Level 85 Crit Lightning Arrow Deadeye^3.21

Notes

How to mule the skill gems for this build: 

1) BURNING ARROW + ICE SHOT

- create your main character (Ranger), kill our dear friend Hillock with your BURNING ARROW and chose ICE SHOT as reward
- put both skill gems and your Bow in your stash, you will use them with your Duelist mule to kill Brutus


1) FLAME WALL + HOLY RELIC + CLARITY + VITALITY

- start a Templar, chose SMITE for leveling and rush the early quest "Breaking the Eggs" in Act1 - get FLAME WALL as reward
- continue and kill Brutus for CLARITY aura  (leveling is easy by chosing ROLLING MAGMA and shooting it through FLAME WALL to gain extra flat fire, but make sure to NOT level these gems just yet!)
- delete first Templar afterwards
- start another Templar, do exactly the same but get SUMMON HOLY RELIC as reward for "breaking the eggs"
- ontinue playing this Templar until Brutus, kill him and get VITALITY as reward
- delete character afterwards
(Optional: if you really want to, or plan to play a Templar as later build anyways, you can also level him until Act4 and get ELEMENTAL WEAKNESS in A3 ("Lost in Love") and Hydrosphere from "Breaking the Seal".
but you can also get those from Siosa on your main character too)


2) GALVANIC ARROW + DECOY TOTEM + ENDURING CRY

- start a Duelist, kill Hillock and pick GALVANIC ARROW as reward (that way you can have both Burning Arrow and Ice Shot on and still use Galvanic for leveling as its AOE is quite nice)
- take your bow as well as BURNING ARROW and ICE SHOT from the stash and use those to continue, but do NOT level these gems just yet!
- do "Breaking the Eggs" and chose DECOY TOTEM as reward (helps leveling, but is not mendatory at all. you can chose Snipers Mark too)
- rush to kill Brutus, he is easy with Burning Arrow + Ice Shot. chose ENDURING CRY as reward
- delete Duelist afterwards, unless you want to keep him for a later build


3) Go back to your main character (the Ranger) and collect all the muled gems. you should now have: 

- Burning Arrow & Ice Shot (for single target dps)
- Galvanic Arrow (for clearing)
- Flame Wall (dps increase for any projectiles by shooting through it)
- Holy Relic (defensive regen buff)
- Vitality (regen aura)
- Clarity (mana aura)
- Decoy Totem (taunt bosses)
- Enduring Cry (Endurance charges)

That should be a pretty solid collection of defensive and offensive skill gems to start with


You can now normally continue to play your Ranger and pick up the following skill gems as your progress:

- SNIPERS MARK for Act 1 "Breaking some Eggs" (unless you already chose it on your Duelist, then take SHRAPNELL BALLISTA for early single target dps)
- take PRECISION aura (for killing Brutus in Act 1) and run it. keep it lower level tho and you will not need it higher than gemlevel 8-10 due to your later tree accuracy nodes
- next up we already get our main skill LIGHTNING ARROW for "The Sirens Cadence" at the end of Act 1
- continue to do the quest "Intruders in Black" in Act 2 to pick up BLOOD RAGE (you can now have Frenzy Charges, yay)
- continue until Act 3 and "Severe the Right Hand".. kill Gravicious and take your first single target skill ARTILLERY BALLISTA as quest reward
- go to the library and help Siosa find his lost pages. grab STONE GOLEM as reward from his gem store
- continue to Act 4 and do "Breaking the Seal" for the SNIPE gem (your next and probably best single target skill. use it with Burning arrow in a 2-link setup. charge it upand release it at 6 stages for x more burning dps)

done, now you basically have all the required skill gems that you should need to finish the campain. 
you will get another uncut gem for Siosas store later on. use that on Hydrosphere for even better single target dps, or on Steelskin for a great auto-guard skill on your left mouse button (tbh Id take Steelskin, your dps should be good enough)

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Bonus tip: You can also create a 3 more Ranger characters, rush them until the end of Act 1 and get 3 more Lightning Arrow and/or Ice Shot gems, in order to later double currupt them in Alvas temple for a chance to get the new 
VAAL LIGHTNING ARROW / VAAL ICE SHOT gems (put the skill gems in your secondary weapon slot for passive leveling)