[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

Nice drop!

If you somehow plan to use it I'd start tossing jewellers / fuses at it, seriously. There's a fair chance you hit the jackpot and then you can erase the mobs with purple clouds of awesomeness ^^

But if you're like me, and use standard only as a character-dump with the occasional reset to test things, either keep it as a trophy or sell for something you clearly need to achieve the goals remaining in the league.

Is it worth to get 6L for ~10ex and add rarity gem, if I use this build to make currency only? I mean, how much time I need (average) to get 6L pay off?

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Xinerub2 wrote:

Is it worth to get 6L for ~10ex and add rarity gem, if I use this build to make currency only? I mean, how much time I need (average) to get 6L pay off?

At roughly 20/300 numbers in Standard, you'll have paid it off in ~20 hours.

@Serleth

My cloud dps with 7 frenzy charges up is around 15k. My setup has Concentrated Effect, so probably my actual dps is a little higher than the tooltip. My question is: will I be able to reliably farm Atziri or damage is too low? I remember you saying your dps when you first did Atziri was around 21k. Have you done Atziri after the nerf?

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Serleth wrote:

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Xinerub2 wrote:

Is it worth to get 6L for ~10ex and add rarity gem, if I use this build to make currency only? I mean, how much time I need (average) to get 6L pay off?

At roughly 20/300 numbers in Standard, you'll have paid it off in ~20 hours.

Thank you for your answer :) And one more question. What map tier is better to farm? Low tier maps (1-6) and fast runs or 6-10 maps?

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Serleth wrote:

Deadeyes projectile damage also benefits us and, if I'm correct in assuming that Far Shot's 30% more damage scales the "projectile damage" tag, we also get an additional multiplier to our cloud damage when at range.

I've actually read on reddit that Far Shot will not benefit CA as the wording is "projectile ATTACK damage".

It reads "projectile attacks gain damage the further they travel, deal up to 30% more damage"

nothing is specified as attack damage, do you have a source for that, illmtk?

but even if it wouldn't gain the more damage, we pass this route anyway for endless munitions.

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lussiano wrote:

My question is: will I be able to reliably farm Atziri or damage is too low? I remember you saying your dps when you first did Atziri was around 21k. Have you done Atziri after the nerf?

Yes.

And yes.

Started farming her in 2.1 ~9k dps.

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And one more question. What map tier is better to farm? Low tier maps (1-6) and fast runs or 6-10 maps?

Your call. Regals aren't worth as much anymore, even in Standard afaik. You'll have to do a price comparison on what regals are worth but /shrug.

I'd personally just murder T1-6 in Standard. Very difficult to sell good rares, so you might as well just blitz the unid chaos recipe.

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I've actually read on reddit that Far Shot will not benefit CA as the wording is "projectile ATTACK damage".

We'll see if the wording changes on that but, even if not. Chrono brings up two points:

a) Being able to drop the AoE gem is worthwhile on its own with Endless Munitions.
b) The precise wording, "projectile attacks gain damage the further they travel" does not necessarily limit the damage to projectile attack damage. It could just be that projectiles INITIATED by attacks, rather than spells, gain damage. Meaning it would impact the cloud damage.

So without a developer source /shrug

Either way, we go to +1 Arrow regardless.

So seems like Pierce now gives more proj. dmg , 10% at lvl 1, ideas?

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PureRnd wrote:

So seems like Pierce now gives more proj. dmg , 10% at lvl 1, ideas?

That means it caps at 29% more damage (assuming 1% per level), which is still less than the increase we'd get from Empower, Void Manipulation, Concentrated Effect or Rapid Decay.

No need to have it for this build.