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Ice Shot. The build has amazing clear and very strong boss damage with 
Snipe, with good gear you're one shotting all bosses. Eventually with enough gear, you can also drop Snipe and become a 1 button mapping and bossing build. Easily the best bow build in 0.5
For the Leveling Guide, check the link below.
Crit is the best way to scale your endgame damage, although with the crafting nerfs it will be more expensive to go crit. The non-crit version should be able to do every boss in the game.
Mandatory Stats: Make sure to fill out your resist, you want 75% fire/cold/lightning resist. Chaos resist is good, but not mandatory to have 75%, I usually aim for 30-50%. You'll also most likely need 1-2 attribute rolls on gear, belt will solve strength and if you need intelligence, get it on a ring or amulet.
Hybrid swap: You want the highest Energy shield helmet you can afford and a very high evasion chest to make 
Ghost Dance effective, as it's your only way to recover ES. I would also try to get good hybrid boots. You'll probably need intelligence on helmet to have enough attributes.
Rings/glove: try to focus on high flat damage to attacks, preferable cold/phys.
Bow: When swapping to crit, you want a high crit bow, preferable with t3 %crit or higher. (3% or more). After that, get the highest dps you can afford or craft.
Quiver: You preferable want a crit quiver on the 
Visceral Quiver base. You'll want both crit hit chance and crit damage. Good prefixes are bow damage/proj speed/cold damage to attack/phys damage to attacks. 
Cadiro's Gambit is also a really good quiver and highly worth getting once you can afford it (I would only use this quiver if you're crit).
amulet: Preferable want +proj levels. Crit chance/crit damage is also good, once you swap to crit. Attributes/resist are also fine here. You need at least 45 spirit on the amulet to use all spirit gems. Crit on amulet is also strong, but might be expensive with spirit and +3 proj.
Helmet: It's very important to have a high ES helmet because of 
Subterfuge Mask.
Chest: you want the highest evasion chest you can afford, this is very important for defense, specially when combined with 
Beastial Skin on the passive tree. use 
Greater Iron Rune
Boots: You want the highest movement speed boots you can afford, it's a very important stat. Besides that look for high life/resistance.
Belt: Not a lot of choices here, just Life/str/resist, eventually you want to get a 
Headhunter.
Rarity: Still really good in 0.5, I would try to hit at least 100% if you want to farm efficiently (don't focus on this if you feel like you're lacking damage or defense)
Jewels on tree: Just looking for generic damage: attack damage, elemental damage, movement speed, bonus from quivers, projectile damage, attack speed, crit chance, crit damage, etc.
Eventually you'll also want 
Heart of the Well with double "gain as extra" and 
Against the Darkness with double again as extra as well.
important:
You'll want 1 sapphire jewel with mana on kill to sustain mana during mapping. For bosses, having Mark of Siphoning II on 
Freezing Mark with Eternal Mark should give you enough sustain.
Anoint: 
Climate Change or Beastial Skin for defense
Serrated Edges is always a cheap option.
---Mana Issues
There's a few things you can do here to help out your mana sustain and I'll list them all here.
Reminder: Always run one jewel with 2% mana on kill.
1) Run a regular mana flask with increased recovery and just use your mana flask button, this along with a 2% mana on kill jewel will easily sustain you
2) Take 
Conservative Casting for 3 passives points.
3) Drop 
Wind Dancer for 
Mana Remnants (use Harmonic Remnants II, Remnant Potency III and Khatal's Rejuvenation - For khatal you either need Dialla's Desire as well or 1 point into herald reservation
Support Gem Requirements:
Str 40
Dex 95
Int 55
Ice Shot
Set 1
Snipe
Set 1
Tornado Shot
Set 1
Freezing Mark
Set 2
Barrage
Set 1
Herald of Ice
Ghost Dance
Wind Dancer
Mirage Archer
Mirage Deadeye
The links are in priority, so takeout the the last gem if you don't have a 6 link in that skill.
