Any affordable lightning arrow builds?

[DeadlyKitten]

I wanted to try out an arrow build and saw this.
Are there any variations in terms of price but also decent at endgame?
I currently got a few divines, could get more if i start selling a few jewels.

[player7112]

Do you mean this ?
https://www.poebuilds.cc/

[DeadlyKitten]

Originally posted by blimsoon:

Do you mean this ?
https://www.poebuilds.cc/

I saw this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6xHq9wEngg

But some of the items there go for a few div.

[Arthrex]

Originally posted by DeadlyKitten:

I wanted to try out an arrow build and saw this.
Are there any variations in terms of price but also decent at endgame?
I currently got a few divines, could get more if i start selling a few jewels.

If you actually enjoy the bow playstyle, I can recommend Legi1's PoB as it is based around SSF

[vid23]

Originally posted by DeadlyKitten:

Originally posted by blimsoon:

Do you mean this ?
https://www.poebuilds.cc/

I saw this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6xHq9wEngg

But some of the items there go for a few div.

Do not follow a single build from that channel, please, theyre hot garbage on purpose so they can funnel people to their site where they sell currency and other sh*t for money

[Evilslug]

Originally posted by DeadlyKitten:

I wanted to try out an arrow build and saw this.
Are there any variations in terms of price but also decent at endgame?
I currently got a few divines, could get more if i start selling a few jewels.

Bow builds don't have to be expensive, that's why so many SSF players use them at league start right now. Just go look at any of the maxroll.gg league starters for a rough idea. You won't need much of anything to run those builds and they can all go deep into maps before you need to spend much currency, especially if you're comfortable crafting some of your own gear along the way.

The answer really depends on what you mean by performing decent at endgame, though. A skilled player can kill Eater and Exarch on a 4 link bow they slapped an essence onto, but if you want an easier time of things it is always going to cost a little bit come endgame.

I took a couple of dirt cheap "leveling uniques" my starter dropped and tossed them onto a ranger. That character rolled casually through the acts the other day in 6 hours mostly using rain of arrows and switching to LA after I had innate multishot. That build was easily clearing yellow maps using only gear that the LA character itself dropped or crafted, because I couldn't be bothered to search trade for anything better. If that's a decent endgame experience for you, then it may cost you 10-20 chaos and a little bit of crafting know-how.

A couple div worth of gear and a bit of a respec to make it less squishy would have that LA character well sorted for most anything I'd care to do with it, but your mileage may vary with any build. That's why I say go read one of the maxroll guides, then stick loosely to its concept while trying your best to fix the problems you encounter on your own as they crop up. Doing so will help you realize when you can reasonably get by with a 5c set of gloves in a slot that some guide calls for 2div perfect stat, specific implicit piece of gear.

Comfortable mapping just requires "good" gear, not the best gear. Bossing requires more serious gear and proper builds if you don't want to struggle. Guides always pimp the most meta gear for anything without much regard to purpose. If your idea of endgame is just comfortably running red maps, sanctum, or delve; you can probably get a decent 6 link bow and armor for a couple hundred chaos total and fill in the gaps with crafted or dropped gear. Don't sweat it too much.

[Anim]

Crouching Tuna did a League Starter Deadeye (Ranger) Lightning Arrow build that has a website dedicated to it and 3 stages of progression in his Path of Building, early gear, mid level gear, end game gear. He has also made several follow up videos talking about tweaks, crafting etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73OHVuAfIqs&ab_channel=Crouching_Tuna

I started this one myself, at level 91 at the moment and have completed all map tiers, just a few unique maps left to go. The nice thing about it, it's a fast moving character so the 10 acts fly by and so do maps. I did all T16's by around level 88

I have just moved into the End gear layout from his PoB, and started to acquire the items from that.

[Grek]

I league started with lightning arrows/artillery ballista and it was the fastest i have ever farmed t16 with self crafted gear and a couple of chaos. I strongly recommend it.

[dxdiag]

Originally posted by vid23:

Originally posted by DeadlyKitten:

I saw this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6xHq9wEngg

But some of the items there go for a few div.

Do not follow a single build from that channel, please, theyre hot garbage on purpose so they can funnel people to their site where they sell currency and other sh*t for money

it's sad how new players potentionally still fall into the trap of that channel and their linked sources. Purely because the channel name probably fits one of the first general Youtube search phrases someone new tends to do. A "Path of exile Builds" Youtube search conveniently lists that channel as top recommendation. Therefore their videos usually are still able to garner some views for that reason. Higher views on their turn also causes the Youtube algorithm to recommend the channel more.

So yeah, it's up to the user/potentional path of exile player to find out what the better information sources available are that dont charge a paid membership (on a connected site) to be able to get something like a PoB for a (bad) build of theirs.

PRO-tip: Best sources are credible Path of Exile content creators that make guides on youtube or written guides on other sites or both (they are usually streamers too). Or analyzing poe.ninja's build section and filter by skills and different time periods in the league to see the build/item progression of the players playing a buld/skill archetype.

Outside of needing to find out who these credible Path of Exile content creators are, i will recommend some sources that have a culmination of content creators who both post youtube content and put a more detailed written guide on those sites.

https://maxroll.gg/poe
https://www.poe-vault.com/

https://poe.ninja/builds/ancestor

Hopefully this will help anyone out in need of direction (i use the aforementioned sources myself).