+6 skills poison arrow

Maybe something like this.



And run grace aura only. Where blood dancer boots, giving you major major hp regen especially considering 4k hp will be had super super fast, and can easily get 6k without kaoms. I would get hp/skill point/ frenzy charge for rewards. This might be what I play at some point on the new replacement onslaught server. Probably not first, unless I buy a silverbranch that could take me to mid 50s with ease, and blood dancers should be cheap. None of the required gems for leveling are expensive either.

I jsut don't like the idea of shock stacking, maybe it will be more efficient and easier than I am imagining, but in groups I have someone else shocking anyways, and solo, i don't seem to need it, although spamming arc on piety might have sped things up, I was spending more time spreading poison keeping, viper charges on her, and her being cursed, and running away from her when she changed forms.

I would probably use iron reflexes early in game, and respec out later. Just till I had the hp regen and high hp pool. Although, having a high armor build is almost equally tempting, this seems easier. I like the idea of armor, simply because with evasion, you take big hits when you take hits, and life regen is much slower than say life leech at getting your hp back. Maybe I just snag herbalism, and a couple instant and a powerful life flask and hope it works. Right now I get about 210 life regen per second, with good gear, and a more hp oriented build it would be 300, with blood dancers you are talking at least double that. My current 50% increased recov speed flask gives something like 200 life a second. So when I use it it is equivalent to 400, if I can run 500+ a second, I think that is extremely solid. It also depends on what this new league is like, plus this build can sometimes get boring, I'm getting bored of this character, but only because I want it to play slightly different, hence wanting to change my spec around.

If you want to magic find, just use the cloud degen and culling strike with something else. A fun build might be dual arc totem + cull+iiq/iir(for shocks as well with static blows) . You could throw in some minions too.

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If you want to magic find, just use the cloud degen and culling strike with something else. A fun build might be dual arc totem + cull+iiq/iir(for shocks as well with static blows) . You could throw in some minions too.

Yeah, definitely not a bad idea. Currently I run bear trap with iiq and iir and culling. It works fairly well. You still get magic find from your gear when killing with poison arrow, but you can't link up iiq or iir to it and have hte degen apply it, would have to hit them. So with that in mind I figured I could try to stack as much quantity as possible, plus orbs are easy to hear drop. Keep bear trap like it is, works nice when I viper them up, and quick finish.

But i still think when soloing maps I should just be tanky enough i can run across the entire map spamming pa, and then go back through finishing stragglers and collecting loot, and killing rares.

The +bow skill is great for two skills - Poison Arrow AND Explosive Arrow.

I've leveled multiple characters with Explosive Arrow. It's damage is outstanding.
You oneshot packs in maps. EA + LMP + Chance to ignite + Ele prolife.
It's like discharger with the difference that you are ranged character, not melee.

It also works with Elemental Hit, having that as level 26 would give you massive elemental damage. Could potentially use that on a totem to proliferate shock, burn and freeze. Which is what I do with my Crit Ranger... but that does require a decent amount of crit chance.

My other idea was just going a full elemental hit build, but that would require a good amount of accuracy and mana regen to spam it.

Yeah you could have a lot of fun with it. I've done explosive arrow before, it was powerful, but I killed myself when ele reflect mob pathed into a group I had stacked with charges, i don't think you can get enough hp to survive that damage. So I chose doing PA again more because it was a hardcore character, and I could dump points into hp and regen like crazy. And no issues with reflect etc.

I just made it to level 56 and now have a +5 poison arrow, it does decent damage but as I've levelled I've actually made the build a hybrid mix with traps. Lighning trap has very reliably been shock stacking mobs and a multitrap fire trap adds a large amount of extra damage over time to the poison arrow cloud.

My gear at the moment, will be adding Carcass Jack when I reach 62:



Just need to head towards more life and life regen and then hopefully get around 140 dex so I can use the bow with Atziti's Foible.

Feel free to post up your build. Sounds like fun. If I find another +3 bow in the new hardcore league I will make another PA character. I can't seem to get shock stacking to work for me, plus I want to play things a bit differently if I do it again, so I have some good ideas for if I do it again. But wouldn't mind seeing more of your build. I'm clearing maps now, but i am honestly tempted to buy a lvl 20 PA. Or if I do it again I will level up PA on another character, so I have great damage, rather than being 4 levels lower than I should be. Also, empower is ridiculous to level.

Yeah traps are fun, I plan on using the blood dance boots. I can run Arctic armour at the moment too, good bit of damage reduction as I don't have much armour. May end up crafting an armour/ES chest, but I think Carcass would go well with the build.


This really boosts the lightning trap damage and fork means that I normally shock stack a mob with only needing to throw one.

I have rather low life at the moment, just wanted to test the damage first. Will probably end up with around 3k+ life. Arctic armour is great for kiting as the ice chills and slows mobs, also using zombies at the moment, but they aren't really tank enough yet. May even swap them for a conversion trap. Good ways of distracting the enemy while they burn and rot :p

Will link the build later, on my phone at the moment.

A good 5 link for lightning trap is:
Ele prolif, lightning pen, iron will and fork.

I think I'll be doing this in the new leagues upon release. I tried it in Onslaught already and it worked fine even without empower existing back then (with the exception of chaos resistant mobs). Honestly I'd say the only major drawback I felt was that you can't life leech off PA's cloud damage so you're totally dependent on life regen and kiting to keep you alive.

Now if you could actually leech off the cloud in later patches....