[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

Hit 36/40 today... much better financially than last league at about this point... also not rushing the deadline this time...

...now comes the hard part... all I got left are 4 more days of Zana, 1 more treasure, 2 more div cards... and 7 more enchants... every time I turn around I hear another helmet enchant horror story

EDIT: 200 chaos bought the rest of the buyable challenges... now its just a wait and a grind...

Side Note: I tried to grind the last couple Catarina missions to finish early... as soon as I started trying I couldn't find her anywhere... in the last 2 days I found Zana 6x, and Catarina once... I learned Frame Time measuring only helps with Vaal/Haku/Tora/Vagan... any mission with a sub-zone portal really...

The trick to enchants is to wait for a day where there's no golden door (daily lab post on reddit helps with that). Then you can do runs in 5-8 minutes with this build, probably a bit faster. I tended to do them distracted talking to people on IMs.

Took me about two days to get the enchants done.

That's weird with the Docks frame time farming though. Might just be the nature of your computer making it difficult to spot? Works fine for me, I have a 95% success rate in finding vaal zones. There's a slightly lower spike if it's a master mission, and the highest spike is a vaal zone for me, with the odd exception for Haku.

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Piros escribió:

Hit 36/40 today... much better financially than last league at about this point... also not rushing the deadline this time...

...now comes the hard part... all I got left are 4 more days of Zana, 1 more treasure, 2 more div cards... and 7 more enchants... every time I turn around I hear another helmet enchant horror story

EDIT: 200 chaos bought the rest of the buyable challenges... now its just a wait and a grind...

Side Note: I tried to grind the last couple Catarina missions to finish early... as soon as I started trying I couldn't find her anywhere... in the last 2 days I found Zana 6x, and Catarina once... I learned Frame Time measuring only helps with Vaal/Haku/Tora/Vagan... any mission with a sub-zone portal really...

The enchant one is pretty nasty. I'm at 11/12, missing the aura enchant, with hundreds of lab runs so far. OTOH, it's really just a grind, it's not difficult. Speed boots, extra damage rings, run past most mobs, only stopping to fill flasks... and of course, make sure you pick days where you can do the runs in ~6 minutes. So, not today. ;)

I've had no problem finding Catarina rotations in global 820.

@serleth: I play on an SSD, dunno if that affects frame time much or just load screens... my avg frame ms is 17... on loading zone its 150-175ms... vaal zones spike 210-270ms... no noticeable spike for masters unless they're the 175s

@grimjack: that's the advice I've seen so far for lab runs, I think... I, too, have little problem finding a Cata 6/7 Rota... especially as more time passes... I was just trying to get done a day earlier... I will be lvl 8 as soon as I do yesterday's daily before reset today

Finally managed to craft the super-bow



Kinda nerve-wracking throwing around currency like that... but nice to see the end result... only took me 85 regals to get the +2 bow gems mod

Now my tooltip reads 17.7k in hideout with just the golem, 22.7k with golem + blood rage + 7x frenzy charges, 23.25k when you add the 4 second dmg buff for killing a cursed mob... only thing I think left to do is 21/20 CA instead of 21/0, Empower 4 instead of 3, and maybe a few minor quality gems... but I have most capped already... now I need to upgrade armor a bit...

Question about shadow tree: how does it get the 100% piercing? since im gonna be use IIR gem instead of pierce gem, should i subsitute out rapid decay for pierce? my pierce shows 10% only

Bit off topic, but anyone give any thoughts on what to re-gear to push DPS once you've amassed your wealth? The tree is very solid so doesn't really need any tweaking. I'm thinking something along the lines of:

* Winds of Change gloves & Brinerot Whalers boots for up to 90% projectile damage
* 2x Doedre's Damning for triple curse + 6L chest with CoH vuln, temp chains, enfeeble + Doedre's Scorn for 60% increased damage.

