Max_Stax Poison Barrage ASS-HIE

------------Pro's
+ Medium clear speed
+ Low 4-6 exalt price tag
+ Fast pace exciting game play
+ explode entire packs in an instant " so gratifying "

------------Con's
-This build is not good for average computers see "https://youtu.be/Ban9rjAe7Ug"
-Single target boss damage is not huge, Map unlocks can still be done.
-This is not a new player friendly build

The rat's nest has been our helm of choice till the 3.0 league. After 3.0 the mirror traps took a hard nerf. Now our best helm option is the chant. Bladefall is a large aoe physical spell that drops a lot of poison damage and gains us onslaught fairly consistently.This is the bow that I have chosen to upgrade to. Initially I started with a white/normal six link bow and chaos slammed it to high physical dps, then I later used a maxed out chin sol until I crafted this bow. Otherwise a chin sol is a very good choice for this build if you can't craft a better one.This last item is an important one to our build please note that it has a +1 curse corruption on it. This replaces a ring/boot or passive with the +1 curse effect. If you cannot find this item for sale, It is near impossible to make as I spent 3 exalt trying to make one and failed. It is suggested to run a single curse (despair) until you achieve this item for yourself.

The hemophilia gloves have another effect. Bleeding enemies will explode dealing physical damage equal to 6% of the enemies total life. Keep in mind this damage is an aoe and still gains some of the chance to bleed and poison from our passive skill tree. These overlapping poison aoe's also benefit from the curses. This adds a lot to the builds clear speed.

Also the gloves can be corrupted with "cast on stun", this is helpful for optimizing the build.

The build only has two dedicated item to resistance. The le hupe rings are of course great sources of both damage and resistance. Most of our resistances must be on our passive skill tree and from the Alera Bandit quest. Despair does not benefit clear speed as much as the boss kills. Don't run it till after you max your resist with no mana reserved.

Self cast barrage---->
Totem barrage----->

For starters, We need to unlock the Assassin on the Ascendancy, No point allocating skills toward poison nodes till after your Second lab. Rather head straight for the life leach nodes at the bottom, pick up bow/physical damage nodes along the way. After life leach, Grab the chance to bleed, then head toward mind over matter. Pick up life and mana Regen along the way.

After your second ascendancy you will now have the Assassin unlocked gaining 40% chance to poison. You can now pick up the remaining 60% off the skill tree. Start with the chance to poison/bleed by your life leach. This will interact with your hemophilia gloves and the build will start to come together!

Next we need to head toward our third totem from the Templar side of the ascendancy tree. The merciless Lab will yield the third totem. You will likely need strength and intelligence nodes along the way. Later we can regret them if you choose to do uber lab. If you don't have totem placement speed by now you should certainly consider getting it. Though not a huge deal with two totems, three totems however will take a while to set up and this effects the builds performance! Also the Damage over time nodes will seriously help out.

Increased effect of our curses should be done in the level 80's rage, and this is only if you are happy with your survivability. Otherwise keep working on life totals till you have minimum 3k. This is sufficient for the build.

And finally once we optimize our gear and unlock the fourth ascendancy we can save a few points by taking a short cut to mind over mater.

Aleria for the 15% resistance. If you acquire real good resist belt, and manage to get a good resist amulet with +1 curse on it. and/Or choose to use a resist helm, Then you could choose all.

Our build has Mind over mater with 38% of our damage going to mana. In addition we only have about 3k actual HP. But don't fret! The brass dome protects of from additional damage from critical hits and provides a (Huge) amount of damage reduction. This does not however stop effects that are associated with critical hits such as freezing burning and shock. However in most cases this prevents the one hit kill mechanic. Somewhere near 55% at level 90. We also have 40-50% chance to evade. This allows us to take very large hits from bosses and even guardians with a reduced chance of being "one hit killed". We are of course are killable with multiple hits in fast succession, but that is why we also use and scale evasion.

As for tactics, well it is simple. Throw out your blink traps in what I call a blink wall. (( you saw it here first)), then set up the totems. This is the base of your damage, afterwords, curse your enemies. This set up is time consuming, but the blink wall will provide you extra survivability as enemies will attack them.

Knowing your enemies and their attack abilities is all part of the game. It is because of this split second decision making that I suggest this build is not new player friendly.

Honestly your guess is as good as mine. My best guess with a chin sol is 730k, ( Chin sole 5L is best damage for its price ), But path of builder isn't calculating all the damage and other barrage builds posts are deceiving you with the dps they claim over a million...

That is of course just a guess.

when compared to other barrage builds dps I'd like to point out they click on the "all projectiles" button. This is not the way to calculate dps on barrage. You need to consider how many arrows will hit your target and calculate it out yourself.

Then you need to consider the supporting skills and curses. The blink wall puts out a lot of arrows with good sized poison stacks. I calculated them at six active even though i could possibly get as many as 18 at once with 2 attacks per second each.. Then again with only a single target in mind your not going to trigger all 18 are you. This is why I settled on six.

The curses are more than doubling the damage. In path of builder I switched on and off "target is hexproof". The difference in dps was more than half. And I so hate hex-proof creatures :) Poison stacks are considered to have been consistent for the full duration of your poison duration. Then they reach their max and you drop stacks at the same rate you gain them. This would be 184 poison stacks + 1 bleed in the calculations.

This is how I came up with 730k dps. Its an honest conservative figure..