BUILD

SUMMARY

CLASS: Ranger

ASCENDANCY: Raider

HEALTH TYPE: Life

MAIN SKILL TYPE: Projectile Attack

COST: $$$$$

DIFFICULTY: 2/5

STARTER VIABLE: Yes

BEGINNER FRIENDLY: Yes

GAMEPLAY: Here

SHOWCASE
Spectral Throw
Main source of damage. Throws a spectral copy of your melee weapon. It flies out and then returns to you, in a spinning attack that strikes enemies in its path. In this build we're converting 90% of its damage into cold damage.
Ancestral Protector
Provides a huge attack speed buff and even instant kill enemies with 10% life or lower because of Culling Strike
Whirling Blades
Awesome movement skill
Frost Bomb
Grants temporary cold resistance reduction on your enemies. Linked with Cast When Damage Taken to be activated everytime you receive a certain amount of damage.
Vaal Haste
Temporary buff that grants massive attack speed, use it on bosses. 
Vaal Grace
Temporary buff that grants massive chance to dodge attacks and spells. 
Summon Ice Golem
A minion that grants extra critical chance and accuracy.
Herald of Ice
A buff that grants extra cold damage and increases clear speed.
Hatred
An aura that grants a % of your physical damage as extra cold damage.
TREE
ASCENDANCY
  • FIRST LABYRINTH
- ​Way of the Poacher for more attack speed and Frenzy charges generation
  • SECOND LABYRINTH
- ​Avatar of Slaughter for more attack speed, movement speed, attack damage and 1 extra Frenzy charge.
  • THIRD LABYRINTH
- Rapid Assault for a never ending Onslaugh buff.
  • UBER LABYRINTH
- ​Avatar of the Chase for 100% increased Onslaugh effect, more attack damage and chance to evade melee attacks and projectiles.
PANTHEON
  • MAJOR GOD
- ​Soul of Lunaris
  • MINOR GOD
- ​Soul of Tukohama 
JEWELS
  • RECOMMENDED ATTRIBUTES
- ​x% Increased Projectile Damage
- x% Increased Maximum Life
- x% Increased Critical Multiplier
- x% Increased Attack Speed
- x% Increased Claw Damage
BANDIT CHOICE
  • HELP ALIRA
- ​Help Alira and get 20% critical multiplier, 15% to all elemental resistances and mana regeneration.
LEVELING
  • LEVELING SKILLS 
This build has an easy leveling process. You can start using Split Arrow from level 1 to 22, then change it for Spectral Throw. For auras and detailed leveling setups click here. 
  • LEVELING ITEMS
-​ Elreon Jewelry are in my opinion the best items to level any build, imagine goes all the way until lvl 50 ~ 60 without needing to spend one single Mana point. It's very cheap and you can start using already at lvl 1. I like to use 2 or even 3 of them for leveling
- Lochitonial Caress for gloves, mainly because of it's attack speed buff. (equipable at level 1) 
- Asenath's Mark is an offensive helmet, gives you even more attack speed. equipable at level 8)
- Goldrim is a defensive Helmet, gives you more elemental resistances (equipable at level 1)
- Wanderlust for movement speed and frozen immunity (equipable at level 3)
- Tabula Rasa is a great body armour for leveling, it provides a 6 Linked starting on level 1, not so cheap though. (equipable at level 1)
- Quill Rain is a low level bow with incredible attack speed (equipable at level 5).
- Fidelita's Spike good amount of elemental DPS, attack speed and boosts Herald of Thunder. Use 2 (equipable at level 22).
- Lakishu's Blade is a sword with good attack speed and damage. Use 2 of them (equipable at level 28).
- Innsbury Edge has better damage. Use 2 of them until level 60 when you are going to equip Claws (equipable at level 47).
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  • STEP BY STEP
- ​Check the steps here
THIS BUILD'S FAQ
  • Is there a good place to buy unique items?
- Not only for unique items, poe.trade or pathofexile.com/trade are great websites for trading your items.
  • I'm lvl 40 and I'm dying a lot, what can I do?
- Please take a look at your Elemental Resistances, they are really important for your survivability. After lvl 40 try to keep at least 50% of each. The meximum is 75%, try to reach that when on end game.
  • I don't have as much HP as the gameplay shows and I've followed the Skill Tree step by step. Can you help me?
- Look for more HP at your rare gear. You can have ''+89 to maximum life'' on your helmet for instance.
  • You say the build is cheap, but there are some expensive recommended items there. How?
- Those items are only recommended and not mandatory. Maximize a build with the best possible items and 6 Linkeds takes a good amount of currency. Start using 4 Linkeds on low tier maps in order to farm currency to upgrade your gear.
  • Why Cast When Damage Taken  at level 1 and Frost Bomb at level 10?
- Cast When Damage Taken can only support spell gems that have the same required level or lower.  At level 1 the required level of Cast When Damage Taken is 38, the same as Frost Bomb at level 10. 
  • How do you generate Frenzy charges?
- The ascendancy Raider has a passive called Way of the Poacher that grants 20% chance to get a Frenzy charge on kill and 20% chance to get a Frenzy charge when hit a rare or unique enemy.
  • How do you generate Power charges?
- Herald of Ice + Curse on Hit + Assassin's Mark

COLD SPECTRAL THROW