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Piros escribió:

Finally managed to craft the super-bow

Spoiler

Kinda nerve-wracking throwing around currency like that... but nice to see the end result... only took me 85 regals to get the +2 bow gems mod

Now my tooltip reads 17.7k in hideout with just the golem, 22.7k with golem + blood rage + 7x frenzy charges, 23.25k when you add the 4 second dmg buff for killing a cursed mob... only thing I think left to do is 21/20 CA instead of 21/0, Empower 4 instead of 3, and maybe a few minor quality gems... but I have most capped already... now I need to upgrade armor a bit...

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Piros, I went with a corrupt Drillneck with another additional arrow rather than the 21/20 CA gem. You can make one reasonably easily by buying drillnecks, corrupting them, and re-selling them for most of your investment if you don't get the +1 arrow corruption. Supposed to be about a 1 in 25 chance.

Running with 3 arrows instead of two makes it much easier to thread clouds among trees, boulders, etc - and of course, it generates a larger AoE as well.

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Statusblue escribió:

Question about shadow tree: how does it get the 100% piercing? since im gonna be use IIR gem instead of pierce gem, should i subsitute out rapid decay for pierce? my pierce shows 10% only

You don't get 100% unless you go Scion. OTOH, you still get to use Chain on your frenzy / coh setup. I'd still use RD over pierce - larger pierce chance is nice to have, but the raw damage output is even nicer.

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Statusblue escribió:

Question about shadow tree: how does it get the 100% piercing? since im gonna be use IIR gem instead of pierce gem, should i subsitute out rapid decay for pierce? my pierce shows 10% only

Don't worry about 100% pierce. Shadow makes up the damage elsewhere. You'll have 10% from Drillneck, 40% from Piercing Shots and, if you choose, an additional 15% from Poacher's Aim. Get high enough level and you can take the right-side of the PS cluster to bring your pierce range up to 60-75%.

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@serleth: I play on an SSD, dunno if that affects frame time much or just load screens... my avg frame ms is 17... on loading zone its 150-175ms... vaal zones spike 210-270ms... no noticeable spike for masters unless they're the 175s

Ah yeah, SSD has an impact on frame time. I'm on a regular HD so my spikes clear 1500 for vaal zones, very noticeable difference.

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Bit off topic, but anyone give any thoughts on what to re-gear to push DPS once you've amassed your wealth? The tree is very solid so doesn't really need any tweaking. I'm thinking something along the lines of:

* Winds of Change gloves & Brinerot Whalers boots for up to 90% projectile damage
* 2x Doedre's Damning for triple curse + 6L chest with CoH vuln, temp chains, enfeeble + Doedre's Scorn for 60% increased damage.

That's one way to do it, if you really want to maximize your dps.

Hidden potential, getting jewels with at least 1 damage + life + resistance (can get expensive).

20-25% damage per magic item equipped.

If you get six jewels with 9% ele res each, that's 54/135% of your resistances covered.

That leaves you with 81% to cover off, with the helmet, chest, ring, ring, amulet, belt, gloves, and boot slots available. That's 8 slots.

All you need is (40-41% resistance * 2 per resistance), with three resistances (6 affixes total), it'll only take up six slots to cover off the last of your res. And obviously you can use resistance rings for your base to make it easier.

Meaning you have 8 magic items with 20-25% damage increase per, putting you at 160-200% increased damage.

Now compare that to your 90% + 60% = 150% increased damage for your Winds/Brinerot/Deodre's setup (perfect rolls), and look at how much life that you're losing. Brinerot has no life, Deodre items all have no life, and that's three slots right there without life rolls. With Hidden Potential, you can still get life on all slots.

Now you're probably thinking, "but then my boots won't have MS!"

Okay, so use rare boots. That's 7 items, meaning that you need a 21.571428% Hidden Potential roll in order to beat your Doedre setup for raw increased damage.

Now of course, I'm talking STRICTLY in terms of dps here, because you also have to factor in the Enfeeble/Temp Chains combo for defense, which makes up for the loss of life via debuff. But the curse setup also REQUIRES a 6L chest.

Anyway, just thought I'd put that out there to show you what your other option is. Playstyle preference is the real key in terms of the decision you make.