Dear exiles! Today I will share Daniel's top 3 PoE Archers builds with the guys who love to kill many enemies from a safe distance. These builds contain Lightning Arrow, Ice Shot, and Brutal Tornado Shot.
1. Lightning Arrow
Our first Archer build is the amazing Vaal Lightning Arrow Deadeye with the Ranger class. This build is with very little investment that pretty much doubled most of the attack projectile damage. Lightning Arrow got even more with its Vaal version, which is awesome for killing bosses.
Pros
Awesome Clear Speed
Awesome Boss Damage
Easy to Build
Safe Ranged Attacks
Cons
Expensive Mandatory Jewel
Expensive Anointment Makes Big Defence
Thread of Hope Makes a Big Defence
Budget
As I just mentioned, the Budget is an expensive build right now. You need around 5 Divine orbs to put it together.
Mandatory Items
You only need two mandatory unique items for this build. The first is the Lioneye's Fall jewel that grants many useful nodes in our passive tree. Next, we also need the Yoke of Suffering amulet that causes all of our elemental damage to shock. This way, the enemies take a lot more damage.
Clear Speed
For clear speed, I'll give it 10 out of 10. You fire many projectiles with high attack speed, and those projectiles return to you, pierce enemies and bounce off walls. You even have your Mirage Archer to fire more projectiles. No one can survive that.
Boss Damage
The boss damage is also amazing and deserves 10 out of 10. Using 2 Vaal Lightning Arrows plus your Ballistas on bosses will kill them so fast that you won't believe it.
Survivability
For survivability, I'll give this build 9 out of 10. You have armor evasion and spell suppression that grants almost 50 000 effective HP. But the main reason why this build is safe is because you can kill everything from a huge distance. You need to mind your position.
2. Ice Shot
Next, we also have the freezing cold Ice Shot Deadeye with the Ranger class. Let's look at this amazing build that uses one of my favorite skills in the whole game. Like Lightning Arrow, this one also counts with an amazing clear speed and boss damage.
Pros
Awesome Clear Speed
Awesome Boss Damage
Currency Farmer
Easy to Build
Safe Ranged Attacks
Cons
Expensive Mandatory Jewel
Expensive Anointment Makes Big Defence
Thread of Hope Makes Big Defence
Budget
As I just mentioned, the Budget's an expensive build right now. You need around 5 Divine orbs to put it together.
Mandatory Items
Lioneye's Fall Jewel
Yoke of Suffering
Clear Speed
For clear speed, I'll give it 10 out of 10. You fire many projectiles with high attack speed, and those projectiles return to you, pierce enemies and bounce off walls. You even have your Mirage Archer to fire more projectiles. No one can survive that.
Boss Damage
The boss damage is also amazing and deserves 10 out of 10. Using the incredibly strong Vaal Ice Shot plus your Ballistas on bosses will kill them super-fast.
Survivability
For survivability, I'll give this build 9 out of 10. You have armor evasion and spell suppression that grants almost 50 000 effective HP. But the main reason why this build is safe is because you can kill everything from a huge distance. You need to mind your position.
3. Brutal Tornado Shot
Finally, we have an Archer build for those who enjoy destruction—the Tornado Shot Berserker with the Marauder class. As you guys know, archers have been the high note of crucible. For that reason, items like Lioneye's Fall have spiked in price, and many players have a hard time feeling powerful as an Archer without spending a lot of divine orbs. But this build here is different. It doesn't require any mandatory unique item.
Pros
Awesome Clear Speed
Awesome Boss Damage
Currency Farmer
Easy to Build
Safe Ranged Attacks
Big Leech
No Mandatory Unique Items
No Lioneye's Fall
Cons
Life Degeneration
Budget
As for Budget, even though this build isn't expensive, it is not cheap. You will need at least two divine orbs to put it together.
Clear Speed
For Clear speed, I'll give it 10 out of 10. You fire many projectiles with high attack speed, and those projectiles turn into many other projectiles that chain on enemies. You won't believe how many of them you can kill with a mouse click.
Boss Damage
The boss damage is also amazing and deserves 10 out of 10. Using all of your Ballistas and activating Berserk on bosses will grant you an incredible explosion of power that will make them look like regular enemies.
Survivability
For the survivability, I'll give it 8 out of 10. You have armor evasion in spell suppression that grants this build almost 70 000 effective HP. However, I took two points out because of the life degeneration and the extra damage taken from the Berserker ascendancy.
