[2.4] Doomfletch's prism Inquisitor a.k.a. The Kneebreaker

- The mod: "Gain 110% of Bow Physical Damage as Extra Damage of each Element" means that all the physical damage with this bow will provide an extra amount of ele damage of 4.9 times of the phys damage. Although the bow itself only have around 45 phys damage, if we can get around 55 flat phys damage from gear (17 from ammy + 15x2 from ring + 10 from Meginord's + 15 from quiver NOT counting Abyssus) we can get a bow that has about 100 phys damage and 490 ele damage. That's efficient!

- Since Doomfletch's Prism has such a tiny amount of flat phys, Damage buffs like Hatred/Herald of Ash/Wrath/Anger are NOT good options. We can focus more on defensive aura like Purity/Grace/AA.

- This bow has very decent stats for a crit bow. Upto base crit 7%, 1.65 as is very beneficial for a crit ele bow build.

T13 Plaza map with 60% less regen and monster extra fire as damage

T16 Phoenix Guardian with less regen and monster damage. Died two times and did a bad job at keeping charges up so need to practice more..

Defense


Offense

In HO, no charge


Ice shot with 3 PC, 3 FC


Full charges (sustainable)


Note that tooltip damage is not correct since the more elemental damage of is not calculated. Blast Rain tooltip also calculated for only 1 blast and 75% chance I get 5 blast so take this as a grain of salt.

I used firestorm/firetrap to level until 44 so I can equip Doomfletch's prism. With Meginord's and some flat phys on gear, it is smoothsailing from there. I took RT first so I don't have to bother with accuracy and when I have enough damage/crit on tree I respec it out.

Templar spell damage nodes can be taken at early levels to make leveling easier since we can respec out for free.

Bandit: Oak-Oak-Oak

Without Acuity


With Acuity



Differences between 2 trees:
With Acuity: I have a bit better life (just from the strength), more damage and crit, endurance charge on bow crit and life regen to run bloodrage more comfortably. Mana leech also becomes instant on crit making low regen map much easier to run. That said, it is definately not a must since you can take Vaal Pact and use Maligaro's or Facebreaker or a good rare for huge damage gain. Acuity is more of a quality of life thing.

Sample tree with CI. No Acuity neeeded

My gear for example:



I arrange the options from the best to the worst in my opinion. Take it as you wish.

- Helmet: Abyssus, Rat's Nest, rare helm, BoR is viable options. Personally, I think Abyssus is the best for life based and rare Hubris is best for CI. Abyssus provide almost half of the total flat phys damage from all of my gear and I don't feel too squishy with it. I can also use Lightning Coil and self cast Enduring cry so it is really not too bad. Besides, the stats on Abyssus helps with getting enough INT for gems.

- Chest: Lightning Coil, Essence of Horror crafted chest, Rare Vaal Regalia, Kaom Heart. Since Hatred/Heralds sucks with this build, we can run purity of lightning to help cap resist for lightning coil and mitigate physical damage more efficiently. Essence of Horror on chest gives 15% damage taken as cold is also a good option. For CI ofc Vaal Regalia is bis no discussion. Kaom Heart can be used if you want to stick with 1 skill for both AoE and single target like Tornado shot (not recommended)

- Quiver: A rare Broadhead Arrow Quiver with crit mods, flat phys, life and accuracy is the best option here. We don't use Pierce in our gem setup so Drillneck is not that good.

- Belt: Meginord's Girdle, Rare Rustic sash with life/WED/Flask mods are all viable option. Meginord's is best for damage but a good rare rustic is not too much behind and can provide good survivability stats.

- Rings: Steel ring, diamond ring. No matter which ring you choose, try to get as much flat phys on them using essence of contempt. Life, resist, accuracy is bonus.

- Amulet: Life/Flat phys/Crit Mul/Crit Chance/Accuracy.

- Gloves: Atziri's Acuity, Maligaro's Virtuosity, Facebreaker, Rare Gloves. Acuity save me a bunch of points on skill tree and provide huge INT for my gems. Besides, it allow me to have life regen, making it more comfortable to run Blood Rage. If you take VP, other options are good as well and can potentially provide much more damage. Your choice.

- Boots: Rare boots. Life/Ms/resist or ES/resist/MS if CI

- Bow: Doomfletch's Prism. I value Crit chance>flat phys>attack speed. Ofc the higher the better.

- Jewels: Life>Phys damage=Phys damage with bow> Crit mult with elemental skills > Crit Chance with elemental skills.

There are many options. I have played through Lightning Arrow, Ice shot, Barrage and Blast Rain. In my opinion, the best options are Ice Shot chain for pack clearing and Blast Rain for single target. Lightning Arrow is OK if u like it more. Other skill is worse since with elemental skills I can get much better jewels with mods like "inc. crit mult with elemental skills".

- Why not Lightning Arrow? Even with chain I feel LA is still a bit behind at clearing packs. Plus it has less base damage than Ice Shot and doesn't leave chill ground like Ice Shot.

- Why not Barrage? Blast Rain with enchant can rival Barrage with extra arrow. Plus, I don't have to bother with extra arrow corruption/Volley Fire jewels. The MTX is quite good too as a minor bonus.

Link:
- Ice shot + GMP + Chain + Wed + Physical Projectile Attack Damage (PPAD) + Inc. Crit Strikes. If 5 Link remove WeD.
Color: GGGGBR

- Blast Rain + Conc Effect + Inc. Crit Strikes + PPAD + WED + Faster Attack. if 5 Link remove FA
Color: GGGBBR

- Orb of Storm + CoH + Assassin's Mark + Power Charge on Crit (PCoC). This keep me top up in power charge in boss fights. For general clearing everthing dies in 1 or 2 volley anyway.
Color: BBBB > Best bet is on rare boots with ES

- Artic Armour - Blood rage - Blink Arrow - Purity (depends on what you want). Example: I'd use purity of Ice if I use essence of horror chest, Purity of Lightning if I use Lightning Coil.
Color: 3G . I had to Vorici 3G Abyssus and got 3G1R so I'm using Purity of Fire.

- CwDT - IC - Warlord's Mark - Inc. Duration: Warlord's Mark is extremely important if I want to survive against reflect rare since 2% from duelist wheel is not enough (reflect damage is about 3.5%).

- Ele Reflect is baad.
- Immune to Status Ailment is OK but if map has procupines >> Be careful!
- - Max res is OK. With Warlord's Mark CwDT I never ripped to reflect in - Max maps
- No leech is NO NO since reflect will insta rip you.
- Nasty damage mod combo is gonna be dangerous. If you want to face tank contents, I'd suggest being CI and use Vinktar with this build.