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

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evolite wrote:

Hi again

Im still not understanding how we do good single target DPS
Putting 40 in for ballistas and 8 for my scourge arrows shows 8 million DPS, (16 million DPS with max wither), and there is absolutely 0 percent chance that this build is doing that much single target as i've played multi million DPS builds before.

Map clear is obviousely no issue, and neither is staying a live really, even though my gear is still scuffed. (85% maxres and few sources of phys as elemental)

I couldn't beat Maven Shaper, was just too tanky with its healing

Something i'm missing?

You should try grabbing Anomalous SA, it will improve the overlaps on single target. I usually dont have any issues with bosses, your damage is highly dependant on your position and aiming. E.g to get full DPS from your main SA you need to stand very close to the boss so your primary arrow will also hit the boss.

And you also have to aim your mouse directly on top of boss so your ballistas will cluster their pods there. You can try replacing focused ballista with normal support gem and let ballistas aim by themselves and see if your damage improves, if yes you need to work on your aim (also if bosses move out of pods while they are on ground you also lose ton of damage).

Taking away petrified blood removes our overleech, so how do we get the while leeching stats?


edit: forgot to specify that im talking about large cluster jewel notables

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Xhantomn wrote:

Taking away petrified blood removes our overleech, so how do we get the while leeching stats?


edit: forgot to specify that im talking about large cluster jewel notables

Yea without Petrified its a lot less reliable and we only get it active while leeching mana. We still need 1 leech cluster for actual leech tho but I think the other one should be chaos large instead now.

On the plus side, Large Chaos Clusters are way cheaper! You can also fish for Chaos Damage Leeched As Life as an implicit on gloves to cover life leech too. Mana leech would still need a splash somewhere though.

If we aren't using strength of blood anymore, we could grab one of the other Keystones from Lethal Pride. I think there is something quirky you could do with Chainbreaker that probably isn't broken, but not sure how it works with channels. Probably something cute with Clarity and if we get it to work Berserk does very stupid things.

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Maddest_Scientist wrote:

If we aren't using strength of blood anymore, we could grab one of the other Keystones from Lethal Pride. I think there is something quirky you could do with Chainbreaker that probably isn't broken, but not sure how it works with channels. Probably something cute with Clarity and if we get it to work Berserk does very stupid things.

Sadly chainbreaker drains rage every tick of channeling so its completely unusable for channeled skills without reducing the cost to 0. On topic of lethal pride tho:

Build update:

- Removed Lethal Pride from the build as its not needed anymore as I got reminded we can craft phys taken as fire on helmet
- Replaced Redeemer influenced helmet with phys taken as implicit from new influences + crafted phys taken as fire
- Replaced 1 leech large with 1 chaos large

Hi guys, fairly new to PoE and have been enjoying this build so far. Currently level 67, but I'm starting to die way too easily. You can find my char attached to my profile for further viewing, any improvements would be great! Thanks

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CJDarch wrote:

Hi guys, fairly new to PoE and have been enjoying this build so far. Currently level 67, but I'm starting to die way too easily. You can find my char attached to my profile for further viewing, any improvements would be great! Thanks

Well from quick look at your setup you are not resistance capped. What can be solved by grabbing nice bismuth flask most likely. Also see "Why am i dying" section in main post

Added new gameplay vid:

Simulacrum Wave 30 Kosis + Omni

As you can see Kosis just keeps one shotting my ballistas so they are useless there so if anyone wants to farm simu on this build I *highly* recommend to use Withering Step and focus on main SA damage more (occupying force forbidden jewels, no ballista nodes etc).

But it shows how disgustingly tanky the build is, I was basically never in danger of dying and I was sstanding in most of Kosis + Omni attacks

Superb build. Unbelievable defense while maintaining very high DPS and clearspeed. I'm not even at 4000 life but my survivability far exceeds my league starter that has 8000 ES and its own host of defensive bonuses.

I will say, to get it right, it is somewhat expensive. I've spent 20-30ex and not yet gotten anomalous Blood Rage (8ex). But, very very worth it.

One minor note - it may be hard to find, but it is possible to get both Winter Prowler and Antifreeze on your Megalomaniac jewel, granting a total of +3% max cold res instead of just +2.