#AOE Fire Archer (0.9.3)

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dense dagger
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Classes
Rogue/Crusader
Stats
80 Dex, 50 Int, Everything else in STR

Playstyle
Cast buffs and use Ricochet Shot to kill enemies. Against tankier enemies, use Splash potions to increase DPS and Bola throw to slow them. Effective at any range, and most effective against groups of enemies. When there is more than one enemy, ricochet shot has an easier time bouncing back and forth against the same targets.

Skills

Ricochet shot [lv.7]
Your main skill for activaing On-hits, with the benefit of being slightly Aimbot. If you're only attacking a single enemy like a boss, aim for the floor right in front of them so that all the arrows bounce from the floor onto the target. Kept at low level to minimize resource cost, and because this skill's damage isn't important. Most of your damage will come from activating Blood Explosion and Immolate.

Gems
-Greater Barrage Projectiles
-Energy Leech Support

Immolate [lv.16]
Sub-Damage skill, and useful for activating Charge gem passives. If you want to do more damage and don't mind more active gameplay, move the Endurance and Power charge gems to Flame splash potion replacing Confident Ruin and More Fire Damage, and fill the slots on Immolate with Confident Ruin and Area Focus (More Area Damage).

Gems
-Frenzy on Crit
-Power charge on Crit
-Endurance Charge on Crit
-More Fire Damage
-Flat Cold Damage (For freeze utility)

Flame Splash Potion [lv.16]
Added on hit damage for bossing.

Gems
-Greater Multiple Projectiles (NOT THE BARRAGE ONE. You want this skill to fan out so that it applies to as many enemies as possible)
-Effect Duration
-Burn Chance
-Confident Ruin (More Crit Damage)
-More Fire Damage

Venom Splash Potion [lv.16]
More on hit damage for bossing

Gems
-Greater Multiple Projectiles (NOT THE BARRAGE ONE.
-Effect Duration
-Confident Ruin (More Crit Damage)
-More Chaos Damage
-Added Fire Damage

You can also consider adding health/magic leech if you need it

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Concentration [lv.8]
Damage boosting Aura. If you have low crit rate, use Blessed aim Instead, and if you're having resource issues, use Meditation

Gems
-Increased Area of Effect
-Increased Duration

Defiance [lv.8]
Use this if you're finding yourself dying a lot. It makes you significantly tankier. I would also recommend casting this before entering a map, just in case mobs find you while you're loading

Gems
-Increased Area of Effect
-Increased Duration

Safeguard [lv.4]
Just used for general tankiness and to fill out skill slots

Bola throw [lv.10]
Used to CC enemies, primarily bosses. This skill isn't very important, so you can replace this with any other skill you'd like. This build has a lot of leftover skill points so there are a lot of options.

Gems
-Greater Multiple Projectiles
-Effect Duration
-Increased Area of Effect

Jewels
Cooldown Reduction is the most important stat to find on Jewels, because it decreases the innate cooldown that Immolate and Blood Explosion have. Without high cooldown reduction, you'll notice that even though Ricochet Shot is bouncing to multiple targets, you won't always get multiple procs of Immolation because the arrows are too fast. Reducing projectile speed doesn't fix this either because after bouncing, the projectiles regain all their speed. After cooldown reduction, get Crit Chance.

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Augments
Decree Of Fire
Magic Shield Regen
Health Regen
More Fire Damage
Flame Barrier

Gear
Helmet - Cure Runeword Plate/Chainmail
Chest - Kobold's Influence Unique
Pants - Flickering Flame Plate/Chainmail
Boots - Smoke Runeword Plate/Chainmail
Pendant - Heavenly Tear Runeword
Rings - Witch's Brew

Mainhand - Crater Runeword Crossbow or Doomslinger Unique or Your highest ATK Mythic Crossbow
Offhand - Wither's Flame Axe

Wither's Flame in the offhand is extremely important, because it allows the free autocasting of Armageddon, which gives you Overheat stacks. These almost double the damage done by Blood Explosion and Immolate. Overheat dramatically reduces your resource generation, so another important part of the build is maximizing your resource cost reduction. This is mainly done with Kobald's Influence, as well as using the "Eno" rune on every single Runeword gear. After Eno use Oru, and after Oru use Ano

Although you should be able to keep up overheat, sometimes you can get unlucky since the activation chance is only 5% per hit since you're holding the axe in your offhand. You can get around this by shooting out Ricochet shot and then swapping your hands to have Wither's Flame in your mainhand when the attack lands, which almost guarantees the activation.

