[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)
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Hey Serleth, massive props to you for keeping this thread alive for so long and helping people where you can.
Been playing the build for roughly 3 days now and it's going great! It would be cool if you could give me some advice though. I'm at: +125% IIR +2 5L Bow (PA - void manip. - rapid decay - conc eff - AoE) Drillneck Capped res / 2.8k Life I'm curious to which of these options would be the largest power spike at this point and it would be awesome if I could get your opinion: get andvarius rings and tweak the gear for capped res again drop a gem in my current bow and pick up empower get a 6L +3 bow (leaning away from this option because budget isn't THAT high, which is why carcass jack isn't here, lol) keep up the good work ser, appreciate it :) |
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" You have roughly I think it's a 20% chance of getting a resistance (factoring in all tiers of all affixes available). And no, you wouldn't be able to remove it. Just mastercraft the second resistance. You already have a very high lit res roll, which is better than you'd get by self-crafting a dual resistance bow. " Gear progression spoiler covers this basically. But based on what you've said, I'd go: Goldwyrm > Andvarius > 6L +3 bow > second Andy. More MF = more currency = faster 6L = faster clear speed = faster second Andvarius. Jul 27, 2011 - Sept 30, 2018.
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" Wouldn't it be better (damage wise) to mastercraft Leo DOT on it first? And when you don't care Ex it and hope for res? |
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" Not necessarily. If you need the second resistance in order to run Carcass Jack, you'll gain the AoE + AoE damage from the chest-swap. Regardless, I was speaking strictly in terms of res balance, but yes you obviously have a point. If it were me, however, I'd save that exalt to craft my own bow from scratch. Jul 27, 2011 - Sept 30, 2018.
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Hey, i got some questions about your passive trees. I noticed the standard tree tree with acrobats doesnt get Method to the Madness, but the Iron Reflexes one does. Those nodes seem pretty good to me, any reason you didnt include them in the stadard build ?
Oh and what bow would be better: +3/4l or +2/5l ? Last edited by gexstar#1520 on Feb 17, 2016, 4:30:00 PM
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" Presuming AoE is your fifth gem, you'd want the 5L just for area coverage which = clear speed. But really if you're willing to stand around and fire more arrows, maybe you'd prefer more damage. For my money, AoE wins. For your other question, Iron Reflexes takes the points that would otherwise be invested going along the outside to Acrobatics to get Method. Acro's tree optimization requires the outside pathing, which makes taking Method a waste of points compared to other options available. IR's pathing is more efficient to cut straight to Shadow, so it's point-for-point worthwhile to get that instead of the extra jewel socket to the left of Scion. Just min-max stuff, basically. Jul 27, 2011 - Sept 30, 2018.
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Thanks for the quick answer! Generally speaking, which build do you think is better ? IR or Acro ? I'm leveling a ranger, so i thought of going acrobatics. Which one are you using?
Last edited by gexstar#1520 on Feb 17, 2016, 6:40:00 PM
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Acro's better IMO. And given that something like 30% of characters in the top 15,000 of Talisman are using Acrobatics... can't be bad. ;)
Jul 27, 2011 - Sept 30, 2018.
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Sounds reasonable, lol. Thanks!
I noticed that you got very different sockets in the bow of your gear section than in the link section. I guess the sockets in the bow are the old ones and the new sockets are with void and rapid decay ? Was a little bit confusing. And Chaos damage on amulet is quite nice, if you need a damage boost. You loose 20% IIR for 30% chaos damage. Hard to find a talisman with good other stats though. Last edited by gexstar#1520 on Feb 17, 2016, 10:17:34 PM
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" Yeah, I personally never check the linked gear for sockets, always the "gem links" spoilers whenever I'm cruising other people's guide threads. Precisely for that reason: gear changes, gear gets out of date, the player's levelling spare gems in other sockets, blah blah etc. I wouldn't bother with a talisman for this build unless you managed to get a well-rolled Spinefuse (IIQ base) but, that's a T3 talisman. So if you wanted to guarantee a *chance* at it, you would need 125 rare T1 talis, then pray you hit spinefuse on the T3 attempt. That's a lonnnnnnnnnnngggggggg-term project for a Standard character, maybe. EDIT: I relinked the bow in the OP anyway to avoid confusion later. Jul 27, 2011 - Sept 30, 2018. Last edited by Serleth#4392 on Feb 17, 2016, 10:55:54 PM
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