Mana Issues With Lightning Arrow Ranger

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Asidra wrote:

Considering you have a 5l Bow, yolo exalting might not be a bad idea. I think you have 2 prefixes left...unless your physical% and accuracy is from a hybrid roll - in which case you sill have 1 prefix. I would exalt that bow. You potentially have 2 prefixes left, and even if you end up getting an elemental one it will help you. Really nothing to lose other than 2ex, and a fairly likely successful upgrade.

But, regardless how you go about it - improving your bow will allow Mana Leech on Lightning Arrow to sustain just fine.

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Edit: I am an idiot - it's 199% which is above tyrannical - you do have the hybrid roll. One prefix and 1 suffix left. You have to exalt the bow. Honestly, depending on currency, I might eternal exalt. With 199% landing a decent physical roll will shoot the DPS on this well over 300. And crit chance and IAS suffixes are in play. As is, this bow has a high ceiling.

You told me what I wanted to hear, that I was sitting on a potential winner. Being the poor bastard that I am, I had 2 pure exalted to my name until I sold an IIQ gem for an exalted about 10 minutes ago. Figuring it had to be fate that I would end up with another exalted just after reading this, I decided to toss an exalt at the bow... Quite sad at the results :(

EDIT: Still considering another one... The great thing about Path of Exile is that it teaches you things about yourself. For instance, I am never setting foot inside of a casino because apparently I have a gambling problem.

Oh well. In other news, I ended up taking both Omjak's and Frankenberry's suggestions, because with the amount of life I had, Blood Magic was keeping my life pretty low. I still haven't fully backed out of the evasion wheel yet (mostly because I haven't done all my respec quests)... My plan was, again, to cut up through there and hit those crit nodes, but also to take Path of the Hunter for 12% projectile damage and 20 flat evasion, as well as the 30% node on the way there. It seems debatably worth it... I know that 12% projectile damage alone can be obtained by taking 2 of the 8% nodes near the ranger start, but basically I'm looking at this:



versus this:


The difference is two points, and I'm essentially trading off a bunch of evasion for a bunch of stat nodes. I'm also losing the flat evasion, which to my knowledge is like Oak's flat HP reward in normal in that it contributes to all percentage nodes as well as any global %ev on gear (my amulet, for example). With all that said, is it still a bad idea to take those evasion nodes? Are you saying I should leave those crit nodes alone altogether?

I suppose if I wanted to take mana geyser, I could put those two points in there instead, but it just feels so wasteful to me. I'll probably end up trying it, but it's so so hard to get out of old habits. I've really always been a glass cannon player (for instance, my favorite D2 build was a frozen orb sorc with all gear based on +damage and literally every point into energy to fuel spam/ES, ES only being taken because frozen orb had only one synergy so I had nothing else to do with my skill points past level 40... Woah nostalgia), and it took me many characters that never made it to cruel/merc to increase my comfort zone to include damage AND survivability. Now you're asking me to step into utility and I just don't know if I can handle it! :P

Thanks again to anyone who posted and I am looking forward to more responses.

Those builds you linked. You don't want either of them. The crit chance nodes you go for are way to low. It is much more efficient to go for assassination and bloodthirst.



From here look at talons of murder, more life and influence for aura efficiency. Fury bolts is also allright. Also the 8% attack speed near ranger (the first talent if you start as ranger) is solid.



low lvl LA build, with more overall better path. Remember that evasion+armor nodes counts double if you use pure evasion items, so the evasion wheel is not very good if you go for iron reflexes.

This build assumes you use blood magic gem.

You don't have to follow a guide strictly, but you might get inspired or shown a more optimal to achieve your own builds goals.

well its sometimes good to review what others have learned so you can apply their knowledge to your own liking, or extend that knowledge further.

But if you don't mind the loss of time, and currency to do your own thing; Making your own build can be a worthwhile and fun process.

When creating my own build, i went through several full respecs and tons of regrets trying out different things (part of why i'm so goddam poor). After reviewing a couple builds, and after a couple more respecs and tweeks, i was able to make a build That had everything i wanted.

However, i have paid a heavy price. A big chunk of the currency i have gained thus far has gone into build-crafting. I can't imagine where i would be right now had i had this knowledge/build to begin with rofl.

But thats also two-sided cuz my state of being poor was able to break my addiction to this game, and now i can focus more on studies and whatnot xD. Now i just help all of you guys out to get kind of a small dose of poe.

Well...as far as non offensive suffixes go...that's a good top tier fire resist roll. Having good resists makes it a little easier to get better offensive rings/ammy/quiver as you need less or no resistances on them. 1 Prefix left for a + physical roll.

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Asidra wrote:

1 Prefix left for a + physical roll.

Better than nothing I guess.

Definitely not ideal. But functional at 240 dps. Better than you had before.

So here's a question... Is Haste just a shit aura or does it have a use somewhere? I assumed it was the better offensive aura for something like my LA (1.55 APS bow) so I used it without even considering hatred... turns out switching to hatred significantly increased my DPS. God am I stupid.

I have literally never seen a build get more DPS out of haste than hatred... Would that require some weird Oro's build or what?

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MosesXIII wrote:

So here's a question... Is Haste just a shit aura or does it have a use somewhere? I assumed it was the better offensive aura for something like my LA (1.55 APS bow) so I used it without even considering hatred... turns out switching to hatred significantly increased my DPS. God am I stupid.

I have literally never seen a build get more DPS out of haste than hatred... Would that require some weird Oro's build or what?

Haste typically is good dps combined with wrath and anger. It also grants you movement speed, which is good for overall clear speed. However it will not outdps anger or wrath.

I guess if you are a caster it will grant you cast speed, while anger / hatred / wrath will grant you 0 spell dps.

So yeah basically it will not do more tooltip dps than hatred or wrath (depending on your build), but it is great for overall synergy and clearspeed.

Well, after switching around my gems as suggested, switching auras and buying this



I am doing fairly well. Broke after paying ~8ex for the Lioneye's but doing well nonetheless.

EDIT: I made this post to thank everyone who popped in to help... but I forgot to do that. Well, thanks. :D

For future reference, I've found a Thief's Torment works very well for alleviating Lightning Arrow's mana costs. Better options statwise in the end-game, though.