Path Of Exile Resource #11 - Drillneck Unique Item Review

Drillneck in Path Of Exile is a unique penetrating arrow quiver that when equipped grants the player 10 percent chance of your arrows piercing enemies, up to 12 percent increased attack speed, +350 points towards your evasion rating, up to 50 points towards maximum life, up to 19-24 physical damage to attacks with bows, and projectile damage is increased by arrow pierce chance. 3d art for the Drillneck unique was added in April of 2014. This unique has not changed since it's original introduction into the game in March of 2014.

Item Usefulness Information - This unique is best suited for ranged characters who fully utilize the pierce passives skills on the skill tree as well as the pierce support gem in their main damage skill setup. With the right ranged based character build, using Drillneck can more than double your damage. The most effective character class to choose when building around this item is the ranger, since the ranger has the most effective skill nodes near her in the skill tree. The most effective offensive ascendancy class to choose while being a ranger is the Deadeye, since Deadeye has many notables that have great synergy with Drillneck. The most effective Deadeye notable to spec into to fully utilize Drillneck is Powerful Precision. Powerful Precision states that your projectiles have 100 percent additional chance to Pierce targets at the start of their movement, losing this chance as the projectile travels further, as well as projectile critical strike chance is increased by arrow pierce chance. This means that while equipping Drillneck, as well as having 100 percent pierce chance through the pierce support gem and the correct skill nodes on the passive tree, you will not only double your damage, but your critical strike chance will greatly improve. Drillneck is the best in slot damage enhancing quiver for any build that fully utilizes pierce. The up to 12 percent increased attack speed is great for many bow skills and will overall make you do more damage per second, as well as give you more time to react to your environment as your attack animation will be shorter. The added evasion granted by the unique is great for range builds that primarily utilizes evasion for defense against enemies. Range builds that utilize the iron reflexes keystone passive skill gain an armor boost instead of an evasion boost. The up to 50 points towards maximum life granted by the unique is a nice boost towards life based range character builds. The up to 14-24 added physical damage to attacks with bows is large and significant for builds that scale large amounts of physical damage to utilize in their attacks. In the early stages of the game, this unique is useful due to its high amounts of added damage, which can increase clearing speed while progressing to the end game. In the late stages of the game, this unique is useful due to granting an increased amount of physical damage and attack speed, an increased amount of overall damage if you are utilizing pierce in your character build, and overall increased survivability against enemies and the environment.

Informative Links -
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Drillneck - additional information regarding the Drillneck unique
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Deadeye - additional information regarding the Deadeye ascendancy class
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Iron_Reflexes - additional information regarding the Iron Reflexes keystone passive skill