[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

No way for me to know without having seen the run.

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Serleth wrote:

No way for me to know without having seen the run.

I was wondering maybe because I was buy this map?

Edit PS: How you searching currupted area. I was spend many time and 0

No, doesn't matter if you joined someone else's map, you will still get credit for completing the Trial. You won't get an Offering if it's someone else's map, but you will get the completion.

As far as corrupted areas, I run corrupt twinned Museum/Arenas to get frags, then run those. There's no reliable way to farm corrupted areas anymore now that the frame time trick doesn't work.

How does this build do for lab farming? Is the dps too low?

Uber, I take it?

It's fine. Not the fastest, but you can get it done as long as you swap out of MF gear into survival gear.

Takes me ~8-10 minutes per run IIRC.

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Serleth wrote:

Uber, I take it?

It's fine. Not the fastest, but you can get it done as long as you swap out of MF gear into survival gear.

Takes me ~8-10 minutes per run IIRC.

Huh, I might check this build out next league, if SC exalt prices are anything like HC ones (for crafting). I'll probably add some random gimmick to make myself feel special though ;p

Now that I finally crafted myself a fine bow, I'll let you take a peek at it:



I started by buying the 6l base for 2 1/2 ex and selling the 5l +3 for 1 ex, then proceeded for some days with only the +2 skills. What astounded me was that the 6l +2 bow offered substantially more damage than the 5l +3.

When I had enough of waiting until my own masters reached level 8, I decided to throw a heap of currency into the maws of those smarter than me, meaning those who levelled their master from day 1 on.

The resistance affix i got through scouring +2 / random suffix-results a few times, and was presented with the mana per kill affix. all in all, i am quite happy. I could have had +2 % more speed had payed 1 ex more for a better base, but it was not worth it to me.

There it was, my first 6l +3 bow. :-)

Currently i am pondering wether or not to exalt it. There is a suffix open, and exalting the bow might result in one of three resistances (very good), increased attack speed (hm) and life gained on kill (good), and 9 other categories which would not be as good.

However, the categories each contain a number of affixes, altogether 46 I do not want, and 33 I would like to have. I dont know exactly how those affixes are chosen, but it looks like my chances could be worse. We'll see. Before basically throwing away one exalt though, i'll probably invest in a nice hat, now that I don't need fire resistance there anymore. :-]

Hm, now that I bought a new jewel, used some chromes and fusings and rearranged gems, i realized i am kind of done. ~30 iiq / 280 iir. now, what to do. another build? strange feeling. btw, the yoloexalt did not work out. :-(

You could always pick up a +1 arrow corrupted drillneck. It really does add to the build.

I could, yes, and I would like to. But have you looked at those PRICES recently? They truly justify capital letters, in fact, I could have written the whole sentence in caps without having to feel bad for it. I am really mad that I did not buy some drillnecks when they were at 1-2 chaos in order to vaal them. I only bought two and was unsuccessfull, then decided to save up to buy... something. I don't know what anymore and it doesn't really matter. The lesson that I took from this experience is to be less timid when the opportunity presents itself.

Getting aquainted with the game and its market took some time. I have been playing D2 for a long time. In the battlenet at first and then single player mode. With a game that's basically unchanged for a decade as the defining background (game-wise), I was unprepared for a market as volatile as this. Also, this was the first league I had a premium stash, hence the first league I really started selling things, and the first league I had enough currency to risk some of it. With the relatively low investment of some C, I could have hedged against rising prices. I didn't, and now I'm stuck without a +1 drillneck. Unless I give in to the desire, of course, and buy uncorrupted ones and vaal them one at a time. However, of the 4 drillnecks I bought this league and the last, vaaling resulted in 2 rare quivers and 2 unchanged ones. *sigh*

Hehe you're right Donner, the market is volatile. for some players, creating market arbitrage generates extreme wealth (remember the master craft "gate" of +3 bows, some temp leagues ago), for some this leads to decisions like mine:

also, this late in the league it's quite pricey to get upgrades, so in new leagues you can setup a search for that drillneck and buy it when it appears, or you ease on that luxury item and just casually try to corrupt it yourself. The build worked with one arrow, it worked with two (ascendancies) and it will only work so much better with three. If you're actually a risk-taker, try to corrupt your 6L +3 bow to one that gives +1 arrows too ^^

e: spoiler for readability.