Spiral Volley Life Stacking Ritualist

Spiral Volley has been one of the strongest farming abilities in the game, however its always been kept back by its lack of boss damage. However, with the use of the Ritualists ability to stack three Bursting Decay alongside the Doomfletch bow and high Maximum Life stacking, players can stack an incredible amount of both physical and elemental damage to make Rain of Arrows a boss killing machine with Spiral Volley there for its insane map clearing.

This is not meant to be a league starter guide. Majority of the gear in this build are later game Uniques, and the build takes a lot of level investment before it works. However, the build is incredibly budget friendly if players choose to not go for best in slot corrupts.
The provided build has a baseline value of under 30 divine, with majority of the gear being only a handful of exalts.

It is worth noting however, this cost is not factoring in the Undying Hate (amanamu) gem or the three Grand Spectrum.
As of writing, the Undying Hate (amanamu) is 8 divine, and the Grand Spectrum are only a handful of exalts. Keep in mind prices may vary depending on when in the season it is, with early season being very expensive for these items.

Mapping:

1. Cast Spiral Volley into enemies to break their armor through Armour Break III and generate Frenzy Charges
2. Run past that group of enemies onto the next pack
3. Cast Spiral Volley to clear every mob within 2 screens of your player, breaking more armor and generating more Frenzy Charges as you do
4. Cast Rain of Arrows against any tanky elites who didn't die

Bossing:

1. Cast Barrage
2. Cast Stormcaller Arrow to consume the Barrage and shock the target
3. Cast Sniper's Mark to apply Mark of Siphoning II for mana and life leech as well as to break armor through Mark for Death II
4. Cast Spiral Volley to fully break the bosses armor and try for a Frenzy Charge from Armour Break III
5. Cast Rain of Arrows until the boss is dead.
   If players have Rigwald's Ferocity or Rakiata's Flow to replace Elemental Focus, then skip steps 1 and 2.

Damage

The core interaction of the build is the synergy between Bursting Decay and Doomfletch.
With this build, each Bursting Decay grants the player roughly 300 physical damage per ring after the boost from the Mystic Attunement for a total of roughly 900 added physical damage for all 3 rings.

This bonus then gets applied to Doomfletch to grant the player 900 added Cold, Fire, and Lightning damage. Its for this reason both flat physical damage bonuses as well as maximum life are prioritized for maximum damage.

Importance Of Projectile Speed

Projectile Speed is one of the biggest damage multipliers and quality of life stats the build has access to. With Projectile Acceleration III and Feathered Fletching, players are able to double dip into damage modifiers for building Projectile Speed.

Projectile Speed also has a hidden benefit with Rain of Arrows, but to explain that we have to talk about some of the quirks of the skill.

Rain of Arrows has an internal cooldown of .12 seconds between arrows from the skill being able to damage the enemy, with two arrows landing within that time only triggering one instance of damage. However, because Rain of Arrows hits inside of a circle with the projectiles landing in random areas, it is incredibly unlikely majority of enemies will be hit with multiple arrows within the timeframe.

Because of this, Projectile Speed becomes a must have skill as Rain of Arrows has a line of text that reads: "Modifiers to Projectile speed apply to arrow landing frequency". This can allow us to reach our arrow hit rate to around once every 0.12 seconds which is a dramatic damage increase.
And its also for this reason that Quality is NOT something you want to add on your skill gem, as when we reach the point we need to through the use of Projectile Speed, the quality causing the arrows to land faster will push multiple arrows into that 0.12 timeframe and cause us to miss a lot of damage.

It is also worth noting that its important to avoid increasing area of effect bonuses, as increasing the area of your Rain of Arrows will lower the odds any one arrow hits. Its for this reason Concentrated Area it a vital part of the builds damage to lower the area of effect.

How To Overcome The Life Drain Effect

We stack Greater Rebirth Rune runes along side the Tecrod's Gaze socketed into a Darkness Enthroned (body armour) to gain a massive amount of maximum life regeneration. This is then paired with multiple sources of Life Regeneration nodes in our skill tree which when used together will out heal the constant HP drain.

It is worth noting however, at extremely high investments, the Tecrod's Gaze can be moved to the Body Armor to free up space for other belts such as Mageblood and Headhunter. Though it costs a significant amount of skill tree investment and requires multiple extra socketed pieces with multiple Perfect Rebirth Rune to make up the lost regeneration.
Ingenuity may be possible with the corrupt corruptions onto the Bursting Decay to lower the HP drain. More testing needs to be done to see if this is a possibility.
These should only be a consideration for those looking to truly minmax and is not a realistic upgrade for majority of people.

Frenzy Changes

Spiral Volley acts as the builds main Frenzy Charge generator, as with Armour Break III it can allow for an Endurance Charge to be gained when breaking armor. We then turn this into Frenzy Charges through the use of Resonance.

Survivability

While it might seem daunting to play without any form of Elemental Resistances, having an 8k life pool backed behind the Undying Hate (amanamu) and Defiance of Destiny combo is more than enough to survive most encounters even in 200% delirious maps.

Undying Hate (amanamu) will grant the player Sacrifice of Flesh, allowing players to survive constant streams of damage until the full 150% is gone through.
However, Defiance of Destiny will constantly heal the players extreme amounts of life as they get hit, resulting in the inability to die as Sacrifice of Flesh will prevent death and Defiance of Destiny will out heal the 150% damage drain so long as the player doesn't get one shot.

June 16, 2026

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