[1.0.4] 5 Aura Elemental Spectral Throw Sword Shield Ranger

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Shurko wrote:

What rewards do you choose from the bandits? :)

My choice >
Normal: Help Oak (+40 life)
Cruel: Help Kraityn (8% attack speed)
Merciless: Help Kraityn (+1 frenzy)

Tried Blood Rage and it was fun but not economical for me just yet. Would appreciate if you would help me out with a few more questions I have.

Any reason why you have no elemental damage on your weapon and just physical?

Is there any 'reflect' issues later in the game?

Is Block and Stun Recovery important?

Of course, the best weapon is high elemental and high attack speed. The effect: attack speed > elemental damage on weapon >>> physical damage. So I just want a high attack speed weapon only. If you got the same passive tree, the stun recovery will be enough.

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Everything cool BUT with very high attack speed and a lot of hits in short time :

LIFE GAIN ON HIT > Life Leech !!!!!!!

From wiki :

"The regeneration rate of life gained from life leech is a set rate equal to 20% of maximum life per second"

With life leech you cannot then regenerate more than around 700hp per second ( based on your current max life ) .

Life gain on hit at lvl 20 gives 44HP each hit , 20% quality adds additional 10 points .
20lvl 20% quality gives 54HP each hit . With that attack speed and number of projectiles , which actually hits multiple times , it is pretty easy to break 700hp per sec because you need like 14 hits per sec .

Try it dude , you will be almost immortal on mobs .

Just an update for you guys. I'm lvl 54 and at the end of Act III Cruel, Nemesis. I am currently just farming the docks.

My progression is going slowly. I am currently running a 5L (3G, 2R):
ST + LMP + WED + ML + KB

I have tried:
ST + LMP + BM + LOH + FA

The Mana (or Life) Multiplier for BM is still a bit high for my liking so I'm just working on upgrading the gem separately for now. Right now I believe I'm hitting a gearing wall and need to update a number of my equipment slots.

I think I may end up going 3-4 aura skipping the two Reduced Mana Reserved Nodes Deep into the top-right and bottom-left trees.

I will try grabbing a few +%mana nodes instead and hopefully I can fit the auras in.

To OP, what do you think about Shield Nodes like +Block and +Increased Def from Shields?

Ask yourself, what kind of attack you want to use, physical or elemental in the future? And then decide what kind of node and gem need to take. Or...your dps will be terrible.

I want to ask your opinion on my lvl 61 Ranger so far. I have made the switch to BM + LoH and doing quite well. I can only equip 2 auras currently. A third hopefully in a few levels.

My Current Gear:


My Current Skill Tree:


My resists are 73/77/40/-60 respectively in Merciless.
Life: 2100
Spectral Throw DPS: 1036 (Wrath)
Armor: 8786 (Grace)

The Blood Dance Boots I found help with grabbing Frenzy charges safely and even help with Life Regeneration. I plan on replacing the boots and working Blood Rage in eventually.

This is the furthest I've gone so far any toon so far so I can't gauge my progress. Any points of improvement or thoughts? Thanks.

@Vagrant108

(1) your gear almost had no life.... As I said, survival is more important than dps. Dead man has no dps! At level 70, you life should > 3000. Or you cannot sustain such skill consumption from your main skill with BM gem.
(2) Bloodrage is physical life leech. I saw you stack many elemental damage with your gear. While using elemental mode, life leech or life gain on hit is necessary and enough!
(3) Blood dance boots has side effect of decreasing frenzy charge attack speed effect. If you can use vitality, blood dance boots is not required in this build.
(4) With powerful aura elemental damage support, you should buy a gear with attack speed >2.1, and then high elemental damage. A high attack speed damage without elemental damage is still better than your triple elemental damage with 1.7 APS( you can try and check out the skill dps description)
(5) The 5 L suggestion: ST + LMP + "WED" + BM + LGoH or LL
(6) Get more chaos resist if you want use blood rage
(7) This gloves is not good, both physical leech is useless
(8) And I cannot see your skill tree in your link.
(9) I guess you can only use 3 aura now, because the aura build will be reached at least > lv 74 with basic life node
(10) Be a range attacker, I suggest life > 4000 in mapping or dominus fighting.

update!

same skill tree, same gear, same aura! only change 6 L slot


Lightning strike variant!

Lunaris Rush

http://youtu.be/oeTn-WjCVgs

Mountain Ledge Mapping

http://youtu.be/dAEwjOhEk3Q