[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

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Serleth escribió:

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DarkKaine escribió:

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However, I do really love the CA playstyle in general, so I still want to at least try respeccing to a CA build without MF and see how it goes. Would this require a lot of respec points and/or changes in gear and how is the DPS compared to MF CA? I'm rocking a 6L bow + 6L chest right now and got about 5ex to blow, so I'd love to see some suggestions :)

There's a few options out there. Hidden Potential life build, CI Occultist build, etc.

Tree wise, wouldn't require respeccing much of anything to go Hidden Potential life, but you'd need to regear. Keep Drillneck but go basically magic everything else.

If you don't want to switch to Hidden Potential, you could stay a life build and just swap around four or five gear pieces for more damage. Not sure if you are running a Carcass, but if not that should be the chest. Switch your three jewelry pieces to pieces crafted with Deafening of Envy (bonus points if the Amulet is a +1 Frenzy). Switch your boots for a pair of Blooddance, Darkray, or Atziri's Step (preferably with a +1 Frenzy corruption).

Ohh and the obvious statement, recolor your bow to replace IR with VM, RD, or Pierce (which ever one is currently not in your links).

Hi and Many thanks for guide and this great build.

Am not sure what i can change to improve my dps and my build.
My Caustc arrow is 17101.8 chaos damage. Can we go higher or it wont be possible. I seen some guys got 28k on Caustic arrow,

My gear.


Skill Trea

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max1982 escribió:

Hi and Many thanks for guide and this great build.

Am not sure what i can change to improve my dps and my build.
My Caustc arrow is 17101.8 chaos damage. Can we go higher or it wont be possible. I seen some guys got 28k on Caustic arrow,

My gear.

Spoiler

Skill Trea

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https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAABAABeAO4B0QMeBS0FtQguCdkM8g5IES8TbRQJFHUVIBa_GNsZjhm0Go0byB9BI_YmiCaVKk0qWyzpLYMuIy5TMHwxNTWSNj031D7PPydDMUM2R35KyE2SUUdS7FoaWlJbJluvYeJirGVNbIxuaW6qdO11y3aCefZ7bnvDfXV_-4TZhrOHB419jX6Nv5OZlyGbXZzEnaqhIqJAo4qly6iar-u0xbTRtUi18rcitzC3trueu-O9Nr3mvqfBfMLswzPEosgMykbP3dNv037UI9X42L3awd0N4q3jhOXm6mLrY-0_7YPuDu968Yryl_T49qP-j_66

Fully buffed you'll hit about 25k or so.

That's about as potent as this build gets because of the IIR gem in the bow.

You still need quality on Conc, Rapid and Void. That'll improve you a little bit once you 20/20 those.

Tree-wise, you're fine. The only way you're getting more damage is if you do Uber Lab to get Path of the Ranger and then respec pretty much completely out of Scion like this, going from 26% dmg from Scion to 101% dmg from Shadow. Accounting for 24% on your jewel socketed there, you'd get an additional 51% increased at the cost of the 10% res all.

Hence, we go Scion. More balance between life / resistance / survivability with less of a focus on dps.

There's no real way to squeeze damage out of gear in an MF setup unless you're willing to blow a lot of currency rolling your amulet with Envy essences.

For your gear in general, honestly I don't know what values you're going for here. If you want to aim for how I have the build set up, you'll need to sacrifice your helmet's MF for better res balance and life, you should be able to pick up a decent IIR amulet in Standard that's better than that one, with life and some res, recover some of the helmet's lost IIR on your gloves instead, and it seems like you're really heavily investing in getting stats on your gear. Don't be afraid to pick up a +30 int node on the tree to make gearing easier.

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max1982 escribió:

Hi and Many thanks for guide and this great build.

Am not sure what i can change to improve my dps and my build.
My Caustc arrow is 17101.8 chaos damage. Can we go higher or it wont be possible. I seen some guys got 28k on Caustic arrow,

My gear.

