[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

Hi, it is my first time playing a MF build was hoping people could answer a few questions.

1. What map range do you typically stay in. Do you farm Tier 1-5 to keep getting chaos recipes since regals become worthless? Or do you push into the mid/upper tier maps?

2. At what point do you transition from iding rares to doing unid recipes? With the influx of cadiro and the trade improvements is it likely to be something you'd switch to sooner now?

It doesn't seem to do so, but just making sure here. Wither doesn't apply on-hit effect does it?
Thanks,

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Nick42 wrote:

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?

Slower Proj is strictly for levelling, and is the pre-Empower, pre-Drilneck, pre-Piercing shots option.

If you have Drillneck, you can use Pierce temporarily and avoid taking Piercing shots to allocate your passives to something else in the interim (more damage, more life, frenzy charges, whatever).


illmtk's also covered the thought process and why I personally always put IIR for the 6L: clear speed is effective IIQ. The more strongboxes, Perandus Chests, exiles, unique bosses, etc that I can kill per hour, the more effective I am at farming as opposed to taking 30% longer to kill all the same things for some extra IIR.

Map rolls IIQ will do a lot of the leg work for you.

Once again, thanks to Chrono and Hank (and others) for answering questions while I was asleep. You guys are heroic.

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It doesn't seem to do so, but just making sure here. Wither doesn't apply on-hit effect does it?

No, it's a debuff AoE skill, much like a curse. So it won't do things like cull.

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1. What map range do you typically stay in. Do you farm Tier 1-5 to keep getting chaos recipes since regals become worthless? Or do you push into the mid/upper tier maps?

2. At what point do you transition from iding rares to doing unid recipes? With the influx of cadiro and the trade improvements is it likely to be something you'd switch to sooner now?

Regals are about the same as chaos, and are useful for when you want to roll your own jewels / craft for profit. So in that sense, it's worth it to farm higher level maps.

In addition, 72 (T5) maps provide T2 res rolls, and 73 (T6) provide most T2 attack and spell-based rolls for weapons. So at the very least, I would stick to 72-75 maps.

Which conveniently answers #2. I start doing id recipes at 72+. Nothing really's changed for me in that regard.

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I'm also going to state for the record here that I'm no longer going to be doing gear-checks on this thread. That takes up a significant amount of my time to run through everybody's gear-checks, particularly early in the league.

The thought process is simple: get as much life, as much resistance, and as much IIR as you can on everything that isn't a unique.

For the progression in what you should get, there's a spoiler for that.

Do you guys even use Vaal Lightning trap?
Seems like i got so many keybindings already with Frenzy, CA, Blink arrow and Rallying cry, summon flame golem + flasks? Or is there some specific place to use it.

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Moksu wrote:

Do you guys even use Vaal Lightning trap?
Seems like i got so many keybindings already with Frenzy, CA, Blink arrow and Rallying cry + flasks? Or is there some specific place to use it.

Bigtime! Whenever I run into a boss with a lot of life, throw this on him and watch him melt. I use it more than rallying cry... with the cloud size we end up getting, I rarely call the monsters together, I just fire another arrow.

Anyone else notice the chaos:exalt ratio in this league started much lower than Talisman? It's currently sitting at 60:1. Talisman never got that low even at the end of the 3 months.

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grimjack68 wrote:

Anyone else notice the chaos:exalt ratio in this league started much lower than Talisman? It's currently sitting at 60:1. Talisman never got that low even at the end of the 3 months.

Agreed on Vaal lightning trap. I use it too much especially on the bosses. As for the currency ratio, it freaks me out :p. I know it's still in the start of the league but even regrets are very low. Almost 1:1!

How do you get 100% pierce chance with shadow?

Going pretty good atm, had luck linking a nice bow and had luck rolling a good helmet enchant and the one on the boots isn't bad either.



Also got a carcass jack but lacking severly in resists atm to pull that off and dmg is good enough for 8+ anyway, Izaro is also a joke but I also went for more life then IIR on rares, but most of my gear is still meh.

I'm using a Utility Flask instead of the Catalysed Eternal, but not sure which would be the best can't decided between Jade, Basalt, Stibnite and Quartz, atm using this one though:

what skill should i get on deadeye and occulist?

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surferforlife wrote:

what skill should i get on deadeye and occulist?

You just pick up the nodes.

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How do you get 100% pierce chance with shadow?

You don't.

You get 60-75%, depending on whether or not you feel like using Poacher's Aim for additional utility.

Pierce gem doesn't trump Empower though. So you cap at 75% Pierce from Shadow.