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Focused Ballista and Explosive Arrow

by Crosshack5 years ago12

DPS
100.61M
Life
3.99K
Level
90
Min budget

Overview

Focused Ballista and Explosive Arrow is a Path of Exile Chieftain build by Crosshack, made for the Expedition league (3.15). It is centered on Explosive Arrow and plays as a dexterity, attack, projectile, area archetype. In Path of Building it reaches 100.61M DPS with 3.99K life, 615 energy shield. Suited for: Mapping. Key uniques include Chin Sol, Bottled Faith, Assailum, The Signal Fire, Drillneck.

Crosshack's Notes

I was trying to come up with a oneshot build for the bow using the Snipe skill on Assailum and came across an interaction that seems like (on paper) it would be really strong. EA works by multiplying the explosion damage by the number of new EA arrows (up to 20) that the target is hit by after the first.

Many EA builds I've seen uses ballista totems to get to 20 stacks, but an issue with the build is that it is hard to know which EA is going to be the important one and which of the other 19 EA's damage values are basically inconsequential (and only matter because they are stacking the important one).

However, I feel that with Focused Ballista, you can now reliabily get some rather huge EA procs off. I plan on using Snipe, but even a regular 6L should still be able to do some huge burst damage (with a significant ignite proc after the fact) on a regular/semiregular basis. Here's how you would do it.

Firstly, 100% accuracy is kind of important here, because you can't afford your totems missing.

  1. Drop 5 ballista totems with EA, Ballita sup, barrage sup, faster attacks and focused ballista (faster attacks is qol, multiple totems is easy way to get extra totems without investment). If using snipe you can use 6 totems if you want to guarantee you get 20 arrows to hit (if for some reason a few of the totem attacks miss), since you you'll only be attacking once with this build.
  2. If using snipe, charge up the skill before releasing it at close to melee range. If self casting, go close to melee range and shoot one arrow (6L, just ramp it with as much more% dmg as you can find)
  3. Once you let go of the attack, each of the 5 focused ballistas will shoot 4 (very weak) EA arrows as a barrage which (with minimal investment) should be able to all hit the target within the 1 second window that you need.
  4. Rinse and repeat (if using snipe, you probably won't have to).

Obviously this setup won't work for mapping, but I have a slightly memey pob that can hit for 36 mil + 9 mil ignite without any expensive uniques (except bottled faith, which is a 20-25% dps diff, mostly because of the crit chance you lose). Obviously this build has very little in the way of defenses and requires a bit of a konami code to set up the full damage, but I'm not an expert with POB, and there's definitely a much more consistent build in there somewhere. For those who are interested, here's the POB: https://pastebin.com/391ecAHD. Ignore the full DPS number, it's completely busted. Just look at the Average Damage and Total Damage per ignite to figure out the true pop damage of the explosion.

I do plan on trying this out but I don't get that much time to play and I have another build I want to level first, so if I get around to playing this it'll take a good while to do so.

Loadouts

Gear

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Chin Sol
Assailum
Doedre's Skin
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The Stampede
The Signal Fire

Skills

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Helmet

  • Explosive ArrowExplosive Arrow20/20WMain
  • Elemental Damage with AttacksElemental Damage with Attacks20/20W
  • Concentrated EffectConcentrated Effect20/20W
  • Increased Critical StrikesIncreased Critical Strikes20/20W
  • Increased Critical DamageIncreased Critical Damage20/20W
  • CrueltyCruelty20/20W

Weapon 1

  • Explosive ArrowExplosive Arrow20WMain
  • Ballista TotemBallista Totem20W
  • Multiple TotemsMultiple Totems20W
  • BarrageBarrage20W
  • Faster AttacksFaster Attacks20W
  • Focused BallistaFocused Ballista20W

Body Armour

  • VulnerabilityVulnerability20/20W
  • FlammabilityFlammability20/20W
  • Elemental WeaknessElemental Weakness20/20W
  • EnfeebleEnfeeble20/20W
  • Temporal ChainsTemporal Chains20/20W
  • EmpowerEmpower3/20W
  • EnhanceEnhance3/20W

Helmet

  • SnipeSnipe20W
  • Elemental Damage with AttacksElemental Damage with Attacks20/20W
  • Concentrated EffectConcentrated Effect20/20W
  • Increased Critical StrikesIncreased Critical Strikes20/20W
  • Increased Critical DamageIncreased Critical Damage20/20W
  • CrueltyCruelty20/20W

Boots

  • AngerAnger20W
  • Herald of AshHerald of Ash20W
  • Assassin's MarkAssassin's Mark20W
  • Flesh and StoneFlesh and Stone20W
  • FrostblinkFrostblink20W

Gloves

  • Wave of ConvictionWave of Conviction20W
  • TrapTrap20W
  • High-Impact MineHigh-Impact Mine20W

Body Armour

  • Summon Doedre's Effigy20W
  • EmpowerEmpower3/20W
  • EnhanceEnhance3/20W

Gloves

  • HydrosphereHydrosphere20W
  • FrenzyFrenzy20W

Passive Tree

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Chieftain
Chieftain
Bandits
Eramir (1 Passive Skill Point)

Character Stats

Level
90

Damage

Full DPS
100.61M
Combined DPS
42.56M
Hit DPS
98.61M
With Poison DPS
36.31M
With Ignite DPS
45.58M
With Bleed DPS
36.31M
Damage over Time
2M
Ignite DPS
2M
Culling DPS
4.26M
Average Hit
45.58M
Average Damage
36.31M

Attack & Crit

Attack/Cast Rate
2.72/s
Hit Chance
100%
Crit Chance
100%
Crit Multiplier
458%
Totem Limit
2
Mana Cost
25
Life Cost
0

Defence

Life
3.99K
Energy Shield
615
Mana
160
Ward
0
Armour
3.93K
Evasion
0
Phys Damage Reduction
28%

Mitigation & Avoidance

Block
0%
Spell Block
0%
Evade (Melee)
0%
Evade (Projectile)
0%
Attack Dodge
0%
Spell Dodge
0%

Resistances

Fire Resistance
72%
Cold Resistance
75%
Lightning Resistance
75%
Chaos Resistance
29%

Recovery

Life Regen
191.71/s
ES Regen
0/s
Mana Regen
12/s

Attributes & Utility

Strength
299
Intelligence
184
Dexterity
259
Movement Speed
50%
Endurance Charges
3
Frenzy Charges
4
Power Charges
3
Devotion
0