Good day, do you have a moment? I'd like to talk about our Lord and Savior Caustic Arrow.

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Yloss escribió:

@OP (or any1 at endgame) Any update/feelings on the build at endgame/mapping ?
Are there changes tips etc ?
Is the build solid ?

I'm in my early 50 and have mixed feelings ..

Tree: http://poeurl.com/b36L

(Click import tree at the bottom of PoB) Going for more hp at the Revenge of the Hunted Cluster next, so hopefully I can break 7k HP.

Current Gear:

Going super fine, almost never die unless I do something stupid, lvl 89 at the moment. 6.4k HP, 49k DoT dps not including Decay.

Currently at Delve 150 at the moment.

Kinda map screwed, stuck at tier 9s, nothing higher dropping, so can't get Sulphite fast enough to really progress.

@Waves_blade: hey, can you confirm me the dot from CA does not benefit from drillneck ?


Can you tell us your tooltip dps ? iam curious to see the ratio between the hit damage and the CA cloud damage

V

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vitto369 escribió:

@Waves_blade: hey, can you confirm me the dot from CA does not benefit from drillneck ?


Can you tell us your tooltip dps ? iam curious to see the ratio between the hit damage and the CA cloud damage

V

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Well shit.

It's been awhile since I last played Caustic Arrow, WHEN THE HELL did Drillneck get changed to HITS and AILMENTS? Neither of those boost the DoT.

Guess I'm going to Rearguard until I can afford Quills.

And I listed my tooltip dot above.

Tks for the reply Waves_Blade
Hopefully with a few adjustments the build will get to T16 etc :-)

Is the calculation in PoB for Drillneck wrong for CA? If not, what am i doing wrong that it Shows best damage increase for me (especially also vs. mentioned Quill) :o

Think i´m overlooking something simple..

Drillneck does scale the poisona and nd the PF poison dmg is pretty high.

Been using this build good so far only have died to big latency spikes damage seems to be good as well as survivability will probably be getting back drillneck in the next couple days currently around lvl 40

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Fedaykenn escribió:

Drillneck does scale the poisona and nd the PF poison dmg is pretty high.

Are you sure ? Drillneck boosts hits and ailments and neither of those include the DoT ..
Afraid we Need a substitute for Drillneck

Actually, since 3.0 drillneck does not boost the cloud damage anymore. It does boost the aoe damage from the arrow hit but that's all.

I think there is also another misunderstanding i read here and there, since it is stated that CA convert a % of physical damage into chaos, most of people think that the cloud damage is increased by the physical damage of the bow, which is not true.


Also there is path of building now we did not have 5 years ago. Everyone relies on it but no one really knows what are the calculations. They could be fully wrong or not fully understood. And I bet everyone is just seeing on poB that drillneck increases the poison damage or that a physical bow increases the overall damage of caustic arrow.

Well, be careful when using those kind of program guys!


V

How do you sustain mana? Without a mana flask I quickly run out of mana. I have picked up the Life and mana leech node, but doesnt seem to leech much.