[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

Hey :)

don't worry about 'viability' all the time, this build does perfectly fine.

Either you are going to crash content on your own
or
you will be able to afford a service.

Reached 91 today and am still blasted.
Dropped close to every T1 this league alone, including the 'real' Shavs. Bought an Empower 4 and corrupted my new levelled gems, luckily the CA went to 21/20 and the VM got gutted.

Finished on both the unID uniques, the Divcard and the Vinktar Square Boss challenges. Missing Zana only =)



on 92 I get another jewel and on 94 the last possible for this build. Can focus on damage / life in both, res are capped. Somehow sales started to get good again since ppl are having time, selling multiple rares with mastercrafted life / res for few chaos.

Is pierce gem better than rapid decay/slower projectiles/empower3/void manipulation or it's just mistake of https://vmoddin.wordpress.com/poisonarrow? Seriously, all those gems I mentioned seems worse than pierce gem! Only VM is very close, but still worse (of course with Drillneck). Need to check it later myself :o

What do you think off "Bladefall" as an addition/replacement for this build? I tried it out with my Shadow to help pass normal, and it's pretty sold until now. I'm only using BF+ Spell totem + added chaos damage + faster casting. By that it fell in the same category and benefits from the chaos damage of your build. Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

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Gosen wrote:

Is pierce gem better than rapid decay/slower projectiles/empower3/void manipulation or it's just mistake of https://vmoddin.wordpress.com/poisonarrow? Seriously, all those gems I mentioned seems worse than pierce gem! Only VM is very close, but still worse (of course with Drillneck). Need to check it later myself :o

There's something strange you're doing with the CA calc if you're getting pierce to report a higher dps than VM/RD.

Pierce is only 35% increased (assuming you follow the guide as I've written it) compared to the "more" damage of either VM or RD.

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What do you think off "Bladefall" as an addition/replacement for this build? I tried it out with my Shadow to help pass normal, and it's pretty sold until now. I'm only using BF+ Spell totem + added chaos damage + faster casting. By that it fell in the same category and benefits from the chaos damage of your build. Any thoughts?

I have not used Bladefall yet.

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Hvakhshathra wrote:

What do you think off "Bladefall" as an addition/replacement for this build? I tried it out with my Shadow to help pass normal, and it's pretty sold until now. I'm only using BF+ Spell totem + added chaos damage + faster casting. By that it fell in the same category and benefits from the chaos damage of your build. Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

Bladefall is an extremely strong skill. I'm not sure it synergizes with CA though, as you'll need to dedicate a few gem slots currently used for other purposes in this build to use Bladefall.

If you want to use Bladefall on a 4-link I'd recommend: Spell Totem - Bladefall - Conc Effect - Controlled Destruction. Your AOE is probably fine so you can take the AOE hit from Conc Effect and you'll probably have higher DPS since both Conc Effect and Controlled Destruction provide "more" (multiplicative) damage; depending on your setup though, ST-BF-CE-AC might edge out the links I recommended above.

Edit: Added Chaos most likely won't be nearly as good as Added Fire, but Added Fire may be close to/better than Controlled Destruction.

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Serleth wrote:

This Rigwald ilvl 80 and rigwald unique item challenge crap is bullshit.

Lol.

Spoiler

jk, it is a GRINDING gear game after all

Speaking of bullshit,

I just bought this:


Basically 1ex down the toilet, LOL.

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Serleth wrote:

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Gosen wrote:

Is pierce gem better than rapid decay/slower projectiles/empower3/void manipulation or it's just mistake of https://vmoddin.wordpress.com/poisonarrow? Seriously, all those gems I mentioned seems worse than pierce gem! Only VM is very close, but still worse (of course with Drillneck). Need to check it later myself :o

There's something strange you're doing with the CA calc if you're getting pierce to report a higher dps than VM/RD.

Pierce is only 35% increased (assuming you follow the guide as I've written it) compared to the "more" damage of either VM or RD.

Of course it's strange, but it's not me, it's the calculator which is wrong as it counts much higher dps by just changing slower projectiles to pierce, in reality as I checked today the difference is indeed huge (even bigger), but for sp - not pierce.

Conc.effect on Caustic arrow didnt raise the chaos dmg per second, it's a bug of the tooltips ?

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hankinsohl wrote:

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Hvakhshathra wrote:

What do you think off "Bladefall" as an addition/replacement for this build? I tried it out with my Shadow to help pass normal, and it's pretty sold until now. I'm only using BF+ Spell totem + added chaos damage + faster casting. By that it fell in the same category and benefits from the chaos damage of your build. Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

Bladefall is an extremely strong skill. I'm not sure it synergizes with CA though, as you'll need to dedicate a few gem slots currently used for other purposes in this build to use Bladefall.

If you want to use Bladefall on a 4-link I'd recommend: Spell Totem - Bladefall - Conc Effect - Controlled Destruction. Your AOE is probably fine so you can take the AOE hit from Conc Effect and you'll probably have higher DPS since both Conc Effect and Controlled Destruction provide "more" (multiplicative) damage; depending on your setup though, ST-BF-CE-AC might edge out the links I recommended above.

Well, I should clarify here.

My earlier remark was directly in relation to the "replacement" portion of Hvak's question.

It's not a skill that should be used in addition to this build. It's a spell, and it's only modified by spell and area of effect modifiers.

As such, we aren't taking enough on the tree relevant to Bladefall to warrant so much as dropping Wither.

I'm levelling a BF gem now though to perhaps test as a replacement later on in the league.

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Conc.effect on Caustic arrow didnt raise the chaos dmg per second, it's a bug of the tooltips ?

Fourth paragraph of the OP.

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Of course it's strange, but it's not me, it's the calculator which is wrong as it counts much higher dps by just changing slower projectiles to pierce, in reality as I checked today the difference is indeed huge (even bigger), but for sp - not pierce.

I don't know what you're doing, but you're doing it wrong.



As you can see, Slower Proj beats Pierce, not only in practice, but in the calculator as well.

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hankinsohl wrote:

Speaking of bullshit...

Not sure if I'll go for 32/32 this league but if I do, I look forward to that bullshit as well lol.

RE Links for Bladefall

Added Chaos probably isn't nearly as strong as Added Fire; but Added Fire versus Controlled Destruction may be close.