Spoiler

Skill Trea

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https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAABAABeAO4B0QMeBS0FtQguCdkM8g5IES8TbRQJFHUVIBa_GNsZjhm0Go0byB9BI_YmiCaVKk0qWyzpLYMuIy5TMHwxNTWSNj031D7PPydDMUM2R35KyE2SUUdS7FoaWlJbJluvYeJirGVNbIxuaW6qdO11y3aCefZ7bnvDfXV_-4TZhrOHB419jX6Nv5OZlyGbXZzEnaqhIqJAo4qly6iar-u0xbTRtUi18rcitzC3trueu-O9Nr3mvqfBfMLswzPEosgMykbP3dNv037UI9X42L3awd0N4q3jhOXm6mLrY-0_7YPuDu968Yryl_T49qP-j_66

All your jewels need to be upgraded. I run with all my jewels being double damage mods + dual resist until I get resist capped, then the remaining ones are either 3 damage mods or 2 + life. For ~20c you should be able to boost quite a bit. Try a search like this: http://poe.trade/search/ukekazuboketag

Ninja edit: Just noticed you are in Standard, not breach. Search link edited to reflect that.

Many thanks for your help Serleth. I have maxed my resistances. I will look for a better helm and change the gloves is it worth using these gloves and boots instead of the ones i have?:


Regarding Jewels on POE no one reply and they are super expansive whats the best way to craft the jewels i got currency.

I managed to craft this do i need to do all the same?

would any of these be any good ?


Changes to be made:
Amulet
Gloves
Helmet
Jewel

I been using this build for 2 years was on ranger before and switched to Scion but never managed to lvl up more then 90.

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max1982 escribió:

Many thanks for your help Serleth. I have maxed my resistances. I will look for a better helm and change the gloves is it worth using these gloves and boots instead of the ones i have?:

Spoiler

Regarding Jewels on POE no one reply and they are super expansive whats the best way to craft the jewels i got currency.

I managed to craft this

do i need to do all the same?

I been using this build for 2 years was on ranger before and switched to Scion but never managed to lvl up more then 90.

Aurseize is answered in the FAQ. Short version, for the balance we're going for, Goldwyrm / rare gloves is better.

That first jewel you linked is fine. And that's roughly what you're looking to get. Any tri-affix combination of damage / life / resistances. You could do life + res + dmg, or dmg + dmg + dmg, or life + dmg + dmg or res + dmg + dmg, etc.

More details about the types of rolls you're looking for on jewels is found in the guide under the jewels spoiler.


**Completely unrelated spoiler for Hank re: HOWA**

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Serleth escribió:

**Completely unrelated spoiler for Hank re: HOWA**

Thanks. By way of reciprocation:

In theory, I play this build to eventually finance another... in practice not so much...

Yesterday I got my best drop ever, I think... a Tukohama shield I sold for 6EX... enough to finance most builds at least to start, especially on top of the 6-10EX I already have saved up in other currency... (that is ostensibly for my +3 bow)

But I have a hard time picking another build to try... it seems like almost every day a different build catches my eye and I research it a bit and never try it... between all the popular builds that use Blade [word] skill, Flameblast, HOWA, etc etc

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Piros escribió:

In theory, I play this build to eventually finance another... in practice not so much...

Yesterday I got my best drop ever, I think... a Tukohama shield I sold for 6EX... enough to finance most builds at least to start, especially on top of the 6-10EX I already have saved up in other currency... (that is ostensibly for my +3 bow)

But I have a hard time picking another build to try... it seems like almost every day a different build catches my eye and I research it a bit and never try it... between all the popular builds that use Blade [word] skill, Flameblast, HOWA, etc etc

6L +3 bows are 3ex

Sounds pretty simple to me. You have 12-16ex banked.

Get the bow for 3ex, leaving you with 9-13ex.

Pick a build.

Roll it.

Go back to MF farm mode if you need.

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Piros escribió:

In theory, I play this build to eventually finance another... in practice not so much...

Yesterday I got my best drop ever, I think... a Tukohama shield I sold for 6EX... enough to finance most builds at least to start, especially on top of the 6-10EX I already have saved up in other currency... (that is ostensibly for my +3 bow)

But I have a hard time picking another build to try... it seems like almost every day a different build catches my eye and I research it a bit and never try it... between all the popular builds that use Blade [word] skill, Flameblast, HOWA, etc etc

I've been running a Doomfletch's Prism Inquisitor build this league, and it's... well, the damage output is simply ridiculous. For example, I'm running breaches in high tier maps - t13 / t14 - and I'm running out of monsters to kill. It's been quite a while since I ran a full on DPS build.

Given the price of decent 6L bows (even prisms!) / chests, it's hard not to try something crazy / new out. Elemental reflect has been my bane though - by the time I notice a creature has it, I'm dead 1000 times over.

On another note, my 13yo son is going to try out the MF CA build for the first time. He's never managed to complete even cruel on a self built toon (or ANY toon for that matter), I suspect he's going to freak out when he finds out how effective a fully polished build is.