[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

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jpichie escribió:

As a scion, what are the recommended Ascendancy points?
I am looking to ascend to day and i was curious.
thanks

Deadeye and Occultist, from the Ranger and Witch choices respectively. You also get two extra passive points to allocate on the regular tree, as well as +40 dex and +40 int.

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Piros escribió:

@jp: someone recommended taking 1 point Witch and 1 point Ranger with your 1st lab ascendancy for 40 DEX and 40 INT to make skill leveling requirements easier... then finish Ranger to take Deadeye in Cruel/2nd lab... and finish Witch to take Occultist with the 3rd... much better than taking 40 DEX and a skill point for sure

@ichbin: I think swapping out Goldwyrm for 30% movespeed boots might be an option if you go the double Ventor's Gamble route with rings instead of Andvarius... more expensive I think, and you probably have to work harder to get 300 IIR, but it achieves what you want if you can afford it (I haven't tried to)...

Thanks to others for tips on Argus/etc... I recently basically replaced Rallying Cry with Vaal Lightning Trap... can see the difference, and I rarely used Rallying Cry anyway...

I also feel the limits of the skill bar... I swap out Blood Rage to cast Grace/Clarity, and was swapping Portal for Flame Golem as needed... now I swap Portal for Vaal Trap and replaced Rallying Cry with Golem and can keep Wither Totem, Flame Golem, Blood Rage, Blink Arrow, Vaal Trap on keyboard and CA, Frenzy, Move on mouse...

Almost envied the "simplicity" of that Cast on Flask build the other day on reddit... 2 auras on bars and otherwise empty bars...

Someone pointed out earlier in the thread that you can cheat and put flame golem on your primary movement key. If you just click, you move. If you shift-click, you cast golem. :)

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hankinsohl escribió:

Finally CWDT-Arctic Breath-GMP-Chain is amazing - try it if you still have problems avoiding fast mobs.

Hey Hank, I've wanted to ask this for some time now;
What do you think about Phase Run? I'm using CWDT + IC + PR. It consumes a Frenzy charge (the longer you run I think) but the %30 faster movement + phasing (opening chests or getting jumped by fast monsters, ganging and blocking the way) and above that the -%80 visibility saved me so many times. Still, I was thinking if I should replace it with a better option or add something else to the combination to increase survivability chances. I would be grateful if I had your opinion and the others on the matter, to see how they're doing.

Thanks,

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Hvakhshathra escribió:

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hankinsohl escribió:

Finally CWDT-Arctic Breath-GMP-Chain is amazing - try it if you still have problems avoiding fast mobs.

Hey Hank, I've wanted to ask this for some time now;
What do you think about Phase Run? I'm using CWDT + IC + PR. It consumes a Frenzy charge (the longer you run I think) but the %30 faster movement + phasing (opening chests or getting jumped by fast monsters, ganging and blocking the way) and above that the -%80 visibility saved me so many times. Still, I was thinking if I should replace it with a better option or add something else to the combination to increase survivability chances. I would be grateful if I had your opinion and the others on the matter, to see how they're doing.

Thanks,

Looking forward to some answers for this as well. I still have phase run equipped, but with double quicksilver flasks, I never seem to use it anymore. Also, PR comsumes all frenzy charges on use.

As for freezing chests, I keep a set of boots around that prevent me from getting frozen, and I ID all chests.

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Hvakhshathra escribió:

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hankinsohl escribió:

Finally CWDT-Arctic Breath-GMP-Chain is amazing - try it if you still have problems avoiding fast mobs.

Hey Hank, I've wanted to ask this for some time now;
What do you think about Phase Run? I'm using CWDT + IC + PR. It consumes a Frenzy charge (the longer you run I think) but the %30 faster movement + phasing (opening chests or getting jumped by fast monsters, ganging and blocking the way) and above that the -%80 visibility saved me so many times. Still, I was thinking if I should replace it with a better option or add something else to the combination to increase survivability chances. I would be grateful if I had your opinion and the others on the matter, to see how they're doing.

Thanks,

Your current CWDT setup is pretty strong too - Arctic Breath gives you 1 or 2 seconds of supper mob slowdown and gmp + chain means it pretty much affects the entire screen.

Some people prefer the phase run setup and others Arctic Breath - up to you really.

It shouldn't be too hard to recolor and try Arctic Breath if it sounds good to you; go back to Phase Run if you don't like it as much.

Just a heads up:

I'm leaving town tomorrow for a week, so I won't be available to reply to this thread until March 25th.

Happy farming, everyone.

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grimjack68 escribió:

As for freezing chests, I keep a set of boots around that prevent me from getting frozen, and I ID all chests.

