[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

Question about shadow tree: how does it get the 100% piercing? since im gonna be use IIR gem instead of pierce gem, should i subsitute out rapid decay for pierce? my pierce shows 10% only

Bit off topic, but anyone give any thoughts on what to re-gear to push DPS once you've amassed your wealth? The tree is very solid so doesn't really need any tweaking. I'm thinking something along the lines of:

* Winds of Change gloves & Brinerot Whalers boots for up to 90% projectile damage
* 2x Doedre's Damning for triple curse + 6L chest with CoH vuln, temp chains, enfeeble + Doedre's Scorn for 60% increased damage.

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Piros wrote:

Finally managed to craft the super-bow

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Kinda nerve-wracking throwing around currency like that... but nice to see the end result... only took me 85 regals to get the +2 bow gems mod

Now my tooltip reads 17.7k in hideout with just the golem, 22.7k with golem + blood rage + 7x frenzy charges, 23.25k when you add the 4 second dmg buff for killing a cursed mob... only thing I think left to do is 21/20 CA instead of 21/0, Empower 4 instead of 3, and maybe a few minor quality gems... but I have most capped already... now I need to upgrade armor a bit...

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Piros, I went with a corrupt Drillneck with another additional arrow rather than the 21/20 CA gem. You can make one reasonably easily by buying drillnecks, corrupting them, and re-selling them for most of your investment if you don't get the +1 arrow corruption. Supposed to be about a 1 in 25 chance.

Running with 3 arrows instead of two makes it much easier to thread clouds among trees, boulders, etc - and of course, it generates a larger AoE as well.

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Statusblue wrote:

Question about shadow tree: how does it get the 100% piercing? since im gonna be use IIR gem instead of pierce gem, should i subsitute out rapid decay for pierce? my pierce shows 10% only

You don't get 100% unless you go Scion. OTOH, you still get to use Chain on your frenzy / coh setup. I'd still use RD over pierce - larger pierce chance is nice to have, but the raw damage output is even nicer.

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Statusblue wrote:

Question about shadow tree: how does it get the 100% piercing? since im gonna be use IIR gem instead of pierce gem, should i subsitute out rapid decay for pierce? my pierce shows 10% only

Don't worry about 100% pierce. Shadow makes up the damage elsewhere. You'll have 10% from Drillneck, 40% from Piercing Shots and, if you choose, an additional 15% from Poacher's Aim. Get high enough level and you can take the right-side of the PS cluster to bring your pierce range up to 60-75%.

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@serleth: I play on an SSD, dunno if that affects frame time much or just load screens... my avg frame ms is 17... on loading zone its 150-175ms... vaal zones spike 210-270ms... no noticeable spike for masters unless they're the 175s

Ah yeah, SSD has an impact on frame time. I'm on a regular HD so my spikes clear 1500 for vaal zones, very noticeable difference.

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Bit off topic, but anyone give any thoughts on what to re-gear to push DPS once you've amassed your wealth? The tree is very solid so doesn't really need any tweaking. I'm thinking something along the lines of:

* Winds of Change gloves & Brinerot Whalers boots for up to 90% projectile damage
* 2x Doedre's Damning for triple curse + 6L chest with CoH vuln, temp chains, enfeeble + Doedre's Scorn for 60% increased damage.

That's one way to do it, if you really want to maximize your dps.

Hidden potential, getting jewels with at least 1 damage + life + resistance (can get expensive).

20-25% damage per magic item equipped.

If you get six jewels with 9% ele res each, that's 54/135% of your resistances covered.

That leaves you with 81% to cover off, with the helmet, chest, ring, ring, amulet, belt, gloves, and boot slots available. That's 8 slots.

All you need is (40-41% resistance * 2 per resistance), with three resistances (6 affixes total), it'll only take up six slots to cover off the last of your res. And obviously you can use resistance rings for your base to make it easier.

Meaning you have 8 magic items with 20-25% damage increase per, putting you at 160-200% increased damage.

Now compare that to your 90% + 60% = 150% increased damage for your Winds/Brinerot/Deodre's setup (perfect rolls), and look at how much life that you're losing. Brinerot has no life, Deodre items all have no life, and that's three slots right there without life rolls. With Hidden Potential, you can still get life on all slots.

Now you're probably thinking, "but then my boots won't have MS!"

Okay, so use rare boots. That's 7 items, meaning that you need a 21.571428% Hidden Potential roll in order to beat your Doedre setup for raw increased damage.

