Elemental Gas Arrow Poison Pathfinder [Tanky / Bossing / Simu / Mapping / All Content Viable] 0.1.1c
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Are you igniting gas arrow somehow with this build? I would have though most of the damage would come from igniting it.
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" Nope, this is a pure poison build. We use Gas Arrow to ramp to max poison stacks, that’s about it. |
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Awesome. Just switched my passive tree to match the PoB and it’s working great. I didn’t think you could deal this much damage without blowing up the gas clouds. Thanks again!
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For what it's worth if you did want to blow up the gas clouds you would just take burning inscription on Despair, that makes it an auto detonator. The way the build is constructed that's not necessary and in most cases it's likely disadvantageous, but I did want to point out that it's always an option.
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I'm lvl 94 so there's some points in dmg on this tree that I haven't gotten yet, but this is what I'm working with currently
https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/sv82u05q added more evasion for less little hits, I'd removed it as I added more ES but I don't want to lose the balance. especially trying to do Simulacrum really makes it hard to ignore. | |
" One thing I am not understanding is why replace 2x jewels with bonus to quiver to get you to the 100 breakpoint? Is there something that shows in POB that makes that worth it because my testing in-game is thats a DPS loss everytime. 2x bonus quiver + psn magntiude gives a lot more damage than 2 more double magnitude/faster jewels since you are getting an extra +skill to GA and more to your bonus dmg/flat dmg on it Last edited by suchacrisis#2704 on Feb 9, 2025, 12:51:21 PM
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I just don't have +quiver jewels. I only recently swapped to using elemental damage and before that increasing quiver effect wasn't as valuable for me. I also admittedly didn't realize the value of +quiver when I bought my jewels, at this point my jewels are the gear I've had the longest by far.
Def my next upgrade area and I'll be looking for +quiver wherever possible now, at least to hit 100. Thanks for the advice! Been clearing citadel I'd saved and selling extra fragments so I should be able to afford a few. Last edited by Vari#0223 on Feb 9, 2025, 3:35:38 PM
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" If you have +2 proj, the breakpoint becomes 50% for extra levels. Besides, it becomes pretty hard to justify the mana cost above level 29, which is were my Gas Arrow is at. Not sure how quiver bonuses scale with less investment, but I can for sure tell you that double magnitude / deals damage faster are better than any quiver bonus for me. This is for sure a breakpoint that scales with whether you have +2 or +1 on your quiver though. My total poison effect is like 7.xx times, so deal damage faster becomes the best scaling stat by far. When I divined my jewels, even if I had perfect 15/15 magnitudes but only 5% or 6% faster, I’d roll again. 7% faster is that valuable. PoB also isn’t perfect right now, it’s still quite buggy and broken for PoE2, so treat it with caution. Last edited by cricrusic#5718 on Feb 10, 2025, 7:49:29 AM
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I was able to find jewels with quiver and faster, I only needed 20 more quiver % to hit the next breakpoint so I didn't need to prioritize that Stat being perfect, and pob and the game seem to agree it was worth the change. I'll post the pob with the new jewels and a new bow later.
I'm also at the point where faster dmg does far more than anything. There's a node I took around the timeless jewel that's worthless to me except for the timeless giving it faster ailment dmg, and it's better than any other node I can reach due to that. I'm not quite at divining for each % but it's not irrational if I had a bit more resources. I've got a good amount of mana on kill, a bit less with my new bow than my old but the extra quiver% are helping. That keeps me fine during maps and for bosses I need to flask anyway so the difference of a little bit more mana doesn't feel bad. My gas arrow is lvl 30 at this point, I still have the other jewels if it turns out this isn't for the best haha, but so far it feels great. Last edited by Vari#0223 on Feb 10, 2025, 10:10:30 AM
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" Thinking back on this and my own quiver, I actually think you’re right but it’s not the level of projectile skills or flat that’s making the difference. It’s the damage with bow skills prefix. If you have a near max roll for this, I can see quiver bonuses becoming utterly insane. Maybe it’s time for me to upgrade my quiver Now, imagine you combine that with a % increased damage corrupt implicit / enchant on your quiver… Madness Last edited by cricrusic#5718 on Feb 10, 2025, 10:41:36 AM
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