[0.5] Reverse Chill Bullet Hell Crossbow Martial Artist | Run & Gun Fast Playstyle

Equipment

Overall Rule of Thumb

Do not get Maximum Life on ANYTHING! That will completely gimp your ability to run Reverse Chill.

Weapons

Weapon Set 1

Try to get a crossbow with as much crit chance and flat damage as possible. Because we use 2x Ming's Heart, all of this flat damage gets further multiplied as Chaos Damage.

In an ideal world, this flat damage would all be elemental flat damage so we can use Rakiata's Flow with our Armour Piercing Rounds, but that is just for min-max. Most important is just to find a rare crossbow with as much flat damage as possible.

+ Levels to Attacks and + Levels to projectiles would be the next priority because we want to expend enough mana to deal enough damage to ourselves for Reverse Chill.

Weapon Set 2

Use a Duality with as much Guard per Combo spent as possible.

Helmet

Scold's Bridle with as high Mana Taken as Physical Damage as possible. This will allow you to get higher Chill Magnitude on yourself for Reverse Chill.

Gloves

Way of the Stonefist will convert the affixes on your gloves to the affixes you see above. You do not need to have any specific type of gloves. Way of the Stonefist will always make them into Evasion/Energy Shield Gloves. You want to prioritize the following stats:

1. Flat Increase to Evasion, Armour or ES => +EV & ES per level
2. % Increase to Evasion, Armour or ES => more Global EV/ES
3. % Critical Damage Bonus => Crit Chance
4. % Chance for Projectiles to Chain from Terrain => Attack Chain Additional Times

Chest Armour

Sierran Inheritance is required for Reverse Chill to work. Make sure to Runeforge it.

Sockets can be whatever you feel like you need (in my case I needed resistances).

Boots

Pretty straightforward - as much Evasion and Energy Shield as possible and Resistances as possible. As high Movement Speed as possible. If you can get Chance to not Remove Charges line, that is BiS.

Decree of Flight is also an alternative to help with clear speed.

Amulet

Best in slot would be a rare amulet with:

• +3 to Projectile Skills
• Spirit
• % Increased Maximum ES
• % Increased Armour, EV, ES
• % Critical Hit Damage

Annoint Barbaric Strength

Rings

Ming's Heart is the best in slot ring. We need it to reduce our Maximum HP as much as possible.

Make sure to get 2x Ming's Heart with 24% Reduced Maximum Life.

Belt

A Rare Belt with as much Resistances as possible or Mageblood.

Jewels

The Unique Jewels are:

• Heroic Tragedy for Vorana
• Megalomaniac with Icebreaker
• Controlled Metamorphosis (Medium-Large Ring)
• Flesh Crucible for Whispers of Doom
• Prism of Belief with +3 for Armour Piercing Rounds (Not required but highly recommended)

I recommend a Time-Lost Sapphire with the following stat priority:

1. Crit Chance per Notable
2. Crit Damage per Notable
3. Global Armour, EV, ES per Notable
4. Maximum Energy Shield per Small Passive

Charms

This is extremely important because we don't run Chaos Inoculation. So Poisons and Bleeds are super potent and can kill us very quickly. If you are ok with living on the edge, feel free to run a Rite of Passage in one of your charm slots. If not, please use the following 3 charms (can be unique variants):

• Antidote Charm
• Staunching Charm
• Stone Charm