[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

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ichbinwerichbi wrote:

What build will you do for the beginning hank ?.

I'm going Elementalist, Whispering Ice - I'll initially level as dual flameblast totems until I get a Whispering Ice. Zizran has a really nice starter build guide for dual flameblast totems and covers both templar and witch starts - probably this is the strongest/fastest option for leveling until you get a WI, at which point you respec.

I might stick with WI for the entire league depending on how good clear speed is. It's a very strong build, very tanky and is capable of all content, and clear speed should be decent to good. But I'm going to try to push 40/40 so if HoWA has better clear speed (it almost certainly will) I'll roll HoWA as a 2nd toon.

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hankinsohl wrote:

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ichbinwerichbi wrote:

What build will you do for the beginning hank ?.

I'm going Elementalist, Whispering Ice - I'll initially level as dual flameblast totems until I get a Whispering Ice. Zizran has a really nice starter build guide for dual flameblast totems and covers both templar and witch starts - probably this is the strongest/fastest option for leveling until you get a WI, at which point you respec.

I might stick with WI for the entire league depending on how good clear speed is. It's a very strong build, very tanky and is capable of all content, and clear speed should be decent to good. But I'm going to try to push 40/40 so if HoWA has better clear speed (it almost certainly will) I'll roll HoWA as a 2nd toon.

ok. Totems as mines are not my playstyle. So i will use the lvl tree from the wispering guy. Since that is the last howa season, ggg will nerf them in 3.0 i see it as you that the claws will be verry expensive. What i also tried was double scourge and i loved the wolfs.
But we will see. As wsp ice is getting as prophecy i think it will be verry cheap.

Dear Serleth

Sorry for asking here. But I was ask on Ancestral Warchief forum and no body answer Me.

Before I was play Your build. Now I play AW + starforge.

I was add to build ring(ming's heart: convert phisical to chaos), put poison gem but when I check dmg no change. Can sombody explain Me why or How to calculate now dmg. How this poison support gem working(mechanics)

This is like wiht befor concentrate effect?

For any explainainons will be gratefull.

Poison won't change your tooltip. It's an indirect damage.

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Poison

"The base damage per second dealt by a given application of poison equals 8% of the combined physical and chaos damage dealt by the hit which applied that particular instance of poison."

So let's say you deal 1,000 damage on a hit.

Your base poison DoT for that singular hit will be 80 over two seconds. Then it gets modified by applicable modifiers.

So let's say you have a total of 100% increased damage between DoT, Area Damage and Poison Damage. That means you will deal 160 poison DoT over two seconds.

@hank

Hi Hank THANKYOU so much for your hint for the build

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ichbinwerichbi wrote:

@hank

Hi Hank THANKYOU so much for your hint for the build

Spoiler

I had never such a smooth lvl experience like with your icestorm build
Its extrem strong AND i can lvl with es from 39 on. I was NEVER such fust in lvl
and made yesterday a full key run in normal lab with lvl 48 and did not die. thats
never happend bevor. And an know know why some "shitty uniques" was created. I love
ictomb and shavronnes pace now really much. will see how it works in merciless but
til now i am verry impressed. Thanks. I never had tried such a build myself. Awesome

I'm glad it's working out so well for you.

I have to say this is by far the cheapest +3 bow I ever got in a league



Bought the relic for 4c and the prophecy for 2c

I got one too. Think it's ok to lvl with caustic arrow from 36 with it?

I'd wait until about level 50, but with a +3 that early you could definitely give it a try if you wanted to.

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Serleth wrote:

I'd wait until about level 50, but with a +3 that early you could definitely give it a try if you wanted to.

I leveled from level 4 as caustic arrow and I found it actually very smooth in legacy league. Maybe it was the AoE change, or perhaps something else, but this is the most powerful I've ever felt as a low level caustic arrow user.

It was definitely slower going than a dedicated leveling build, but once I got into my 30s it was a very nice play style that started to resemble endgame (2 quicksilver flasks, drop a cloud on the run and let it do its thing. No waiting around).

It was pretty safe too, as I would either kite bosses and packs in a circle around a cloud, or I would just stay on the run to avoid them altogether. My only deaths were due to me falling asleep mid-strongbox after being awake for so long at league start :P

I can see the issue with trying to do this in HC, as I pumped every passive point into damage nodes for my first 60 levels just to help me level quicker (race style). Only in my 60/70s have I now started to take the life clusters to help start with mapping.