Everyone has their own chest tricks - your's is good certainly :-)

I Yolo all chests. I use Flesh or Bone Offering to blow up all mobs around the chest, pop a quicksilver of heat and a quicksilver of warding, hit the chest and then immediately blink away once it's activated. Only problem is sometimes blink mechanics are such that you don't blink.

One thing to watch out for if you Yolo like I do is the affix that ignites you. You can take a pretty big life hit depending on map mods if that happens - so be ready to heal up fast.

I swear the price of 6L bows is going up faster than I'm making currency at the moment. 2 days ago there was one for 1.5ex. Yesterday the cheapest was 2ex. Today the cheapest is 2.5ex.

/me waves fist angrily in the general direction of poe.trade!

My gems are getting closer to lvl 20 so i've started to think about quality. Which gems do need quality 1st and which don't need at all? Is there any gems whose exp should be sacrificed for lvl 1 20q?

Also, what about Increased AoE? i've swapped it with Item Rarity a loong time ago and didn't noticed any changes. What is the point of this gem? Why is +40% aoe so important? Maybe use Slower Projectiles instead of it?
Please excuse me if this questions already was here - ive tried to use searching in this thread but it doesnt work at all. ggg fix pls

And the last but no least. Can you guys PLEASE (except Serleth ofc, ive read 1st post well and know that he doesnt answer about gearing) check out my gear and tell me, what should be changed first? Thank you!

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GintoSakata escribió:

My gems are getting closer to lvl 20 so i've started to think about quality. Which gems do need quality 1st and which don't need at all? Is there any gems whose exp should be sacrificed for lvl 1 20q?

Also, what about Increased AoE? i've swapped it with Item Rarity a loong time ago and didn't noticed any changes. What is the point of this gem? Why is +40% aoe so important? Maybe use Slower Projectiles instead of it?
Please excuse me if this questions already was here - ive tried to use searching in this thread but it doesnt work at all. ggg fix pls

And the last but no least. Can you guys PLEASE (except Serleth ofc, ive read 1st post well and know that he doesnt answer about gearing) check out my gear and tell me, what should be changed first? Thank you!

Gear

Flasks

Jewels

and

^ forget about this one, im run out of chaoses now and will buy 2 damage mods when will get some currency

Gems that you should 20% quality:
- Concentrated Effect - yes. This gives you 10% more damage at 20.
- Rapid Decay - yes. Another 10% damage boost.
- Item Rarity - yes. This will boost rarity by 10%.
- Void Manipulation - yes. Another 10% damage boost.
- Empower - maybe. It boost how fast it gains experience, but this one you'll have to spring for gcps... and there is a decent chance you'll end up just making enough currency to buy a lvl4 empower outright eventually.
- Caustic Arrow - kind of. This will increase your area of effect, which is nice. However, the extra level from corrupted is more important, so Serleth suggests leveling a bunch of these at once in your secondary slots and Vaaling them until you get a level 21 quality 0. Use that, then level a bunch more, sell them for quality 20, level them again, THEN Vaal them until you end up with a level 21 quality 20. However, this is absolutely a last priority.
- Blink Arrow - Sure. It's not really useful. I think this is the one that Serleth suggested leveling to 20/20, selling, and starting over. :)
- Frenzy - nope. The guide says to keep this at level 1. I agree. Leveling this gives you too much damage with it, and that can be deadly with reflect maps.
- Curse on hit - yes. This will make your curse 10% more effective.
- Vulnerability - no. The increased physical damage does nothing for us. I don't even level it past about lvl10. The benefits from a higher level are increased area, increased physical damage, and increased duration, at the cost of more mana and a much higher int requirement. The area is cancelled by curse on hit, the increased physical damage does nothing for our cloud, and nothing lives 10s in the cloud except bosses, and I re-curse them all the time for the frenzy charges anyway.
- Greater Multiple Projectiles - no. Increased attack speed really doesn't help.
- Chain - no.
- Grace - no. Unless you are playing in a party, where the increased area will help other members.
- Clarity - no. Unless in a party, again.
- Flame golem - no.

Increased AoE doesn't affect individual targets, it makes the cloud so big you can clear entire rooms with a single shot. Even so, I'm not using one anymore either, and I'm not really planning on swapping it back in. In a 6L I'd use exactly what you have equipped.

As for gear... replace the Sadima's with IIR gloves, the IIQ is covered by your boots now. Start buying jewels with resistances + damage mods - I try to fit every jewel with at least two functional damage mods plus a double or triple resistance affix. That will let you fit Andy rings, which REALLY push up your IIR. Then the currency will really start rolling in. Lastly, I'd get either a Carcass Jack or a much higher Ev chest with better resistances.

Are you still actually using the mana flask?