[3.0] NeverSink's ♣ INDEPTH Tornado&Archer Guide ♣ Beginner friendly ♣ Rapid clear ♣ All bosses

Some more specific tips on this character archetype.

Blink Arrow

This is not just a movement skill. It's a 2nd decoy totem for you. Learn to make use of it and you'll find yourself dying far, far less.

When engaging packs of monsters, if you find them closing in on you before your TS kills them, just blink backwards and keep firing. They'll most likely be dead before they come for you again.

Same thing goes for bosses. It's your second line of defense after your decoy totem dies, and it lets you buy time to resummon it if you feel like you need to. Not everything can be facetanked, especially when you're still just starting out in maps.

That said, it takes a moment to cast (and register server-side). Don't get too cocky with it. Sometimes it's better to run to make sure you actually get out of the way of an attack before it hits. I've died to Shaper's slam after blinking elsewhere because I got hit before it actually registered server-side.


Decoy totem

Run this thing if you're not ridiculously geared. Just run it. It's amazing. I personally still run it even at my current gear level because it has its uses.

You'll have 191 strength for Kaom's anyway, and thus your totem will be useful even without any supporting gems.

While Neversink says it's too slow for the endgame, it'll downright carry you through red maps and the guardians at first. You have to spend some time resummoning it, but it'll help immensely by tanking the three-hit Chimera combo, or by making Minotaur turn around on his heels to go the other way. Don't even mention normal map bosses. The more experienced you are, however, the less useful it may feel.

Even at higher gear levels, it has many uses. For example, I use it to tank the Shaper adds going after Zana. While the totem keeps Zana alive and fine, I run around popping the ground AoE spheres in preparation for the next Danmaku phase.


Life leech/mana leech?

Lioneye's Fall is the answer to all of your leech problems ever. Plop it into the socket near Acrobatics and get the claw nodes up until Soul Raker. That's 1,2% life leech AND 0,8% mana leech. Plus, of course, a stupid amount of damage.

But that's not cheap.

Early in the league, I personally unspecced the 0,4% mana leech point and spent 2 points on 0,4% life leech near vitality void, taking the 0,4% ml/0,4% ll hybrid note instead of vitality void. That way you spend 2 points for an extra 1,2% leech, which coupled with 0,4% leech from blood drinker gets you to a solid 1,6%.

This was more than enough, without a huge investment.


Herald + Curse

Ice if you have decent crit chance. Lightning if you don't have much crit yet. Depending on your gem setup, compliment them with gems like innervate, if you have space.

Projectile weakness or elemental weakness provide a direct damage boost against the cursed target, while assassin's mark gets you more crit through power charges. Generally speaking, power charges are unlikely to be the better option UNLESS you are running Acuities already. With Acuities, you'll want to make sure you have a high crit chance to guarantee leech without VP.


My other gem links

Really just up to you but here's what I personally quite like.

- CWDT + Golem is a must so you don't waste your time resummoning it. It's always up.
- Vaal Haste + Decoy Totem + Increased Duration is a good combination.
- Blink Arrow + Faster Attacks
- Hatred (slotted with curse herald)


Misc. gearing

One thing not discussed in the original posts is Lioneye's Fall.

This jewel, through passives, will give you:
- 60% critical strike chance with bows
- 45% critical strike multiplier with bows
- 1,2% life leech
- 0,8% mana leech
- 20% physical damage with bows
Get the claw nodes north of the jewel socket and it'll not only solve you leech problems, but also give you great crit bonuses.

- Of course, you're free to drop VP if you get yourself a pair of Acuities. My tree shows how that could go.

- If you run The Taming, you'll want to not run elemental focus because of the ailment bonuses. Run a crit multi gem instead.

- Kaom's is a huge life boost so just get a 6link bow and use it so that you can sacrifice life on other slots for more DPS. However, while still gearing up, it may be a good idea to just get a cheap 5 or 6 link armor so you can keep using different bows until you finally get a good 5 or 6link one.

This post currently has 982 reply pages, so if this already has been answered, I'm sorry.

I like this build, currently at level 57. Switching to using Blast Rain, and in the drawing for the gem links the second gem is CONC (in green). There is no green "concentrated effect" so I thought maybe "cast on crit", but that makes no sense, since there is no skill to trigger in the setup.

Please enlighten me, what is that green CONC you speak of?

Thanks for the guide anyways. Very nice.

Hello there,

I've recently revived an old lvl 84 ranger with this guide. She first was wearing deerstalkers for generating frenzy charges. I couldn't find a good method in this guide for generating frenzy charges, or am i missing something?

-blood rage drains hp, while vaal pact removes regeneration to compensate, so this one is annoying to say the least

couldn't find any other means. Can someone help me out? thanks in advance

edit: nevermind, hadn't checked the ascendancy class

^^^^^^^^
Conc - concentrated effect nothing else

Frenzy - Raider acendancy because this build is meant for raider

Have fun man.

Hello Ranger fans!

here is a good one, for a better Rat's nest I want to buy one with a specific enchant, so here is the deal.

Tornado Shot 90% increased Critical Strike Chance or,

Tornado shot 40% increased damage.


P.D tornado shot extra projectiles is out of the question, I can't afford that yet.

Thank you for reading! :D

Hey Neversink bro, thanks for the Scion passive tree! You're a godsend :-).

Should I prefer "increased elemental damage with attack skills" or "elemental weapon damage"?

Been stucked at Level 91 for few days as I genuinely only die to reflect elemental damage always. Sometimes I met two rare mobs with elemental reflect in a single map and die twice. Invested almost 60ex into this char but couldn't do much except mapping lol. Die pretty often to bosses at map tier 15+ with/without crazy mods, so I tend to skip most of the bosses at high tier. Is my gears sufficient to do uber lab/shaper/guardians/uber atziri? Haven't try most of them as I feel squishy and die pretty easily.

Would love some advice on how I can continue to level up? Recommend me my priority gear to upgrade too, I am thinking about crafting some Opal rings atm.



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Just came back to this game after few years, most powerful character I ever played, nice guide overall.

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Hello Ranger fans!

here is a good one, for a better Rat's nest I want to buy one with a specific enchant, so here is the deal.

Tornado Shot 90% increased Critical Strike Chance or,

Tornado shot 40% increased damage.


P.D tornado shot extra projectiles is out of the question, I can't afford that yet.

Thank you for reading! :D

I tested both 90% crit and 40% dmg, 90% crit wins big time. I was using 90% crit before getting my Tornado shot secondary projectile enchants.

I asked a week or 2 ago about flasks for this build, but the volume of posts might be too much for NS to handle, I know I couldnt do it :-)

Since I'm relatively new to the game and dont have alot of real end game experience I'm at a loss as to what flasks I need. Crafting them or adding on to them np, Im sure I can find a post or YT video, but more specifically what flasks I should be carrying with the Raider TS build.

Thanks to anyone who responds!

Dan.