Now of course, I'm talking STRICTLY in terms of dps here, because you also have to factor in the Enfeeble/Temp Chains combo for defense, which makes up for the loss of life via debuff. But the curse setup also REQUIRES a 6L chest.

Anyway, just thought I'd put that out there to show you what your other option is. Playstyle preference is the real key in terms of the decision you make.

Honestly, I hadn't even considered looking at Hidden Potential - thanks for pointing it out! Missed out last league when it looks like it was one of the top ways to build for CA. Might have to start collecting ilvl 84 pieces to roll for life/resist.

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gastank wrote:

Honestly, I hadn't even considered looking at Hidden Potential - thanks for pointing it out! Missed out last league when it looks like it was one of the top ways to build for CA. Might have to start collecting ilvl 84 pieces to roll for life/resist.

You're welcome =)

But just a heads up, you only really need ilvl 72 for the T2 res roll (42-45) and ilvl 73 for the T2 body armour life roll (100-109). Gloves, helmet, boots, accessories all have sub-73 ivl requirements for their maximum available life roll.

Given that you'll only need a 40-41% roll on any given piece of gear for resistance, you should only concern yourself with a higher ilvl chestpiece. Ilvl 81 is the requirement for the T1 life roll.

So unless you're really keen on maximizing your res rolls for ele weakness maps, you can save yourself some coin by just farming ilvl 73 gloves, helmet, boots, rings, and amulet, and an 81 chest piece.

Remember as well:

Your boots are probable to be rare MS boots (where you can get dual or tri res), and you can roll your gloves, amulet and helmet first, and that way you'll know what type of ring you'll want to work with to cover off missing resistances.

So say you get good lighting res on your amulet and gloves, you can use a Ruby and Sapphire ring to help with your Fire/Cold res and then roll for whatever else to balance it.

hey guys I need help! can someone please check my gear and passive if what do I need to do to improve my dps my current Caustic Arrow dps is that the image below (buff active: clarity, grace, purity of elements + fire golem). And what dps range were supposed to be aiming with this build?

my current are:





PASSIVE:

https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAABAABeAO4DHgUtBbUIZw5IES8TbRQJFHUVIBa_GNsZjhm0H0EhwyP2JogmlSpNKlsrCizpLYMtqC4jMHw1kjY9PydDMUd-SshNklFHUuxX4VuvXfJh4mKsZU1qjGyMbmluqnTtdct2gntue8N9dYJeguSDCYazhweKr419jX6Nv5ARkNaTmZchnaqhIqLZo4qw2LGQtMW00bVItfK3MLe2t9a7nrvjvTa-gL6nvrzBfMLsxKLIDMgU037V-Ni92sHbWd0N4q3qYutj7YPuDu969Pj1b_aj-WX-ug==

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glocknine wrote:

hey guys I need help! can someone please check my gear and passive if what do I need to do to improve my dps my current Caustic Arrow dps is that the image below (buff active: clarity, grace, purity of elements + fire golem). And what dps range were supposed to be aiming with this build?

my current are:

PASSIVE:

https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAABAABeAO4DHgUtBbUIZw5IES8TbRQJFHUVIBa_GNsZjhm0H0EhwyP2JogmlSpNKlsrCizpLYMtqC4jMHw1kjY9PydDMUd-SshNklFHUuxX4VuvXfJh4mKsZU1qjGyMbmluqnTtdct2gntue8N9dYJeguSDCYazhweKr419jX6Nv5ARkNaTmZchnaqhIqLZo4qw2LGQtMW00bVItfK3MLe2t9a7nrvjvTa-gL6nvrzBfMLsxKLIDMgU037V-Ni92sHbWd0N4q3qYutj7YPuDu969Pj1b_aj-WX-ug==

When you switch from your leveling gem combo to CA, you need to respec all those passive points you've spent that go up from the Scion node. That will give you 11 more nodes towards the final tree, which should boost your dps a fair bit.

Also, I'm not sure I'd be using Empower in a 5L with only +2 to bow gems. I'd likely re-chrome to use Rapid Decay until I had a bow with +2+1. OTOH, I'm not 100% this would boost damage, so check it first!

Unless you've filled up with 2xdamage or damage+life jewels already, you can also spec out of the 18% resist nodes to the south of the starting point and take the other route for projectile damage.

Single damage + double resist affix jewels can be found fairly cheap, and they give you 10%+ damage and 40%+ combined resists at a cost of 2 or 3 nodes. They can also give you enough leeway to get helm & amulet with higher rarity & hp but lower resists.