Blast rain links?

Currently I have

Conc effect + Faster attacks + Weapon elemental damage

What would the 5th link be?

Too little info?

I guess it would go something like:

If phys build => Phys To lightning or Added Fire perhaps
If crit build => crit multi
If elemental build => added lightning

But again, too little info.

that's the tags stuff

Crit - elemental.

PPAD?

shit, I didn't read you were elemental.

I'd probably go with slower projectiles if you need more damage, or PCoC if you want to crit more consitently.

Certainly phys to Lightning, unless you're already running something like Blackgleam (in which case, I'd say fire Penetration).

ma shitty quiver :P

I started off by running a phys scaled archer using blast rain and blackgleam, converting all to fire, and using infernal mantle to change some to chaos. I used WED / Conc / FA / PPAD (bad luck with chromes).

As you see above, I Switched slightly (I might mention I went CI+Leech+Vaal Pact)

Now I run the gems in my bow as above due to:



I took a hit to damage yes, but I specced out of elemental nodes and put them into ES and projectile damage nodes. Due to having a .75s recharge delay on ES + ghost reaver leech and chin sol+point blank, I'm playing a sort of melee bow user with blast rain and am loving it.


One suggestion: do not use slower projectiles. Scale projectile speed upwards at all cost, and find another (better) damage multiplier. Slow projectiles have a noticeable effect on the speed at which the rain comes down after the arrow goes offscreen, which can make the skill more clunky and harder to hit moving targets.

No WED?

If my damage was 100% converted to an element, then yes, I would use WED. If I wanted to do multiple elements (i tend to make themed characters) I would do BR + FA + Conc + PhysToLit + WED.

Since I want to stay with just fire, I use the conversion of blast rain alone, and scale my physical damage and use added fire, as that nets more DPS at a lower mana cost. My damage BASE is 50% phys, 37.5% fire, and 12.5% chaos. Adding ~40% of near 100% of my damage as fire is alot better than multiplying 37.5% of my damage by ~55%.