Valdun’s Betrayal is currently the only ranged Pierce option and it is known to be pretty underwhelming. There are many reasons behind that (weakness of ranged and ranged Pierce in general is one of the main ones). I propose couple of small improvements that would make it more viable for Purifiers.
Add +1 to Demo skills to the amulet or hat. Auto-attacking demo is always super starved on skill points
Add “100% Chaos converted to Pierce to Fire Strike” mod somewhere. Quite obvious one.
Add +3 to Brimstone and +3 to Fire strike somewhere (maybe remove Flame Touched bonus for that).
Agree with ideas. I don’t know how good it will be even then, but it’s good place to start. Skill points are must, cause my theories lead to replacing the weapon with Silverbolt. That’s not a good sign. So maybe improvement of the gun itself? About chaos conversion, I agree. Chaos to pierce is exotic and don’t know if you can achieve it with other items, so it will help.
+1. Hat already has +1 Sol, so I think +1 Demo is good for Amulet.
I also agree about chaos conversion.
Or I think Chaos converted to Pierce can be globally converted and the conversion rate can be divided into several pieces. (For example, Hat25% Chest 25% Weapon 50%.)
Of course, it is good even 100% Chaos converted to Pierce to Fire Strike.
Hey, I recently tested Valdun puri. It can pass crucible around 7 min with good mutators, but suсcess rate ~ 50%.
I agree with @mad_lee about conversion to FS. Also I ask to change RR on sets wps to -% or give attack speed bonus to full set. I would also like change fire resist on amulet to 25-30 ele resist.