[2.5] Grocery's Caustic Arrow Scion! HC Viable!

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OsOscarius escribió:

The SC economy is pretty wacky with all the drops and nothing going out. At level 61 with a similar build so far with some...decent...gear already.

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Double projectile and 100% pierce works about as amazingly as you could imagine. The spread is amazing and knowing that your shots will hit where you want them is super nice. Conc effect's reduced AoE is barely felt.
I'm also running essence drain and wither totem to get that extra damage against bosses. Might be overkill once the gems are leveled though.

So thanks for the build, hopefully it stays this enjoyable ^^

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g00fy_goober escribió:

Hey Grocery, got to the point and the gear where build is shining already and only at like 3.5k chaos damage.


What type of jewels am I looking for? and any suggestion on enchantments?

Right now I Have just cast word of reflection on hit, which makes a clone spawn when im hit which I really like so far.

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Sharkuuu escribió:

does the increased dmg from deadeye apply to casutic arrrow? from my testing, caustic arow gets no bonus from the dmg increase. it does the same dmg if i cast it in front of me or at the edge of the screen. maybe its because my dmg is to low to see a difference, but maybe some of you tested it already?

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g00fy_goober escribió:

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Sharkuuu escribió:

does the increased dmg from deadeye apply to casutic arrrow? from my testing, caustic arow gets no bonus from the dmg increase. it does the same dmg if i cast it in front of me or at the edge of the screen. maybe its because my dmg is to low to see a difference, but maybe some of you tested it already?

As far as I know, the cloud does not benefit from the damage, only the damage from the actual projectile.

It does work with frenzy though, and caustic is for the 50% pierce chance and additional arrow.

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g00fy_goober escribió:

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Sharkuuu escribió:

does the increased dmg from deadeye apply to casutic arrrow? from my testing, caustic arow gets no bonus from the dmg increase. it does the same dmg if i cast it in front of me or at the edge of the screen. maybe its because my dmg is to low to see a difference, but maybe some of you tested it already?

As far as I know, the cloud does not benefit from the damage, only the damage from the actual projectile.

It does work with frenzy though, and caustic is for the 50% pierce chance and additional arrow.

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There's a difference between the way Ranger's Far Shot, and Scion's Far Shot (which is part of the Deadeye Scion) is worded:

Ranger: Projectile attacks (aka, "projectile attack damage", which does NOT scale CA ground damage)
Scion: Projectiles (any projectile, aka "projectile damage," which scales CA ground damage).

This means that Ranger is inefficient because to get to Endless Munitions, you need to go through Far Shot, which does not scale the CA cloud damage in the Ranger version of Deadeye.

Hence, Scion. -15% chaos res to cursed enemies = multiplicative damage boost, AoE from +arrow, 30% increased damage, etc.

Ranger only gives you +arrow and 30% increased damage.