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

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Viktranka wrote:

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Sandevasfootball wrote:

You can also just attach Withering Step to Increased Duration and get to 15 stacks in like 3 seconds on any enemy by tapping it twice.

Yeah but how do you manage after second wind nerf? Withering step has 3 sec cd so 2 charges is 6 sec not counting possible second wind penalty (as I said at 20/20 you can assume no penalty no benefit).

Withered lasts 2 seconds baseline so with inc duration it's 3.48 sec so if you press withering step on cd you should have 0.48 second left from previous wither and 2.52 second of only 1 charge applied (which can apply between 7 to 12 withers depending on your setup / alt qual).

So it looks like a good uptime on 1 charge of it but not on "double tap" charges.

I reckon Deathbeam recommended clusters that apply 5 wither stacks if enemy isn't withered too, but that will only apply at the start of the boss / start of a phase otherwise it will never apply if the mob already has withering step on it.

Unless you mean you can kill any important mob in under 3.5 sec then the reapplication problem wouldn't count.

P.S. This is about technical aspect of double tapping withering step, not about whether pob should have 15 withers or not.

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Konnorad wrote:

I wanted to play this build again, but planned implementing the Self-chill mechanic, which makes it insanely fast. I'm really excited it works and will be pushing it in this direction to see how good it performs in the End-game, but in early yellows it does really well so far.

Please Note this is not a guide, but an experiment!

I levelled to 82 with Tuna's Ballista Toxic Rain/Caustic Arrow (kudos to Tuna for the guide, has great Single Target, Ok clear) and swapped to Scourge Arrow at the beginning of day 2.

I also decided to do the Self-chill variant of the build right away, cause all of the required items are dirt cheap (would not recommend doing it this early, you will have very low HP, not good enough gear, I just want to rush Atlas and have fun dying).

I use Winterweave, as in other Self-chill builds, to reverse the effect of Chill and increase my action speed.
I Chill myself with Icefang Orbit and Golden Rule combo.
Finally, I use "Cannot be Frozen" on boots so that I don't constantly Freeze myself and "Unaffected by poison" on Maw of Conquest Helm to not kill myself with the Self-poison. Here is my early day 2 gear.

The true sleepers here are the Clusters and Unbound Ailments. (don't have any regrets left to take out Clusters and link them, sry).
I use 3 Deep Chill/Astonishing Affliction Med Clusters which give me 60% effect of chill each, and Unbound Ailments which gives over 50%. Overall, this gives me over 230% increase of the Chill Effect
(which is 30% by default, not exactly sure how the Math works here and what is the cap, but I think I am getting 30*2.3 + 30 = 99% increased action speed, or in other words, double MS/AS/CS. Actually feels like it).

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wuttenq wrote:

Hi Man,

Wanted to ask - What do you think about goin as "occultist" ? Could you try make some POB for occultist?

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crill888 wrote:

Did GGG change the circle of nostalgia? Versions on a market have either chaos res or chaos damage. But not both.

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guidulove wrote:

Thanks for the guide :)

Love Scourge Arrow so much!

Small question about single target: should we keep Mirage Archer or swap to Vile Toxins?

I always liked Vile Toxins more but it's been like HEAVILY nerfed.

What do you think?

Thank you!