[3.13] Bergerbrush's Cold Barrage Raider

Your 2 options in the "Deal with the Bandits" quest in Act 2.

Either KILL ALL Bandits and recieve 2 Skill Points from Eramir

This is good because we can utalize 2 More Skill Points in our Skill Tree for more damage or life, or other good Skill Nodes.

And your second choice is..

SAVE ALLIRA Saving Alira and Killing the other 2 Bandits will give us a hidden buff from Alira that gives 5 Mana Regenerated per second & +20% to Global Critical Strike Multiplier & +15% to all Elemental Resistances

This is also good because for League Starts it can be really good to get some extra Resistances as it is usually very tough to balance your resists after killing Act 10 Kitava.

It is also good overall for builds such as ours where we perhaps use a lot of Unique Items that doesn't give us Elemental Resistances and we rely on very few Gear pieces to get our resistances up. Alira also gives a decent damage boost from the Global Critical Strike Multiplier and the Mana Regeneration is OK in some situations.

Video of Labyrinth & Trials Explanation

1st / Normal Labyrinth: Way of the Poacher
2nd / Cruel Labyrinth: Avatar of the Slaughter
3rd / Merciless Labyrinth: Quartz Infusion
4th / Eternal Labyrinth: Avatar of the Veil

Phase 1 Skill Tree ~ Level 85


Phase 1 PoB ~ Level 85:

IMPORTANT - You always wanna try to keep your Gems atleast Level 20 with 20% Quality unless I specifically say something different. If the Gems in this Guide don't have 20/20 Gems it is because I don't have those myself and can therefor not link them in this Guide.

5 Link Ice Shot - Map Clearing Skill



6-Link Ice Shot - Map Clearing Skill



5 Link Barrage - Bos Killing Skill



6-Link Barrage - Boss Killing Skill



Auras & Assassin's Mark



Until you can afford an Enlighten Level 3 I suggest lowering the Precision if you feel like mana sustain is an issue.

I later set my Precision to level 7 when I had my Enlighten 3 because I felt like it was a good balance for my mana sustain.

Level 12 Assassin's Mark GEM HERE

Selfcast Assassin's Mark on Bosses to gain a massive DPS increase. Don't level Assassin's Mark higher than level 12 unless you can handle the Intelligence Requirement.

Movement Skills



Cast when Damage Taken Setup



Utility & Extra



We keep our Stone Golem active most of the time to help combat the HP loss from the Hopeshredder Bow.

It is very IMPORTANT that you use "Vaal Grace" and not use the Aura itself, but only the Vaal Version of the Skill.

- Weapons -


CHEAP - Death's Harp is not too expensive and still a great choice for us since it has a lot of damage and adds another projectile as well which works great with Barrage DPS and the clearspeed with Ice Shot.




- Quiver -


CHEAP - Drillneck is a good Quiver to start with as it adds Life & Attack Speed. Otherwise you can pickup a Rare Quiver that also has Life & Attack Speed with maybe some resists if you need.




- Body Armour -


CHEAP - Tabula Rasa for a 6-Link or pick up a high evasion Rare with life & resists if you wish to. Otherwise you can pickup a 5-6 Linked Hyrri's Ire if you can afford one.




- Helmet -


CHEAP - Any rare helmet with life and resists is what we aim for here. If it has Strength or Intelligence on it is a bonus since we struggle to get those stats.




-Amulet-


CHEAP - Preferably a Lapis Amulet for the Intelligence. But mainly we want Life, Resists and Critical Strike Multiplier or Critical Strike Chance if possible.


ANNOINT - Annoint "True Strike" for more damage.


Clip of me Explaining how to Annoint your Amulet




- Rings -


CHEAP - Same as Amulet we focus on Life & Resists for now on Rings as well. Also Strength and Intelligence once again if possible.




- Gloves -


CHEAP - Life & Resist gloves and preferably an open Prefix to craft "Physical Damage Converted to Cold Damage"




- Belt -


CHEAP - Any Belt with Life & Resists is what you want.




- Boots -


CHEAP - Darkray Vectors are cheap and very strong for this Build as it gives Lightning Resistance, Movement Speed & Attack Dodge per Frenzy Charge and it also gives +1 Frenzy Charges.




- Flasks -


CHEAP~MEDIUM Prize I suggest getting atleast an Anti-Curse and Anti-Bleed. Also get an Atziri's Promise flask as it gives us a good amount of Damage, Life Leech and Chaos Res.

The Dying Sun Flask can be quite expensive early on and can be purchased later if you can't afford it at the time. But the Dying Sun Flask is extremely strong since it adds 2 additional projectiles and the way that Barrage works is that more projectiles=more arrows and more arrows is a ton more damage.




- Jewels -


Medium to Expensive - The Lioneye's Fall Jewel should be your first priority and you should slot it in the Jewel Slot right above "Acrobatics". This then allows you to skill the Claw Nodes leading up to
"Soul Raker"

The Intuitive Leap jewel can be quite expensive as well and can be purchased at a later stage when you can afford it. It is also mainly just a QoL Jewel to save some skill points for Phase 3 basicly.

Phase 2 Skill Tree ~ Level 90

PoB for Phase 2:

6-LINK HOPESHREDDER, VOIDFLETCHER & PANDEMONIOUS & ENLIGHTEN 3

Phase 3 Skill Tree ~ Level 95

PoB for Phase 3: https://pastebin.com/EUAW50bD

6-Link Hyrri's Ire, Assassin's Mark Ring paired with Mark of the Elder Steel Ring.