[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

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EFazzaD wrote:

A question of who is uninformed: the build name is caustic arrow, but the guide says only to use poison arrow. Why?

Thanks!

I'm on the way out the door so I'll answer the other questions when I get back, but I just haven't gone through the guide and caught all the re-naming yet.

Whenever you see PA, it means CA, that's all.

Yeah sure, caustic arrow is dead, fuck it, dead build.

Oh wait, Dygnity killed Atziri in 19h15m WITH A FOUR-LINK.

:P

Build is fine.

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nerfed REALLY hard. was at 34K dps with full charges, now 16K.. time to sell the gear :( so sad

See above :P

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Faster casting, not increased duration?

Both, ideally, but FC takes priority. You want more stacks, faster, for the mobs that need to get Withered.

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Is the void manipulation a permanent replacement for increased area of effect? That's a lot of chromatic to spend on 6L to get the new coloring, so I wanted to make sure.

I'll edit the OP to clarify this.

Rapid Decay is fine, but Void Manipulation is the preference if you have the chromes spare to roll it. The reason is simple: min-maxing. Void Manipulation allows you to retain cloud duration.

Don't worry about rechroming though until you literally have too many chromes that you don't know what to do with.

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essence drain is nice for leveling instead of flameball, kinda solves the single target problem :)

Yeah I'm finding that too.

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Serleth,
Would you kindly recommend the skill tree for the Scion class, please?

It's literally no different than the Ranger build, other than you start from Scion. The pathing is identical. It gives you the option though to grab the Scion AoE nodes.

how would you sustain your hp with this?
just flasks?

Yeah,

I don't even have Vulnerability, and between CA in a +2 Bow and Essence Drain + Wither to help out with single targets, I'm not having a problem A2M.

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D4matricks wrote:

how would you sustain your hp with this?
just flasks?

Yes. And 5% life regen.

ah. what is your link for essence drain then?
I noticed its really hard to take down rares with caustic at the moment. Maybe this can solve the problem

Void Manipuilation + Rapid Decay + Controlled Destruction.

Nvm, thinking it over and re looking at the build, it does very well fit perfectly into the build.

As for leveling, im finding just using split arrow and caustic arrow pretty effective, as well as siege ballista, but i guess its not the hyper speed leveling people love.

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Serleth wrote:

Yeah,

I don't even have Vulnerability, and between CA in a +2 Bow and Essence Drain + Wither to help out with single targets, I'm not having a problem A2M.

I'm a lazy person, so I'm still trying to figure out an auto-use of the Wither (and ED now you mentioned it). Tried out Frenzy + CoCS + Wither never seen it happens and then I checked to see that I only have a %6 chance of crit (and then %50 chance of cast) that's a VERY long shot (duh). So I'll continue my "quest" of finding a lazy setup to use as less buttons as possible.
Any input from your side will be much appreciated.

You might be able to get away with a Cast when Stunned - Essence Drain, but there's absolutely no way you want to trigger-cast Wither because of its nature.

Compared to Vulnerability which is just one-and-done 33% increased damage taken, Wither's potency comes from it's ability to stack bursts of 7% in short order. You just can't achieve a high enough stack value through triggers.

You may consider trying it in a spell totem, to retain your mobility rather than being stuck standing, even though the cast time is relatively low. That's about as close to autocasting it as you want to get.