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POE 3.4 Ranger Raider Cuastic Arrow Build - Cheap and Easy to Play
"No hunt is complete without the gutting and the skinning."
The Raider focuses on maintaining buffs, gaining Frenzy Charges, Onslaught, or Phasing through kills. She can specialize in one of these buffs to enhance its effect, greatly boosting her speed and evasion.
This build features easily acquirable 6000 life, very high evasion with up to 95% evade chance cap, 46/40% dodge/spell dodge. It's also immune to all ailments and can run absolutely any map mod. Any incoming damage can be easily solved with two instant life flasks healing you back to full life. Capable of clearing all content in the game. Everything with possiblity to use some magic find gear.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- + Cheap starting cost, great league starter
- + Very easy to play
- + Tanky end game, over 6000 life and very high evasion + dodge
- + Fast without flasks (over 80% ms, high AS)
- + Flexible build, adjust how much you want to go MF / damage / tanky
- + Can run literally any map mod, including "No regen"
- + Capable of clearing all end game content
- + 79% max res while mapping (Divination Distillate)
- + Permanent flask uptime while mapping (except bosses)
Cons
- - Mediocre single target damage
- - Slightly expensive end game gear
- - Weak against physical spells
Skill Tree
Ascendancy
Avatar of Veil (Phasing) + Avatar of Slaughter/Chase (Frenzy/Onslaught)
Frenzy path is default. Reliable, standalone, easy to gear up. Always start a character with it.
Onslaught path is very strong end game option. Best used for pure mapping, but it still works great against end game bosses. Slightly more expensive, optional, lvl 90+ only.
Bandits
Help fine
Pantheon
Major God: Soul of Lunaris
Nuff said, straight up has the best synergy with the build. Others barely do anything except few specific cases.
Minor God: Soul of Shakari OR Ryslatha OR Garukhan
All three of them are pretty good, but my personal favorite is Shakari. Having full ailment immunity simply feels great. Use it only if you upgraded it.
Passive Tree
Gem Setups
Main Skill
Color: GGGGBR
Caustic Arrow - Void Manipulation - Swift Affliction - Vicious Projectiles - Concentrated Effect
6th Link
Damage on Full Life OR Empower lvl 3/4
Your primary damage setup. First 3 support gems have no real downsides and should always be included in the build. Conc Effect and Damage on Full Life have downsides, which one you prefer is up to you (i recommend first one). Empower has no downside but requires level 3 or 4 to be worth using. Costs a lot of money or time.
In case you feel that your damage good enough, you can use Greater Multiple Projectiles for clearing instead of Swift Affliction.
Wither Totem
Color: BBRR
Wither - Faster Casting - Spell Totem - Increased Duration
Free 90% more damage against bosses. Place the totem and let it do the work. It also slows their movement speed, so keep that in mind against some bosses.
Cursing Setup
Color: GGBB
Frenzy - Greater Multiple Projectiles - Curse on Hit - Despair
Use it to curse tanky rares, bosses and whenever you need to refresh your frenzy charge duration.
CWDT Immortal Call
Color: RRR
Cast when Damage Taken lvl 3 - Immortal Call lvl 5 - Increased Duration lvl 20
Standard CWDT setup. Immortal Call is useful against random bleeding from bosses / lab traps. Not a mandatory setup, but very much recommended.
Aura
Grace / Vaal Grace
Grace gives huge amount of addtional evasion. Vaal Grace allows us to cap Dodge / Spell dodge, and is best used during abyss/breaches/harbingers etc. Vaal Grace can be linked with CWDT Immortal Call setup for longer aura duration, it will not trigger automatically but still benefit from Increased Duration.
Movement Skill
Blink Arrow
These are the only mandatory gems, and we still got 5 free gem slots. How you fill the rest of them is your choice.
Gear
Weapons
Quiver
Armour
Helmet
Boots
Gloves
Flasks
Jewels
Notes: Mana on Kill is bad, makes it impossible to use Divination Distillate. Aim to have ~160 strength and intelligence, so you can use lvl 20 gems. You wanna cap elemental weakness (113% with MF flask)
Leveling
Expectations
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