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0.5 Fubgun's Lightning Arrow Deadeye leveling Guide

presentationRanger
presentationDeadeye
Starter
0.5 RotA
Fubgun
Verified
Updated on May 29, 2026
May 29, 2026

Build Overview

This is my leveling setup, can be done on both Ranger or Huntress if you want an easy and SSF viable way to do campaign in 0.4 - Below is a link to my endgame setup that is also updated for 0.3

The transition requires very little gold, but be sure not to gamble away all of it so you can respec your tree to the new build.

Vendor Regex: "!cros|crud" "s: (am|ri|be|bow)|ovem|[egdl] to.at"
(You copy and paste this into your vendor window, to easily see items you might want to buy)

Build Variants

Use the build variants above to see skill tree progression and gear upgrades.

Equipment

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Equipment Priority
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Early boss kill order for a smooth experience:
Devourer > cold witch > hut witch > rust king
Grab Lightning Attunement after killing devourer.

In act 1 it's very important to have gear with flat damage to attack, this can be any element or phys. At lvl 11 you want to get a Warden Bow with 1-2 sockets, place a desert, glacier or storm rune in here for a big boost in DPS (storm rune is the best, but any will do).

Also look at the vendor in town every 1-2 lvls for flat damage gloves, every flat for the build is massive in at 1

Movement speed on boots is also extremely good if you can find them, try to search the vendor every 1-2 lvls. I would never swap out movement speed boots, only replace them with other boots that have movement speed.

Besides that you're just looking for life/resist on gear, but flat damage is the most important on gloves/rings.

!!!!Important!!!!!
Always salvage weapons with quality for whetstones and always salvage items with sockets for artificers orb, this is extremely important for gear upgrades throughout the campaign.

I also personally prefer to vendor all rares for gold to gamble in act 2 and act 3 for better gear.

Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 0

Dex 10

Int 0

1

Bow Shot

2

Lightning Arrow

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Lightning Rod

4

Contagion

5

Frost Bomb

Gem Priority
+2

Contagion is really good for lvls 1-5, after the redvale zone you should drop it.

use Frost Bomb for bosses, you only care for the debuff it applies.

For bosses you place Lightning Infusion into Lightning Rod(eventually you get 2 and wont need to swap), if you pre-fire rods, you'll have massive single target damage.

LA+Rod is your ideal setup for Rust king in redvale, can be hard to use on the witches and I wouldn't use it on devourer (bow shot or crossbow auto attack is better)

Passive Tree

main:
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set 1:
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set 2:
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In general just use dexterity for your small attribute nodes. Use strength/int if you need it for gear or support gems.

Deadeye Ascendancy points:

In order: Gathering winds > Point blank > Endless munitions.

Quest Rewards

Check which quests you’ve completed on your character
Clearfell — Beira of the Rotten Pack
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Hunting Grounds — The Crowbell
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Freythorn — The King in the Mists
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Ogham Farmlands — Una's Hut
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Ogham Manor — Candlemass, the Living Rite
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Keth — Kabala, Constrictor Queen
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Valley of the Titans — Medallion
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Deshar — Final Letter
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The Spires of Deshar — Sisters of Garukhan
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Jungle Ruins — Mighty Silverfist
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The Venom Crypts — Venom Draught
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Jiquani's Machinarium — Blackjaw, the Remnant
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The Azak Bog — Ignagduk, the Bog Witch
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The Molten Vault — The Molten Vault
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Aggorat — Blood Sacrifice
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Journey's End — Captain Hartlin
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Eye of Hinekora — Navali's Rest
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Halls of the Dead — Yama The White
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Halls of the Dead — Tawhoa's Test
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Abandoned Prison — Goddess of Justice
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Halls of the Dead — Tasalio's Test
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Halls of the Dead — Ngamahu's Test
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Wolvenhold — Oswin, the Dread Warden
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The Khari Crossing — Akthi and Anundr
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The Khari Crossing — Molten Shrine
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Qimah — Tabana's Pillar
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Kriar Village — Lythara, the Wayward Spear
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Howling Caves — The Abominable Yeti
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How it Plays

Lightning Arrow and Freezing Salvo to clear packs. Depending on your damage, you'll want to use Lightning Rod once into a Barrage > Lightning Arrow for rares.

On bosses use Freezing Salvo on cooldown and place down multiple Lightning Rod(usually aim for 8-10 on bosses, can pre-fire them on most bosses).
After that you're spamming Lightning Arrow and using Barrage on cooldown.

How it Works

Quest rewards to take:

1) charm recharge - act 2
2) stun threshold from venom reward - act 3
3) tattoos - lightning resist/int/fire resist - act 4
4) boon - movement speed - interlude

Deadeye Ascendancy points:

In order: Gathering winds > Point blank > Endless munitions.

Beast location in Act 3:

https://www.twitch.tv/fubgun/clip/CuriousCourageousOtterTheRinger-nBLlQCYh_hrtsV71

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