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The biggest concern over that build has already been addressed by adeyke - namely, no skill points in the skills that synergize with your elemental damage.

I would be tempted, myself, to eschew Fanaticism altogether. The AR bonus from your Blessed Aim mercenary *should* make up for the loss of the bonus from Fanaticism. And your mercenary can hand out the physical damage for you. This would allow you to maximize the damage from Holy Freeze and Holy Shock much sooner, and then allow you to place points in either Salvation for further synergies or Blessed Aim for the passive AR bonus. You would have three forms of damage so that dual immune bosses would go down.

Windforce is a bow that is available to all classes. One of the benefits of it, however, is useless to a Ranger, as you will not need the mana steal on it at all.

Wizendraw is a very nice bow for delivering Holy Freeze, and should be relatively easy to come by. The mod that lowers enemy cold resistance would be of enormous benefit, and the hidden AR bonus on its Magic Arrows (admittedly only slvl 5, but every little bit helps) would both help a Ranger considerably.

I recall you mentioning that you have a Witchwild String available. This would be a fine bow for delivering your Holy Shock. The two sockets might best be filled with Shael runes to improve your speed of delivery. It too has a hidden AR bonus from the Magic Arrows (slvl 20, so a 181% bonus to AR) to aid your accuracy in delivering the Holy Shock. While the Amplify Damage will not go off often, when it does your mercenary will certainly benefit. And who can argue with the benefit of the extra resists the bow carries?

Another benefit of using the two above mentioned bows is attribute points. Even fully upgraded, the maximum strength you would need to wield them is 97 points. A Windforce (for example) needs 134 strength to wield. You would then have more points available to place in Dexterity and Vitality.

Best wishes and may you have fun. :)
And you may call it righteousness
When civility survives,
But I've had dinner with the Devil and
I know nice from right.

From Dinner with the Devil, by Big Rude Jake


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