[3.5] Lioneye's Glare Ele Conversion Raider (all content, videos up)

@JessicaSc2

First of all, I would like to thank you for your well written post on reddit and this guide!

I always enjoy eye-opening posts, due to the fact, that my knowledge on archers is close to 0 =). Now for the most part I went SSFHC, since it's original introduction and I was wondering if I might get decent results with your build in a future league start.

Now my experience with archers is, if you don't have some lvling uniques (bows and quivers), lvling is a chore...But as I see that (except the endgame gear) you are not useing T1 uniques at all in your build, I might get something decent going with this build. All the uniques (I will mostly get 5-Links, not perfect rolls and corruptions, not the helmet enchant etc.), except the abyss ones have been found by my SSF adventures in many leagues and for me to get the Atlas completed up to the guardians is a dream in the future...

My question is, off of your impression, would you recommend to play your character in SSFHC or would you rather not? I saw that your alc and go strategy on guardians, kills you a lot, but in SSF, this won't happen, I will have to reroll deadly mods, or I will die even earlier than lvl 90 ;)

Your reply is appreciated and once again, thanks for sharing your build.

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My question is, off of your impression, would you recommend to play your character in SSFHC or would you rather not?

Playing this build on HC is a bad idea^^'

As for self-found mode I think it's good enough. Lioneye is a very common drop, same with Ashrend.

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Any recommendations for what next? I have about 125c ASC
I'm guessing better abyss jewels, but yea.

Always Dying Sun.

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My question is does this build work with Ice.shot as well instead of Tornadoshot?
The reason why I'm asking this is because I have an unique iceshot jewel.
I just started playing so I'm kinda new.

You can use that if you want. I wouldn't recommend my build if you're very new to the game, look into Neversink's TS build.

This looks like lot's of fun, i'll try it with Chieftan in 3.2 =)

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JessicaSc2 님이 작성:

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My question is, off of your impression, would you recommend to play your character in SSFHC or would you rather not?

Playing this build on HC is a bad idea^^'

As for self-found mode I think it's good enough. Lioneye is a very common drop, same with Ashrend.


Would you recommend an other bowie as a ssfhc char? I am asking you for advice, as I have 0 knowledge when it comes to bows.

just posting so I can fully read later!

Question: Within a new league (where you can't realistically search and slap a ton of abyss jewels on easy to buy abyss uniques) or have a Dying sun before you start taking down guardians, can the build succeed without abyss jewel stacking?

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Xyzer00 님이 작성:

Question: Within a new league (where you can't realistically search and slap a ton of abyss jewels on easy to buy abyss uniques) or have a Dying sun before you start taking down guardians, can the build succeed without abyss jewel stacking?

I'm also interested in an answer to this question. I generally suck at archer builds because of the investment, but this seems very doable with budgets I get and I really want to play an archer build.

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Master_X_ 님이 작성:

Would you recommend an other bowie as a ssfhc char? I am asking you for advice, as I have 0 knowledge when it comes to bows.

I'm not Jessica obviously, but a major problem you'll have with bow builds in HC is that they typically rely on evasion and dodge to mitigate damage and there's not a lot of life on the right half of the tree or easy access to something like Mind over Matter. This means you're inevitably going to get hit and those hits are going to hurt.

If you're set on trying it, Champion gets permanent fortify plus 6% reduced damage taken (as long as you've hit something in the last 4 seconds), so that's something like 33% more EHP vs hits. They also ignore miss chance vs. anything they've hit in the last three seconds which makes weapon selection easier in SSF. Death's Opus seems OP if you can get it, especially without access to +arrows from various other places, but you'll probably have to craft a Harbinger bow. You can also open tough boss fights with a taunting Blink Arrow clone or Ballista Totem to buy yourself 3-ish seconds of free DPS in most cases. I'm theorycrafting a SC Queen of the Forest version of this with an extremely similar tree to Jessica's, but for HCSSF, I'd probably drop frenzy charges and the entire Ranger starting area to grab the Scion life wheel instead.

There's also the option of trying a non-crit bow build on the left side of the tree. This gives easier access to more life plus things like Mind over Matter, endurance charges and maybe Resolute Technique or Elemental Overload. I don't think it would do anywhere near as much damage as a crit build though.

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Xyzer00 님이 작성:

Question: Within a new league (where you can't realistically search and slap a ton of abyss jewels on easy to buy abyss uniques) or have a Dying sun before you start taking down guardians, can the build succeed without abyss jewel stacking?

I did the same build in Harbinger and farmed everything with it without any abyss jewels or uniques.

The build can definitely do all T1-T15 maps with just basically Lioneye's Glare, 5 link Ashrend and the Signal Fire. Once you're lvl 90+, have Dying sun and ~1 mil Shaper dps you should be able to do all Guardians and Shaper. 1 mil Shaper dps isn't very hard to achieve.

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Guzonjinsin 님이 작성:

Will legacy ROTC with 4 arrows be viable for this build?

I don't know if this was stupid question, and that's why you didn't answer it, but i like ur build, and would like to play it in standard league.

Now i have 6 linked legacy ROTC, and would like to try it out.

Is it viable, and what gem i should use instead of GMP(since ROTC got 4 extra projectiles)? What will most benefit this build?

Thank you.