[2.4 Trickster] Grocery's Caustic Arrow Trickster Shadow! HC Viable!

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Fucrem2 wrote:

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Lvl99Hitmonlee wrote:

Loving this build in Perandus so far. Got myself a five-link +2 bow and saving up for a +3, but I do have a question. I got lucky vaaling my Drillneck and got +1 proj on it. Should I keep it or sell it to fund the rest of my build and get a regular drillneck again.

I'm running this too, very smoothly, imho +1 drillneck is a huge improvement (and it's one of the reasons some people choose deadeye over trickster,paired with 20% AoE), i would not sell it cause is one over 2-3 improvements a CA needs, you can save some ex and currency to craft yourself a 6l +3 bow and you are basically done with the expensive stuff.

+1 Drillneck is awesome. It is not necessary, but it is a huge help.

ok so i found this

and was pretty happy with it for like 5 min before my buddy found this on trade
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so i bought it and the dps didnt change. could you enlighten us on how the Gain 45% of Physical Damge as Extra Chaos damage works? because i didnt see a change in my dps at all.

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LostXray wrote:

ok so i found this

and was pretty happy with it for like 5 min before my buddy found this on trade

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so i bought it and the dps didnt change. could you enlighten us on how the Gain 45% of Physical Damge as Extra Chaos damage works? because i didnt see a change in my dps at all.

What do you mean 45% of physical damage as chaos?

We do not convert physical to chaos. We get all of our damage from gem level, increased chaos damage from tree, increased DoT from tree, etc.

The physical damage on the bow only increases the dps of the hit, not the cloud. As such, bow dps does not matter at all. A +2/+1 bow for a total +3 is BiS.

I'd keep using the thicket for the APS and 6S.

Gain 45% of Physical Damage as Extra Chaos Damage.

Thats what i mean... does that not affect our dps at all then?

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LostXray wrote:

Gain 45% of Physical Damage as Extra Chaos Damage.

Thats what i mean... does that not affect our dps at all then?

Yeah, that does nothing for the cloud, only the initial hit.

Hi, very nice build !

I have question, about rise quality of gems, witch give best dps increase ?

I have few gemcutters prism and want to start boost gems.

Best Regards
Michal

I just ripped on my CA trickster with lvl 82, gotta reroll and thinking about playing duelist!

I think that his ascendancy points are really nice! Only thing that bugs me are his starting points, the 5 first points are more or less completely waisted... and passive points are SO important for CA...

Any thoughts to ease my mind ? :)

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Grocery wrote:

The physical damage on the bow only increases the dps of the hit, not the cloud. As such, bow dps does not matter at all. A +2/+1 bow for a total +3 is BiS.

I'm pretty new to PoE, so it might be stupid question, but wouldn't it always be better to have more weapon damage (assumin it's also +3)? Even if it doesn't affect main source of dmg (cloud), it still should slightly help against enemies who don't melt instantly in cloud, like bosses. I mean from min-max point of view :)

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Terkhev wrote:

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Grocery wrote:

The physical damage on the bow only increases the dps of the hit, not the cloud. As such, bow dps does not matter at all. A +2/+1 bow for a total +3 is BiS.

I'm pretty new to PoE, so it might be stupid question, but wouldn't it always be better to have more weapon damage (assumin it's also +3)? Even if it doesn't affect main source of dmg (cloud), it still should slightly help against enemies who don't melt instantly in cloud, like bosses. I mean from min-max point of view :)

The damage difference is so little it does not matter. The faster bow is better for CA because you can shoot faster and keep moving more often. So the faster bow helps keep you alive more.

As such, the tiny, tiny bit of damage is not worth the extra time you have to sit there shooting every single time you fire.

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Rhanoss wrote:

I just ripped on my CA trickster with lvl 82, gotta reroll and thinking about playing duelist!

I think that his ascendancy points are really nice! Only thing that bugs me are his starting points, the 5 first points are more or less completely waisted... and passive points are SO important for CA...

Any thoughts to ease my mind ? :)

Duelist has an inefficient start but it is the best for HC. Champion is just too good.