[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)
" In order to obtain 5k HP I actually just swap out my Andvarius Rings for some coral/gold rings with life and double rarity mods. So I have 2 setups: 300R/20Q with 4300 life, or 200R/20Q with 5000 life. I generally only swap to my 5000 set for high maps or dangerous bosses. Also, I'm using a variation of the HC tree which affords much more life on the tree. As illmtk mentioned, speccing the Scion life wheel helps a lot. Make sure you have a good amount of life on all of your rare gear in order to make this work. Legacy SC IGN: Octora Standard SC IGN: Octyte Last edited by Nick42 on Mar 8, 2016, 11:53:07 AM
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Off topic post from a CA enthusiast:
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Hi everyone. Hope Ascendancy is going well. Crazy league. I'm delighted - and completely surprised - by low item prices. I'm not sure if this is due to the new trade system or to the possibility of purchasing uniques with Perandus coins; whatever the case, I love it! I bought an Andivarius and a Goldwym on the super-cheap; paid about 19c for each of them. On the downside, this is the first league that I'm up to nearly 80 with zero good drops; I've honestly not found a single thing (no exalt orbs, no high value uniques, no good rares) worth more than 2c. Usually I find something pretty good - and often several things - before I hit 80; but oh well, items are dirt cheap and I'm just selling various orbs to make up. ==== Right now I'm playing dual Flame Totem converted to 100% chaos using 2 Consuming Dark Daggers; I like to play new builds each league for variety (though CA (formerly Poison Arrow) is still one of my all-time favorites. I like lurking in this thread due to the friendly atmosphere created by Serleth (thanks!) and due to all the helpful advice - CA-related and otherwise - that comes up here. ===== Some very funny deaths... I've been abusing totem-aggro while attempting to level, placing all my attention on DPS and magic find. So my character has about 2% physical damage reduction, no dodge, no evasion and no block; eventually I'll don a suit of Astral Plate to fix my physical damage problems... but for the nonce, it's Tabula Rasa baby! Oh, and my health... it's about 3.3K. Pretty scary. Anyhow, I'm level 78 or so and I'm trying to plow through an extra fire damage Catacombs map. No biggie with the totems. Across a gap is a Perandus cache - I can't quite see how to cross over so no bid deal, I just place 2 totems and duck behind an archway for safety; but the damn ultra-fast cache-mobs absolutely destroy my totems; it's taking forever. So eff this! I decide to augment totem damage with manually cast Wither (still ducking behind that archway whenever I take too much damage). I'm in the midst of Wither casting-ducking behind the archway then back to totem placement Wither-casting... feeling pretty good about the situation, when all of a sudden... 3 statue mobs are in front of me. The archway is completely blocked. I'm taking a massive amount of damage and cannot get past the damn statues to safety. The cache-guardian is a summoner! RIP!!! LOL. Pretty damn funny, in a perverse sort of way. ======== Another cool RIP... I've got 25% movement speed boots and some additional MS from the passive tree. If all hell breaks loose, I just high-tail it backwards, easily out-pacing any mobs that follow me. So I'm doing this Strand map... all is going well. I get to the end, near the boss, and there's this Tormented Spirit moving rapidly away from me... no biggie. Then I get to the boss. The spirit has entered the boss... I guess it's OK and continue to DPS. All of a sudden, that boss starts after me. And what the hell! - he's fricin' moving faster than I am. God damn 25%+ movement speed and the boss is faster than I. OK - don't panic... just back up, get some totems up and they'll take aggro. Well that, almost works. Until I back up into a fence. OK, just gonna have to move around the fence. And then... some miniature, summoned(?), red, blobs appear, blocking my exit. Well - I just told you what my physical mitigation is... The boss gets really close to me and then... Wham!!! LOL. Fun times. =========== Last edited by hankinsohl on Mar 8, 2016, 12:36:22 PM
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" Yeah as nice as it was to grab my Goldwyrm for 14 regrets and an Andvarius for 10c + 4 regrets, now that I'm farming and trying to sell stuff you can sure notice the difference this league. Same as you hank, I've had no notable drops. The highest priced item I've sold so far is some 5c rare gloves. Hopefully I will see my net worth start growing soon; I think I have 20c right now. Legacy SC IGN: Octora Standard SC IGN: Octyte Last edited by Nick42 on Mar 8, 2016, 12:00:27 PM
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I just hit the Jackpot
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How would you go about getting the +3 bow? -Buy +3 bow and try 6linking it -Find a good white base and craft from scratch | |
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Thanks for the advices, yea I don't have much life, got only 2800 hp, will swap iir for Slower Proj once I need more damage. I don't have any currency left for anything haha, but will try to save for a carcass and a vaal lightning trap for now. I agree I don't need a 5L on chest (we don't have to use chain anymore for curse setup), but that was my chest before the 100% pierce.
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" Buy a white 6-link and master-craft it. You'll likely spend much more if you go the other route (+3 first and then try to manually/Vorici 6-link). Usually there's someone with reasonable crafting prices and level-8 masters pretty early-on in the leagues to make this viable. Last edited by hankinsohl on Mar 8, 2016, 12:26:30 PM
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" Double-check the optimal gem configuration... I"m not sure that Slower Projectiles is best. Pierce now provides "more" damage and might be better. Can someone playing this build offer definitive advice? |
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" Wow I never noticed that change. They are both 29% at level 20, and they both have the same quality bonus, so apples to apples the dps boost is identical. However: Pierce has only a 110% mana multiplier, while slower proj has 140%. Also, if we take pierce, we can spec out of the pierce cluster on the tree and invest these points elsewhere. The 50% from ascendancy + 50% from support gem also means we don't need the 10% from Drillneck so we can try to obtain a useful implicit corruption. Note: above level 20 (from empower + gems bow) pierce damage actually scales higher than slower proj. On a side note, the less duration gem also has 29% more damage at level 20, but without a helpful quality bonus it is inferior to pierce and slower proj. Very intriguing. I think we need Serleth to take a look at this. edit: I see Serleth has us using empower over either of these, so I guess our question becomes: which should we use until we have a level 3 empower, or if we want to drop rarity gem for more dps? Legacy SC IGN: Octora Standard SC IGN: Octyte Last edited by Nick42 on Mar 8, 2016, 12:51:44 PM
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" It's always situational. If your clearspeed is low, I would always swap in a dps gem. Clearspeed is essentially pseudo item quantity. I'd rather spend time clearing maps in 5 minutes than take 10+ minutes in the same map trying to kill stuff. | |
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oh man, poor Hank :D
I've levelled up to 82.5 now. All ascendet and fun, yet I really look forward to meet Cadiro or his pestilenced mob of guards. I saved up a huge bulk of coins (well not so huge when I see the prices) to hope getting me a nice lil gift, since really, this league I dropped a Tabula at 80 and that has been it. thanks to brute-force 101 I still own a few things, but that's hard work :( chest lacks proper links and colors as doe the boots, yet I could get my stuff in a quickie most of the times. Drillneck was 600 coins or so, thanks Cad! IGN: WildTortillaFart
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