[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

Thanks Serleth.

The sandbox affix page is the data I found while googling. And it looks like poedb.tw may be permanently offline.

I was hoping to find general crafting information for all items but perhaps that doesn't exist online.

Edit:

Wayback Machine to the rescue! Yay!!!
https://web.archive.org/web/20150314162742/http://poedb.tw/us/mod.php

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Serleth wrote:

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

Google-fu :-)

Hello Serleth, thank you for the nice guide.

I'm having certain difficulties while leveling, I've died 3 times now on Act 4 Normal, and all those 3 tries were leveled using 3 different techniques you've mentioned. I'm doing something wrong, I know it, but are there any adjustments to the leveling strategy using this build?

The problem I had when I switched to PA at lvl 35: it just doesn't feel that it deals enough damage. Maybe because my +1 bow was Silverbranch, yet it was properly 4 linked, etc. It's certainly much easier to kite when you don't need to remain stationary while dealing damage, but flame totem felt more powerful, since it can just slay bosses on it's own.

And I know that this kind of advice is off-track a bit, but how do people skim through Normal difficulty in a couple of hours? It takes me a day or so to do it. Anyway, looking forward to your answers.

These people that talk about getting to level 80 in like 16 hours, no idea how they do that. I can get to maps in about that time (level 65), so I have a basic understanding of how decent leveling happens but the stupid-fast-race-speed, no idea.

+1 Silverbranch 4L'd is fine, but that early sub-optimal power distinction is the reason why I recommend keeping a flame totem active in your link setup until you get a 5L +2 bow whenever somebody brings it up for discussion. I leave the pure bow leveling option up for, well, purists.

Ultimately though that "doesn't feel that it deals enough damage" bit is the reason my recommended leveling is the FT + Fireball or EK process. Much easier to get to the +2 bow point.

That said, 35 seems like you did it a bit early, which leads me to believe you're missing one of either Method to the Madness or Entropy, or you beelined it to get both of those and thus are missing a fairly substantial bit of life. Might not seem like much but those extra four levels push you into A1 Cruel and probably at the juncture where you've got at least the Dweller passive point, if not both that and the Ship Graveyard point for a net difference of 5-6 points. That's basically the equivalent of either finishing off Blood Drinker and starting the pathing to Duelist or Corruption, or beelining it for Fury Bolts and Duelist life.

Your characters are locked from view so I can't see exactly what you're missing, but that'd be my guess as to why you're struggling: the early switch, and probably not continuing to use flame totem as a secondary damage source.

Hey Serleth,

Quick noob question about scaling with regards to PA. Concentrated effect is a MORE area damage where slower projectiles is a MORE projectile damage but at about half the rate of Conc effect. Doesn't that mean that area damage scales better than projectile damage? It not showing up correctly on the tooltip makes this impossible for me to test myself. Is %projectile damage / %area damage / %chaos damage / %damage over time all truly equal for increasing my cloud dps?

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Idyar wrote:

Hey Serleth,

Quick noob question about scaling with regards to PA. Concentrated effect is a MORE area damage where slower projectiles is a MORE projectile damage but at about half the rate of Conc effect. Doesn't that mean that area damage scales better than projectile damage? It not showing up correctly on the tooltip makes this impossible for me to test myself. Is %projectile damage / %area damage / %chaos damage / %damage over time all truly equal for increasing my cloud dps?

Yes, 1:1 their impact is the same.

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klaymored wrote:

but how do people skim through Normal difficulty in a couple of hours?

RaizQT goes through how to power-level in this video (he also has a similar video where he doesn't start out from scratch, using a few uniques to help out).

Flame totem + firestorm is the way to go.

I'm nowhere near as fast as RaizQT, but applying his techniques I can get through normal in a couple of hours.

Edit: Fixed URL.

Edit 2: Speed leveling is all about the chicken, LOL.

Your URL is broken there buddy.

But cheers in advance for when you repair it.

=)

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Serleth wrote:

Your URL is broken there buddy. =)

I'm bad at teh Interwebs :-(

And.. Fixed!