[3.11] Split Arrow Mines - Leaguestart Friendly - Easy - Off Meta Boss Killer - Okayish Mapper

I expect to take a slight hit because of the changes to Herald of Purity!

But overall it is too early, we need patch notes.

Our damage scaling is easy. Doomfletch's Prism deals your physical damage as extra lightning, cold and fire damage. So we just have to push our physical damage as high as possible.

This means, we want:
1. Base physical damage
2. Well, that's it mostly

As you see, the list is short and we do not need to employ tricks for meeting the damage early on.

It is important to know, that we use a Blastchain Mine, so the more mines you let explode in one sequence the more damage each following mine of that sequence will do. Keep in mind that you can throw more mines, while the sequence is already exploding.
Never use the detonate mines button, while you have a sequence exploding. It will start a new sequence and you loose the damage bonus.

I like evasion builds and layered defenses:

Here we use:

Evasion

Dodge and Spell Dodge from the Acrobatics node.

Cast when Damage Taken combined with Immortal Call is never a bad idea.

Immunity to Ignite and Shock because we are a Saboteur.

Wind Dancer can be taken in the skill tree. In 3.11 we can reach it without investment, as it is close by our already used passive points.

Wind Dancer let's you take less Damage if you have not been hit in the last 4 seconds and boosts your evasion if you have been hit in the last 4 seconds.

Overall that makes us not too squishy and as a Saboteur, we also gain life recovery after detonating our mines.

Because we use mines, we obviously take Saboteur. There is no other choice.

1. Pyromaniac - We gain immunity to ignite and shock. In addition to it we gain good life recovery from detonating mines and mines use a little bit less mana.
2. Bomb Specialist - This is a solid damage boost.
3. Explosives Expert - This is another damage boost that really benefits our all elements Doomfletch playstyle.
4. Born in the Shadows - The Blind contributes to our defense and the added damage against blinded enemies is a nice bonus.

Path of Building: https://pastebin.com/4yNDMQBr

Whenever you get a Coated Shrapnel, you should try to include it in the tree.

1. We start as a shadow and take the mine passives to Trickery, pick up Blood Siphon, Assassination and Saboteur.

2. We directly move via the life nodes towards the mine cluster outside of the tree.

3. We pick up pierce and the Acrobatics cluster.

4. We take the mine passives in the area between shadow and witch.

5. We move towards point blank and pick up the highlighted nodes. Remember: Our mines need to be close to enemies for the damage bonus.

6. We invest everything into survival.


If I saw it correcly in the patchnotes, the Wind Dancer Keynode gets close to the Thick Skin Cluster injected into the tree.
Pick it up, when you want the extra survival.

Kill them all!
We need the 2 passive points.

I recommend the Soul of the Brine King for the earlier parts to prevent stunlocks and maybe to switch later towards Soul of Lunaris for more solid defense.

For the minor pantheon, we should take Soul of Rhyslata for bossing and go with your personal prefferences for mapping.

Weapon


Quiver


Helmet


Chest


Gloves


Belt


Boots


Rings


Amulet


Jewel


Flasks


Annointment


My end of league gear (less than 20 hours /played and no currency from other characters used)

You will most likely not be able to run all auras at all points of the game. The bigger detonation sequences almost always trump having an extra aura.

Bow 6-Link


4-Link


2+1+1-Link


1+3-Link

We start at level 1 with Split Arrow and use Onslaught and added Fire, Cold or Lightning Damage depending on your socket colour as soon as possible.

At level 12 we can switch to Rain of Arrows with Blastchain Mine and Added Fire, Cold or Lightning Damage depending on your socket colours.

Also in Act 1 you want to pick up Clarity and Precision, but be sure to not overlevel those Auras. They use an absolute mana value that increases per level and not a fixed percentage of your maximum mana.

In Act 2 we replace the added damage with Trap and Mine Damage Support.
We also pick up Skitterbots.

In Act 3 we can add Vicious Projectiles from the library or a friend can get this already in act 2. This would be in a 4-Link

After you kill Malachai, you can finally switch to Split Arrow - Blastchain Mine - Minefield - Trap and Mine Damage Support.
That is your setup until you reach maps.

16.06.2020 Posted Guide