[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DR37M70GuU

Did a video on it.

Personally I don't care much about such things. I rarely get so much loot that 6 portals won't do. Usually I spend between 4 and 5 portals (granted I still am using a 4L bow cause I still haven't managed to find a 6L white maraketh bow on sale so no IQ or IR on the bow). Now sometimes I do spend all 6 portals and some loot is left. Usually not much so it doesn't bothers me. I just pick up all rare loot even those that use 8 spaces. If it's a case where I am on the last portal, the the last trip will only pick space efficient items.

Now if you consistently use all portals and still can't bring all loot, then you want to try and be more efficient, but so long as that that is the exception rather than the rule, who cares? Just keep picking everything up.

Once you 6L and get that IIR/IIQ, you're going to run into the same problem. =)

The basic rule I have is pick up everything for the first 2-3 portals. If it's clear that the particular map I'm running is going to consume all portals (i.e., 3 portals used and not even half the map or the boss done), I stop picking up 2x4s entirely, and abandon chrome vends as well.

And ofc do my best to maximize space and time usage as indicated in the above video.

Somehow I have the feeling that it doesn't make sense to kill white monsters? I did about maybe 1000 Dried Lake runs and nearly all of the time white monsters don't drop any rare or unique items?! On the other hand unique monsters hardly drop any currency?

In the end it seemed that it doesn't matter how i farm (just kill Voll or clear everything). Just killing Voll i get about 1 inventory of yellow items (alts + c recipes) in 30 s and while clearing everyhting i get randomly a 6s here, a c there, a fusing here and so on. But in the end both got me the same amount of chaos if i convert everthing i find into chaos.

While that's doubtless true some of the time, just due to the nature of RNG, it's pretty rare that'll be the case.

If you actually go ahead and spend the time to track how much currency you make doing full clears versus just killing Voll, you'll see that you generate more currency doing full clears than just doing the boss run. Those 6S's and raw currency drops add up in conjunction with the alterations from rare vendors and recipes.

Thing is that doing full clears in a non-map zone really isn't worth the time since you're not getting the added benefit of a map's IIQ/IIR rolls, so for Dried Lake just hitting the boss is completely acceptable. The difference in regular content zones won't be significant.

In maps, because of the increased IIQ/IIR bonus, which is effectively multiplicative with the rolls on your gear, it's a completely different beast, especially when running rare maps.

But that's also a central reason this guide is titled "Solo map MF'er" -- because for regular content boss runs, it doesn't have enough IIQ/IIR to start dropping significant amounts of currency or rares from white mobs (not that they drop much to begin with, but it's vastly improved in maps).

If your preferred method of farming currency is doing boss runs, this isn't the build for you. You'll want to find a build that has more like a 50-100+/400+ ratio and, ideally, is built for split run party cull groups.

Also, page 200. Thanks for all your support folks, and I'm glad you're all having fun with the build.

Speaking for myself, since I've been mapping I find rare items from white mobs quite often and I only have goldwyrms with some 27% quantity and about 170% IIR since I'm not using andy's yet nor gems though I always rare my maps so that helps quite a bit.

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Conclusion - 118/328 is not nearly as good as 100/400, at least for Dried Lake farm.

Finally remembered to update the stats spoiler.

Hi! First of all i want to thank you for sharing this lovely build.
I am playing PoE for a week now, playing as a Scion with PA but get bored (not from PA) and as most of newbies i made couple of wrong choices about my passive tree. And i really want to use that Pierce Change apply for Projectile Damage boost, so i am gonna re-roll to a ranger. So i can have better build w/o changing much gear. Before i do so, i want to ask a couple of questions. Since i am a newbie i cant figure out some questions in my mind:

1. Since i am playing in Standart League, should i use Item Quantity Gem linked to PA on my Bow ?
Atm, i have around 250+ Rarity but 0 IIQ, even i get some IIQ still using IIQ gem sounds logical.
If i do that, should i replace IIR gem or other damage boost gem like Inc. Area of Effect? What is your suggestion about that because i really need Quantity Boost. I cant get much IIQ from gear even there are some Legacy Items, because i cant afford Good Rolled ones. IIQ Gem would be more efficient than gear for me.

2. Spend 2 points into Primal Spirit would be OK? Because you mention that we may have little mana issues and MGoK would be good. I thought i can replace 2 points from Master of Arena and the %5 life node next to it to get Primal Spirit. I am not sure about that, that's why i am asking but More Int Gain, More Flask Charges Gain and also Mana Reg Rate increase seems really good for a newbie. Master Of Arena has a really nice %1 Life Regen but other bonuses for Melee-Unarmed damage are waste. So what is your opinion for Primal Spirit, should i completely forget about it or should i take it instead of Master of Arena or something else?

That is it for now, i will really appreciated if you can answer.
And sorry if they were asked already but it is hell a lot of 200 pages and i tried to find similar questions but could not find any, so...

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1. Since i am playing in Standart League, should i use Item Quantity Gem linked to PA on my Bow ?
Atm, i have around 250+ Rarity but 0 IIQ, even i get some IIQ still using IIQ gem sounds logical.
If i do that, should i replace IIR gem or other damage boost gem like Inc. Area of Effect? What is your suggestion about that because i really need Quantity Boost. I cant get much IIQ from gear even there are some Legacy Items, because i cant afford Good Rolled ones. IIQ Gem would be more efficient than gear for me.

If you're going to drop a gem from your gem links, it should b e Increased Area of Effect. Nothing else.

You can also buy a pair of Sadima's Touch gloves, they'll be really cheap for a 16% roll, that will get you started. Either way is fine, as long as you're cool with having less AoE coverage for option #1.

You can also pick up non-legacy Goldwyrms in Standard for fairly cheap.

Imho, I would just grab non-legacy 20% Goldwyrms. I'm seeing a guy online right now "IndyBlood" selling them for 2c.

Imho with 250% rarity, I would just go with Goldwyrm for now, and worry about IIQ after you get a 6L bow.

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2. Spend 2 points into Primal Spirit would be OK? Because you mention that we may have little mana issues and MGoK would be good. I thought i can replace 2 points from Master of Arena and the %5 life node next to it to get Primal Spirit. I am not sure about that, that's why i am asking but More Int Gain, More Flask Charges Gain and also Mana Reg Rate increase seems really good for a newbie. Master Of Arena has a really nice %1 Life Regen but other bonuses for Melee-Unarmed damage are waste. So what is your opinion for Primal Spirit, should i completely forget about it or should i take it instead of Master of Arena or something else?

With a leveled enough Clarity you won't need Primal Spirit, and if you want to be able to run Blood Rage at all times you will need Master of the Arena for the life regeneration. You shouldn't need any regeneration nodes other than Mana Flows. I see your character is level 83 so you should be able to run a level 12-15 Clarity no problem.

Soul Siphon's MgoK will assist you for the rest of the mana recovery, even in 50% regeneration maps you don't need more than that.

Thanks for trying the build out and feel free to ask away if you need more help.