Poison arrow vs. Lightning arrow

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Ohtee wrote:

Islidox, are you getting Frenzy charges out of your totem? Damn totem support gem still hasn't dropped for me...

Yea, I got really lucky with the totem support when I looted it a few weeks back.

No, the Frenzy skill is not affected by the totem support. So in reality, what the totem can do is either cast Projectile Weakness OR the Hatred Aura. The Frenzy skill is an attack skill, not a spell, so it's not affected by the totem. It's just there as a placeholder for the skill.

This is actually pretty similar to the build I have going now. Initially I was planning on focusing on Lightening Arrow with Lightening and Elemental passives, but then I forgot how much I actually like Poison Arrow + Multi-shot, so it's been working it's way into my rotation a little more often.

My general tactic is spray with PA - then start firing off LA into the mix, as PA will continue to do damage while I kite/gain distance if needed. It also proves to be rather mana efficient as even if I just do one volley of PA + Lightening Arrow after - usually poison arrow will clean up the rest for normal enemies (and sometimes blues).

Initially I had worked over to pick up Ice Bite, figuring it would stack well with the Hatred gem, but it hasn't added much DPS as I thought it would, and think I may refund the points and move towards some more survivability.

I've also been playing around with using Puncture/Projectile Vulnerability/Posion Arrow to stack up some DoT's and it does quite a bit of damage over time - this bit of a mish-mash build has been serving me well and just started Merciless the other night.