[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

Basically what Jadran said (thanks buddy).

Just for clarity, I want to add that while you want pure evasion if you can, any evasion hybrid is fine, and pure armour if you absolutely have to.

Avoid pure ES.

I've edited the relevant gear spoilers for clarity, since the gear that is linked there is more to provide an example of the TYPE of affix rolls you're looking for, not the base type.

Also, welcome to the thread =)

May you please soon add tree for leveling untill CA (based on your skill u prefere to lvl) and may be tree after we go from ranger, what is the next goal to achive (phase acrobatics i guess as smn already mentioned and mb scion life passives or Increased skill effect durration). Skill effect duration affects CA dot, right?


Btw, what do u think about idea to go traps for leveling? Its not so far away from our main tree.
Update: with traps need alot points to respec, didnt expect too many

We are 1%!


p.s. based on redditors 1322 persones atm. It seems that prolif elementalist looks like new meta

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omgree wrote:

We are 1%!

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p.s. based on redditors 1322 persones atm. It seems that prolif elementalist looks like new meta

That includes myself! Cheers for the guide serleth

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omgree wrote:

May you please soon add tree for leveling untill CA (based on your skill u prefere to lvl) and may be tree after we go from ranger, what is the next goal to achive (phase acrobatics i guess as smn already mentioned and mb scion life passives or Increased skill effect durration). Skill effect duration affects CA dot, right?


Btw, what do u think about idea to go traps for leveling? Its not so far away from our main tree.
Update: with traps need alot points to respec, didnt expect too many

Sorry, no. I do a bunch of crazy stuff that isn't in the guide because I have a very particular way I prefer to do things.

And whenever I post my own method (which, for the record, isn't any better than what I have posted as the leveling guide, it's just different), I get 74893274892 questions about why I'm doing it that way, not the least of which "HOW COME YOUR PROCESS IS DIFFERENT FROM THE GUIDE'S PROCESS?!?!?! WTF WHICH ONE DO I FOLLOW?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? BARBECUED STEAK?!?!"

But seriously, so many people get confused whenever I post my own nitpicky way of doing things, that it's just better if I don't.

Going traps is totally acceptable to level, but it's best done if you're doing a Shadow tree. Harder to pull off from Scion, but completely doable.

Duration does not affect CA damage. It does affect the cloud's duration, but we don't need extra duration for it.

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It seems that prolif elementalist looks like new meta

I'm not surprised by this AT ALL. Flameblast was HUGELY popular when Elemental Prolif was actually worthwhile, so now that its radius has been buffed +4, everyone wants to try it again.

Hell, even I'm going to do it as my second build, to see if I can revive my old FB MF style.

Hey Serleth, thanks for all your work.

Has the discussion been had already about what adding 2 Ascendancy points does to class selection? It seeems the added 2 points as a Scion is underwhelming compared to some of the other options, or do you disagree with that?

Does endgame lab and those two extra points cause us all to rehash the seemingly best SC choice for this class being Scion?

Hoping for some input, I plan to start the new league with this build and want to pick your brain on that.

Thanks!

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dday_0612 wrote:

Has the discussion been had already about what adding 2 Ascendancy points does to class selection? It seeems the added 2 points as a Scion is underwhelming compared to some of the other options, or do you disagree with that?

Does endgame lab and those two extra points cause us all to rehash the seemingly best SC choice for this class being Scion?

Currently the build is still best with Scion. The Scion start is still strong for reaching all the desired nodes on the tree. But more importantly the Ascendant with Occultist/Deadeye is absurd for the damage output of Caustic Arrow, even with the -20% pierce compared to the 2.2 ascendancy tree.

The two extra points for the Ascendant allow the build to gain an extra 4 passive points (three we can spec out of traveling, and +1 from the Ascendant directly) to use for damage, life, defense, or an additional jewel socket.

As far as a direct comparison between an 8 point Occultist/Deadeye and any of the other 8 point ascendancy classes, I do not think those have been done. However Serleth did say work was going to happen on the trees again now that we are getting close to league start. And I assume a statement about changing classes would have been mentioned by now.

By the way, does Ascendant's Occultist skill (-15% chaos res for cursed enemies and +20% chaos dmg on cursed kill) work with Wither? And does cursing - with, for example, Temporal Chains - disable Wither bonus chaos dmg? I assume that answer for both questions is "no", since Wither is not technically a curse but a debuff...
But I don't see any curse gems in your guide. How do we get Occultist bonuses to work then?

Vulnerability is the curse for CA; it increases damage over time taken by cursed enemies.

I'm interested to see Serleth's (or anyone else's) take on the 2.3 passive tree. I'm sure I'm missing something, but I can't seem to figure out how you guys are saving that many passive nodes by using path of the ranger. I can save 2, but not sure how you guys are saving 3.

Hmm...