PoE Explosive Arrow builds with custom stat filters

PLAYSTYLE < Clear < For clear you just place down ballistas and run. Bossing < You can start a fight by having all your totems up and ready, then as soon as the boss is targetable use your infernal cry and press focus. During the fight you want to keep to your totem limit all the time. You also want to use your frenzy setup to keep frenzy charges up. Only when you have time for it you want to cast your Arcanist Brand, this is the lowest priority since it's a little unreliable on bosses that move anyway. LEVELING < Be warned that the leveling experience on this is not as smoot

I am thinking of League Starting Chieftain EA ballista, because I feel like it makes more sense than Champion, and can maybe be more "tanky". I would be using the following nodes: Tsalio \- easy resists, 50% of fire res is lightning and cold Valako \- free melding of the flesh with no downsides, stacking max fire res, 90% all res for cheap Arohongui - with enough life regen on gear, this can make our EA ballistas feel really tanky, and they taunt for us while also recouping 10% of their damage taken as life to us, which will feel really good Ramako or Nganahu \- so depen

Start with Galvanic Arrow , Rain of arrows and then explosive arrow. First buy, always quill rain, as soon as you can afford it ( ranges from 1 alch to 2 chaos on league start) NO PIERCE, NO CHAIN, NO FORK, NO ADDED FLAT FIRE DAMAGE ( % is fine, just not something that says 4- 12 fire damage to attacks, until you remove elemental equilibrium) I didnt add any gear to the trees for the non crit version. The reason for that is that you dont need anything specific. Just fill your resistances, stats you need and try to spell suppress cap ( really easy as a raider). You can use Point blank Keyston

Start with Galvanic Arrow , Rain of arrows and then explosive arrow. First buy, always quill rain, as soon as you can afford it ( ranges from 1 alch to 2 chaos on league start) NO PIERCE, NO CHAIN, NO FORK, NO ADDED FLAT DAMAGE ( % is fine, just not something that says 4- 12 fire damage to attacks, until you remove elemental equilibrium) Level assasin mark, but since you cant deal criticals with precise technique, you can choose another mark to use as your default, like warlords for endurance charges or poacher. Also you can look at a setup with frenzy/snaring arrows , the new support gem m