Blood Rage Ranger in 2.0?

Now that Blood Rage does physical damage and this damage is reduced by armor, did anyone try out a Ranger with Blood Rage and Iron Will? Combined with http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Blood_dance it could be even better. Vaal Pact is also very close to the Ranger starting point now. It would only be useful if the instant life leech was worth more than the life regen from The Blood Dance, though.

it is not worth it in the least unless you need leech. if you need leech and use it for leech, im still not sure how worth it it would be

on one of my builds, being an explosive arrow build, the atk spd gain is negligible. also with my base 42% physical reduction without auras or flasks it takes about 250ish hp/sec regen to stay even. i'd rather have the added regen than to have just 18% atk spd. again because i don't utilize its leech

Blood rage + empower (+1 gems item helps even more) is great on a ranger. Don't take VP since the removal of thorn flesh packs I haven't had any issues using LGOH linked to my skills. Instead pick up the 1% regen node Master of the arena, it will also help you with str bonus to hp and meeting skill gem requirements. Between this node heart of oak and golems blood you should only have a degen of around 0.4% without having to use blood dance boots. The speed boost life leech and keeping your frenzy charges always full far out weigh that tiny bit of degen you wont even notice it when its at such a small amount. Blood dance kind of make blood rage pointless since they take away from your attack speed but the regen is really nice for low level survivability.

just keep 1x surgeon's divine life flask with you

I use it as melee ranger (dual claw molten strike) and I have acrobatics with barely any armor. I'm lvl 87 right now in tempest league. All I do is pop a flask whenever my life goes down a bit. Not hard to manage at all. My build is in my sig if your interested.

Why would anyone not use this skill? It's essentially free 3x frenzy charges 12% speed + 12% more dmg. Shocking ground makes you take more damage though so be careful with that. Nothing my flasks can't handle though.