[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

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Serleth wrote:

Depends entirely on how much time you have available to play. In order to fully gear this character with everything other than carcass jack, it takes about 68-75 hours of actual playtime to do (so, Drillneck, two Andvarius rings, Goldwyrm, +3 5L bow).

So if you can put in say 5-8 hour days, then yeah it's fine to roll it. But if you can only put in say 2 hour days, it'd take the entire month to gear.

Also depends on how significantly you want it built. Because you can do fine with even one Andvarius, Goldwyrm, Drillneck, and a 5L +2 bow.

So yeah. Just ask yourself how geared up you want it built, and how much time you have available to play, and go from there.

Without the second Andvarius ring and if you're willing to go with a +2 bow, probably takes roughly... 40-50 hours to gear? Ish?


The bare bones of the build (not really concerning yourself that much with MF), yeah, it's totally fine to roll. All you need to do really to get started is buy a white 5L bow, spend about 80 alterations to roll +2, and then you're set as far as the core DPS of the build goes. Everything else is just gravy.

Long story short it depends entirely on what you want out of it. As far as clearing maps effectively goes, with or without MF, yeah PA's super easy to gear, only costs about 10c. It's all the improvements that end up being expensive.

Hope that helps.

Thanks, looks like I will definitely try this out.

i know your formula is :

C = (1 + IIQ/100) * (1 + IIR/100)

but i was wonring, if we DO NOT PICK UP most of the yellow, only for the unid chaos/regal recipe
is getting mroe IIQ better than IIR? Or should I still apply thsi formula?! (EVEN is i dont pick up all good base yellow?)

basically do not want mroe rare (except for recipe) but more currency drop i guess? should getting mroe IIQ be better?

Still apply it, because it has a net impact on your total rare drops and THUS recipe parts.

It's likely that you'll end up wanting more IIQ anyway to increase the C value, since it's easier to scale IIR. So it'll work out for both aspects (recipe + raw currency).

Hi, thx for this awesome guide and sry for my english :D
I have some questions about gear, gems and jewels. When i farm lowtier maps (68-72(73)) i can switch my empower gem with iiq or this is inefficiently. Are jewels with omly 1 res and 20-24%damage(chaos/proj/area) is ok? And i have some legacy gear from my old summoner i can wear this amu and replace 2nd andvarius with this ring
Since i dont lose 20% res from second andvarius i can wear perandus belt and replace sadima's with azure?
Thanks in advance for your reply and for this guide. Poison arrow is awesome :D

If you have Carcass Jack, recolour the bow and change out Increased AoE for IIQ. Removing Empower is too inefficient as it's a significant loss in clear speed.

Two-affix jewels are fine as long as the rolls are roughly something like what you've indicated. They'll still be an improvement, albeit a minor one.

As long as you're fine running less life and possibly sacrificing some resistance, you can make the gear adjustments you've mentioned though on quick glance I'm not sure there's enough IIQ on the ring to warrant dropping Andvarius.

Throw it into the C value formula to find out for sure:

C = (1 + IIQ/100) * (1 + IIR/100).

If you get a higher C value for the gear changes you've suggested, then yeah, run that (as long as you're willing to sacrifice the survivability).

What gem do we drop to use iir, if we only have a 5l?

Hey, first of all I am having an absolute blast with this build. I still have general questions about game mechanics, but I will table that for another time and/or place. My question is about Jewel selection. With all things being equal, which they are not; you are a much better player and have imho better access to specific Jewels, and I have not had the drops to get exactly what you have. I have a hunch it might be that you have so many chaos in your stash that you can more easily roll until you get the mods you want. When you have time, would you mind taking a look at a comparison I have created of your Jewel setup and mine?



It might also be easier for you to evaluate the comparison, if you were able to see my tree. I think the only variance I have, is the jaunt I took on the far right middle to pick up projectile damage and that seventh Jewel slot. I have been contemplating regretting those and moving up that line in the tree, and starting to pick up the Damage Over Time and added Chaos Damage.



My other questions about game mechanics may be dumb, but at my age I don't really care what people think of me anyway. That is one of the benefits of being a Senior Citizen! LOL

I have Jewel I have not set in my tree because although it looks like it is good, but the wording makes me really wonder.



Another Jewel that looks good on the surface, but confuses me in the description. So much so, I almost just trashed it.



General question about the Stat Screen.



I almost just posted a private message to you with these questions, but thought maybe it would make me feel good to make others get a good laugh! I will greatly appreciate you taking time to answer my questions, and welcome any comments from others.

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Hey!
Is there any summary-like post where I can find all the important things to look for/watch out for while leveling, etc? Or do I find them all in the first post? The guide has 180 pages and I don't have the time to read through all of them unfortunately :( Thanks!

All that I can think of is covered in the first post, and the leveling guide. There really isn't much to worry about other than the tree progression itself since you'll be scaling with either spells, or PA which operates like a spell. So the gear is essentially just about finding the usual suspects (res balance, life) and stacking as much IIR as possible.

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xenochaos1 wrote:

What gem do we drop to use iir, if we only have a 5l?

I don't recommend dropping anything unless you have a Carcass Jack, due to the impact on clear speed from the AoE reduction, as the only gem you can reasonably remove from the 5L is +AoE.

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@Rogerdidit

Clear Mind, Healthy Mind and Conquerer's Efficiency are not optimal jewels for the build and essentially provide nothing to you. The Maelstrom Siege Viridian jewel does not scale your damage, as physical damage has no impact on the cloud damage. I can see why you're using Brute Force Solution, to make gearing easier, but that's actually precisely why we travel up to Corruption (to get the extra intelligence nodes). You're essentially moved into a 7th jewel slot at the cost of that intelligence point and as well the extra points you've mentioned regretting can be used to get Mana Flows in Duelist, which will add more intelligence and regeneration to help with your sustain, which is most notable in reduced regeneration maps.

One of the things that you can do to make use of those jewel slots with better rolled jewels, instead of using chaos to try craft them, is to use alterations and augments on a crimson jewel (highest chance of rolling useful affixes for this build) until you get two useful affixes, then regal. Even if you miss the regal, right now your jewel selections are in vast need of improvement so even a 2-affix jewel will be an upgrade for you.

As for Fragile Bloom, I can't think of anything it would be useful for offhand (except maybe a Righteous Fire build), but particularly with that corrupted critical strike affix I'm relatively certain that's a vendor. The only thing I can think of that it would have value for is the "Gain 3 flask charges on receiving a critical strike" flask affix. You questions regarding the jewel are correct though: those are negative properties that apply to your character.

As for the Chaos Resistance question: it's because my chaos res is in the negative. As is yours on quick glance, but it appears as though you're looking at the defensive stats screen while in your hideout which shows your resistances as though you were in normal difficulty. If that's the case, then you need to -60% from the resistances you see in your hideout in order to get your Merciless resistances (ie, 135% in hideout (Normal) = 75% in Merciless (maps, etc.).

Don't hesitate to post any follow-up questions you might have!

Thank you for clearing up some nagging questions I had. Your suggestions were taken to heart as always, and I had some fun re-rolling all the Crimson Jewels I had. Some came out acceptable and some better for other characters. I spent 10 chaos total for a reasonably good crimson, and two Viridians. I will corrupt the second one (spent 2 chaos), and see where the chips fall. Just building up the nerve right now. Link to new Jewel setup:



After the changes the overall stats look half decent. I will experiment with some of the gear to increase IIR/IIQ as I level up. Stats were taken in Higate Merciless at your suggestion.



As always my friend, thank you and any other suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

And remember, Rogerdidit not me!