[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

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Hvakhshathra wrote:

Did I miss something in the resent changes or did I made a terrible mistake somewhere? A L86 Shadow equipped with +2 and CA(19) + RD (19) + VM (19) + CE (17) I get only 1.5K damage (no golem no frenzy). Is that how it supposed to be?
I'm using those gems:

Spoiler

Thanks,

No, but my guess is you're just misreading the tooltip. Remember, you're looking for the expanded tooltip, not the normal place you look for dps.



Notice how it says 1.8k dps, which is probably where you're looking. But you need to look in the expanded section, where it says "Deals 15482.3 chaos damage per second."

That's our tooltip for this build.

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RRQ wrote:

Maybe i missed something, but i have a question. What about Perandus Blazon Cloth Belt? Should i use while mapping or not? Why?

8% quantity versus 100 life + 189% (with life on all jewel sockets except Poachers) = 289 life, and the ability to get tri-resistance rather than the single paltry 20% fire you get off Blazon.

This build isn't about going full-tilt MF. It's about a balance between survivability, damage, and MF.

If you're using Blazon, there's no way that you're getting res capped without at least one Purity, meaning Grace has to get dropped.

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iDecibel wrote:

Do u know if it applies to auras aswell? Or just Golem's? :)

Doesn't work for rallying cry or auras, but DOES work for Frenzy. The danger of course being you may want to click away to run, click on a mob, and get stuck. Hence, golems. That doesn't occur.

That was embarrassing, I don't know how I missed that!
Another question if you please; Do you think adding contagion to CWST would be a good option?

Thanks again,

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Hvakhshathra wrote:

That was embarrassing, I don't know how I missed that!
Another question if you please; Do you think adding contagion to CWST would be a good option?

Thanks again,

It's a pretty common oversight. No need to be embarrassed. It's one of few builds where you have to look elsewhere for your damage values.

I'm not even sure that'd work (re:contagion) because CA is a ground effect, rather than direct damage, but besides, the cloud radius beats the contagion radius. Not required, when there are other, more valuable things to have in the link setups.

Welp.

Time for another profile pin.

I got a question and maybe it was answered way before but will take too long to search for. Why do we not take de 3 skill pts that give 125% increased poison damage and 10% chance poison on hit.

Thx for your time :D Btw really nice build i love it.

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Dinfector wrote:

I got a question and maybe it was answered way before but will take too long to search for. Why do we not take de 3 skill pts that give 125% increased poison damage and 10% chance poison on hit.

Thx for your time :D Btw really nice build i love it.

Because the cloud is chaos damage, not poison damage. They are separate damage types now, and Poison Arrow was renamed to Caustic ARrow to avoid precisely that confusion.

I see everyone link cautics arrow with area damage gem
But it cant increased damage.

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Serleth wrote:

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Dinfector wrote:

I got a question and maybe it was answered way before but will take too long to search for. Why do we not take de 3 skill pts that give 125% increased poison damage and 10% chance poison on hit.

Thx for your time :D Btw really nice build i love it.

Because the cloud is chaos damage, not poison damage. They are separate damage types now, and Poison Arrow was renamed to Caustic ARrow to avoid precisely that confusion.

Poison damage is not chao damage so what kind of it ?

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bingbing1102qn wrote:

I see everyone link cautics arrow with area damage gem
But it cant increased damage.

Yes, it does.

It's just not reflected on the tooltip. Known issue.

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Poison damage is not chao damage so what kind of it ?

Poison damage is now its own damage type.