[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)
" I 6L'd my Belly of the Beast and my friend's Windripper with less than 200 fuses total. I've 6L'd something like 60 or 70 items now in PoE and only had two go above 1500 fuses. My average is around 900 fuses per 6L. Jul 27, 2011 - Sept 30, 2018.
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" I got a 6L on a Kintsugi with 2f. I switched to CJ and had 10f, on the second one "bam". Sold for 9ex, that was a happy day :D.  Last edited by tgodoy85#4726 on Jun 25, 2016, 7:35:45 PM
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" RNG IS a b!tch and the Alt/Fuse prices are no help. I'm limping through the game having a very bad start. I spent a "fortune" today buying a +3 Maraketh with only %10 fire res and 5L'ed it with Navali's help, so I had to remove an Andvarius to re-balance my resistances but I'm back on track. On the bright side and in case I ran out of scrolls of wisdom ->
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You traded for those whetstones, right? Because I am slightly baffled. I always use all of mine up to create chisels. You having more than 1000 lets me wonder if I am doing something wrong.
On a completely unrelated matter: what jewels do you aim to use? I'm using mainly % max life / all res jewels, which I am crafting myself, in order to be less squishy. As the game progresses and my equipment improves, I slowly shift to jewels with more damage. While doing this, I sometimes craft jewels with combinations that look interesting to me. But since I never played anything else than this CA build and Tornado Shot-build, I have no idea what is worth keeping. Or regaling, for that matter. Does anyone know of a guide to this particular problem? |
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" nice, i didn't even think about pierce but its obvious now. |
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" I replaced SP with Pierce, so I thought I would drop Poacher's Aim for another jewel to cover more life/res but pierce chance dropped to %90. Is that a bug? Edit: Is projectile speed affects CA travel distance? If yes, then at the same gem level Pierce will have a slight chance of being better than Slower Projectile when/if it benefits from Deadeye's buff. Last edited by Hvakhshathra#3888 on Jun 26, 2016, 11:17:51 AM
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" Are you looking at the tool tip numbers or the Character Panel? The 10% implicit from the Drillneck quiver does not show in the tool tip, but does display in the Character Panel. |
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Tooltip shows %130 and character screen %90 with Pierce gem and no Poacher's aim.
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" My personal opinion, the chisel recipe's largely a waste of time for us. Everything else that we're doing outstrips the value of getting an occasional chisel. Given how many rares that we're vendoring, scrolls tend to be at a premium, and thus whetstones have more value being vendored for additional scrolls so they do not have to be purchased. The way I see it is that four scrolls is about 2 alts worth of identified rares. Each chisel recipe requires four whetstones, which is 16 scrolls, or 8 alts. Meanwhile, on the market, chisels are about 3.5:1c, while alts are 16:1c, meaning each chisel is about is worth 4.5 alts, or 9 scrolls. However, if we're spending four whetstones (16 scrolls) for each chisel recipe, which we have said is worth 8 alts to us, that means for every chisel recipe you're doing, you're effectively losing 3.5 alterations worth of scrolls for each chisel recipe you do. Granted, this doesn't factor in the rares that will net augs or alc shards instead. But you get the drift. Then there's the opportunity cost of time you could be spending doing chaos recipes instead of chisel recipes. The chisel recipe is fine for non-MF builds where currency generation is at more of a premium, but as an MF'er, it's a loss, not a gain, unless you're absolutely swimming in scrolls. A lot of the time I find I'm barely maintaining my scroll pool unless I get lucky and run into a few Artisan strongboxes, or deliberately take the time to pick up every scroll I come across. Even being diligent about vendoring every transmute/scrap/whetstone, I find I'm generally breaking even until I start running twinned maps or stringing unique maps together, then they drain *fast* **** As for jewels, it depends on whether you're going for Carcass Jack or not. While it's BiS, it's not necessary, so if you're going for Carcass Jack, imho the priority should be, in order, life, resistances, damage. The reason being it's significantly more difficult to balance resistances running CJ than it is a rare chest. Thereby, if you're fine with a rare chest, then your priority is life, resistances, damage (until res balance is sorted, which should only take a couple jewels), then it's life, damage, damage, damage, more damage. And then some damage. Jul 27, 2011 - Sept 30, 2018. Last edited by Serleth#4392 on Jun 26, 2016, 1:39:27 PM
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Forgive a newb question, I have never dealt with levelling / getting a lvl 4 Empower before. Can you help me evaluate my options here?
Current Prophecy SC prices: lvl 2 Empower (uncorrupted) ~15c lvl 3 Empower (uncorrupted) 1.5 ex lvl 4 Empower - 7 ex Option 1 - buy several lvl 2s, level to 3, pray and corrupt myself Option 2 - buy a lvl 3, pray and fail to corrupt +1, cry Option 3 - save a lot and go for a ready lvl 4 Option 4 - buy several lvl 2s, corrupt a +1, while farming for Option 3 I don't think levelling from 2 to 3 myself is realistic. I understand a minimum of lvl 3 Empower is required to outperform Pierce in a 5L. When corrupting, I have 5 outcomes with Empower, right (no change, +1 level, -1 level, -quality, +quality), are they evenly distributed? If yes, then options 2 and 3 are rougly equivalent, but option 2 is prone to more variance, so generally option 2 is better for richer players. So my bet would be to go with Option 4, what do you think? Shavronne wrapped Kaom's waist,
with her gilded purple boots. "You want my sockets?" |
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