Comparison of Lightning Arrow and Elemental Hit Builds

The new boots enable a third six-link in a build, eliminating the need to choose between Ballista totem or Cast on Crit setups.

### Path of Exile: New Boots Enable Third 6-Link Setup for Ranger Builds
* 👢  New boots in Path of Exile allow rangers to have a **third 6-link setup** in their build, reducing the need to choose between different setups.
* 🏹  The Lioneye's Paws boots provide a **free level 5 Rain of Arrows cast**, essentially giving a **pseudo 6-link setup** for certain skills.
* 🎯  This setup is particularly useful for ranger builds that rely on **100% critical strike chance**, as it allows for **additional gem links without sacrificing damage**.
* 💰  The cost of this setup is relatively low, with the boots themselves being **inexpensive** and the additional gem links requiring **minimal investment**.
* 📊  The video showcases the **difference in damage output** between Lightning Arrow and Elemental Hit builds using this new setup.
* 🔮  The Elemental Hit build demonstrates **significantly higher damage output**, with the potential to freeze enemies with a **78 million damage threshold**.
* 🌟  The setup is praised for its versatility, allowing for both **strong single-target damage** and **effective clear speed** in Legion encounters.
* 🎯  The creator hints at future videos exploring different variations of the build, including a **Headhunter magic find version** and a **"no-hit sanctum" version**.

hey, what's up guys? It's new. Welcome back to another video. Tech-related video. This one, I just figured out the other day looking at PoE ninja, checking out builds. It just kind of dawned on me that we have some boots that enable us to get a third six-link in a build. Z characters went strong enough already and to no longer have to make the terrible decision of whether to make your second six-link a Ballista totem setup or a Caston crit manif Forge setup, man. I mulled that over so much last league. I hated having to make that choice. You guys might remember me testing weird stuff like cast on crit detonate dead like a two-link or whatever. And then I went back to the ballist link because I needed the single target for the meat sacks. Blah, blah, blah, BL, blah, tier 17s so hard. Well, now I don't have to make that choice. Isn't that cool? It's only Rain of Arrows level five auto cast it in there. It doesn't matter though if you have

100% quick chance. And you know what? We like to do with Rain of Arrows. We like to make it into a Mana Forge cast on Crit link. But we don't need the Mana Forge arrows, do we, if it automatically casts it. And we don't need a Rain of Arrows link if we automatically cast it. So, what that means is we got four more gems, four plus two. That's a six-link right there for the cool price of about one chaos. Yeah, plus the, you know, the cost of the six links overall. And so, here you can see it in proper form with, uh, not an Elemental Hit of the spectrum. Actually running the Lightning Arrow character here because we're here. Why not go ahead and showcase what Lightning Arrow is capable of doing? Yeah, it's definitely capable of that. So, uh, I leave that in there. Figured I'd leave that in there because I know how relatable that moment is. It's not like I'm trying to drag Lightning Arrow through the mud or anything. Just so happens that when I made this video I

died on that character and not the elemental hit Spectrum. What are you going to do, seriously? Uh, that is a real thing. So, I go back to the boss and let's check out that damage with the proper ballista link and the tornado in the cast. Check. Oh my God, woo, that's uh pretty nice. Nice. Now I'm running a better character here. Going to look at the PO be later, but uh, that boss got smoked for uh, this budget of roughly 15 to 20 divines. Uh, sorry, 15 to 30 divines if you buy everything at really expensive price. You can see I got some head hunter Buffs. You might think, wait a minute, you running a head hunter. No, I'm just running two inspired learnings doing some Legions. So, uh, 40 Head Hunter Buffs still possible with that setup. And we got two six Lings of the here now and then a proper spine bow showcased in the thumbnail. So, this is what it looks like to progress the build further and this is what it looks like on Lightning Arrow.

character. And I would say, even my most harsh critics would probably agree that this is some pretty fine Legion blasting right here. I don't really see too much wrong with this picture. Also, got Rampage because I dropped the gloves, you know, because I'm a lightning Arrow. Of course, I'm going to run shadows and dust, maybe a few other slight changes there, but just absolutely blowing through these Legions. I told you guys before, further the gear progresses, the more the Gap closes. Obviously, lightning arrow's great for this and its strongest suit. And once again, I showcase you I'm not hiding anything here. I want to showcase it at its very strongest, at its most appealing point. So, the real question you should be asking yourself now is, what does Elemental hit spectrum look like doing Legions with this kind of gear threshold. And here she is, my baby, the elemental hit of the spectrum with a crit setup. Again, roughly 15 to 30 divines budget. Let's see what that boss is looking like. Uh oh, it's already dead and I almost died there.

