[3.25] Scourge Arrow Poison Prolif Pathfinder - Fast, tanky, fun to play

Hi,

I tried your build, better than expected. This is my first poison build so I had to wrap my head around the mechanics and all. The prolif is higher range than I thought. There is no info on this from GGG (nearby tm) but it seems perfectly ok. Not as sick as ED+Contagion ofc, no surprise there. I'm generally lazy AF when it comes to POE playstyle so on hit despair was a must for me. Also I wanted to solve the life sustain issue once and for all. I tried chaos leech essence amulet craft a few times but it did not roll good enough. Then I decided to get Warlord's Mark on hit ring and 6L Cospri for dual curse (also has high evasion, hexproof negate, poison chance and chaos rez). Works really well so far, I'm only lvl70 though. DOTs cannot leech but we have so many projectile hits, no issues there.
Not sure how far this setup can take me, I have a Perfect Form on my ED+Cont Trickster, also looks ok for this build. Free Arctic Armor, 4 skill points spared, nice dex boost, life. My biggest problem is INT+STR. Even have the two +30 nodes at the moment. Hopefully later I can spec out of those. Also rampage is fun:). Never played before. Current gear:

Can u just tell me what's the order of Gem links ?
like what's more important to have 1st then 2nd then 3rd etc ?

i dunno if the order in the PoB right or not ..

let say in the SA setup ... Mirage Archer , Chaos Dmg , Deadly Aliments , unbound aliments , infused channeling ..

is this the order of the most important links to have ?! .. when i don't have 6 link yet .. the top 4 is SA , Mirage , Chaos , Deadly ? then add unbound then Infused ?

and is it the same for the other skills ?

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iPerSeus wrote:

Can u just tell me what's the order of Gem links ?
like what's more important to have 1st then 2nd then 3rd etc ?

i dunno if the order in the PoB right or not ..

let say in the SA setup ... Mirage Archer , Chaos Dmg , Deadly Aliments , unbound aliments , infused channeling ..

is this the order of the most important links to have ?! .. when i don't have 6 link yet .. the top 4 is SA , Mirage , Chaos , Deadly ? then add unbound then Infused ?

and is it the same for the other skills ?

The order of links in PoB is by DPS, so yeah, you should get them in that order.

For everything else, the order in leveling guide should be enough. For movement/curse setup, if you do not have 6 sockets (6 link is not needed, it just shows like that in PoB, but its 2 link and 4 link) just drop faster projectiles from blink arrow, and if you have even less links, just self cast despair on bosses and drop whole Frenzy setup (Frenzy setup is not important until end game bosses where you need the sustain from it, eveyrwhere else before that you can sustain frenzies just from Blood Rage).

Hopefully this answers your questions.

is farrul's fur a viable option ? (if you can afford it of course)

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llutul wrote:

is farrul's fur a viable option ? (if you can afford it of course)

Yeah, its not bad, easy automated frenzy generation, I like it. The only issue would be you will need either corruption on gloves for despair, or self cast it. But, upside is you will have probably more damage (as you can stick with Drillneck, and just skip Maloneys completely, but that also means no blind, so you will need to find source of blind somewhere else, e.g abyss jewel).

Just here to say that this build is a great one. I haven't played many bow builds (this is the second one I've played) and poison prolif is a nice mechanic to play around. Props to making a nice build and forum guide. I rarely die to anything because of Wind Dancer + Kintsugi, and it is a very smooth playstyle overall.

very very budget but its doing ok for now..

Sorry if I missed it, but in your little gif it looks like you have more than one projectile, where are you getting those extra proj?

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LucidCon wrote:

Sorry if I missed it, but in your little gif it looks like you have more than one projectile, where are you getting those extra proj?

It's mentioned in the leveling section at the end, that is using Dying Sun and Shadows & Dust. Initially I used it to make my mapping faster (because Dying Sun was so cheap anyway, there was no harm in doing it) and more fun. But at certain point, the prolif starts to be so strong it doesn't even matter anymore so I just switched to regular setup, but kept the gif for guide because it looked nice :)

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basicen wrote:

very very budget but its doing ok for now..

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That looks fine-ish (except, even on no budget, upgrading Goldrim should be pretty cheap, because higher level rares just outclass it heavily).

Also, you should really get either quartz flask or phasing abyss jewel, it is kind of important for the build (as it is poison, it takes split second before monsters die, and if you get stuck in that period somewhere, you can just die, phasing solves that. or at least, from my own experience, it is what saved me countless of times).