[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

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Serleth escribió:

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grimjack68 escribió:

What's with the Chaos:Exalt ratio this league? It smells of price fixing, but I haven't seen any discussions about it until one of the regulars here mentioned it in passing. I might have to go dig through reddit looking for some info!

I posted the following reply to this same question on reddit, after someone remarked about Atlas crafting.

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Serleth escribió:

What's more likely than exalts devaluing, is chaos increasing in valuation.

As you point out, Atlas crafting is pretty big this league. With the combined nature of more and more people purchasing Sextants, chisels, more Strand (or other Shaped) maps, all for chaos, the value of chaos orbs has spiked, meaning you can get more other non-map related currencies for the same chaos.

You can see this in the fluctuation of other currency, such as chrome ratios (13-14 --> 15:1), Blessings (3.5 --> 4.5:1), and other currencies, same as with fuses (3-3.5 --> 4.2/4.5:1).

Another possible reason for chaos increasing in value is chaos spam.

I simply cannot find upgrades for any of my HoWA gear for sale at anything approaching reasonable prices on poe.trade. Once you hit my gear point (not too difficult - my gear is OK but not spectacular), it's either start paying 10ex or more for stuff that's really not that great to be honest - or, make it yourself.

10ex = 460c or so at the moment - can you expect to spam a better item than you now have for 460c? Hence the motivation for my programming project, LOL.

The thing about exalts I've noticed is huge fluctuations - and initially, they weren't mirrored on both ends of the deal.

Normally, say the ratio is about 50:1 - you'll get guys selling exalts for ~49, and people buying exalts for ~51. This is how the currency traders make profit.

This league, ex ratios were pretty solid for over a month, then, suddenly, they started dropping - but not smoothly. So I saw them drop to 60, then 50, then back up to 65, the next day down to 40, then back up to 50, and so on. They are sitting at 46 as I type this.

I've never seen Ex values fluctuate up and down by 25% in 48 hours until now. I was assuming that some group managed to put together a large stock of exalts, and were posting them for sale without actually selling them so as to pull down the price.

On the positive side, I'll be able to buy one of those 15ex Rat's Nests if it keeps up! ;)

Edit: No, no I won't. The folks selling +2 barrage projectiles rats nest have boosted the price to 20ex now. /me grumbles.

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grimjack68 escribió:

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Lastly, as I'm sure everyone is doing, every 5 maps or so I have to run a low level map to keep my recipes at the Chaos level instead of Regals.

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Just to add to this, I use the breach rings from the elemental breach lord domains to make what would be a regal recipe into a chaos. Reduces the number of rings I need to find in higher maps as well. Usually 3+ rings drop on the way to the lords and then I can clean out some of my stored regal/chaos sets. I'm still going for the 100 breachlord kills, so it helps me in two ways.

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Serleth escribió:

What's more likely than exalts devaluing, is chaos increasing in valuation.

As you point out, Atlas crafting is pretty big this league. With the combined nature of more and more people purchasing Sextants, chisels, more Strand (or other Shaped) maps, all for chaos, the value of chaos orbs has spiked, meaning you can get more other non-map related currencies for the same chaos.

You can see this in the fluctuation of other currency, such as chrome ratios (13-14 --> 15:1), Blessings (3.5 --> 4.5:1), and other currencies, same as with fuses (3-3.5 --> 4.2/4.5:1).

I see different prices, probably because I'm on at different times, but yeah, a chaos buys 20-35% more of most other currencies than it did earlier in the league. That's not the weird part. What got many people worried was chaos suddenly buying 70% more exalts than it could earlier, when ratio was 1:70.

Ex already climbed back up to 49c since Grimjack's post. Perhaps normal fluctuation within the day. IF the insanity is finally done and 1:41 ex to c was a temporary result of people panic-selling their exalts all at once when the new cards arrived, now is still a good time to buy. I'm going to assume the proposed explanations about card botting and GGG increasing the ex drop rate are false, and take a gamble converting everything to ex today. Didn't have the balls when they were 41. I thought they'd reach hardcore prices or lower very soon.

Chaos Spam Simulator

I cant seem to figure out why i die alot my rese is maxed out. Life 4.2k. Chaos damage 20k damage.

stuck on lvl 90 for the last couple of month No change. Lost tons of xp. always evading attacks but still am getting killed.

Any one would be able to help me figure out what to do.

You should have more than 4.2k life at level 90, so something's wonky on either your tree or gear. You should be closer to 4.8k.

Unlock your characters and I'll take a look.

(Click your name at the top, Privacy Settings, uncheck "Hide Characters").

I have unhiden the characters

There's no room in this build for cwdt - immortal call setup.

Part of the reason you're getting murdered is because you don't have Grace, so you're getting hit a LOT more often than you would normally.

Drop the setup in your gloves completely other than Flame Golem, add Grace + Clarity. Clarity is so you can drop the mana flask in favour of another Seething Life flask which will dramatically increase your ability to spam out of the situations where you do get into trouble.

Adding Clarity will also allow you to drop Perandus Signet for another ring with life (if, and until, you want to add more MF. I'd also drop Distillate. You're not really stacking a lot of MF at the moment, so it won't make a huge difference; replace that for a quicksilver or Stibnite flask).

I straight up don't take the bottom jewel socket with Evasion nodes preceding it. It's essentially wasted nodes unless you're running a QoTF build or something. Remove that for more life in the Scion tree.

I also don't take the Ranger area proj/proj/jewel socket until Level 93. I'd remove that for the last three life nodes in Scion if you're still not comfortable with the extra 15% from the eva/eva/jewel change, then you can take those nodes again once you level into them.

Look into upgrading your helmet. 56 life is fairly low for that slot.

I also find Phase Acro incredibly useful (at least for this build, because we don't leech). What I would personally do is remove the eva/eva/jewel for Scion Life, remove proj/proj/jewel for the extra dodge after Acro and spec out of a damage node in Shadow to finish off Phase Acro.

How is this build as a league starter? Looking for something for next league, but I'm wondering if the +3 bow would be an issue for a brand new character in a new league.