(Outdated) LA Crit Shotgun - Voltaxic Build (Ranger)
Submitted by Raicoron on December 16, 2013 - 9:07AM CST
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Last Updated: December 16, 2013 - 12:33PM CST
Description
I'll work on this guide more. The website just deleted almost an hour worth of work, so I'll redo it later.Suggested Leagues: Standard, Domination, Nemesis
Passive Skills
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LA Shotgun

Lightning Arrow

Cast On Critical Strike

Frost Wall

Pierce

Life Leech

Lesser Multiple Projectiles
Frenzy and Power

Frenzy

Curse On Hit

Critical Weakness

Power Charge on Critical

Increased Critical Strikes

Faster Attacks
Auras

Reduced Mana

Grace

Haste

Purity of Elements
Escape If Shit Goes Down

Smoke Mine

Increased Duration

Increased Area of Effect

Blood Rage
Mid-Late game totem suppliment

Flame Totem

Greater Multiple Projectiles

Faster Projectiles

Blind
Flasks
Flask Set 1

Life Flask

Life Flask

Mana Flask

Mana Flask

Quicksilver Flask
Flask Set 2

Life Flask

Mana Flask

Diamond Flask

Jade Flask

Quicksilver Flask
Bandits
Help Oak in Normal Difficulty - Rewards +40 to Maximum LifeHelp Kraityn in Cruel Difficulty - Rewards +6% to Attack SpeedHelp Kraityn in Merciless Difficulty - Rewards +1 to Maximum Frenzy ChargeGear
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/The_Blood_Dancehttp://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Darkray_Vectors
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Daresso%27s_Defiance
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Voltaxic_Rift
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Marylene%27s_Fallacy
Guide
HOW IT WORKSThe point of this build is that you almost never get hit. It uses some game-breaking mechanics to do extreme damage . The core-action of damage is in the frostwall. Frostwall is a dual-use ability for defense and offense in this build. What happens with LA, is that when you get a crit, you have a chance to cast a frost wall on your target. The frostwall freezes your enemies in place; however, it acts as a wall that you can pierce. When you pierce frostwall with LA, it activates the 2nd ability of LA, which causes an arc to 3 random nearby targets. When you start getting crazy amounts of walls, you will also get crazy amounts of arc procs for every wall that get's pierced.
COMBAT
To engage combat you need preparation. There is a safe and safer way to engage. The safer route you drop a mine, walk farther from enemies to drop a 2nd mine and portal. Drop a totem and start using frenzy next to the totem. When enemies get close pop the mine to go back a little ways, create a blind spot for the totem to start channeling blind, and to create a spot where you can build all of your charges in preparation for LA.
The normal route is just to lay a mine next to a town portal and summon a totem to pull enemies. Simply start your combat route, and pop the mine if necessary.
LEVELING
Just run LA + LMP + Life Leech for the majority of leveling. You won't be able to crit combo till merci/cruel depending on your gear. I personally use my auto attack for single target and supplement with frenzy just for the charges. Once you have a higher ilevel quicksilver flask, go fully quality it if you can roll it as Ample Adrenaline. Ample gives your flask extra charges (you only need +10 to get 3 uses out of flask), and Adrenaline gives % move speed. My last flask I ran had +15 charges and +30% movespeed with full quality.
Comments
ckyui
Posts: 1
Omg it can't be! Finally I find a Ranger build that has everything I need! The skill tree, the gems, the information on the class itself. You sir, are a savior right now. Thank you for putting in the effort to put this together and sorry for you losing all your work earlier from this site or w/e. I saw that you lost it all.
9 years ago