6 Link Priority: Snipe -> Ice Shot -> 
Herald of Ice
Quality Priority: Freezing Mark -> Herald of Ice -> Snipe -> Ice Shot
Keep in mind you don't need Fork on Ice Shot when doing pinnacle bosses, a good swap is Cold Attunement or Freeze.
Don't use Elemental Armament III, only level 2.
You want 145 spirit to run all spirit gems (ghost dance is 25 spirit at 20% quality).
To run Khatal's Rejuvenation You need Dialla's Desire(if you don't have, than drop Khatal's).Ghost Dance needs 20% quality
On pinnacle bosses swap your Rakiata's Flow into Snipe (drop Elemental Armament II)
Garukhan's Resolve is also very strong, if you have it replace Inexorable Critical I on Snipe.
If your character is geared, you can also just spam Ice Shot on bosses and instantly kill them without snipe, just make sure to keep your 
Tornado Shot up.
Boss rotation:
The goal is to freeze the boss into a 
Barrage Snipe combo.
Pre-place Tornado Shot, spam Ice Shot until the boss is frozen. Use Barrage into Snipe. Make sure you still have a Tornado Shot down before casting barrage/snipe.
Weapon Set:
Follow the Weapon set I have above. Essentially you want all of your DPS skills on weapon set 1 and Freezing Mark on weapon set 2.
Take whatever attribute you need at the time, you'll default to dex if you don't need anything, after 161 dex you should default to strength for more HP.
Once you have Rakiata's Flow you can takeout 
Snowpiercer and instead take Beastial Skin for more defense.
This is a level 94 tree. Takeout some Evasion/energy shield hybrid nodes if you're lower lvl.
If you have projectile speed on your quiver, you should also take 
Feathered Fletching
Beastial Skin is a very solid evasion node if you want higher evasion (can also anoint this).
Ascendancy order:
Projectile Proximity Specialisation(point blank) -> 
Endless Munitions -> 
Gathering Winds -> 
Mirage Deadeye
Weapon Set:
Follow the Weapon set I have above. Essentially you want all of your DPS skills on weapon set 1 and Freezing Mark on weapon set 2.
1) Fully setup non-crit setup
(have heart of the well, cheap for a lot of extra damage/3 prop jewels).
2) Focus on a really good Crit bow and Crit quiver before swapping to crit (or Cadiro's Gambit)
3) Big evasion chest is massive for defense
4) Aim for a 450~ ES helmet when swapping to hybrid
5) After that I would focus on Solid boots/gloves/rings/amulet (+2 proj/spirit on amulet)
6) Get against the darkness with as extra cold (eventually double as extra).
Low priority (too expensive to justify the power they give at the moment, buy if you have currency).
Rakiata's Flow/Garukhan's Resolve/
Rite of Passage/Headhunter
These are solid upgrades, but not priority over the above.
This all depends on prices, but I would aim for headhunter first than Garukhan's Resolve
Non-crit Bow - ilvl 75: To start off you need a bow with a High %phys (any %phys works, higher is just better). - Can either buy or pickup bases and trans/aug, until you acquire one. With the crafting nerfs, it's pretty RNG to make a really good bow, but you can still craft decent ones.
The best bases are either 
Obliterator Bow or 
Warmonger Bow.
1) After acquiring a high %phys bow(make sure to aug first), use Greater essence of Abrasian. This will give you T3 Flat phys.
2) Use a Sinistral Necromancy and Jawbone to unveil a prefix. Depending on prices, you might want to use a abyssal echoes here. You're looking to unveil any high flat elemental damage (cold is best).
3) Now it's just rng. Depending on how good your bow is and the prices of items, either use Greater or Perfect exalt with "Omen of greater Exaltation". To fill out the last 2 affixes.
