[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

Taking offers on my bow:



If there is an appealing one, I might reroll a different build :)

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Shinare wrote:

Hi all!

I just started this build this weekend because I found two bows and a drillneck and wanted to try an arrow build of some kind. Thought I would give this builda try this weekend and made it all the way to 65. This is a great build but I have a question abou the bow and drillneck.

I have these two bows:

Spoiler

And this:

You can sell Voltaxic for 7ex. That's the cost of a +3 bow right there.

We do get DoT. Entropy. It's also in the list of jewel affixes to look for.

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Where do you see the damage over time, is that in the tool tip as well?

If you check the FAQ I have an image that highlights exactly the portion you're looking to stare at.

Thanks to Alex for helping clarify some things but just to be explicitly clear: Drillneck doesn't modify physical damage. It scales PROJECTILE damage equal to your pierce chance. Projectile damage still scales the cloud damage.

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Alexthefake wrote:

Thank you serleth for this awesome build. I Started out using this build and it gradually changed to my own that I made a build guide for and I don't know if it's because I included your name in it but it's getting a bit of attention so thank you <3

Interesting. I'll check it out. It's pretty cool & flattering to inspire variations, so thanks to you too =)

Oh good lord I never thought to look in the blue area for the cloud damage, I only just looked at the tool tip damage in white.

About Drillneck, I guess I must have misread about the damage part being physical, it was the projectile damage that scaled the cloud damage hehe.

I do have the voltaxic to sell but I hate to sell it and loose it if I ever wanted to use it heheh.

I guess I'll have to go against my "Bird in hand" rule if I want a +3 bow.

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Irongunner wrote:

Taking offers on my bow:

Spoiler

If there is an appealing one, I might reroll a different build :)

Would you take a 3L Voltaxic for it? :D

I enjoy the guide currently 84, no luck yet ive gotten all my gear with the Chaos recipe. how do i improve my unique drop chance? i have 125% IIR 31 IIQ. what im really trying to say is... should i alch 68-70 maps and just chain running them? or should i not invest so much into a low level map and just run them blue?

If you're running 68-70, try to alt and aug them until you get +10-15% to size of groups.
At these levels it's interesting to kill lots of monsters (more mobs killed = more loot rolls happening).

I'd start alc usage at 74+, preferably 76.

Also, do keep items that can be useful for leveling, once you hit 80+ lvl dying takes away a lot of exp.

Wow, just checked my PA cloud damage and its only 2,361 dps with the infractem. Any other bow and its 1,974.

That seems VERY low. I'm level 65 with a level 16 PA gem. With it go up significantly soon?

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Shinare wrote:

Wow, just checked my PA cloud damage and its only 2,361 dps with the infractem. Any other bow and its 1,974.

That seems VERY low. I'm level 65 with a level 16 PA gem. With it go up significantly soon?

You should buy a 5L at this point and roll +2 bow gems on it. That'll be a much more significant difference than anything else you can do. That alone should push you up above 3k.

PA scales slowly early on, but 17+ it starts to accelerate. It operates very much like a spell gem: gem levels are key.

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I enjoy the guide currently 84, no luck yet ive gotten all my gear with the Chaos recipe. how do i improve my unique drop chance? i have 125% IIR 31 IIQ. what im really trying to say is... should i alch 68-70 maps and just chain running them? or should i not invest so much into a low level map and just run them blue?

That's fairly low IIR. That's part of your problem. You should be able to break 150% without much issue, but it's clear you're more than likely running Sadima's and Goldwyrm. You should be looking for gloves with IIR.

Second, MF setups are never about getting the uniques. You should be approaching it with the mentality that if you happen to get a good unique, great, but it's mostly about brute forcing the RNG to get as many rares as possible to have something halfway decent to sell at all times, and pushing the raw currency farming by vendoring rares and shit uniques for alterations, doing as many recipes as possible, and generally just grinding the hell out of currency farming faster than you would without any other MF.

The GG unique drops are meant to be treated as just gravy on the potatoes: adds flavour, but not the substance of the meal.

PA MF Gear Give-away!!! 300+ / 18

Due to real-life reasons I want to give away my char.
I would appreciate if someone with trash gear gets the stuff.
All you need is a Ranger in Warbands between lvl 60-72.
Just whisper me ingame and the items are yours.

IGN: poisonedGIFT

I used this build but took some extra resistance nodes near scion and and "Cloth and Chain" near "Savagery.
I got capped res in mf gear at lvl 88 with purity of elements and with blue leveling/dps gear too.





STUFF IS GONE =) TY Serleth for an awesome mf build and gl to all busy farmers!!! =)

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RuckZuck wrote:

PA MF Gear Give-away!!! 300+ / 18

Due to real-life reasons I want to give away my char.
I would appreciate if someone with trash gear gets the stuff.
All you need is a Ranger in Warbands between lvl 60-72.
Just whisper me ingame and the items are yours.

IGN: poisonedGIFT

I used this build but took some extra resistance nodes near scion and and "Cloth and Chain" near "Savagery.
I got capped res in mf gear at lvl 88 with purity of elements and with blue leveling/dps gear too.

MF Gear

DPS/Leveling Gear

STUFF IS GONE =) TY Serleth for an awesome mf build and gl to all busy farmers!!! =)

Nice, very generous ^^

Have fun and take care of irl first!