[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

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Dachshund wrote:

I was wondering what is consindered good rools on jewels? Jewels are a new feature i have not played around with. I Imagine i want to have chaos damage + damage over time roll on all jewels. Life and resist if needed?

I also have two question:
Is lightning coil or Carcass Jack better? I feel like lightning coil is better if one can get enough resist (need int rolls on gear for maxed purity of lightning).

Carcass for clearing, Lightning Coil for defense. Your call, though res balance will be a lot tricker with Coil.

As for jewels, damage rolls this build can utilize are: chaos, area, dot, projectile, and global. You will ideally want 1 life roll, 1 damage roll, and depending on your res balance, 1 resistance roll to help compensate for Andvarius. If your res balance is fine, you want 1 life, 2 damage.

(Ofc in an ideal world, you'd be able to afford tri-damage and life, or dual damage, life & res, but this build is planned around three affixes per jewel).

Also, thanks comoestoy for helping out =)

@Serleth IS the shadow tree on page 1 none IR still the optimal for shadow MF solo mapping?? the one where you dont pick up DT but get Method of Madness. Thx

I left the Acro Shadow tree up just for comparison purposes for anyone who is interested.

If you want Acro, Ranger is still the choice.

If you want IR, you go Shadow, but you will need to do a bit more work to get it done (to the tune of an extra 20 int on gear)

yeah that is something i don't understand,i see most gear here,and people almost have 0 int on gear,i need to take a +30 point, + a necklace who gives a shit of int to get max lvl wither and vulna

my gear atm

the chest helped me a lot ,nice chest for me

They're probably doing something else with their tree to compensate instead of doing it on gear.

i finally worked up the motivation to level, and while early on it was kind of miserable (leveled as EK, felt so weak) when i hit 54 i put on a 5l thicket bow with +2 gems (that's it) and started laughing in sadistic glee as i one shot every single mob while running past. it's like totems, but they die almost instantly. AHA! HAHAHAHAHAA! anyway, having fun so far. we'll see what the drops are like when i hit maps in 4 levels...:D

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Serleth wrote:

They're probably doing something else with their tree to compensate instead of doing it on gear.

for this reason I specced Mana Flow(duelist start) instead of Soul Siphon(shadow start), it adds another 20 INT which makes gearing a lot easier. I only ~30 INT on gear.
I'm also running Clarity, Grace and AA for the higher tier maps. Only have around 100 mana unreserved but it works fine unless -60% regen. Enlighten is gonna hit level 3 soon. incorporating that should make sustaining even easier.

378 IIR 104 IIQ Talisman softcore - all resist capped 73%+ doing solo maps to T12, Cloud DPS 26k AOE, EQUIP FOR SELL BUT NEED GOT NICE OFFER NO LOWBALLS :) ( contain jewels with resist, IIR and DMG )

Question for OP or other people who are good at theorycrafting with skilltree

I got a drop of the intuitive leap jewel.
Do you think there would be value in putting this in the tree somewhere in a jewel socket?
I would lose a socket for HP/damage but I was thinking perhaps this could make up if I save points elsewhere or get a skill for 1 point instead of 3.
For instance, using it near the acrobatics would allow me to take phase accrobatics for 1 point instead of 4. Not sure thats worthwhile tho but just checking if people have other good ideas.

From what I can see, there's no good use for it for this build.

Even if you wanted to "save" points to get Phase Acro... you'd probably want the extra regular dodge anyway.

The sort of builds that get Phase Acro are Uber builds and HC builds, or if you're REALLY making a push for level 92+. Otherwise it's pointless to get for SC, and even then the only boss that comes to mind where it makes a noticeable difference is Crematorium. Might help for Ambrius, too, but that's about it.

That's my opinion on Phase, anyway.