Crit Bow - ilvl 75: To start off you need a bow with a High %phys (any %phys works, higher is just better). - Can either buy or pickup bases and trans/aug, until you acquire one. With the crafting nerfs, it's pretty RNG to make a really good bow, but you can still craft decent ones.
The best bases are either Obliterator Bow or Warmonger Bow.
1) After acquiring a high %phys bow(make sure to aug first), use Greater essence of seeking. This will give you T3 Crit.
2) Use a Sinistral Necromancy and Jawbone to unveil a prefix. Depending on prices, you might want to use a abyssal echoes here (ancient jawbone is also cheap early league). You're looking to unveil high flat physical damage, but any high tier elemental flat would also be fine.
3) Now it's just rng. Depending on how good your bow is and the prices of items, either use Greater or Perfect exalt with "Omen of greater Exaltation". To fill out the last 2 affixes.
Quiver - ilvl 75: The quiver craft is mostly RNG but there's some steps you can take to improve your odds of success, just keep in mind most crafts will end up being mediocre when it comes to the quiver.
1) Perfect trans/aug quiver until 2 good affixes(can also greater) (flat dmg or inc bow dmg on prefix and +1, crit or atk speed on suffix).
2) Perfect regal and hope for a 3rd good affix (suffix is the ideal scenario here).
3) If it hit a bad affix, you can use a greater chaos orb and try to replace the bad affix, 2/3 to brick here.
4) Dextral necromancy + jawbone on the quiver, if it's 3 gg mods you should use an abyssal echoes
5) If you hit a good suffix, you should consider using perfect exalt+double exalt omen to finish the craft
This is the cheapest way to make a GG quiver, lots of rng steps but eventually you will hit. More expensive methods will require omen of lights, fracture and/or whittles.
Quiver - ilvl75: More expensive method
If you hit +2 lvls/crit on the suffix with t1 Flat on the prefix, you can jawbone the suffix and go for a 1/3 fracture (if you miss the fracture it's fine, just do the same steps as above) - If you fracture flat dmg, you can exalt 1 mod on the prefix and than use Essence of hysteria + essence of sinistral crystal to have 100% chance of adding bow dmg onto your prefix. The last prefix you will slam with a perfect exalt and hope to not hit accuracy. If the quiver is 5 GG mods, than you should echoes/omen of light your last suffix until you hit crit or attack speed.
Amulet - Ilvl 80 or ilvl 82 (82 is t1 resist) - The amulet craft is mostly deterministic, but expensive. You'll only need 1 fracture base to finish the craft.
1) Fracture or buy a +3 projectile amulet
2) annul down to 2 modifiers (fracture mod+random mod)
3) Chaos spam until t1 or t2 spirit
4) Add 1 suffix with dextral exaltation and 1 exalt
5) Use "dextral crystallisation" with "essence of enhancement"
6) Use your desired element catalyst (tul, xoph or esh) until the amulet is 20% quality.
7) Perfect exalt with "dextral exaltation" and "Catalysing Exaltation" - High chance to hit a resist.
8) If you hit a resist, repeat the same step above (can use the same catalyst because the amulet can still hit all resist).
If the amulet didn't hit resist or a good stat (crit/rarity are good). Than you either need to annul or collarbone + dextral necromance + omen of light to remove the mod and go again.
9) collarbone + abyssal echoes + omen of light until you get your last desired prefix.
Helmet - ilvl 78 - Cheap method
1) Buy or perfect trans/aug bases until you hit t1 +energy shield
2) Use "greater essence of enhancement"
3) Use "sinistral necromancy" with a preserved rib
4) Unveil and take any hybrid %es
5) If the hybrid % was t1 I would use a perfect exalt + greater exaltation, otherwise just use a greater exalt to finish the suffixes.
6) If the suffixes/prefixes are really good I would finish with vaal infusers (has a chance to corrupt but the item cannot brick, just make sure to add a socket before using this).
Helmet - ilvl 78 - Cheap but random (this method allows the chance for triple t1 prefix).
