[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

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veridiux wrote:

I'm needing a little help. I decided to roll this build for the one month flashback event. Everything has gone great up until lvl 76, I can't find anywhere to lvl where I'm not dying super fast. I would say my gear is alright except the bow. I have the bow, I just can't seem to roll the correct colors. I would really appreciate any and all advice so that I may be able to hit 85.

I would spend some regrets moving out of frenzy charges and/or ranger projectile damage in order to fill more of the Scion life wheel and complete the Acrobatics branch.

You also have a grand total of 14 life on gear, other than on your gloves and belt. Combine that with that you only have 120% life on the tree (hence the above recommendation), you're probably sitting at something extremely low like 3.3k life, which just isn't going to cut it to level up.

In short, you've prioritized way too much on damage and MF rather than pushing for survivability.

You're also using Nomic's Storm, which is flat out terrible for this build. You've increased your physical damage taken by 20% for literally no reason. The boots provide nothing. Get a rare pair of boots with life, MS and resistances.

You should also roll two hallowed seething flasks and one catalyzed eternal. You shouldn't need more than one mana flask, if that. That's why we get Soul Siphon, for the MGOK, so we don't need mana flasks at all, and can run a lower level clarity if need be.

He is most definitly not at 3.3k life. While in my case I have all life from the tree acording to the build except for those on the scion wheel (will get them on the next 2 levels since it is what I was working towards). I have almost 2.7K and that is with a healm for 50, drillneck for 40 and carcass jack for 52. I have no more life anywhere.

And I must say it sufices for me really. i mean I'm not doing really high level maps but then again this build will always be very low life at the end of the day. what 2.7K doesn't saves me from, I'm sure 3K won't save me from. It's just a matter of avoiding (kiting or not playing those maps) the bosses that can one shot you.

So long as he has a +3 bow with slower projectiles and empower level 3 that alone should account for 9K dps on the poison. If he has a drillneck he gains 1K straight... Well maybe less depending on the base gem level, even then though, 7K DPS is enough to start mapping which is the point at which I started with about 2.4K life and I didn't even had maxed resistence (mostly because I derped and looked at it in ho and thought enough, something I corrected quickly enough.

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veridiux wrote:

I'm needing a little help.

Here's the changes I'd make.

1. While leveling, prioritize survivability. This means that you might end up sacrificing some magic find for more life, evasion, dps, etc. Try to get more life on your helm/boots/chest.

2. I've found that Serleth's flask recommendations really help. In particular you'll want two Seething Hallowed Life Flasks. I'd take the Soul Siphon passive, drop those 2 mana flasks and replace them with Seething Hallowed Life Flasks.

3. I highly recommend the use of Flame Totem. The totem draws aggro nicely and culling boosts dps somewhat. Flame Totem - Faster Projectiles - Culling Strike - Item Rarity. Note that the totem will die quickly until it levels a bit; but once properly leveled the totem is quite robust and really helps out.

This league is pretty tough especially when the Beyond League Mod is active. Occasionally I've just given up on maps when total craziness ensues, something I've never done before in standard leagues.

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Elhazzared wrote:

What 2.7K doesn't saves me from, I'm sure 3K won't save me from. .

You'd be surprised. I had to temporarily spec out of my EK build with 4.5k life pushing from 81-85, going to AB FT. Once I got 4.8k life, I switched back to EK and I was surviving again.

Well I'm sure it might save you from possible bursts of damage, but definitly not from those bosses that one hit you. Especially when you are going pure evasion and we are talking about physical hits for probably over 10K damage which yes, you may dodge but it's more likely that you won't. I do have immortal call and CWDT at level 1 just to prevent those damage bursts when you get several hits in rapid succession. The old combo with enduring cry might be over (at least on a fully automated state) but it's still very usefull to have those 2 linked together in any build.

The only thing more dangerous than the Beyond League Mod is

There are very few bosses that will do that, even if you're running an extra damage map, insofar as you are above 4.5k-4.8k life.

Even the Tropical Island boss could one-shot you if you have 3k life.

@ Elhazzared, re CWDT
Good call. I totally forgot about CWDT-Imortal Call. This will bail you out of deaths and is extremely helpful in a leveling-focused build IMO. I've reworked my gems to include this in my build. Thank you!

@!Serlth, re Life
I totally agree. Although, as Elhazzared points out, some bosses will one-shot you pretty much regardless of health (although some insane builds can AFK face-tank most of the current content - with gear which is simply unnecessary/unaffordable for most players) - there definitely seems to be a life sweet spot where, so long as you're not face-tanking, you'll survive all (or virtually all) encounters. 4.5K to 4.8K for higher tier maps seems about right. So getting at least 4.5K life in this league seems absolutely necessary if you want to level to 85 in a reasonable time-frame with a PA build.

I'm currently sitting at only 4K life... but my next 5 levels are definately going to be spent on life nodes.

I'm currently lvl 70 and loving this build. I'm focused on leveling right now but I'm getting annoyed with how long it takes me to take down chaos res mobs. I was wondering what skill everyone would suggest using to help take down the chaos res beyond mobs faster. Everything else dies relatively quick with a +2 bow and no empower.

If you are cursing with vunerabillity that really is all you can do unless you want to also add a flame totem to the mix. If you do go that route, you might want to consider putting faster casting, culling strike and item rarity in which case it will also save you the item rarity slot on the bow for an extra damage support gem.