[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

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Grats on 40 Serleth!

Thanks =)

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hankinsohl wrote:

Grats on 40 Serleth!

indeed congrats :)

Level 94 with ~4.7k life and I just fought Voll in a desecrated ground/ -%16 resistances/ %60 slower life,mana among other mods in a corrupted map. An average player like me not getting killed there tells you how sold this build is. the %60 slower mod hurts though and slows you down a lot.

Is there any chance you can list here what gear you currently using and gems. I see in most recent video you using a CWDT and that wasn't in your guide . A update would be great

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ALonardo wrote:

Is there any chance you can list here what gear you currently using and gems. I see in most recent video you using a CWDT and that wasn't in your guide . A update would be great

I'm not using a cwdt.

And no, I won't list my current gear because I'm following the guide more or less to the letter, but invariably someone will ask a dumb question about my current gear, and the answer is almost always "because I'm lazy."

For example, if I were to link you my gear right now, you would see I'm using a rare chest instead of Carcass Jack. I guarantee you someone would ask me why I'm not running Carcass: I'm being lazy.

The only difference in my playstyle vs that of the guide is that I'm not even bothering with Flame Golem anymore, I've got V.Lit Trap permanently on my hotkeys.

Everything else is identical and as per the guide, though I feel it prudent to reiterate at this point that the gear section is never meant to provide anybody, ever, with gem links. That's what the gems & links spoiler is for.

I'm done building this, with the possible exception of a decent helm enchant on a helm I still want to use endgame. There's honestly still some room to min / max the gear a bit further, but there's really no point IMHO. For the twinned map challenge, I did a rare twinned T15 Abyss, and while it was scary as hell, I was never in any real danger of ripping. Note that this was my first time ever in a T15 map! This has been by far the easiest to build and equip so far. I'm sure some of that has to do with the current league, but the lion's share of the credit goes to Serleth for sure.

I haven't followed the quide entirely 100%, of course, it's been tweaked a little here and there for my own preferences, but the base idea is still the same.

I'm currently level 93, tooltip damage with everything up is 26,888.6 cdps. If I switch from my regular helm to my old goldrim that has the CA enchant, this boosts to over 27,725.7k. Also, this is with 35% increased area damage on jewels that doesn't show up on tooltip.

The helm I'm using:


The goldrim I can use for even more dps:


I do have some gear I'll swap off for heavily challenging bits - movement speed boots, rings with damage and life, a few flasks for extra fire damage and the like, but that's all. I never swap off the Carcass Jack. I'll post full gear.

Now I can buckle down and grind off the challenges. I'm down to mostly hard or rare ones left.

Current gear:

@grim: how much life do you have, man?... not seeing much on your gear... altho I'm sure the jewel-stacked resistances made stacking Evasion easier... you have quite a bit more evasion than I do... and a bit more dmg...

I'm sure my 4.8k life is overkill... but it sure was nice the other day on Izaro, when I misclicked an obstacle and failed to move... and WASN'T one-shot by his big hit attack... only NEARLY one-shot :D

I've been considering respeccing some life nodes to retake the ranger start nodes I dropped in favor of the shadow dmg/as% start nodes a while back...

On a side note... I feel like I've been over vendoring possible sales items this league... gotten a little lazy using poeprices.info... I think part of it is the pervasive feeling that uniques grow on trees this league making not T1-T3 x4+ rares seem like a waste of time to try an sell... and I don't even know what weapons to try an sell unless it has +3 gem levels or crazy spell dmg/crit... lots of missed opportunities

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Piros wrote:

I'm sure my 4.8k life is overkill... but it sure was nice the other day on Izaro, when I misclicked an obstacle and failed to move... and WASN'T one-shot by his big hit attack... only NEARLY one-shot :D

I've been considering respeccing some life nodes to retake the ranger start nodes I dropped in favor of the shadow dmg/as% start nodes a while back...

On a side note... I feel like I've been over vendoring possible sales items this league... gotten a little lazy using poeprices.info... I think part of it is the pervasive feeling that uniques grow on trees this league making not T1-T3 x4+ rares seem like a waste of time to try an sell... and I don't even know what weapons to try an sell unless it has +3 gem levels or crazy spell dmg/crit... lots of missed opportunities

The advantage of having 4.8k life when in full MF gear is that it's actually relatively easy to stack xp even running lower level maps. This is basically what I do: MF my face off until 35-40% xp, switch to survival gear then push the next level.

Yeah, the economy this league is weird. Rare items that would've sold in the first couple weeks, stopped being useful to sell after week one. Uniques that used to go for exalts are going for chaos (Soul Taker, anyone?).

I honestly hate the direction this game is taking in that regard: gearing is picnic levels of easy, unless they're things like Acuity, or Skyforth, or Uber Atziri drops. Oh well.

As for Izaro, feel free to switch to survival gear for lab runs. MF doesn't affect his drops.

For weapon sales, this is the basic rundown:

* 70%+ combined spell damage with wands/sceptres, preferably with flat spell damage. Combined spell damage means SD% + (Fire/Cold/Light %).
* 100%+ cSD% for staves
* 250+ pdps 1hers (180 pdps for wands) and 250 edps with 1.9+ aps for foils.
* 400+ pdps for 2hers.