[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

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Serleth wrote:

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Absolutis wrote:

Thought i'd record my progress here a tad, though i'm only level 66.

Found a bino's from merci dominus, which might have helped me a tad. currently have about 250/30 MF with the culling setup, though i'm considering swapping out my chest for something like cherrubims, CJ, hyrris since -6 ms is painful. Jewelry has quite a bit of room for improvement too.

You haven't shown your flasks but dual quicksilvers might help with the MS if you wanted to keep Greeds.

Yeah, might be a decent idea. Have a cherrubim's too that i'm ready to switch to once i get around mastercrafting some resistances on my jewelry and bow.

hey Chronodroid and Serleth,

thanks, i would take ure advice, currently i am at 4k hp, dying to insanely rippy vaal map mods. i guess i am too yolo.

I would look for a better boots and helm then! well i guess i will gear towards a lightning coil set too, this is my first MF build, and i got to say i am loving it and i cant go back to low iir anymore =], i can do 13-14 moderate mods i guess t15 i shall leave it aside.

Thanks for the advice again! i might drop my gold ring for more life if i go up then! for now i guess grinding 7-12 maps rakes in the money.

have a nice day!

many thanks!

Hi guys !

This is the first season that i play this build and i just love it !!

I just have one question :
Is it worth to Alch the white maps , or is it better to chance/transmut it ?

Thanks for your answers ! (and sorry for my english :p)

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Brookizlol wrote:

Hi guys !

This is the first season that i play this build and i just love it !!

I just have one question :
Is it worth to Alch the white maps , or is it better to chance/transmut it ?

Thanks for your answers ! (and sorry for my english :p)

Blue 68-71
Blue / Yellow 72-74 (your discretion, if low on alcs just blue is fine).
Yellow 75+

So I am just comeing back to the gaame and was wondering if this build is updated to current version of game

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ALonardo wrote:

So I am just comeing back to the gaame and was wondering if this build is updated to current version of game

Yes, it is.

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Serleth wrote:

Blue 68-71

I've had good luck alching 68-71 as well. Since character MF is multiplicative with map rarity/quantity, it has seemed worthwhile to me to alch even the low level maps. And on low level maps, you will usually have just under 6 portals worth of rares to examine/shard when you alch, but much less when you don't.

I haven't actually kept track of drops though to be sure I'm recovering the cost of the alch when I go this route, but it seems like I do.

Have you kept track Serleth?

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Serleth wrote:

You should hit about 4.5k or so if you swapped to a regular rare gold amulet.

I see what you mean now, will see what can be done here.

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Serleth wrote:

Move Mind Drinker out for Soul Siphon. This build does not leech mana.

sorry forgot to mention I use those nodes only because I have socketed unique jewel there. I find the clear speed gained for this far outweighs anything. Stealing turbo speed, 1K HP, free LMP aoe, crazy slow auras, not to mention ANY nemesis mod is killer.


I play this game for fun, and this gem is hella fun :) Sometimes I can stack up 4-5 mods at a time. Was spinning merc tidal island the other day for div cards and I had 8 up at 1 point.

I only wish I could afford a headhunter :)

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Serleth wrote:

Also, pretty sure I saw you in a rotation today. Good to see you again =)

Puirlea! yes I have def seen you in rotas, didn't see the sig till you mentioned it :)

Thanks for the info

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Gryphyn wrote:

sorry forgot to mention I use those nodes only because I have socketed unique jewel there. I find the clear speed gained for this far outweighs anything. Stealing turbo speed, 1K HP, free LMP aoe, crazy slow auras, not to mention ANY nemesis mod is killer.

Ah I see. Well the clear speed is streaky off that, so for consistency and mana issues when you're running a 6L I wouldn't recommend it but I can see it being worthwhile for sure, having not tested it myself.

Also, just the sheer fun factor. =D

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hankinsohl wrote:

I haven't actually kept track of drops though to be sure I'm recovering the cost of the alch when I go this route, but it seems like I do.

Have you kept track Serleth?

As long as you're fine taking breaks to trade to recover it, yes, you can easily do this. I just try to minimize my time in trade chat.

Drops depending, average alts per portal runs between 3-6 alts. Alcs are 2.5:1 chaos, chaos is 14-15:1, meaning alcs are roughly 5.6-6 alts. So basically, worst case scenario, you recover the cost of the alc in two portals.

So, strictly speaking, you recover it.

Thanks to poe.trade's currency market it's a lot easier to just list currency for exchanges and let people come to you, minimizing the down-time from maps. I would have said before the .trade currency exchange it wasn't worth alching low level maps just because you'd be spending a LOT of mapping time in trade chat spamming your currency exchanges, but now... it's probably fine to get away with it.

In terms of DROPS however, not worth it to alc anything less than 72.

Ilvl 72 is where the T2 resistance roll begins, and ilvl 73 where a lot of the good offensive affixes become available.

Ultimately, I leave it to player discretion at this point but imho it's more worthwhile to save the alcs for when you can increase your profit by dropping better rolled items in 72+ maps to list in your shop.

Ty for puting this guide here, I plan a different tree based on yours. The stats are good but I lack some more jewel sockets (has only 3).

Using 116 points for level 95, helping normal oak and grabing the frenzy from merciless bandit, the defensive stats are:

182% increased life
5% life regen
47% increased mana
80% mana regen
169% evasion
90% armor
(134 str and 113 int)

Damage stats:

201% chaos damage
169% damage over time
95% projectile damage
(465% total)



Pretty tanky and decent damage, but only 3 jewels could be bad, I really don't know. What do you think?