POE Betrayal Pathfinder Blade Flurry Starter Build - Fast Speed, Cheap, High Damage

POE 3.5 Betrayal Ranger

This build uses Blade Flurry as the main skill. It's still fine for clear speed. It's not your clear 2 screens with one massive projectile skill clear speed, but with enough attack speed you can just WB>hold for half a second and move on.

With this build, you can grow quickly and need a little cost. The respectable damage will amaze you.

Pros & Cons

Pros

+ Cheap / Budget
+ Can clear literally every map mod at all tiers
+ Fast movement speed with and without shield charge
+ Has very respectable damage
+ Does not care about any pack's life pool
+ Synergies with bex's "Pop" loot filter

Cons

- Has to ramp up damage against bosses
- Have to stand still periodically to do damage
- Abyssal Cry cooldown is a clear-speed gate
- Not a juggernaut
- Requires more than a single button for clearing (2!)

Skill Tree

Ascendancy

Nature's Reprisal -> Master Toxicist -> Nature's Adrenaline -> Nature's Boon

Pantheons

The Pantheon List

Your major god should be Arakaali upgraded with a divine vessel used to Capture Arachnoxia from Toxic Sewers. This gives the benefit of giving you 50% increased life recovery whenever Immortal Call activates and stops Blood Rage's Damage over Time. In my opinion this interaction is overpowered.

I use the upgraded Garukhan for my minor god. But until you're able to clear Dig with a divine vessel, you should use Ralakesh.

Passive Tree

Gems Setup

There is plenty of working room with these links. So please feel free to try moving them around, adding, and removing some of them to adapt them to your own playstyle.

6L Body Armour (G-G-G-B-B-R)

4-Link: Blade Flurry - Added Chaos - Lesser Poison - Void Manipulation

5-Link: Add Unbound Ailments and swap Lesser Poison for Poison

6-Link: Add Melee Physical Damage

4L Gloves (G-G-B-R)

Abyssal Cry - Increased Area of Effect - Void Manipulation - Poison

4L Boots (G-G-G-R)

Herald of Agony - Ancestral Protector - Culling Strike - Withering Touch

4L Helmet (G-R-R-R)

Herald of Purity | Cast when DT (Lvl 5) - Blood Rage (Lvl 10) - Immortal Call (Lvl 7)
If you want to self-cast Blood Rage, level it to 20.
If you want to have it automated, keep it at level 10.
> Make sure you put Blood Rage "earlier" in the socket order than Immortal Call.

3L Main-hand (B-B-*)

Blasphemy - Despair | Portal

3L Off-hand (G-R-R)

Shield Charge (Lvl 1) - Faster Attacks - Fortify

Gear

Overview

Flasks

1. Divine Life Flask

Prefix: Either Bubbling (50% of recovery applied instantly) or Seething (Recovery applied instantly, but less total recovered).

Suffix: Either of Staunching (Removes bleeding) or of Heat (Removes freeze and chill). I would recommend Staunching.

2. Quicksilver Flask

Prefix: Your choice between Chemist's (Reduced charges used) Experimenter's (Increased duration) or Perpetual (Charges recover faster).

Suffix: Adrenaline (Additional increased movement speed) is my mandate. You've gotta have the need for speed.

3. Silver Flask

Prefix: Chemist's, Experimenter's, or Perpetual.

Suffix: Depending on your other flask choices, either of Heat (Removes freeze and chill) or of Warding (Immune to curses). I would recommend of Heat.

4. Sulfur Flask

Prefix: Chemist's, Experimenter's, or Perpetual.

Suffix: Depending on your other flask choices, either of Warding (Immune to curses) or of Staunching (Removes bleeding). I would recommend of Warding.

5. Atziri's Promise

Try to get the highest roll you can for Gain #% of Physical Damage as Extra Chaos Damage during Flask effect. The elemental roll does not matter.

Jewels

Every jewel that you get should have:

7% increased maximum Life

As well as one or two of these mods (three if you're crazy):

(6-8)% increased Attack Speed with Claws
(3-5)% increased Attack Speed
(6-8)% increased Poison Duration
Any remaining Elemental Resistances you need

Leveling

Level 74

When you're first able to transition into the build-proper

Links: poeplanner.com

Level 89

Shaper and Guardians viable.