Lightning Arrow Lightning Rod CI
Early Access – Day 53 – January 28, 2025
I slightly tweaked my lvl 90 Deadeye Ice Shot so I could try Lightning Arrow instead. It uses the same combo Lightning Rod, Orb of Storms and Cast On Shock Ball Lightning for single target.
I followed Crouching_Tuna Maxroll build. But I used the same gear I had on my Ice Shot CI.
Comparing to Ice Shot, I felt that I had a harder time to clear the maps and also a more dangerous time because of the lower DPS and the absence of the Frost Wall.
Same thing here with the Thief’s Torment ring for mana sustain on single target. A little bit of leech or mana on kill is enough to never run out of mana mapping. But the single target combo use a crazy amount of mana and it’s all converted to lightning so leech is useless. So that’s pretty much the only way to sustain it.
With a higher budget, I would follow mbXtreme CI version.
| Bossing | ★★ |
| Defence | ★★★★ |
| Mapping | ★★★ |
| Budget | ★★★ |
| Overall score | 12 |
What I liked
- Bow playstyle – it’s always enjoyable to be ranged and shoot arrows
- Chain and Fork – Lightning Arrow is really enjoyable if enough DPS
- Fast – The Deadeye is pretty fast
What I disliked
- Single target combo with Thief’s Torment – Yes, the DPS is high but this combo require so much mana that you’re pigeonholed into this ring
- Not enough DPS when mapping – Lightning Arrow and the 2 Heralds were not strong enough to clear high level T16 compared to the Ice Shot build
- One-shots – low effective health pool on an evasion build, what can you expect, could be solved with more Life/ES. It was solved in my CI version but to the cost of DPS.
- Expensive to scale
Would I play it again?
Not as a league starter but maybe as a second high end budget mapping build
Path Of Building and stats
Sorry POB is not yet available
| Hard Core? | NO |
| Solo Self Found? | YES, but you would need to find the Thief’s Torment |
| League starter? | YES |
| Levelling skill |
Lightning Arrow + Lightning Rod since Act 1 |
| Budget | 8 div as per Early Access – Day 53 – January 28, 2025 |
| Death count | 1 |
| Level | 90 |
| Played | 4 hours |
Please visit this Google Sheet to see the main information and POB data I kept track of. You can more easily compare with other builds.
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