[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

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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Other than that there's the outdated Sandbox affix page on the wiki.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.

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

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

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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.