So I keep finding these awesome looking legendary items for a ranged physical damage build, but I’ve noticed that most of the ranged builds are chaos and/or fire/lightning based because of brimstone and static strike. Has anyone run a phys ranged build recently, and if so, what was effective? I’m considering going cadence since it does add quite a bit of physical damage, and soldier line would definitely be useful (Oleron’s Rage, Squad Tactics, etc), but the lack of AOE is annoying. This could be remedied by Devotion procs…Falcon Swoop could actually be pretty useful if I went 2-H with high attack speed from ST.
Yeah. I was just looking at the description in grimcalc and noticed that fighting form now gives a chance to pierce for ranged…? When did this happen? I think I have my build idea.
So I decided to run a ranged Cadence soldier with the new Fighting Form…not bad. The pass through scales up pretty quickly, and gets to 100% when you max it, which makes AOE MUCH better than before. The really cool thing about it is that it’s not a regular attack that is piercing its way across the screen…it’s a cadence proc! You can really mow down trash and even heroes with it, especially once it and squad tactics are maxed. Trying to figure out what the second class should be…Occultist is pretty OP right now with Curse and the attack speed bonus from Solael’s, so I’m leaning towards that. Nightblade has some nice bonuses, but unfortunately they took the piercing damage out of lethal gambit when they changed it to work with ranged. Demo would be a nice option as well.
