[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

most probably running Grace and Purity of Lightning cos of the - res from light coil
then probably will have to use rallying cry to gain the mana

That makes enough sense.

Although with the exception of a few bosses, I don't think Lightning Coil is necessary at all in SC variants of PA.

Even then with Charisma and dropping down to a level 7 clarity and taking Soul Siphon, you should be able to run all three of Clarity, Grace and PoL with about 100-115 mana left over, and no need for Rallying Cry or Mana flasks. Depends on whether or not you want to invest those extra three points in reservation, though.

I did kinda planned to include AA on mine but since I can't do it without clarity it's a file and forget... As for mana sustain, really I've played with level 5 clarity all the way up to maps, even mapped for a while with it at level 5. Then ii leveled it up to 10 and really, I don't have sustain problems at all. Remember you shot once or twice and then run around, you don't shot so much that you need lots of mana recovery... Even so I can pretty much fire poison arrow non stop. I even removed the one that gives mana on kills. Completly unnecessary.

Try a 50% recovery map. You'll want Soul Siphon again.

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Elhazzared wrote:

I did kinda planned to include AA on mine but since I can't do it without clarity it's a file and forget... As for mana sustain, really I've played with level 5 clarity all the way up to maps, even mapped for a while with it at level 5. Then ii leveled it up to 10 and really, I don't have sustain problems at all. Remember you shot once or twice and then run around, you don't shot so much that you need lots of mana recovery... Even so I can pretty much fire poison arrow non stop. I even removed the one that gives mana on kills. Completly unnecessary.

how much is ur PA mana cost on 6L?

For this build, in a finished setup (with IIR, CE, SP, Empower, AoE): 55 mana in a +3 bow with a level 3 Empower. I can't speak for what El's mana is atm.

WEll Mine is about 33 at the moment I believe, but I only have it on a 4L since that's the bow I have to work with. Getting a 6L is going to be very expensive and while I thought about asking Serleth to craft it, it just won't be possible because the colours I need on it, there are very few for sale. I need RRBBGG so that's 4 off colours.

I think you're concerning yourself too much with pushing straight to the 6L. There's nothing stopping you from having the bow crafted to +3 and working with a 5L. That's only three off colours to start with.

You can always 6L it later.

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Elhazzared wrote:

I need RRBBGG so that's 4 off colours.

A Maraketh Bow (222 dex requirement) would take on average 355 chromes to color RRBBGG.

But chromes are pretty cheap (16 chrome per chaos at most, and you can probably get 20 per chaos).

So a Maraketh Bow would only cost 355/16 = 22 chaos or so in chromes, on average, to color.

The chrome estimate is based on this tool: http://siveran.github.io/calc.html.

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Serleth wrote:

I think you're concerning yourself too much with pushing straight to the 6L. There's nothing stopping you from having the bow crafted to +3 and working with a 5L. That's only three off colours to start with.

You can always 6L it later.

The is no point in me buying a 5 L really, that only gives me a choice between item rarity or item quantity. I want to push into 6L for both to further increase my farming abillities.

As for 6Ling it. Erm, no. I'm not speding fuses on it, I know my luck and vorici would be cheaper and even then, 1500 fuses are equivalent to over 23ex. For that price, I might as well buy a 6L with the colours I want.

Hankinsohl - My bad luck with chromes and fuses and all of that is legendary. I'm sure I'd spend 10K chromes and still not get it. Averages are averages and unfortunatly, there is no way to get the 4 off colours I want guaranteed.

It's not a problem when you gamble with something of no consequence, but when the consequence can be your bow not really ending up with the colours you want orlinks you want and you run out of currency. That's where I draw the line. This is not for a second character, this is for my only character with farming capabillities and I cannot mess with that.