League Start Guide Rain of Arrows Champion 3.22

THIS POB IS A WORK IN PROGRESS BUT WILL BE FULLY FINISHED BY LEAGUE START 18th Auguest 2023 Notes for DPS for Bows: White Maps End of campaign you want to aim to have a bow with 250 - 350 Ele DPS and will be fine for T1-T5 maps and if you get a 5 link this bow should be good for early to mid yellow maps Yellow Maps At this stage you should be upgrading your bow. Even just a screaming essence and crafted prefix for damage will give you better DPS than this. Ideally you want a bow with 500 ele DPS & 1.4+ attacks per second Red Maps 500+ Ele DPS as minimum. If transitioning to crit you also want the bow to have 7.5%+ crit chance minimum, which will mean using either as Spine Bow or Ivory Bow since these bases have the best crit chance/attack speed combo Final Set up Add Medium Clusters in as you gain levels. These will be the additions you make to the tree as you level past 87. However until you can slot at least 1 medium cluster you may as well put these points elsewhere such as bow damage and accuracy as needed and respec when you have the points to put in 1 cluster jewel and then do the same when you build up to your second cluster jewel Cheap Unique Setup There is a set of skills and items for a very cheap unique setup that should be good enough to clear your atlas on a 5 link if you want to try and push. You may die a bit as it runs two offensive auras but has enough DPS and defences to get your first 2 voidstones and get your atlas cleared. You can then use this setup to farm more gear. This setup is what I would recommend if you want to run a wandering path setup to clear your atlas quickly Thes uniques were all under 1-5 c last league. If they are expensive DO NOT do this version as these items are all really levelling items and you should not be spending a lot of money on them Levelling: Act 1: Links before level 12 are: Galvanic Arrow - Faster Attacks - Mirage Archer Shrapnel Ballista - Pierce - Faster Attacks Dash/Blink Arrow Precision (If you need accuracy) Snipers Mark At level 12 you can swap galvanic arrow for rain of arrows, however feel free to stick with Galvanic as the single target DPS is marginally better Act 2: Rain of Arrows - Ele Damage with Attacks - Mirage Archer Add in Herald of Ice as a reward from chamber of sins or herald of Ash/Thunder. Whatever sockets you have spare If you want add blood rage in too but I do not think it is up long enough and it annoys me having to constantly use my life flask Take Ele Damage with Attacks after killing Weaver and swap with pierce in your ballista setup (We are preparing for artillery Ballista in Act 3) Act 3: Add Anger in for Herald of Ice Kill Gravicious and then buy artillerty ballista and replace shrapnel ballista Start looking for 4 links Rain of arrows - Elemental Damage with Attacks - Trinity - Mirage Archer Artillery Ballista - Faster Attacks - Ele Damage with Attacks - Inspiration (Library or Act 6) It is fine to wait as you do not need a 4 link ballista When you complete 1st Lab and get access to adrenaline run a 2 link of: Corrupting Fever + lifetap In act 6 add second wind to these links. At this point you may need to buy a level 1 gem from act 6 as this may put your life cost way too high When you get to act 6 and can access all your gems you eventually want your link to be: Vaal Rain of Arrows - Elemental Damage with Attacks/Inspiration - Mirage Archer - Trinity Artillery Ballista - Inspiration - Ele dmg with Attacks - Added Cold (Buy in Act 6 and start levelling straight away) Snipers Mark - Mark on Hit - Lifetap Flame Dash Blood Rage (Start using) Anger - Determination - Precision (Add Determination/Grace in once you pick up the mana reservation nodes) Corrupting Fever - Lifetap - Second Wind These are your links pretty much through to your crit swap at level 85