[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

Disagree. Completely.

Assuming you don't care about things like the slight damage boost or endurance charges (End. Cry), you might as well just run Clarity. If you've geared halfway appropriately, you can get up to a level 15 or so Clarity and with Soul Siphon you basically never have mana issues.

Where RC comes in handy is high-tier reduced recovery maps (60%) or if you're running a much more defensive version of the build with Lit Coil, where you need the reservation room for Purity of Lightning.

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Serleth wrote:

And Grace.

It's listed there in the gems & links spoiler, and visible on my gear.

didnt see that

Have u tried grace + AA?

You're never stationary with PA. Therefore AA (in its current state) won't help except the slightly minor benefit of having chilled ground when kiting. But given Hypothermia doesn't work with PA, it's too minor a benefit to consider.

Better off dropping Clarity for Rallying Cry (as discussed above) for Purity of Lightning and using Lightning Coil if you're interested in being more defensive.

thnx,

last 2 questions

What about shadow skill tree? How would u change?

What about upcoming chaos damage gem? How would u make it now, if the tree remains untouched

I got this bow to level until i craft my +2 bow



My question is: should i run inc quantity or iron grip? or is it better try to change this red socket for a blue socket and run rarity or a green socket and run faster proj? I cant afford an empower, sadly.

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unlucky_child wrote:

thnx,

last 2 questions

What about shadow skill tree? How would u change?

What about upcoming chaos damage gem? How would u make it now, if the tree remains untouched

As for the gem, I discuss them here.

As for the Shadow tree, you simply don't take Shadow. It's a waste of five points. Like if you get to level 95 as a Shadow PA, it's the equivalent of being level 90 with a Ranger or Scion. You're perpetually going to be effectively -5 levels.

It's seriously so bad to do PA with Shadow that it's worth rolling another character, either Scion or Ranger.

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kazeshinii wrote:

My question is: should i run inc quantity or iron grip?

With a +1 all gems, you can actually just use Empower level 1, since it will become Empower 2 in the bow and thus give you an effective +2 bow. It will continue to improve as Empower levels.

You should be able to pick up an Empower 1 normally for 7-15 chaos but I see you're in the regular Hardcore league so I'm not sure what pricing will be there.

Use Iron Grip for now until your PA is roughly level 18, then you should be able to switch comfortably to IIQ.

I know shadow is less effective, but i got already 3x scions, 3x rangers :)

And why didnt u take corruption node, which adds

Corruption is taken. Unless you mean the 9% damage node in that branch.

Simply put, it's better to save that point to head into a jewel socket or even just a 10% projectile damage node. Which, while only 1% better, is still better. Or a 5% life node in the scion wheel if you want to get more survivable.

Etc.

Does anyone know whether or not there's a list of affixes along with the probabilities/weights of rolling them? I've googled for this and found some sparse data about a few items but nothing comprehensive.

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hankinsohl wrote:

Does anyone know whether or not there's a list of affixes along with the probabilities/weights of rolling them? I've googled for this and found some sparse data about a few items but nothing comprehensive.

I've got jewel weighting in the OP, for affixes we want on jewels.

Other than that there's the outdated Sandbox affix page on the wiki. Like I said, it's not current, but it'll give you an idea.