[3.1] LA Crit Ranger? Need help with defensive stats

Hello fellow Exiles,

I REALLY want to make a crit Ranger work, since I love one-shotting the whole screen with ice explosions, but I'm having a tough time figuring out how to properly do it. I've tried an assasin but that didn't work out at all. Now I'm back to a ranger and so far I like the playstyle but I sense some problems with my defensive stats coming up (I'm on my way to Act 5 atm)...

My basic idea is to use LA to hit a lot of enemies at once (also, I don't like the feel of TS), combined with Herald of Ice - Curse on Hit - Assassin's Mark to make the whole screen explode with crits. For single target I've chosen Frenzy. I have the leech nodes down by the Duelist area right now but I think I have waaaay to little flat life and I'm not sure how to get there.

Since I'm still too weak for lab I don't have an ascendancy chosen yet. Thought about Raider for the playstyle (zipping around in maps) but right now I'm thinking Pathfinder would be better for survivability but to really go for a crit build I should go Deadeye.

What would be the best way to make this idea work? Any tips and tricks appreciated!

This is my planned build:

(If I really go for crit I should probably drop the Frenzy nodes)

Try something like this.(Click me)



It's a fairly standard crit ele conversion build with 160% inc life and a fair bit of crit chance and crit multi.

For defenses you have 156% inc eva + Acrobatics keystone and Avatar of the chase ascendancy node.