ZIGGYD's Rain of Arrows Ranger (Top 40 Nemesis 1 Week Race Build) 1.1 Updated!

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So I've been using this build for my first character, and everything was pretty much fine until I got to Dominus (on Normal, at level 39). Then I died, in all seriousness, around 100 times before I killed him. Roughly 20 of those were during the first phase, and most could probably have been prevented with better tactics. The other 80 or so were during the "ascendant" phase. For about 50 straight deaths, like clockwork, I would enter the area, he would cast Blood Rain within two seconds, I would wait for him to send a hand to grab me so I could at least get close to him before I died, and then with luck I would shoot him twice while smashing all my potion buttons before he and his tentacle minions killed me. I actually subbed in Cast on Death with some AOE runes instead of RoA for a while, so I would at least be guaranteed to damage him slightly. It was the low point of my entire career as a gamer. (Why the hell don't enemies heal after they kill you in PoE? Is there anything less satisfying than killing a boss who absolutely owns you, just because all you have to do is hit him once per death to eventually "win" the fight?)

So anyway, my point is that my character is obviously broken, but everyone else seems to be finding this build awesome, so I'm confused. I'm guessing the problem is that I don't know how to gear for it at low levels - I just don't have anything like what's displayed in the guide. No Blood Magic, no Added Fire, no Life Leech, no Concentrated Effect, no Culling Strike, no CwDT. 200 DPS, which seems really low. Is the build just really dependent on having nice equipment or something, so I should come back to it when I can provide the gear?

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Shmooberry wrote:

So i read through this thread to see if my question was already asked...didnt see it but if its there i apologize in advance :D

Using this guide to help me build my first Ranger in my first race...enjoying the game play though its a bit different than my other builds ive played with..not that its a bad thing by any means.

Enough rambling i suppose here's my question...Point blank specifically says...

Projectile Attacks deal up to 50% more damage to targets at the start of their movement...dealing less damage to targets as the projectile moves further.


RoA is not a projectile attack though...its categorized as attack...aoe...bow thats it..so im wondering how if at all point blank node would affect RoA?

now im also curious about what it means when it says at the start of their movement? who's movement..the targets or the projectile?

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Shmooberry wrote:

the best a friend and I could come up with is....its fired from a bow so would be considered a projectile...but other than that speculation wish there was some solid clarification

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Shmooberry wrote:

the best a friend and I could come up with is....its fired from a bow so would be considered a projectile...but other than that speculation wish there was some solid clarification

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and if it is a projectile...then you would be able to use lmp/gmp with it right? or use faster projectiles vs faster attacks

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Aim_Deep wrote:

That tooltip is wrong. You do 50% more dps to close mobs. Try it yourself on a self healing totem. I spent like 5 min learning exact range it's about 3 cm in my sceen. Back futher did less damage to totem.