[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

Hi man! Nice build and Guide.I'm now lvl 35 Ranger on HC with this build. Easy and effectivnes leveling, but i have one more quesiton:
-How many times you die since you start playing on Warbands?
-How your survivability?

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soulk3peer wrote:

Hi man! Nice build and Guide.I'm now lvl 35 Ranger on HC with this build. Easy and effectivnes leveling, but i have one more quesiton:
-How many times you die since you start playing on Warbands?
-How your survivability?

No idea (not logged in right now), but I don't think I died once until level 85. Maybe once. (Not including Malachai, btw, but that was pre-nerf and I just threw lives at him until I moved into Cruel/Merciless).

Then I started to play carelessly, because it's softcore and... well, whatever.

Just fine. If I'm playing carefully, I don't die. Ever. And that's with the SC tree.

Hi Serleth

Could You describe Your Map reroll strategy?

Best Regards

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Slimak1980 wrote:

Hi Serleth

Could You describe Your Map reroll strategy?

Best Regards

Clarify please. For what purpose?

E.G.:
1) Which affix you choose when You reroll,
2) from which levels of maps and what you use currency

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Slimak1980 wrote:

E.G.:
1) Which affix you choose when You reroll,
2) from which levels of maps and what you use currency

Sorry, what I meant by my question was:

Do you mean rolling maps for MF purposes;
or rolling maps for +level map purposes?

:)

Could You explain Both purposes?

Alright so, everyone does maps differently. Some people prefer to alc maps at 72-73 because it offers T2 resistance, and other affixes for offensive categories so they want more loot to drop to give them a better chance at finding stuff to sell. If that's your bag, then cool. I work things a bit differently.

The basic rule is I don't alc maps until 74, at minimum. The reason for that is simple: getting up to and sustaining 74 maps is relatively easy just by pounding the crap out of every map level below it. Eventually you'll just have a nice pool of 74s just by running a lot of maps.

74+ is where map sustain gets more difficult, so for the purposes of pushing up to higher maps, that's where I start alcing. But I don't chisel at that juncture, yet.

I start chiselling at 76-77.

This is where the decision-making process splits a bit:

For MF purposes, I don't care what rolls I get, or what quantity I get. I just transmute 68-73, and alc 74+, then run it, regardless of what the roll ends up being (I make an exception and reroll chilled ground, cuz I flat out HATE chilled ground). This build can run literally any map mod so I otherwise don't spend a single chaos on rolling a map when all I'm looking to do is MF.

The justification for me personally in not caring about the rerolls is similarly simple: I'd rather attrition the good drops by simply running a boatload of maps rather than spending 1 more piece of currency than necessary just to give myself a CHANCE at getting a slightly better item.

For map sustain purposes, it's different. I reroll anything 74+ that isn't 60%+ (unchiselled) or 80%+ (chiselled), up to level 78 maps. Starting at 78, I reroll anything that isn't 90%+ (chiselled).

I make exceptions if I get extra magic packs size, but I take into consideration the rest of the map mods. If for some reason I get a small pool of affixes (say, vulnerability with extra monster damage and magic pack size) that puts the map roll under the aforementioned benchmark values, I'll still run the map. A more dangerous map provides a better chance at getting map drops, as does magic pack size.

Starting at 79, I also will invest chaos in Zana map mods. If the map doesn't already have magic packsize / bloodlines, I use the Bloodlines mod. If it already has magic packsize, I use the Onslaught mod.

Hope that helps.

Could you tell me which Masters I should start with? Im pretty new to Masters... Thank you so much for your hard work on this Build!

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Wasistlos7 wrote:

Could you tell me which Masters I should start with? Im pretty new to Masters... Thank you so much for your hard work on this Build!

Elreon, Haku, Catarina or Vorici (depending if you want Meta-mod crafting or artisan crafting to make colouring/socketing easier) in that order, and ofc Zana.

Save Vorici/Caterina for the last master you bring in.