[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

@wartcorker: by far the biggest DPS boost for CA is skill levels... Listed numbers about a dozen pages back... but I think I was lucky to hit 9k tooltip buffed at your level with the 5L setup (Was still using Increased AOE gem I think...)... reached 15-18k with the 6L empower 3 setup and 23-25k with the +3 instead of +2

Help me out please
Does the Powerful Precision give caustic damage boost with using drillneck ?

@Piro: Grats on 40 bud =)

@igor: Yes, it does, but there's no reason to take it. You get more benefit out of the additional arrow from Endless Munitions, which allows you to drop the AoE gem in favour of another damage gem, and you need all the Ranger Ascendancy points to get it.

check my gear + gems setup + passive tree and give me comment


Gear


Please ignore the skills on boots :)

Passive tree


EDIT NOTE:

without any buff i have 15504 Chaos Damage Per Second

a) I don't do gear / tree checks on this thread anymore unless there's an instructive point to be made that goes beyond the scope of this guide.

b) From what I can see from your tree and gear, given that you haven't linked all your gear, you're not even running this build (no IIR gem, Atziri's Step instead of Goldwyrm = indication you're playing CA normally) which means

c) There are other threads more suited to assisting you with running CA in a non-MF variation.

Hi, wanna ask, can IIQ gem be used to in this build? If so where should i put it?

Answered in FAQ.

Something I noticed while following the Mastercrafting the bow method:

1) Take a white bow
2) Mastercraft a suffix (which will turn it blue)
3) Regal
4) If necessary, scour and repeat 2 & 3 until you get +2 bow gems (it has to be +2 bow gems, can't be +1 all gems)

I noticed the Regal didnt care that there was a suffix crafted onto the bow, it was quite happy to randomly roll prefix or suffix. The cheapest Suffix to craft cost 6 Augs, however the Dex prefix only costs 4 Augs.

Did't realise the cost difference till after I was finished, just thought I should mention my observation

Great guide btw
Cheers :)

The mastercrafted suffix isn't intended to prevent the regal from rolling a suffix. It's meant to eliminate one suffix from the pool of possible mods the regal can roll, thus slightly improving the chances of rolling the +2, in addition to allowing you to regal the bow in the first place and make it rare with the ability to remove the suffix at will and thus save an affix for the completed crafting project.

Hope that helps you understand why we do it.

the +2 is a prefix though isnt it ?