delirium effect almost got me there. One thing I will point out is with the Lightning Arrow build, I got extra damage because chain was involved on top of the tornado, so it's able to do extra damage. You guys know this when the boss is duplicated, you actually do more damage with Lightning Arrow. That was a single target boss though. With the Element Spectrum, still died faster, so I mean it shouldn't be that surprising to you when you see the damage numbers in the Path of Building. In a second, but here we go, we got the legions. I just popped one, moving on to another. I wonder what the clear is like. Can I open these Legions in full? Does it look better? Does it look worse? How much worse? I don't know, you tell me. The monsters spread out. I'm not getting that amazing chain off of the Lightning Arrow gem. I guess, you know, it's a little hard to clear out everything. But uh, the same thing happens on Lightning Arrow times. We going to see another Legion passing through once.

again getting a bunch of Head Hunter Buffs. They're going to be treating Elemental hit the Spectrum about the same as they would with lightning arrow. And then of course I want you to pay attention to oh that was a legion boss there. I want you to pay attention to the tankiness or you know lack of threat that takes place here. Nothing really has any opportunity beyond the spawning. There's delirium everywhere, a bunch of Legion monsters blowing up. I'm popping Legions before I even clear the original one. Did that in both cases and the lightning Arrow character was fine once they have 40 Head Hunter Buffs or inspired learning Buffs probably not going to die anyway. Uh but just look at that like was anything ever going to kill me on this build in that situation. It's pretty obvious to me a lot safer does a lot more damage also single Target and I don't know. I mean that opened the legions pretty well. I was pleasantly surprised personally. All right guys I'm bringing.

you down to the path of building just like I did last time. We're going to compare and contrast lightning arrow with elemental of the Spectrum in the numbers. Uh, but you got to see the Showcase between the two. You got to get a sense of the feel. But first, before I do that, I want to just quickly go over what the video is actually intended for, which is to Showcase where they at. Here they are lionized paw. It's a pseudo six link you get just for wearing these. A free cast of level five rain of arrows. It does cost Mana like it does normally, and it actually has an internal cool down of about like one full second, one and a half seconds maybe. So it feels a lot like it's attached to Mana for arrows, but it's not really. But anyway, that's two links out of the way. That is rain of arrows and Mana Forge completely done for you. And for that reason, it works with this setup. Now it wouldn't work with a Ballista because the damage is too low, and it's not what

it would do, and it can't be used obviously for your primary link, but it's actually perfect if you're running 100% crit chance for a tornado Mark crit setup with life tap, except it doesn't work with life tap, so you're going to have to use a different thing, and maybe it won't be quite as reliable, but hey, it's rain of arrows anyway, so it's pretty reliable, and I really, really like the fact that I can run both a six-link ballista setup and this setup, so right after switching into crit, which is exactly this moment, the snapshot in time of the Showcase, this is very, very good. Before you switch the crit, it's not going to be very valuable, and way, way, way, way after with like Mir Tier gear, probably not going to have the ballista set up anyway, but you know last League when I was trying to do meat sax farming on like 10,000 Divine budget, I wanted to have both of these things, and it couldn't do it, or at least I didn't know.

how to do it at the time. So, you know, that's a pretty powerful thing to me. And these things cost like one chaos. One chaos. They're tier four unique. You be able to get whatever corruption you want. Maybe most cases they have a flat fire roll. They have a huge strength roll. Get a lot of that out of the way. Give you free decks for what that's worth and a little bit of movement speed. But you lose 40% movement speed if you go down to low life. A terrible downside. I like how this is like fooling everybody into thinking it's a bad item. As if I'm ever sitting at low life on this character. Never. If I'm at low life, I'm already dead. That's basically how it goes. So that's it for the tech in question with the pseudo 6 link. The rest of this video, we're going to be comparing lightning arrow with elemental hit. The Spectrum and you already got to see the number here. 61 million DPS in total. 22 mil for the

primary attack Gem and 32 mil and 10 mil for the primary attack G for lightning Arrow. What the heck, guys? What is going on? Why do I have so much more damage? I said last video the moment you start scaling it up, it closes the Gap, and yeah, it looked like the Gap was pretty closed in the actual playtest, but the numbers, what's going on with the numbers? Well, let's take a look into it. I promise I'm not trying to trick you or anything. I'm going to show you where those numbers are coming from. So initially, right off the bat, got to remind you from the last video that we have bone chill support. Bone chill support is in here and grants you 30% increased damage taken for the enemies. The same thing with auu On's bite, exact same copy, and that's going to be up 100% time. There's almost no scenario where at this point with this gear that I'm not killing for 30%. In fact, I believe the chill is something like 40% on bosses, which we'll

