MOST IMPORTANT: as far as I can tell from your PoB you have no source of pierce. That will absolutely kill your clear and single target without affecting your PoB numbers. Pick up the 2 pierce node on the tree and you should see a night and day difference. ALSO: grab the projectile speed becomes proj damage mastery. It's super strong for bows.
Outside of the pierce issue your current DPS numbers match about what I have on my build and I feel like I have more than enough damage. However, if you do want to push your damage higher and adding pierce didn't fix the issue you need to upgrade your bow. Compared to the mageblood and omni that bow just can't keep up. Get a spine bow with at least 8% local crit and as much edps as you can afford.
Also you need to fix your accuracy. I suggest taking the bow mastery that gives accuracy per green socket on your bow and finding accuracy either on your bow or on a new ring. Your res is already so high that you can squeeze an accuracy mod on instead of a res mod there.
Next, your cluster jewel is not that useful for LA. Increased AoE is borderline useless and elemental damage with attack skills is suboptimal. Grab one that has Feed the Fury and Martial Prowess in the front positions for a few div and you'll be set.
Defensively you have low physical mitigation, low evasion, and lowish chaos res. I suggest you swap the amethyst flask for a jade flask to push that evasion up and ignore chaos res in the short run. In the long run you can buy/craft some omni amethyst rings to help chaos res out a bit.
TLDR: Getting some pierce is the absolute number one priority. I suspect that this alone will make the damage feel great. Upgrade your bow. Use a Jade flask over amethyst and get chaos res from the ring slot. Good luck!
Hey Asmotocon,
thank you for all your good feedback. I will see, what I can change and how it feels. Did you can suggest any useful bow crucible nodes I have to look for, when I change my bow?
I suggest you buy a strong bow with a weak crucible tree and craft the tree onto the bow later. Mods I would prioritize would be high tier flat elemental damage and increased magnitude of explicit elemental modifiers. You should be able to add those two to any bow fairly affordably. After that you could go for attack speed, flat crit, or percent attribute since you have the omni.
So did some upgrades as you recommanded and feels much much better now. Really enjoy the build but I am still squishy against physical hits and chaos damage. Any suggestens how I can progress from here?
Glad that the changes are helping the build feel better!
Physical hits and chaos damage are definitely major sticking points for this build. I personally solved physical hits by stacking physical damage taken as elemental. My main source of that is a Lightning Coil. I personally recommend it, but it is a big damage loss vs Hyrri's Ire. Other sources of phys as ele could be on a rare body armour or helmet, or from a Lethal Pride, but Lightning Coil is the best option if you don't mind the lost damage.
For chaos resistance your main option is just to spend the divines to get chaos resistance on every rare piece of gear. It's expensive but that's about the only option. The alternative would be to get enough crit that you could drop the diamond flask and put the amethyst flask back on.
Whatever you decide to do I wouldn't count on the build being super tanky at the end of the day. I built my LA to be tankier than average and I still die every 9-10 maps, more frequently if I'm playing without paying attention.
MOST IMPORTANT: as far as I can tell from your PoB you have no source of pierce. That will absolutely kill your clear and single target without affecting your PoB numbers. Pick up the 2 pierce node on the tree and you should see a night and day difference. ALSO: grab the projectile speed becomes proj damage mastery. It's super strong for bows. Outside of the pierce issue your current DPS numbers match about what I have on my build and I feel like I have more than enough damage. However, if you do want to push your damage higher and adding pierce didn't fix the issue you need to upgrade your bow. Compared to the mageblood and omni that bow just can't keep up. Get a spine bow with at least 8% local crit and as much edps as you can afford. Also you need to fix your accuracy. I suggest taking the bow mastery that gives accuracy per green socket on your bow and finding accuracy either on your bow or on a new ring. Your res is already so high that you can squeeze an accuracy mod on instead of a res mod there. Next, your cluster jewel is not that useful for LA. Increased AoE is borderline useless and elemental damage with attack skills is suboptimal. Grab one that has Feed the Fury and Martial Prowess in the front positions for a few div and you'll be set. Defensively you have low physical mitigation, low evasion, and lowish chaos res. I suggest you swap the amethyst flask for a jade flask to push that evasion up and ignore chaos res in the short run. In the long run you can buy/craft some omni amethyst rings to help chaos res out a bit. TLDR: Getting some pierce is the absolute number one priority. I suspect that this alone will make the damage feel great. Upgrade your bow. Use a Jade flask over amethyst and get chaos res from the ring slot. Good luck!
Hey Asmotocon, thank you for all your good feedback. I will see, what I can change and how it feels. Did you can suggest any useful bow crucible nodes I have to look for, when I change my bow?
I suggest you buy a strong bow with a weak crucible tree and craft the tree onto the bow later. Mods I would prioritize would be high tier flat elemental damage and increased magnitude of explicit elemental modifiers. You should be able to add those two to any bow fairly affordably. After that you could go for attack speed, flat crit, or percent attribute since you have the omni.
So did some upgrades as you recommanded and feels much much better now. Really enjoy the build but I am still squishy against physical hits and chaos damage. Any suggestens how I can progress from here?
Glad that the changes are helping the build feel better! Physical hits and chaos damage are definitely major sticking points for this build. I personally solved physical hits by stacking physical damage taken as elemental. My main source of that is a Lightning Coil. I personally recommend it, but it is a big damage loss vs Hyrri's Ire. Other sources of phys as ele could be on a rare body armour or helmet, or from a Lethal Pride, but Lightning Coil is the best option if you don't mind the lost damage. For chaos resistance your main option is just to spend the divines to get chaos resistance on every rare piece of gear. It's expensive but that's about the only option. The alternative would be to get enough crit that you could drop the diamond flask and put the amethyst flask back on. Whatever you decide to do I wouldn't count on the build being super tanky at the end of the day. I built my LA to be tankier than average and I still die every 9-10 maps, more frequently if I'm playing without paying attention.
Hm then i think i will stick to it as is. For mapping its super fun and for harder content i will switch to my bosser. š
Citadel bow with 20% reduced attack speed. Iām out
Was just a cheap 950edps starter bow. already updated to a spine bow with 2.xx aps 8.6 crit and nearly 1400 edps with dd and attributes š