[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

In all honesty.

If you're building CI, go Occultist. You'll probably be lacking in Frenzy charges but it's just the better class for a CI setup. With something like this tree you'll end up with 515% damage and 234% ES, and 106 points spent (82). Take Arcane Focus for another four points and you'll end up with 275% + whatever you get on jewel sockets, which murders your dps output and even with the extra 4 jewel sockets @ 7% each on your other tree, that'd put you at 262%, or 13% behind an Occultist tree, and Occultist still has two more easily accessible jewels.

Only reason this build doesn't take CI is because of the balance I'm trying to go for. MF is largely geared towards newer or casual players in the current state of the game, and CI without a skill that can leech is just a lot harder to play for lesser skilled players. Going life allows you to just pop Seething flasks and bail out of most situations. CI without leech is a lot more mechanic heavy, especially with no stun mitigation.

So much new information. I dont get it. :-(

@serlet and hank

any new ideas for build for next leage? As i understand drillneck is
now garbage. Big problems with cloud because of conc effect and area changes.
I am lost a bit.

CA will be fine. Drillneck will still work if you want Pierce QoL, otherwise use Rigwald's Quills, grab the CA 40% dmg enchant, and it's fine. CA is now getting base radius increase every five levels so the AoE will be fine.

But if I remember you said you were only rolling one build this league.

If you want to do the high-end challenges like Shaper, Uber Atziri, end-game grinds, don't roll CA.

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Serleth wrote:

CA will be fine. Drillneck will still work if you want Pierce QoL, otherwise use Rigwald's Quills, grab the CA 40% dmg enchant, and it's fine. CA is now getting base radius increase every five levels so the AoE will be fine.

But if I remember you said you were only rolling one build this league.

If you want to do the high-end challenges like Shaper, Uber Atziri, end-game grinds, don't roll CA.

ok. Thanks for the answer.

Then agein a howa build? or is there a new meta :-)

Any thoughts on Cherrubim's Maleficence? They just cranked the chaos damage on it to 80%.

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Indy_the_Gore_Fang wrote:

Any thoughts on Cherrubim's Maleficence? They just cranked the chaos damage on it to 80%.

Leech increase is wasted on CA and having no resists will make capping those even more of a struggle. And with the AOE rework/nerf it's still kind of in the air how significant having a Carcass Jack would be in this build.

It's actually pretty annoying that they made Cherrubim's into arguably the best chaos chests but very suboptimal for actual chaos skills. God knows the [whatever skill] + Added Chaos + Void Manip double dipping meta needed another buff for its last league.

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ichbinwerichbi wrote:

Then agein a howa build? or is there a new meta :-)

Yeah, HoWA will be top build again.

So with the new patch, would it be better to craft a +5 bow instead of +3 with 30% DoT?

+1 all gem
+2 bow gem
+2 chaos gem

We can hit lvl 30 CA with this setup.

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godlyatheist wrote:

So with the new patch, would it be better to craft a +5 bow instead of +3 with 30% DoT?

+1 all gem
+2 bow gem
+2 chaos gem

We can hit lvl 30 CA with this setup.

Chaos gems are restricted to staves, wands and daggers. Can't get it on a bow.

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Serleth wrote:

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godlyatheist wrote:

So with the new patch, would it be better to craft a +5 bow instead of +3 with 30% DoT?

+1 all gem
+2 bow gem
+2 chaos gem

We can hit lvl 30 CA with this setup.

Chaos gems are restricted to staves, wands and daggers. Can't get it on a bow.

RIP, I didn't think it through. Path of Building says adding 2 gems level adds 15k dps, I can only dream. If only there was a way for ED to stack MF tho.