[3.24] fezz's Toxic Rain Champion - Step-by-Step PoE Build Guide for Beginners & Casuals

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Masteropii escribió:

I did try my second best belt, which had 139 life in it instead of Wurm's molt, but I ended up being severely short of mana. The free amount was 64, and it was also slowing down my firing rate significantly. By allocating charisma, my mana situation improved and normally I wasn't performance limitted. However, in the middle of fight, I ended up having my flask empty and my firing rate slowed down.

What I'm doing wrong, is propably my habit to drink from mana flask perioidically. I have used to do it and in the middle of intense situation, I find it difficult to follow the the flasks and use them only when needed. I had one Stygian Vise, which had bad stats. I was able to get better ones, so I'll go with it and try to change my habit with wasting mana.

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Masteropii escribió:

I have some renovation going on with my jewels, so that's why molten shell and some others are overleveled. I'm leveling them to 20, so I can make the quality trade to improve them.

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Masteropii escribió:

What comes to my playing style, I've been thinking do I suffer from some penalties for being in too high level. The monsters on my maps are at level 70-80, when I'm at 88 now. I don't like dying and I like to take challeneges. I'm typically careful when aproaching enemies and don't like taking risks. With my previous build, I got one-shotted too many times. I've been also thinking if my gear is not up to my level, because I level up pretty fast because of that style. Should I take more risks and die in order to keep my level low enough to get profit from lower tier maps.

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Masteropii escribió:

When I run maps, I typically throw some curses and ballista's on enemies, stopping for short while to spill arrows with my main weapon. With larger and agressive packs, I throw ballista's in the middle, run around, stopping for cursing and shorting. When it's get quiet enough, I kill the rest and collect the stuff, which isn't much. I've been trying to find a way to shoot without stopping, but apparently it's not possible. I've also tried timed sequences on my mouse buttons, but haven't find anything I like. In delve, I have used curse and fire sequence on my right button, but it unnecessarily slow down shooting if enemies are already cursed. It is not good in normal maps. I had ealier setup with significant speed boost from friency charges. Then I was able to just run throught the tunnels, trying to guess where crawler was going, without monsters being able to touch me. If not including the strong bosses, if I die, it happens because I get caught in the middle of monster pack without being able to move. I have phasing, so I don't know for sure why. I've been suspecting it could be because of network latency. That's why I avoid running through dense packs.

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Masteropii escribió:

Yesterday confirmed me that whatever the reason is, I get practically nothing from low tier maps. Practically all I had came from 10+ Kirac missions. They are not problem for me, but if I do full Viridian round, I'm not able to handle blight encounter, since there are too many fast and resilient monsters that destroy the pump. My towers also don't seem to do much, as most of the monsters come with almost full life. From low tier maps, I get close to nothing from them either. Many times no oils, no currency byt just crappy stuff. I have followed recommended skill and atlas tree, and I have 55/115 map bonuses cleared.

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Masteropii escribió:

I've been using Path of building since the start of my previous build. I undestand basic mechanism on damage and damage reduction, but there's lot of information missing and is based on guessing. Sometimes it also feels like I'm missing something, since some small change appeared to be bigger than expected.

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Masteropii escribió:

I have been puzzled why you said my current DPS is around 800k. Currently Path of building gives me about 129k FULL DPS with all sets and flasks enabled. I didn't find any option to get bigger number. This is way les than my other build in this level, but I have though it's because this is chaos damage and typically because lack of resistance, it causes much bigger damage on eneny. Are you using some other metrics, which translates into inflicted damage, or what can cause this difference? When I import some top player toxic rain setups from Poe Ninja, they have around 800k-1.2M in level 100 and with really fancy gear.

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Masteropii escribió:

Also, I was wondering what you said that my bow sucks, which I guess is true if thinking about using it on higher levels, but when searching from the trade place, I could get about 24% more DOT with 40C (which I don't have) buyig +2 bow gems and 20% chaos over time multiplier. For me, it don't seem that much in this stage, since the dps goes up quite fast anyway, and it don't seem to have much effect on my problems anyway. My jewel quality updrade gives more than that, and it seems to disappear into normal variation in monster strength. Is there something more dramatic, which don't show in these stats if I upgrade the bow, or is it just requirement for higher tier bosses? I'll propably have new bow quite high in shopping list, anyway.

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SEMENTARY escribió:

Hey fezz! Your guide is great and made me progress the most I have ever done in PoE in a few attempts of trying to get into it.

But.. I feel like after buying multiple endgame items you suggest I feel weaker than I did with 1 chaos items I bought preparing for maps, what did I do wrong?

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Snagglet0es escribió:

Hey fezz, it's great of you to answer all our nooby questions on here :P

I was wondering if you could check my build and advise on where I go next? I'm starting to struggle a bit for damage (and sometimes dying) on T14-15 maps. T11-12 feel not too bad, I can even juice them up with wisps a bit.

I'm working on trying to get 3rd wildwood ascend, getting some more levels to fill out the cluster jewel section, and getting gems at least 20/20 if not 21/20, but is there anything else obvious I should work towards?

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SEMENTARY escribió:

Thanks for the reply fezz!

First of all, I changed a few things around,
this was what I had before I decided to ask for help, no other changes, except necklace which was just a basic life+res one compared to this one that also has chaos dot%:

As for the PS:

Yup, I know. I just forgot to take it out because I stopped playing for the day after doing a few maps.

And 2, because I had the unique Maloney's Mechanism, i put Vicious Projectils in there so I could swap it out for greater multiple projectiles if I ever needed to, but my dps was great so I never ended up doing it. I kept it there same reason as despair, your endgame setup recommends to use lifetap, but I have not had a single issue with mana so I skipped it completely.

Again, thank you for the reply.

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Snagglet0es escribió:

I just had "one" more nooby question! I've ended up all with all AOE gems in my gloves, and there is a bench craft +1 to level of socketed AOE gems plus +#% area of effect, is that worth it over having +armor/evasion? If I knew how to use POB I'm sure I could probably calculate the improvement, but I find it stupidly hard to use.