[0.3] MrRonit's Budget OPTIMIZED Lightning Arrow Deadeye

Remember to cap out your resistances to 75%! Chaos resistance stacking is less important in Patch 0.3 as a lot of sources of chaos damage got nerfed.

N.B The baseline extra spirit you need from items is 50 for running all our skills which require spirit: Ghost Dance, Wind Dancer, Herald of Thunder and Rhoa Mount. The cheap way to do this is to split it between amulet and chest

Gear Priority

1) Gemini Bow - the additional arrow it fires vs other bows is HUGE for Lightning Arrow mapping and it lets you dump out Lightning Rod faster. Look for these 3 affixes:

• Bow Attacks Fire an Additional Arrow
• Chance to Gain Onslaught on Killing Hits (Onslaught is a really good buff which provides 10% MS + 20% skill speed which is a big DPS increase whilst mapping)
• +4 to Attack Skills (Attack skills benefit Herald of Thunder whereas +projectile skills doesn't)

And then sort your bow by highest DPS on the search filter which will sort out all the flat damage affixes by itself. You can replace the Chance to Gain Onslaught with +Crit Chance but you do lose a bit of mapping speed and it's better for higher level (lvl 95+)/better geared characters where you have more crit damage and crit chance nodes invested in.

Socket with Thane Myrk's Rune of Summer which is really cheap and effective! If you have more money then socket with Thane Leld's Rune of Spring but this is a marginal gain.

2) Volant Quiver - I recommend using a volant quiver which gives us more arrow speed - why does this matter?

Because in our build we have Feathered Fletching which gives us more damage from increased arrow and projectile speed. Here you want:

• Projectile speed
• +2 to projectile skills
• Critical hit chance and critical damage bonus for attacks
• High flat lightning damage roll as well as a high flat other damage roll

Ideally you would want to replace the non lightning flat damage roll with increased damage with bow skills but that is a very very expensive affix, as soon as you add that on it becomes very expensive so for a budget build avoid that affix!

3) Chest - High Evasion/ES Hybrid chest piece with spirit and resistances. This gives more ES than using just a pure Evasion chest piece with Spectral Ward. I prefer having more ES than evasion as evasion has diminishing returns! Eventually you will want to drop spirit from your chest and move it all to your amulet so you can get more maximum life. Socket with Greater Iron Rune

4) Helmet - Pure ES helmet so we can take advantage of Subterfuge Mask anoint which gives more evasion/ES than a hybrid ES/evasion helmet. Squeeze resistances and rarity here.

5) Gloves - attack speed with high lightning flat damage (and other flat damage rolls) along with resistances. Socket with The Greatwolf's Rune of Claws

6) Rings

• High Flat lightning damage
• High other flat damage
• Rarity
• Resistances
• Stats if possible

7) Boots - Evasion/ES Hybrid with 35% Movement speed, resistances, rarity

8) Belt - 3 charm slots, resistances

9) Charms

• Thawing Charm
• Stone Charm
• Golden Charm