On your Flickering Flame pants, you have to roll for at least 45% discount on the Flame Barrier Augment to equip it, otherwise it'll be one augment point too expensive. Flame barrier is used with Netherite Bastion in the Talent tree to greatly improve survivability.

dense dagger
pseudo cairn
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I remember Wither's Flame trigger tricks from back when I was fiddling with Holy Fire Overload strats. Glad to see it's found a new home alongside Hemorrhager.

ivory depot
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Beautiful 🥹🏹

dense dagger
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Yeah been wanting to do a build with wf for a while now

edgy onyx
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i alawys wanted to make ranged char what lvl should i start doing the build?

edgy onyx
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and what should i focus in armor/weapon stats while lvling to max like armor/dodge rating...

dense dagger
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You can start this build pretty early, probably right away when you hit level 30 and unlock ricochet shot

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Armor you want (armor) and weapon stats aren’t too important for this build but fire damage and burn are good

quasi glade
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Maybe I missed it. But do you include the best passives in this guide?

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nvm me I found it 2 seconds after asking

alpine glade
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i dont have doomslinger does touch of doom work?

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this build seems extremely difficult to do

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would this even work without some of the uniques?

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i would love to use this build but im struggling to find those uniques or replacements for them

alpine glade
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@dense dagger help

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meeeee

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i wanna use your build but i dont know how to switch into your build cuz your using expensive gear

dense dagger
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oops sorry I was playing with some friends

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uh it's definitely a late game build, but it would still work without the uniques

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I dont' think there's really any super build breaking unique here

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as long as you have the augment and the ascendancy you should be fine

alpine glade
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LETS FUCKING GOOOO

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IM GONNA DO THIS AS SOON AS I GET THE MATERIALS TO MAKE IT

alpine glade
dense dagger
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It's important but the build still "works"

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probably the wither flame is the most important unique because it basically doubles your damage the moment you get it

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but that level of damage doesn't matter too much until you start doing harder maps

alpine glade
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fuck i forgot to ask what should i use as offhand?

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dammit

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eh ill ping when your on next time

dense dagger
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Before you get wither's flame, I would probably use a runed shield

alpine glade
pseudo cairn
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easiest one to get would be ancient's pledge

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lots of resistances, easy to stick with until you can either do the exile runeword (expensive) or just get a wither's flame

dense dagger
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maybe i should do lower level build versions LOL

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but ye ancients pledge is good

alpine glade
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ok good cuz i aldready got a runiv shied with ancients pledge

alpine glade
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currently im struggling with crit rate and resources

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since i unlocked every single game changer 1st

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and none of the supplemental talents

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and since i found a glove unique that causes blood explosions ive been using that more than the bow because of how much less resources its taking

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im wondering if i should off hand that glove or if i should make it its own seperate thing

dense dagger
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best to make it it's own thing

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take the crusader aura that regens resources to help out

alpine glade
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@dense dagger what rune word chestplate should i use in sub of that unique chestplate?

dense dagger
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Hm I’m not home to check them but there’s one that just gives generic resistance for some pretty cheap tunes

quasi glade
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Is there a reason you use crossbow over normal bow? I got a runed bow

dense dagger
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Because the bow is two handed now so you can’t equip withers flame in your offhand

quasi glade
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ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ok im dumb

sudden moss
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what's the minimum xp level this build works at? Can it be used for leveling?

dense dagger
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Probably around level 40

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I think it's good for leveling

alpine glade
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i cant find a yun or wir rune

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im lvl 60

sudden moss
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Dumb question: the 'immolate" sub-damage skill you're talking about is "Holy Immolation" right?

alpine glade
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yes

slender isle
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Would elemental purist benefit this build?

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Thinking of going this but thinking of what ill do meanwhile for like lvls 1-50ish but rogues double strike is lowk rlly good at low lvls if u pair it w sharpness and dual wielding weapons, at least ive had success w that but seems to fall off a bit

dense dagger
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Is that the talent that gives 20% elemental dmg and you lose all physical damage?

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If so, no, because unfortunately that talent only gives 20% flat elemental damage, not multiplicative, so it's actually really bad. (someone fix that please)

slender isle
quasi glade
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what does the game changer Harmony do for this build? Ive been trying to figure it out and it only seems like a downside. Maybe I misunderstand how it works

dense dagger
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It lets frost nova heal your magic shield

slender isle
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what happened to the messages?

dense dagger
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?

slender isle
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maybe my discords bugging out

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this is all I see lol

dense dagger
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Oh wtf LOL

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yeah it’s bugging

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do you still need the build info ?

slender isle
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nah its only on mobile PC it works

slender isle
dense dagger
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frost nova is an elementlaist skill that heals you when you cast it, but you can also get it auto activated on your boots

quasi glade
restive nacelle
dense dagger
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It's a line on a boot infusion

bitter smelt
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Can you show stats in your weapon and armor?

vital glen
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Is this build available for 0.9.5?

slender isle
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idk if its still viable

cerulean geyser
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@wintry isle

soft sphinx
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What stats should i go for for the armor?