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

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Gem progression

- At level 1 grab Caustic Arrow + Pierce + Lesser Poison.
- At level 4 grab Mirage Archer and add it to main setup. Grab also Dash for movement and self-cast Steelskin for defense
- At level 8 grab Void Manipulation support
- At level 10 grab Precision aura Withering Step. Also replace Dash with Blink Arrow
- At level 12 replace Caustic Arrow with Toxic Rain
- At level 16 grab Herald of Agony, Summon Skitterbots and Blood Rage. You will most likely not be able to sustain Blood Rage at this stage, so just start leveling it but do not use it.
- At level 18 replace Pierce with Vicious Projectiles
- At level 24 grab Plague Bearer and Despair.
- At level 31 replace Lesser Poison with Added Chaos Damage and grab Swift Affliction
- At level 34 grab Summon Stone Golem
- At level 38 get Immortal Call, Increased Duration and Cast when Damage taken supports and replace your self-cast Steelskin setup with this. Also grab Increased Area of Effect and link it with Plague Bearer and Withering Step

When you get to mapping, you can also grab Wither totem setup but before that, it is not really necessary.

After you are done with leveling, drop
- Toxic Rain
- Void Maniplation
- Vicious Projectiles
- Swift Affliction

And replace them with
- Scourge Arrow
- Deadly Ailments
- Unbound Ailments
- Infused Channeling

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ShoveMoneyDeeper wrote:

Why such armor for endgame and why these mods are priority:
1. Socketed Attacks have -15 to Total Mana Cost
2. +(120–129) to maximum Life
3. Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 1 Maim
4. Regenerate 1% of Life per second

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Instead of Hyrri's Ire with insane evasion (more chance to evade) and which adds +10% to spell and attack dodge ?

I get that cold damage doesn't do squat for this build, but the main defense here is evasion/dodge, isn't ?

I don't have mana problems, life regen is ok, maim is just slowing enemies, which is nice, but not anything insane and the only thing cool is life quant, but you more likely to encounte something like 50+ life on these armors and maximum life, which is cool.

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Nobleek wrote:

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Gem progression

- At level 1 grab Caustic Arrow + Pierce + Lesser Poison.
- At level 4 grab Mirage Archer and add it to main setup. Grab also Dash for movement and self-cast Steelskin for defense
- At level 8 grab Void Manipulation support
- At level 10 grab Precision aura Withering Step. Also replace Dash with Blink Arrow
- At level 12 replace Caustic Arrow with Toxic Rain
- At level 16 grab Herald of Agony, Summon Skitterbots and Blood Rage. You will most likely not be able to sustain Blood Rage at this stage, so just start leveling it but do not use it.
- At level 18 replace Pierce with Vicious Projectiles
- At level 24 grab Plague Bearer and Despair.
- At level 31 replace Lesser Poison with Added Chaos Damage and grab Swift Affliction
- At level 34 grab Summon Stone Golem
- At level 38 get Immortal Call, Increased Duration and Cast when Damage taken supports and replace your self-cast Steelskin setup with this. Also grab Increased Area of Effect and link it with Plague Bearer and Withering Step

When you get to mapping, you can also grab Wither totem setup but before that, it is not really necessary.

After you are done with leveling, drop
- Toxic Rain
- Void Maniplation
- Vicious Projectiles
- Swift Affliction

And replace them with
- Scourge Arrow
- Deadly Ailments
- Unbound Ailments
- Infused Channeling

Hi, what links are used?

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thedeathbeam wrote:

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ShoveMoneyDeeper wrote:

Why such armor for endgame and why these mods are priority:
1. Socketed Attacks have -15 to Total Mana Cost
2. +(120–129) to maximum Life
3. Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 1 Maim
4. Regenerate 1% of Life per second

?

Instead of Hyrri's Ire with insane evasion (more chance to evade) and which adds +10% to spell and attack dodge ?

I get that cold damage doesn't do squat for this build, but the main defense here is evasion/dodge, isn't ?

I don't have mana problems, life regen is ok, maim is just slowing enemies, which is nice, but not anything insane and the only thing cool is life quant, but you more likely to encounte something like 50+ life on these armors and maximum life, which is cool.

Well you can for sure use Hyrris if you feel like the extra dodge is more valuable for you than EHP. But from my experience, higher EHP is more useful because that means stuff that bypasses your dodge do not one shots you, and also higher life == higher regen and higher leech.

And of course, rare body with - mana cost is just sooo huge QoL as you can run your SA with 0 mana cost with it. Also, with Maim support, if you use Darkscorn, it is around 7% more damage because of phys-> chaos conversion (and based on PoB when you convert more phys dmg somehow works for poison dps too).

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Nobleek wrote:

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Gem progression

- At level 1 grab Caustic Arrow + Pierce + Lesser Poison.
- At level 4 grab Mirage Archer and add it to main setup. Grab also Dash for movement and self-cast Steelskin for defense
- At level 8 grab Void Manipulation support
- At level 10 grab Precision aura Withering Step. Also replace Dash with Blink Arrow
- At level 12 replace Caustic Arrow with Toxic Rain
- At level 16 grab Herald of Agony, Summon Skitterbots and Blood Rage. You will most likely not be able to sustain Blood Rage at this stage, so just start leveling it but do not use it.
- At level 18 replace Pierce with Vicious Projectiles
- At level 24 grab Plague Bearer and Despair.
- At level 31 replace Lesser Poison with Added Chaos Damage and grab Swift Affliction
- At level 34 grab Summon Stone Golem
- At level 38 get Immortal Call, Increased Duration and Cast when Damage taken supports and replace your self-cast Steelskin setup with this. Also grab Increased Area of Effect and link it with Plague Bearer and Withering Step

When you get to mapping, you can also grab Wither totem setup but before that, it is not really necessary.

After you are done with leveling, drop
- Toxic Rain
- Void Maniplation
- Vicious Projectiles
- Swift Affliction

And replace them with
- Scourge Arrow
- Deadly Ailments
- Unbound Ailments
- Infused Channeling

Hi, what links are used?

Hello. What do you mean what links? Check the linked Path of Building pastebin to fit stuff together. The damage links I mention are supposed to go together in toxic rain setup at start, and then you just convert them to SA setup.

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Overtyp3d wrote:

Really enjoying this build, but do we need to click each time when we attack? I loved holding my right click to spam toxic rain but as i dont kill all mobs in 1 go, I find myself spamming my mouse hardcore.

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Hi I'm very new to PoE and trying to follow this guide but I have some questions: my damage with SA feels very very low, with 1 pod it feels like throwing water at monsters and at 5 pods my plague bearer charges like 100k max. I saw your vid where you charge it to full with just 1 SA pod so I'm sure I'm doing something wrong
It says 7k dps on the SA tooltip if it can help.
Thanks for the guide and for helping new players like me.