look at the ailment threshold in a second, and then we also have this Mastery. Now, this Mastery, to be fair, is not going to have very much effect in maps, so let me just peel it off here so you can, you know, maybe get a trer sense what it would be like in maps. This would have an effect on bosses though, and then we have Nature's patience through the cluster delirium cluster natural Affinity. Very cheap cluster, nobody really wants to use this. I figured I would experiment with this. This is definitely the most experimental thing I'm doing right now. I'm not really sure if I'm going to use this in my build, but it seemed like a pretty good opportunity. Excellent for bosses, uh, really good in a situation where you're fighting, you know, a high Health unique or something, or some triple Health rare, and or you know you're closing out on a legion, just standing your ground, go ahead and fire everything away. This will start to ramp up the double damage chance in 10 up to 10% less.

damage up to 20%, double damage, and granted, you know, in a fast-paced mapping situation, may not be going off all that much, but you could adjust your playstyle, and you can always just flame dash out of the grasping Vines anyway. It poses to be a lot of extra damage, uh, if it's up fully, and that is where some of the numbers are coming from there as well. The FS max hit is embarrassingly low, and you know I died for it on the Lightning Arrow character. It's a little higher over there, uh, but that's just how it goes when you start scaling the damage. You actually start scaling out of survivability. Dropping the Lightning Coil and the Topaz Flask together, uh, will do that for sure. Now, for the Lightning Arrow character, I was actually cheating in favor of it by granting a rampage, which would not be on a boss fight, obviously. So if we peel that off there, that's actually more accurate or more indicative of a boss fight. But otherwise, the configs, I believe, are set up.

know pretty much the same here for their corresponding Buffs. Yeah, and the shocks are represented as they would be normally. So if I put this back in and so you can see, you know, where the damage is coming from. I'm going to put this back in and then actually with a boss fight, we're going to leave that as it is, all right? So very squishy character, a snapshot in time, double inspired learning, got a proper crit bow with a spine bone or Ivory base with a flat crit, high tier crit roll, and benchcrafted speed tier 123 of Elemental damage at this time, a very nice bow and exactly what you would expect to have around this snapshot time. The bow is very important so you can invest a bit in that and a six link here Z so six linking both of those and then even third link third six link for almost nothing. And I don't know, maybe just starting to build out clusters haven't really invested into, you know, full-blown cluster setup, but I mean hey, the ranger.

tree is so crazy strong just with that bow. Uh, set up the way it is, you can get 100% quick chance on the ranger if you count like things like this but Mastery 100%. I also dropped out a focal point and picked up Ricochet. To me, I didn't talk about this but I feel like this is actually helping Elemental hit of the spectrum especially. Uh, it just changes the dynamic a little bit about how the clear works. It offers a little bit more clear especially in open areas with Legions. I don't know how it works too much in closed areas. I'm going to experiment further with this but. Uh, let me know in the comments if you've ever tried this setup. This is my first time ever trying this setup where I'm doing return projectiles one pierce only especially single Target it's going to be important with this setup do one pierce only and then Ricochet on there. Very convoluted setup not exactly sure if it's going to prove to be good but I really like initially what I'm seeing.

against Legion. I personally felt like Elemental hit's Spectrum was keeping up with lightning arrows clear with that setup, but it could just be because it was doing way more damage, you know. At a certain point, if a lightning Arrow bunch of arrows go into a pack of monsters and it ping-pongs around and everything gets chunked down and dies, you know, that's pretty nice clear, right? But on the other hand, if you just take a skill doing twice as much damage, maybe not as much clear, it just shreds everything like one or two hits and chunks them, like this kills everything in about the same amount of time anyway. So, it is kind of important to, you know, look at that a little more with a little more nuance, trying to. And I think that's what the Showcase revealed to me, in my case. Last thing we're going to do is look at the thresholds. So, we got shock threshold of 22 on the Pinnacle boss, all right. 22 is pretty good. What is Elemental hit, though?

spectrums shock. [Music] threshold 25. It's better with all those Buffs up uh, and you know on a boss, maybe not this thing, but uh everything else would probably be up. Oh, by the way, this isn't really painting an accurate picture because this is only takes averages, so it's not really showing the true double uh threshold that would be uh taking place here. Now we'll go over to chill, and wow, I got a nice 15% chill. I went ahead and left bone Chill on there, and then over here 41% against Pinnacle boss. All right, we're almost Max killing Ubers at that point, and yeah, that's on account of uh the quiver combined with the gloves. Okay, and then we're going to look at freeze, so this is going to be a big one. All right, ailman threshold 6.6 million. This is why I was actually able to freeze enemies. You guys might remember it was 13 million in the best-case scenario for the elemental H Spectrum on round of five.

