[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

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omgree escribió:

Btw, the strongboxes gonna count for the whole party or only for one person who triggers the openning?

Unless something is changing it will be the person who triggered the box (or at least that is how it has been the last three challenge leagues in regards to strongbox challenges). However the Warbands boss, should be credited to the entire party the same way map boss kills are done.

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omgree escribió:

So the Scion is the best choice after all patch notes and some buffs for other classes, right? And as i mention, with 8 points we take Ranger starting point and do the same except two starting passives from Scion tree?

Yes to Scion, yes to Path of Ranger. I'm sure there will be an updated tree as we get closer to the start. Serleth's tree might be different, but I am planning on dropping the three dexterity nodes to the right of Sentinel. I'm not sure the best place for those extra passives, but I think that location frees up the most passives, without compromising anything significantly in the build.

Guys, didnt u ever felt this build of the lack of flask charges? Is it good idea for new "free" passives use on Druidic Rite and Primal spirit (4 passives total to go)?
Or may bee to take Exceptional Perfomance (right of the Sentinel) for additional skill effect duration?
Any ideas? :)

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hankinsohl escribió:

I'll probably knock out most of the challenges on my CA toon and then roll another fun toon with high DPS and hopefully great clear speed to complete the difficult kill challenges.

This is what I did for the past two leagues and most likely to do in the next. As Standard is dead off challenge leagues running back-to-back, it's a good idea to try out other builds in the challenge league (better off DPS/fast ones) and finish the remaining challenges with them.
Glad that I tried out both Spark and Ice trapper before they went to the pooper thanks to GGG's "balance".

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ChronoExile escribió:

Yes to Scion, yes to Path of Ranger. I'm sure there will be an updated tree as we get closer to the start. Serleth's tree might be different, but I am planning on dropping the three dexterity nodes to the right of Sentinel. I'm not sure the best place for those extra passives, but I think that location frees up the most passives, without compromising anything significantly in the build.

Chrono, this seems like the best option IMHO, you lose 30 Dex, which is almost useless by the time you are able to finish the map Lab and with those extra 3 points (and following the rest of the tree exactly as it is now) you can get Phase Acrobatics by level 89, and from then on just add life I guess.

EDIT: Following this tree, and based off of PoE offline skilltree planner, at level 89 and _without_ any stats from gear, you get:

- 2967 life
- 972 mana
- 130 Str
- 365 Dex (that's a whole year worth of Dex!)
- 120 Int
- 928 Evasion (8% evasion chance at lvl 89)
- 40% Dodge
- 30% Spell Dodge

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Hvakhshathra escribió:

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hankinsohl escribió:

I'll probably knock out most of the challenges on my CA toon and then roll another fun toon with high DPS and hopefully great clear speed to complete the difficult kill challenges.

This is what I did for the past two leagues and most likely to do in the next. As Standard is dead off challenge leagues running back-to-back, it's a good idea to try out other builds in the challenge league (better off DPS/fast ones) and finish the remaining challenges with them.
Glad that I tried out both Spark and Ice trapper before they went to the pooper thanks to GGG's "balance".

Haha, great minds think alike :-)

I too went Ice-chaos trapper and Spark-chaos caster last league.

Havent read the whole thread but in frist pages there are two leveling solution. Sing sparks nerfed, what do u think about leveling with Contagion+ED? Or any other good solution? Or till lvl 50 spark still ok? How do u guys gonna level it?

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omgree escribió:

Havent read the whole thread but in frist pages there are two leveling solution. Sing sparks nerfed, what do u think about leveling with Contagion+ED? Or any other good solution? Or till lvl 50 spark still ok? How do u guys gonna level it?

Probably Flame Totem plus Searing Bond plus some other skills (Ice Nova, flame trap). Might temporarily go dual flame totem. Might try bladefall, perhaps bladefall totems. Something along those lines ought to work well.

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omgree escribió:

Havent read the whole thread but in frist pages there are two leveling solution. Sing sparks nerfed

How was it nerfed? I plan to level with spark/orb, since it is noob friendly - easy to get gems. Would be the pity if this way is not viable anymore :-/

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Sutyrin escribió:

How was it nerfed?

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Spark and Vaal Spark projectiles (including those from monster Sparks) are now 20% slower. Quality on Spark and Vaal Spark is now worth 1% projectile speed per point of quality (rather than 2%). The time that Sparks must travel before they re-arm has been increased from 500ms to 1000ms. Spark projectiles now destroy themselves after travelling 150 units, which is in-line with other projectiles.

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I think until CA we still able to level with it, so if u want to level with spark u dont need anymore skill effect duration. But personally im bored of spark and gonna think to try something new to me.

I think Spark was strong in combination with Orb of Storms for leveling last league. But after OOS was nerfed, I think that Spark fell out of favor as a really good leveling skill.