Raider Explosive Arrow Totems

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I just wanted to share my league start and findings about the mechanics around Explosive Arrow. It is absolutely shredding everything.

Ballista Totem support linked to another copy of explosive arrow and then linked with barrage support creates a ballista Gatling cannon that stacks 20 fuse charges on enemies very quickly. In your bow though you have the reduced duration support so your main charge is only waiting for a half second. So, when your fuse blows it takes all the gatling cannons stacked damage with it and at 5% more damage x 20 fuses.

The secondary explosion scales with Area of Effect, Projectile, Fire tags. So you have to be careful not to take certain attack/hit nodes that will not scale the explosion but only the initial hit. It seems as if flat fire damage in main hand weapon gets added to explosion base damage. In flipping weapons in pob i couldn't see any massive benefit of using a +levels bow over good flat damage.

Also with the half duration on your Explosive arrow that you yourself are firing, you get most of the credit for the kills as your explosion fuse usually happens first.

In a pinch you can switch up your playstyle for hard bosses and just spam totems and run around.

Evasion still seems entropy based so that 1 physical attack that got through was the death of me until i clicked a little thing called IRON REFLEXES that converted all of my massive evasion to armour and then I felt like a tank with full 90% phys reduction. I only have been able to stack minimal 3k life but i can survive more 1 shots than with the evasion and then have the time to manually move and hit a flask or recover from broken 2% life on kill thief effect when everything explodes. Spell suppression is good. I'm almost all the way to ailment immunity with out new Amazing purity of elements.

New mana efficiency nodes help to run grace, herald of ash,and anger. Clarity still helps smooth out gameplay.

This has been a great time. Heists are amazing too as you put 7 totems up in a half second and go to war with the army on the other side of the door. Phasing from raider makes delving fun. Just gonna find more max life gear and take this as far as i can.

Darkray vectors are still good!

Happy Scourging!

How did you level this?
Thinking of either rerolling my poison concoction pathfinder or just making a new character.