exposed to fire and so long as you don't have added fire damage to attacks you don't have to worry about messing your ee up this also means if you're playing self-attack you can use trinity support and generate all three elemental resonances consistently with one skill and no conversion because explosive arrow detonates when you reach a cap of NUMBER_TOKEN fuses if you have more projectiles or higher attack speed you'll reach that cap faster which means your damage will be more immediate because the fuses explode after a duration more duration means you have more time to stack your fuses up to NUMBER_TOKEN which is helpful when you're under geared and struggling to hit NUMBER_TOKEN on a target at least for single target bossing it'll feel pretty bad while mapping on the other hand less duration will cause your fuses to explode faster they may not reach NUMBER_TOKEN stacks but it'll be far more immediate and you don't need NUMBER_TOKEN stacks to kill trash anyway so a gem swap like this could be helpful early on if you're finding this look of the mechanics behind explicit arrow helpful be sure to leave a like for more path of exile content sub to the channel and ring the bell to be notified whenever i upload if you want to hang out with a community hop in the discord it'll be down below now i know reading's more of a rarity among exiles but if reading is more of your thing you can find a written version of a mechanic section of this video if you become a cruel patron which is five dollars a month over on my patreon the information's the same but you don't get to hear my voice and you can read at whatever pace you want if you prefer to hear my voice you can always use the chapters to jump backwards and forwards in the video and re-listen to sections you're confused about so now i want to talk about some build ideas for explosive arrow get into ballistic versus self-attack and a little bit on ascendancy options the biggest advantage of self-attack is you control where your arrows go far better you also get trinity support if you're planning to use something like hydrosphere it's a lot easier to use self-attack as you can't quite control where the ballistas are gonna fire on the other hand ballista support lets you deal full damage while you're moving and adds an additional avenue of damage scaling by adding extra ballistas with masteries they can also taunt enemies or take five percent of the damage when you're hit this means that explosive arrow ballista will be the easiest version to play and one of the safest on the other hand if you're dead set on self-attack and you're leveling a ranger to transition into a magic find build anyway you might want to play trinity explosive aerodedi this will be quite a bit squishier than vahrehvah but explosive arrow will help you get over the early game struggles and then you can make a bank playing an mf build for more of a middle ground i suggest a slayer or a champion this can be played as ballista or self-attack you'll get fortify him a champion and the ability to completely ignore accuracy whereas if you pick the slayer you'll
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