63lvl Tank Bow Ranger build

Hi,
I have 2 quick question.

1) You're so close to all the buff duration passives. Wouldn't your build benefit a lot from that, or does it not matter, since you're firing the whole time anyways?

2) You skipped 2 30 STR nodes. Wouldn't they benefit you more than e.g. 2 times 6% life?
@Rakimou

There is a substentional difference between Merciless and Chaos Maelstrom. Having 4.5K life and 180/s regen at lvl 68 there was no way for me to die in any of the Merciless areas.
But Chaos Maelstrom is another story. No matter how tanky you are, I have learned (although it has not happened to me) that you can die by one hit in Chaos**. So while in Chaos Maelstrom you have to be really carefull and yes more tanky.

My char died at 68 offline in Chaos Maelstrom. Last thing I remeber seing was a gold hellion (inflicting a puncure on me) with a pack of regular hellions and some flicker pirates in back while logging off. So welcome to the died by puncture club :)

But to the puncture question.
The damage over time from puncture (while standing or running) is % based on the inflicted damage. So Regular and blue puncturing mobs I even didnt notice with my life regen and was able to run even while bleeding. Difference was when a gold boss punctured me, there I wasn't able to run too much, because that hurt a lot. So the recepie here is a very high life regen and powerfull healing flasks. If I have 4.5K life I can run for several seconds before the bleeding from puncture takes it down...

**
Spoiler
One time a Charging gold rhoa with extra substentional damage aura hit me in Chaos. I had approx 40% damage taken reduction at the time of the hit and that bastard inflicted a 2.7K life lost on me. If that would have been a critical hit I might have died by 1 hit.
So be much more tanky for Chaos.
And still, you can allways die no matter how prepared you are.

Last edited by Dushan#7781 on Jul 11, 2012, 5:04:39 AM
@mokschi


1) I haven't even considered to try any any of the buff increase passives. I was havily focused on getting as much life as possible and buffs don't help with that.

2) I have tried that +30 Str versus +6% life using my refunds to see the difference. And 6% was getting me 4 times more life than those +30 Str.
That is simply because I had (for ranger) high life base and heavy life enhanced equip.
The skilltree does not seem to work for me?
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Caldazar wrote:
The skilltree does not seem to work for me?


It's from June 10th.
Here's a sketch of the 9.11 tree for this build:
Spoiler
http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAQIBBB95HgbARM8I23LXCvwqrw70lhEPjoKdEiGPIxJoD8cUgyuTFqmfNiPvSKwphsCPKrptXjGTSfc0NrVqN5cIRDsoLVVExjLpRqoNjkcSK3RIWfzzSKVcsEm2H21Qw9nhUWGdLVL8hARTT2zCVHnnAFVkDmtZfOmhW3nBl1upQbFexIRxYYpqKGoi67xw94dscYQpHHhNAbp9C94z7x4SX-AgJymJS1pBq3hxHLN4XsqLga1WiWl-lv1oCW2SsmK29AqYFINe7wfnCeoqyJm9AqI3qHa3gOBp2e1tA5yDYtvNsSBX0TQ918vVF8_TP_B7m29CSqpIAfPRe_jojQ8pV7P5HhO09lXh3bR_EZbVBHqTM_O3_aliP69n8-nJeg_6qg4KMNEJxAKieQXziRvt3Oo7bj_egRQFhNccEg==

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