[3.25] Scourge Arrow Poison Prolif Pathfinder - Fast, tanky, fun to play

Using the quillrain + toxic arrow combo in a 4L can carry you to act 8 no problems involved (this combo is way simpler to use since mirage archer do most of the job). If you can grab a 5L or tabula asap, this way it will carry you till maps. - total cost: 1c bow + 5c chest

Grab the Coralitos + atziri combo flasks in the 60s levels, it will make a huge damage impact. - you can get a bad coralito if you facing economic problems for les than 10c and atziris for 1c, its worth.




Found a nice upgrade for the goldrim in a garbage unique drop:


This helm will give us nice total res+ chaos res for the degens in blood rage and coralitos, and it has the +1 for socketed gems. Put your malevolence HoA and precision here and see the damage boost. Be careful with the level of precision for mana problems! - cost you 1 chaos

The Lioneyes + SA its the next upgrade. With decent rolls (320+pDPS 5 chaos cost), it will increase our damage from quillrain by almost 150%. It has also 2 more hidden perks that help us a lot:
1- hits can be evaded: we get 100% chance to hit and have 100% chance to poison. We poison everything with every hit! Its incredible the sustain we got for HoA and poison prolif with just this line. (if you are not caped at poison chance read the post where Death explains it)
2- we can drop precision and solve mana problems as we have the 100% hit chance.


Circle of nostalgia: here is were when you cant cap poison chance on attacks ends. Search first for the HoA buff effect (that will cap your poison chance and increase the bonus for virulences stacks) and if you can afford go for increased chaos damage. This would increase your damage for 20% more and will cost you 50 chaos.


For those who are having problems with caping resistances after using circle of nostalgia and are missing int requirement: Jewels are the solution!
We can get 2 jewels socket early on in the tree and use it with wisely. Go on poe.trade and select this 2 kind of jewels( they will cost you less than 20c):
1- go for normal jewels with: %increased life + % chaos damage +int,resistances
2- go for abyss jewels with: +flat maximum life + resistance + int



For final leveling upgrade: -mana cost chest
I tried most of combinations in PoB, but the more cost and damage effective one is going for the - mana cost chest amour piece as soon as you can afford a 6L. It will make a smoother process to get to end game maps and content as you will be able to use all your auras and skills. Just go for - mana cost + maximum life and if you can afford some res for quality of life. I was lucky and found this:

Here i will consider the discussion about the quivers. First thing first: start with the drillneck as soon as you can. Decent rolls go for 3c.

As Death already said, pierce is important. SA pierces all targets but just for the shot after you finish channeling (the big green laser in your screen). So as SA has the 100% pierce in the first shot, the pierce additional target implict for the drillneck will work on the secondary shots, which are for us the thorns that are released from the pods. With the thorns piercing we are now utilizing the "arrows deals 50% increased damage for hits and ailments to target they pierce" to add damage to our hits and poisons.

What an additional arrow do: the pods are distributed among each arrow, rather than in a line from player after channeling. Having more additional arrows than pods will not cause additional pods to spawn (we are limited by 5 at maximum channeling). With more arrows we can:
1- enhance our clearspeed by releasing the channel while mouse cursor is near the edge of our screen.
2- buff up our single target by place our cursor next to the target, the spore pods spawn in a cluster near your mouse cursor with more arrows.

So what we are going after drillneck in endgame: crafted shaper quiver!

Base item: penetrating arrow quiver (has the same implict of drillneck and do the same job in terms of piercing).
Shaper base: now that we are in the endgame we have the currency and luxury to gain access to the +1 arrow
item level: 80 for thhe + 1 arrow
corroded fossil: we are getting rid off flat elemental damage and resistance and adding 40% increased damage with ailments
shuddering fossils: make attack speed more likely and mainly add the frenzy charge on hit generator
open suffix: veiled mod for increased critical chhance and added chaos damage, when we use coralitos our crits will do even more damage.

(Death if you could, consider adding a session in the main page about this explanation as many people has this doubt)

Im really satisfied that you are trying different approaches to this build. Im going to try to help you out with this and have some ideas.

We could go with pure amour and permanent iron reflexes using a concept like whitedondi bring us with his kaoms or even get back to the QotF setup.
I messed arroung PoB and I can see usage of arborix as a damm good weapon. The bow provides good pDPS (we should consider going with hillock +28% since we are going for pure phys bow to conversion in SA) and 2 arrows. For QotF setup we will be going to have huge armour when iron reflexes proc from the bow, and when it comes off huge amount of evasion. With this setup grace would be a greater option, so we have to find a way to workaround grace+ malevolence.
We could make a huge investment using auls uprising for malevolence, since the amulet will give no mana reservation and some int that we would need.