against monsters and reflect. To get the same amount of physical damage reduction with a Lioneye's, you'd need to get lots of armor and sacrifice energy shield and even then, you wouldn't reduce as much physical dmg against big hits. To compensate, you'd need to spend more passives in es (or armor) and less in dps. In the end, I'm not sure if the dps gaps between the 2 weapons would be "that" large.

And, of course, a 5L Lioneye's is gonna cost you much much more than a 5L Darkscorn.

I like the idea of this build so i think ill give it a shot see if anything sticks no promises.

The theory crafting here seems strong and could even result in a decent hc build if it pans out