Physical Crit Ranger & Power Charge on Crit

Hey guys, has anyone experimented as a Physical Crit Ranger with the Power Charge on Crit support gem?

When using a Frenzy/Split Arrow Crit build, I thought it might actually be worthwhile, given the almost no mana increase to the support. One could even take the extra Power Charge node to the right of Assassination for a single point to buff it further.

Just curious if anyone has experience with this, been trying to get the gem myself to play around with it to.

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Lylz wrote:

Hey guys, has anyone experimented as a Physical Crit Ranger with the Power Charge on Crit support gem?

When using a Frenzy/Split Arrow Crit build, I thought it might actually be worthwhile, given the almost no mana increase to the support. One could even take the extra Power Charge node to the right of Assassination for a single point to buff it further.

Just curious if anyone has experience with this, been trying to get the gem myself to play around with it to.

if you grab the extra power charge in merc bandit quest and one on the tree, its better than a crit chance support
250% compared to 150% from the crit chance gem. With just 4 power charges its not a great improvement imo. On the other side it might worthwhile to use PCoC instead of faster att support so you will have both crit chance and PCoC connected, that is a serious buff. I wouldn't use it instead of chain or LGoH or even WED since those are practically mandatory.

That said I don't use it coz I just have 3 power charges.

What about PCoC instead of Crit Multi? Having huge crits worries me with an Evasion/Acrobatics build versus reflect physical.

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Lylz wrote:

What about PCoC instead of Crit Multi? Having huge crits worries me with an Evasion/Acrobatics build versus reflect physical.

it should, I have 900+ crit multiplier on my build with gear, phys reflect is hard, I switch to black-gleam + Ice shot on phy reflect maps.

Not sure if lowering 650% crit multy would help a lot.

I will try it during the weekend if I have time, instead of crit multy and faster att (If I get lucky with colors) and I will tell you impressions). Will also take an extra power charge on tree for testing purposes (will just have 4 in that case)

Awesome, I'd be very interested to hear your results. :)

PCoC is great but you need to have good critical chance.The bigger your crit chance
the easier you get to 3-4-5 power charges.I have only 3 been experimenting with PCoC.
It's quite easy to sustain the power charger but as I mentioned before I have good crit
chance for a bow.34% if I remember correctly.

I'm using crit multi on my frenzy and I just can't decide for the 2 blue support gems for
my SA.

I've been working on a build for this myself, this is what I came up with:

build

Highlights:

440% +Crit Chance
233% +Damage (Phys + Projectile Damage, I think these are additive?)
135% +Crit Multiplier
132% Life (only, biggest drawback)
+88 Max Life (+38 max life + 100 Strength/2) - kind of makes up for the %Life drawback above
+110 Int (makes levelling / using gems easier until that unique neck piece can be acquired)
+100 Str
+6 Frenzy Charges
+4 Power Charges (+5 with Bandit quest)

you can use PCoC on your secondary/single target attack and then still get a crit support for your main/aoe. that way you can maximize your crit on your main, though it obiously requires some proper charge management

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eckart wrote:

you can use PCoC on your secondary/single target attack and then still get a crit support for your main/aoe. that way you can maximize your crit on your main, though it obiously requires some proper charge management

I've been thinking of doing just that. But I had no luck in getting the right colors with 100 chroms that I had, will have to try again.

ok so I got the respec

5 frenzy charges and 3 power (need 4 more lvls to get the 4th power charge)

I managed to get 20/20 frenzy and 20q/1 PCoC

first impressions are good

I run around with 5f, 3p and 3e charges almost all the time(I use warlard mark to generate EC mitigate hard hitters via immortal call + cast on dmg taken).

I use this setup
frenzy + PCoC + crit chance + crit multy + faster att

and

split arrow + LGoH + chain + crit chance + crit multy + faster att

with full charges the dps on split comes from
6,5k to 8,6k

frenzy is at 28k with full charges

perpetuating PC is quite easy coz I have 41% chance without PC and over 50 with them. So it looks quite promising. Just tested on docks, will do on high lvl maps after









full charges consist in this case of 5 frenzy and 3 power charges, will add 4th PC in 4 levels