[3.0] Ice Shot Raider - Need Help

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Frankenberry wrote:

Passive tree:
I will not go over why you respec like this :( Sorry but it's too long a post. Just do it :P
You should respecc into this: http://poeurl.com/bBQN (including changing your Ascendancy Points. Also you should make it a top priority to get Avatar of the Veil as fast as possible).

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Frankenberry wrote:

You can inspect my Pathfinder. Made it all the way to lvl 100 with a fairly similar setup. Personally I prefer Pathfinder with Cold Conversion builds and Raider with non-conversion builds (Typically Windripper instead of Lioneye's Glare) but it's not a big deal. Take a look and copy paste whatever you would like to steal from my setup =)

Please open up your profile so we can inspect your character. Even though you think you have given us all the information we need to give you some feedback there is a lot of information missing. So please open it up =)

With that being said: There is a lot of things to improve on.

Your passive tree is not very good. There is plenty of room for heavy optimization.
Your items are not that good either. To me it seems like you focus on the wrong stats in the wrong item slots.
Your gem choices are not so good either. Plenty of room for optimization.
You severely lack life and defenses. A Glass canon has 5.000 hit life in level 90. You are lvl 86 and way off that standard.

Passive tree:
I will not go over why you respec like this :( Sorry but it's too long a post. Just do it :P
You should respecc into this: http://poeurl.com/bBQN (including changing your Ascendancy Points. Also you should make it a top priority to get Avatar of the Veil as fast as possible).

Itemization:
This is a standard ruleset for which stats you want to make a priority in each item slot for a standard bow character (which this is). Some builds of course make changes so take this as a rule of thumb list:

Offensive Items: Bow, Quiver, Amulet
Defensive Items: Boots, Belt, Chest
Build specific = Rings, Gloves, Jewel, Helmet (usually a unique helmet)

Offensive Items Slots:
Bow = Offensive item (Attack speed is the most important roll for your character. Not physical %)
Quiver = High life and offensive stats. Least important offensive stats on a quiver are flat physical / elemental damage and increased crit chance. Avoid resistance suffixes on your quiver if possible.
Amulet = Life, Attributes and offensive stats. Try to get some STR / INT or high all attributes on your amulet. Get life (or room for 44 Elreon Enchant). However the most important stats are two of the following three: Crit multiplier, Elemental Damage with Attack Skills, High Flat physical Damage, High Flat Elemental Damage (in your case it has to be cold).
Also an amulet with decent life is much better if it leaves room for other Elreon Enchants (usually crit chance or flat elemental damage - in your case cold). Avoid resistance suffixes on your amulet if possible.

Defensive Item Slots:
Boots = Movement speed + Life as top priorities. Beyond that as high resistance as possible.
Belt = Rustic OR Leather OR Heavy as base type. Heavy is often much cheaper than rustic or leather belt and as such you can often make a much better deal and get more "bang for the buck".
Top priority = Life and elemental resistance. If you have room for Elemental Damage with Attack Skills enchant (max 22%) good. If not - you can live with it until you can make an upgrade. IF you have enough resistance from other sources (passives, rings, jewels) you can make Life + Elemental Damage% your top priority.
Chest = Typically try to get a 6L rare and spam it for high life, resistance and possibly evasion OR get Belly of the Beast OR Queen of the Forest (specifically for Queen of the Forest builds (I would not recommend this item to your build).

Build Specific Item Slots (or filler slots):
Helmet = Usually it's a Unique. Either Devoto's, Starkonja or Rat's Nest. Starkonja's is the most defensive option of the 3. Rat's Nest is the most offensive and Devoto's has the highest movement speed bonus.

Gloves, Rings and Jewels: Include these into the type of items. On these items you want life on all of them (Increased maximum life on jewels or Southbound). Besides that first and foremost you want to fill in the gaps the rest of your gear left you with. Do you need resistances? Get that on your jewels and rings. Do you need INT / STR to wear your gems / gear? Then get it on your rings. When this is done see to other offensive stats (usually accuracy, attack speed and relevant offensive stats on your jewels. Accuracy does not matter with Lioneye's Glare).

This should be your guideline for gearing.

Gems:
I will return to this thread once you have opened up your profile to give some advice on gem setups =) I need to see your flask setup and jewel setup to see which gems are best for your setup. However I can tell you already that Ice Bite is not a good choice unless you have a very high amount of frenzy charges. Lack of Vaal Grace / Haste is also not a good thing and blood rage is not really needed on a Raider.

Edit: Allright. Took at look again with gems:
Flask setup:
I would strongly encourage you get you this flask setup:
1 x healing flask with bleed removal. If instant go for Divine. If not instant for eternal. Personal preference is up to you.
1 x Quicksilver with extra speed (as fast as possible) and either increased effect+reduced duration or increased duration (other combinations are okay as well. The increased speed is the most important part).
1 x Diamond Flask with Freeze Immunity and Duration.
1 x The Wise Oak with as high penetration as possible. For this flask to work you will need your uncapped cold resistance to your highest resistance.
1 x Atziri's Promise OR Silver Flask with Curse Immunity OR Basalt Flask with Curse Immunity. Atziri's Promise = Damage, leech and chaos resistance. Silver Flask = Clear Speed. Basalt Flask = Physical damage reduction. Really good if you struggle a bit against high spikes of damage.

Later on when you have better gear replace wise oak the 5th flask spot with Taste of Hate and Dying Sun. Also when you gain your last two Ascendancy points replace freeze immunity on flask with either curse immunity or bleed immunity.

Gems:
First take a look at my 4L setups. It's fairly standard. If you like Frost Bomb a lot I suggest you add in the one of the two 4L setups with increased duration and move one of the gems (Blink Arrow or Ice Golem) into an empty non-linked slot in your chest.

Second : Get a 5L single target barrage (or blast rain). It's shouldn't be hard to spam your chest a bit with jewelers and fusings to get 6 sockets and a 5L.

Ice Shot Links:
Ice Shot - GMP - Ice Bite - Elemental Damage with Attacks. 5th LINK. For damage go for Hypothermia. However since you are using Southbound I would suggest Increased Critical Strikes IF you have trouble killing trash mobs fast (crits freezes which ensures you can actually kill the packs). Now bear in mind it's not a good thing if you 3-shot each pack. You aim for 1-shotting almost every pack out there. Else you should remove Southbound as an item alltogether. I suggest ICS for now.

Barrage - Ice Bite - GMP - Elemental Damage with Attacks - Hypothermia (technically added cold damage is a bit better than hypothermia but I assume you will quickly improve your rings / amulet with some gear that includes higher flat added cold from elreon enchants. When you have done this Hypothermia becomes better).

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iwonderwice wrote:

What about bandits?

be smarter, come on. Think a bit.