[3.0] NeverSink's ♣ INDEPTH Tornado&Archer Guide ♣ Beginner friendly ♣ Rapid clear ♣ All bosses

im playing your build now for 84 lvls and recently switched to a 5L voltaxic. since then my dmg is shit. can you help me somehow ? my items/gear etc is on my character tab: AliceTheChosen


im feeling pretty lost because i invested like all i had into the voltaxic and lost a huge amount of dps and money :/

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ViciousGhost escreveu:

im playing your build now for 84 lvls and recently switched to a 5L voltaxic. since then my dmg is shit. can you help me somehow ? my items/gear etc is on my character tab: AliceTheChosen


im feeling pretty lost because i invested like all i had into the voltaxic and lost a huge amount of dps and money :/

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Frankenberry escreveu:

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oops. changed !

I'm not an expert but there seem to be some serious non-synergies in your build...

1. You are scaling damage via crit but Voltaxic only has 6% base crit (opposed to the 8.5-9% a good Harbinger brings)

2. You are heavily scaling physical damage, both via passive tree and via gems (Hatred / Added Fire Damage / Physical to Lightning) but Voltaxic has very little of it - most of its damage is lightning/chaos damage.

As I said before, awesome build I love it. I've been checking out the skill tree, and noticed a couple of things though, in the 108 skill leveling tree you have a phantom 10 dex north of Ballistics Mastery. In the aggressive skill tree you have the 4% attack speed just Southwest of Aspect of the Lynx, why would you not take the Weapon Artistry instead just south of that node. Gives the 4% plus a lot more. I am assuming they were just oversights and not intentional, though please correct me if I'm wrong.

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ViciousGhost escreveu:

im playing your build now for 84 lvls and recently switched to a 5L voltaxic. since then my dmg is shit. can you help me somehow ? my items/gear etc is on my character tab: AliceTheChosen


im feeling pretty lost because i invested like all i had into the voltaxic and lost a huge amount of dps and money :/

Harsh criticism incoming. Hope you won't take it the wrong way. It is okay to do things wrong if you learn from your mistakes :)

First of all: There are so many things with your character that are either slightly wrong, flat out wrong or even counterproductive. Read a Voltaxic guide. Stick to it. Understand mechanics and then put your own twist on it. Gem setup, Gear setup and passive setup are all completely messed up.

Especially understand the difference between a physical scaling build that does elemental damage and an elemental build that scales of elemental damage. The difference is huge.

Gems:

Physical to lightning is only good for a physical bow build. You are an exclusive non-physical bow build. So that gem needs to be removed. Insert added lightning damage instead.

Do not use hatred. Hatred is also only for physical builds. Use Wrath.

Do not use herald of ice. You are converting lightning damage to chaos. Not all damage. You want to do almost exclusively lightning damage which is converted. Switch to herald of thunder.

Lightning arrow 5L (6L) = Lightning Arrow - GMP - Chain - Weapon Elemental Damage - Added Lightning (Void manipulation)

Blast rain setup: 5L (6L)
Blast Rain + Concentrated Effect + WED + Void Manipulation + added lightning damage + (faster attack) (This assumes you are using Snakebite gloves and not Maligaro. If you stick with Maligaro go with Poison instead of Faster Attack as your 5th link and put added lightning as your 6th link)

In general : Copy a complete gem setup from someone else.

Items:
This are the stats you and items you should look for:

Quiver = Get rid of drillneck. It pretty much gives you 0 dps. Look for a rare Spike-Point Quiver with HP, WED, crit chance and crit multiplier. Especially WED is important.
Bow = Voltaxic.
Head = Rat's Nest. Once you got enough currency buy one with a good enchant for either Lightning Arrow or Blast Rain.
Gloves = Maligaro's is okay. Snakebite is also very popular for the poison + hp. Choose one of those (With snakebite you only want 6 frenzy charges, so you drop the one near Ranger starting area).
Boots = Movement speed is the most important stat. After that it goes HP and elemental resistance.
Chest = Get a rare evasion chest with HP > Evasion > Resists OR get your hands on Lightning Coil. This armour makes you more tanky, however it makes gearing harder.
Amulet = HP + WED + crit + crit multiplier. If possible get some intelligence aswell.
Rings = Max out your resists and get HP + WED rolls aswell.
Belt = Go for Leather Belt with WED + HP + Resists.

Jewels = max out resists if needed. Look for lightning dmg, chaos dmg (area dmg only scales up blast rain - not lightning arrow even though LA has the AoE tag), attack speed, intelligence, maximum life.

Ascendancy: Deadeye = Endless munitions + Fast and Deadly.

Passive tree.

Either go for the offensive tree or the defensive tree.

Offensive (look at Mathils Voltaxic Guide on Ranger Forums - here https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1550827)


Defensive


I recommend you looking the offensive tree since it has a guide you can follow.

If I were you I would A) Read Mathil's Guide. B) Think about which Ascendancy you want to make use off and then C) properly start from lvl 1.

Looked back a few pages and didnt see it brought up, but what are the thoughts of using the new Lightning Golem with this build?

I am new to PoE (started when the Perandus League came out), so I could be wrong, but AS and +Lightning Dmg sounds good for Tornado shot if you build it with the WED + PTL no? Or is there some kind of thing where you cant have more than 1 golem and Ice Golem (the little fuck) still outshines it with the Acc + Crit?


Edit: Just looked at Mr.Ice Golem and noticed the "only 1 golem at a time" thing, is that just for the Ice Golem himself or Golems in general?

got this enchant on my glove's at first didn't know what it did then i noticed my weapond was fighting next to my golem n yes only 1 golem at a time can be out that's any golem

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Frankenberry escreveu:

Harsh criticism incoming. Hope you won't take it the wrong way. It is okay to do things wrong if you learn from your mistakes :)

honestly: this was what im expecting and ofc looking for. thank you very much for this honest criticism. I was thinking the last levels this build is simply not working how i want it, and since im not THAT into the poe world yet, i didnt know the reasons. Thanks man. I think i will really start over new.

When i follow mathils guide you linked, would you say i should stay with ranger or you think the shadow tree or scion tree would be good also for a beginner ? (mathil posted a tree for shadow, scion and duelist aswell thats why i ask).


best wishes and thanks so much !