Divine, but precise technique budget. So, I mean, this is halfway there. I mean, of course, that's going to freeze things. Of course, it's actually just going to kill things before you see it. But you got to see the herald of ice. I went ahead and put herald of ice back in there. But over here, 78 million. Wow, 78 million. Well, there's damn near nothing not going to be frozen in 78 million. In fact, uh, I'd be pretty sure. Maybe future video we'll see what a 100% delirium has to offer, tier 17s have to offer, and see if anything can ever not get frozen with this setup. Because my God, that is, that is freezing shaper. I'm pretty sure, uh, granted, you can't reduce his, uh, action speed down half am threshold. Anything with 150 million life is going to get frozen with this setup and therefore trigger the Mastery. All right, so that's basically I want to show you. Hopefully you got some value out of the pseudo 6-link. I'm

pretty excited to try it. I think it definitely uh has a place if you know you're beyond the precise technique. And before dumping the ballista setup because you still need single Target, it's a nice middle of the road setup. There, of course, if you're not running magic find because you're probably going to want to run gold worms if you're running magic find. But anyway, I like those boots. I was actually surprisingly able to fit them into the build with that huge strength rolling there. It, in fact, even cleaned up some slots. I didn't need to uh run any of these points anymore. I was quite pleasantly surprised. I definitely want to hear you guys' opinion about this setup on the ranger. I've never run it before, so I want to hear a little more details on that. Uh, and yeah, just let me know overall what you think about this current progress of the build. I will be coming out with a head hunter magic CL version, but actually in the intermediary, I worked on a no-hit sanctum version too.

which that's kind of exciting. I'll be bringing that out too. And then as a teaser for the next video, uh, Affliction is back. So, uh, I want to talk about that and this build. I think they're going to go together really, really well. Actually, that's it for me. Now let's, uh, go practice some more League starts. And I'm just going to keep making videos. I would like to say I'm going to stream here soon, but I'm really, really digging deep, trying to get all these videos cranked out for you guys. Hope you appreciate it. Thank you for watching. I'll see you in the next one. [Music]

[PoE 3.25] Why Settle for Two 6-Links when You Can Have THREE!

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New Discovery: Boots Enabling a Third Six-Link in a Build

The new boots allow for a third six-link in a build, eliminating the need to choose between different setups.

This discovery offers the opportunity to enhance the build with additional gems at a minimal cost.

The video showcases the impressive performance of the Lightning Arrow character with the new setup, as well as the potential of the Elemental Hit spectrum.

Comparing Lightning Arrow and Elemental Spectrum Builds in Path of Exile

The Lightning Arrow build showed increased damage with the chain effect, especially against single targets.

The Elemental Spectrum build demonstrated faster kills, particularly noticeable in the Path of Building damage numbers.

Both builds were effective in clearing legions, with the Lightning Arrow build providing more safety and damage, while the Elemental Spectrum build was pleasantly surprising in opening legions.

The Benefits of the Pseudo 6-Link Setup in Path of Exile

The pseudo 6-link setup allows for running both a six-link ballista setup and another setup, providing great flexibility.

This setup is especially valuable for a tornado Mark crit build, offering high reliability and the ability to switch into crit at the right moment.

With the ability to achieve 61 million DPS, the setup outperforms others, thanks to the bone chill support and auu On's bite, which significantly increase damage dealt to enemies.

Analysis of Character Build and Damage Scaling

The speaker is experimenting with a Mastery that has little effect in maps but is useful for bosses, especially those with high health.

The Mastery allows for a ramp-up of double damage and reduced damage taken, providing extra damage in a boss fight.

The character's build is focused on high damage but lacks survivability, making them very squishy, especially in a boss fight.

The speaker also discusses the importance of a specific bow in their build and their investment in cluster setups.

Unconventional Elemental Hit Setup for Ranger

The speaker has made significant changes to their usual Ranger setup, focusing on Elemental Hit and experimenting with a new approach to improve clear speed, especially in open areas with Legions.

By adjusting the skill to do more damage with fewer hits, they believe it can be as effective as a high-clear skill.

The speaker also discusses the shock, chill, and freeze thresholds, highlighting the potential for freezing enemies with their setup.

The speaker is excited about a gaming build that can effectively freeze enemies with 78 million damage.

They are looking for feedback on the build and planning to release more related content in the future, including a head hunter magic CL version and a no-hit sanctum version.

The speaker is dedicated to creating more videos for their audience and is considering streaming in the future.