[3.25] Scourge Arrow Poison Prolif Pathfinder - Fast, tanky, fun to play

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Aardvarking wrote:

Love your guide, man. Easily got myself into the 80s with only a few slight variants in item usage/passives.

Curious though- In your PoB you have Coralito's. Why do you also take Perfect Agony on the passive tree? It seems like I have pretty close to full uptime on that flask when I am clearing.

Thanks!

Well, that actually isnt perfect agony, it is Wild Dancer keystone, but PoB do not supports Timeless jewels yet.

So now (after double checking the recorded video quality) I actually added some gameplay preview here:

https://streamable.com/qrsk7

It's corrupted Crystal Ore, nothing special really. But, clearing legion is now quite enjoyable, I think, with prolif.

Can you add a uber elder video as well? or just shaper?

Which map mods are off-limits with this build?

i have a char with similar playstyle, doomherald scion, but i hate the elemental damage and love poison effects, especially proliferating ones, so this build looks perfect :) ed/cont with bow mechanics sounds great

i tend to struggle with squishyness around map tier 3-5 with my builds, since i play ssf and because i am generally not good at the game, so how survivable does the build feel for legion obelisks, progressing through maps and delving?

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GLADIATORGR wrote:

Can you add a uber elder video as well? or just shaper?

Yeah, I will try to add at least Shaper this weekend if I will have some time, I dont think I will be able to also spawn Uber Elder atm.

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dragomob wrote:

Which map mods are off-limits with this build?

i have a char with similar playstyle, doomherald scion, but i hate the elemental damage and love poison effects, especially proliferating ones, so this build looks perfect :) ed/cont with bow mechanics sounds great

i tend to struggle with squishyness around map tier 3-5 with my builds, since i play ssf and because i am generally not good at the game, so how survivable does the build feel for legion obelisks, progressing through maps and delving?

Hmm, I dont think there is any mod that I can't run with this build. With rings, my SA costs 2 mana atm (I need to upgrade the rolls to make it go down to 0 mana) so I dont really care about no leech or no regen maps (for life and no leech I always have life flask on pathfinder and some regen, so I can just run around with blood rage anyway). Phys reflect doesnt matter at all too, 95% of my phys damage is converted to chaos, and rest is doing no damage. I just alch and corrupt all maps without even looking at them, and it was always fine. Vulnerability and Ele Weakness maps hurts a bit, because I dont run curse immunity. I think the worst mod combination I had so far was Ele Weakness and Temp Chains (or at least most troublesome for the build).

For bosses at least, the build feels very tanky because of the 40% damage reduction if you werent hit recently, and you dont really get hit that often at bosses anyway. For mapping, without boots with Stun lab enchant you can sometimes just randomly die (or without Brine King), but otherwise I did not really had any issues.

Very often I have to just run straight through monsters because poison didnt killed them yet, that is a bit dangerous (mostly when you open monolith) but usually my dodge and evasion just carries me and I do not even take damage, but sometimes I just die from it, that can be avoided if you play a bit safer than me.

For delving, again, poison build, so I sometimes just have to run through stuff that is alive, but with poison prolif chaining the monsters around just die so its less of an issue with delve, because of density.

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thedeathbeam wrote:

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sounds great, thank you!

edit: what would you say are the advantages/ disadvantages of this build compared to your viper strike prolif one?

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dragomob wrote:

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thedeathbeam wrote:

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sounds great, thank you!

edit: what would you say are the advantages/ disadvantages of this build compared to your viper strike prolif one?

Well the difference is that this one is ranged, what is generally way safer to play, even though the viper strike one is probably more tanky.

Also, this one is applying strong short-lasting poisons, and the viper strike one is applying weaker very long lasting poisons. So Viper Strike has longer ramp up compared to this build, but also way higher damage potential when fully ramped up (atm it sadly takes like 18 seconds to fully ramp up there, in this build 4 seconds).

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thedeathbeam wrote:

Also, this one is applying strong short-lasting poisons, and the viper strike one is applying weaker very long lasting poisons. So Viper Strike has longer ramp up compared to this build, but also way higher damage potential when fully ramped up (atm it sadly takes like 18 seconds to fully ramp up there, in this build 4 seconds).

which one do you prefer? or rather which one would be best for doing all content safely if speed isn't the biggest concern?

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dragomob wrote:

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thedeathbeam wrote:

Also, this one is applying strong short-lasting poisons, and the viper strike one is applying weaker very long lasting poisons. So Viper Strike has longer ramp up compared to this build, but also way higher damage potential when fully ramped up (atm it sadly takes like 18 seconds to fully ramp up there, in this build 4 seconds).

which one do you prefer? or rather which one would be best for doing all content safely if speed isn't the biggest concern?

Scourge Arrow. Current char I am playing atm was actually originally Viper Strike char (from my other build), but, honestly, I dont enjoy playing melee nearly as much as I enjoy bows, in both safety and smoothness, so I just changed the tree slightly and started this build.

thank you very much for answering my questions and, of course, for the build!
going to level it now :)