[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

Alright, settling on 104iq/100ir for now(not including the Bisco's numbers). Rarity might go up if I switch out my helm, but giving this a shot for now. Time to see what happens after 63 T6 Spider Forest Maps. Alch and go...

All have been run...

About the results you would expect from a pretty small sample size. I ran 38 of these with the Breach Zana mod. The remaining 25 were either on purpose just the map device quantity, or I forgot, or misclicked.

So 63 T6 Spire forest Maps with 104/104 (I blessed the bisco's to 20%):

• The Incantation - 121 cards
• Her Mask - 41 cards
• The Encroaching Darkness - 30 cards
• The Gambler - 30 cards
• The Betrayal - 29 cards
• Call to the First Ones - 13 cards
• The Doctor - 1 card
• The Realm - 5 cards
• The Valley of Steel Boxes - 1 card
• The Gemcutter

Overall pretty fun, and I know I was lucky with the Doctor drop.

I think I'm done with this league, but next time it's time to play something else, despite that I love CA the most it just has major drawbacks.
Yes it can run high maps if you don't care about dying frequently. I'm sitting on 4.5k HP right now and a Lich in T12 maps just 1shots me with EK. Just lost half a level to it and it got away. Guardians are a pain. Elder seems impossible. IIR for me personally only increases the rate of bad uniques dropping, while other builds are just nuking shit left and right in 6 man parties with ridiculously rolled maps and getting tons of good currency and items.

So basically I'm restricted to lower maps if I want to play efficiently, which don't have any good bases dropping and restricts the amount of good uniques I can get as well. Every minute or so my friends keep linking me the 10c+ drops they found, while I'm here farming Maelstroms (I chained 100 maps) and getting absolutely nothing other than items for the chaos recipe and the occasional chaos orb. CA's DPS is okay if you solve it the American way (throwing lots of money at it) but survivability is still a huge problem, mostly because you can't leech. Don't get me wrong, I still love the build, I just feel like it doesn't hold up in the current meta because if youre not nuking two screens at any given time with 2 ventors and a bisco's in t13+ maps you're doing it wrong.

Pretty convinced IIR is trash now, it's all about IIQ. Oh and as I'm typing this my friend just found another bisco's. Second one for her. Also dropped both Kaom's and Shavs earlier in the league while I found nothing of real value other than a few jewels which were still under 1ex. How? Running high maps with a completed atlas, sextant blocking, double beyond, breach etc. The problem is this build just cannot run that rippy stuff comfortably, unless you sacrifice dps and aoe for survivability and then you'll still lose to the insane clear speeds and breach mobs will overrun you. Mind you I have thrown over 12ex at this build for a +3 max roll DoT bow, a lvl4 empower and some decent jewels. I have yet to see any real returns. It wasn't like this when I played it a few leagues ago. I made about 52ex earlier just getting good drops and doing the chaos recipe but it seems this is no longer working, at least not for me.

I still love the build and will probably return to it someday, but as it stands I'd much rather level a budget character next league for a few ex and destroy red maps all day in a party.

So i crafted two Maraketh bows for this build....what do you think? Are they good for a mirror service?

Sexy.

It's expensive but I'm not sure I'd say mirror-tier. Quite a few (granted, non-Maraketh) up for 50-100ex.

I think if you were to have done that on a Shaper bow with +Max Frenzy or Elder bow with at least one of AoE or +arrow, then yeah.

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ChronoExile wrote:

Alright, settling on 104iq/100ir for now(not including the Bisco's numbers). Rarity might go up if I switch out my helm, but giving this a shot for now. Time to see what happens after 63 T6 Spider Forest Maps. Alch and go...

All have been run...

About the results you would expect from a pretty small sample size. I ran 38 of these with the Breach Zana mod. The remaining 25 were either on purpose just the map device quantity, or I forgot, or misclicked.

So 63 T6 Spire forest Maps with 104/104 (I blessed the bisco's to 20%):

• The Incantation - 121 cards
• Her Mask - 41 cards
• The Encroaching Darkness - 30 cards
• The Gambler - 30 cards
• The Betrayal - 29 cards
• Call to the First Ones - 13 cards
• The Doctor - 1 card
• The Realm - 5 cards
• The Valley of Steel Boxes - 1 card
• The Gemcutter

Overall pretty fun, and I know I was lucky with the Doctor drop.

Grats on the Doctor drop Chrono.

Another item you may wish to use when trying to max quantity is The Pariah (white socket).

Interesting changes to numerous ascendancies - look forward to analysis of impact on CA once all the ascendancies are in.

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hankinsohl wrote:

Interesting changes to numerous ascendancies - look forward to analysis of impact on CA once all the ascendancies are in.

Yeah this just became a Trickster build.

The main benefit for CA from Ascendant-Occultist just got removed, and nothing else from Ascendant really benefits it enough to warrant being Scion anymore.

I was just coming to see what the Ascendant reveal did to the build... this build is working it's way across the class forums over the years...

I didn't have quite the fun I used to with this build this league, so I don't know the next time I will be playing it, but always nice to keep my ear to the ground...

OP's edited appropriately and ready to go for 3.2.

As usual, in order to properly view the 3.2 tree you will need to paste it into the updated PoB or PoEPlanner, etc.

There will be no PoB link from this point forward for the build, as I have no CA Trickster build prepared and will be stripping all my Standard iterations of CA and selling off the gear.

Good luck in the new league everyone. See ya online tomorrow! :-)