1) Buy or perfect trans/aug bases until you hit t1 %energy shield or +energy shield.
2) If the prefix/suffix is good (good suffix is resist/crit/rarity) I would use a resist or rarity essence.
3) sinistral necromancy + preserved rib and than greater exalt + greater exaltation omen
4) If you hit a good hybrid prefix tier (t3/t2/t1) I would use an abyssal echoes and hope you hit a good tier.
5) Finish with vaal infusers if the item has high tier prefixes.
Emerald Jewels - (expensive).
Step 1: Buy or fracture Critical damage bonus for attacks (you want 20%)
Step 2: Chaos spam for increased critical hit chance
Step 3: Make sure you have a 4 mod jewel, now use "potent liquid contempt". If you lose your crit Suffix, go back to step 2.
Step 4: Use preserved cranium with abyssal echoes and omens of lights until you unveil attack speed
Step 5: Once you got your desired mod, you now now need to annul the prefix with a "sinistral annulment" (if you miss the +1 suffix, you'll have to do this twice).
Step 6: Once the +1 suffix crafted mod is removed, you'll now want to exalt slam until 5 affixes
Step 7: chaos spam for 1 good prefix (proj damage, elemental damage, dmg vs rares, attack damage).
Final step 8: Use potent liquid of ferocity. 50/50% chance to finish. If you lose your good modifier, go back to step 7.
requires too much mana
Where do I get Strength, Agility, and Intelligence? Does the build not provide stat bonuses?
It’s explained in the text descriptions, but basically if you need it just pick up some strength on your belt and some in on a ring or amulet.
Put about 2000 divines into the build and nearly couldn tkill 2 rogue exiles...
Huh? SMH… If you’re geared up correctly and have your tree built out correctly you should be able to freeze any rogue exile and then use barrage into snipe and one shot them. If they have high cold res and you don’t have raikita’s flow yet, swap a cold pen support into ice shot for the fight and that’ll take care of their res Issue.
Man im feeling the same way, this build is very odd in terms of investment and gain.
Im positive that its top notch after you are 3,4k div in or more. But the 200,400 - 1000,2000 div range feels very harsh and punishing.
lol...
If you use Mana remnants, ghost dance, Wind dancer, snipe etc u cant use Tornado shot?
If you want to add in Mana Remnants on top
Of your other skill/persistant gems you’ll need to get an extra skill slot with something like an unset ring. Otherwise you only have the default 9 slots to work with.
Does the Copy of `"Ice Shot Skillgem" I put into Mirage Archer need to be leveled? Or can I just put a lvl1 Ice Shot in there?
Its better leveled man, it will change the dps of the mirage archer.
As well the mirage deadeye
how do i ramp up my survival and not get 1 shot by the heavy hits. Ive got pretty decent gear T1 deflection % on all pieces except gloves 3k evasion armor maxed stats 50 chaos res. My es helm can improve but still at 450.... is it a combo of ghost dance and wind dancer that ramps up the survivability bc Im sick of dying at level 97 almost 98
Its basically a scenario of kill everything before it hits you , we want a fast mapper with high damage here. Evasion/Deflection is just here so in case something gets through we dont take damage , also the headhunter makes it really tanky after you killed a few rares. You can also go pathfinder and take the evasion applies to ele damage note together with the attribute note and take more evasion/es travel notes to level up more.
i cant use liquid for fracture jewel. its sayd like i already have crafted mod-_-
u prob bought crafted crit damage base jewel
can someone explain how with only 147 spirit like stated you can run ghost dance, mirage archer, wind dance and mana remnants? ghost dance is 25 spirit, mirage archer is 60, wind dancer is 30 and herald of ice is 30 with mana remnants costing a total of 30 itself. thats a grand total of 175? the math doesnt math lol
he use Atziri's Communion in uber version that reserve life instead of spirit
Ghost Dance 20% quality grants 20% reservation efficiency.
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