[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

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hankinsohl wrote:

Off topic post from a CA enthusiast:

Hi everyone. Hope Ascendancy is going well.

Crazy league. I'm delighted - and completely surprised - by low item prices. I'm not sure if this is due to the new trade system or to the possibility of purchasing uniques with coins; whatever the case, I love it! I bought an Andivarius and a Goldwym on the super-cheap; paid about 19c for each of them.

Yeah as nice as it was to grab my Goldwyrm for 14 regrets and an Andvarius for 10c + 4 regrets, now that I'm farming and trying to sell stuff you can sure notice the difference this league.

Same as you hank, I've had no notable drops. The highest priced item I've sold so far is some 5c rare gloves.

Hopefully I will see my net worth start growing soon; I think I have 20c right now.

I just hit the Jackpot

How would you go about getting the +3 bow?

-Buy +3 bow and try 6linking it
-Find a good white base and craft from scratch

Thanks for the advices, yea I don't have much life, got only 2800 hp, will swap iir for Slower Proj once I need more damage. I don't have any currency left for anything haha, but will try to save for a carcass and a vaal lightning trap for now. I agree I don't need a 5L on chest (we don't have to use chain anymore for curse setup), but that was my chest before the 100% pierce.

Thanks for the feedback guys ^^

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mescalito wrote:

I just hit the Jackpot

Spoiler

How would you go about getting the +3 bow?

-Buy +3 bow and try 6linking it
-Find a good white base and craft from scratch

Buy a white 6-link and master-craft it. You'll likely spend much more if you go the other route (+3 first and then try to manually/Vorici 6-link).

Usually there's someone with reasonable crafting prices and level-8 masters pretty early-on in the leagues to make this viable.

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spetakju wrote:

Thanks for the advices, yea I don't have much life, got only 2800 hp, will swap iir for Slower Proj once I need more damage. I don't have any currency left for anything haha, but will try to save for a carcass and a vaal lightning trap for now. I agree I don't need a 5L on chest (we don't have to use chain anymore for curse setup), but that was my chest before the 100% pierce.

Thanks for the feedback guys ^^

Double-check the optimal gem configuration... I"m not sure that Slower Projectiles is best. Pierce now provides "more" damage and might be better.

Can someone playing this build offer definitive advice?

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hankinsohl wrote:

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spetakju wrote:

Thanks for the advices, yea I don't have much life, got only 2800 hp, will swap iir for Slower Proj once I need more damage. I don't have any currency left for anything haha, but will try to save for a carcass and a vaal lightning trap for now. I agree I don't need a 5L on chest (we don't have to use chain anymore for curse setup), but that was my chest before the 100% pierce.

Thanks for the feedback guys ^^

Double-check the optimal gem configuration... I"m not sure that Slower Projectiles is best. Pierce now provides "more" damage and might be better.

Can someone playing this build offer definitive advice?

Wow I never noticed that change.
They are both 29% at level 20, and they both have the same quality bonus, so apples to apples the dps boost is identical.

However: Pierce has only a 110% mana multiplier, while slower proj has 140%.

Also, if we take pierce, we can spec out of the pierce cluster on the tree and invest these points elsewhere. The 50% from ascendancy + 50% from support gem also means we don't need the 10% from Drillneck so we can try to obtain a useful implicit corruption.

Note: above level 20 (from empower + gems bow) pierce damage actually scales higher than slower proj.



On a side note, the less duration gem also has 29% more damage at level 20, but without a helpful quality bonus it is inferior to pierce and slower proj.


Very intriguing. I think we need Serleth to take a look at this.



edit: I see Serleth has us using empower over either of these, so I guess our question becomes: which should we use until we have a level 3 empower, or if we want to drop rarity gem for more dps?

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Nick42 wrote:

edit: I see Serleth has us using empower over either of these, so I guess our question becomes: which should we use until we have a level 3 empower, or if we want to drop rarity gem for more dps?

It's always situational. If your clearspeed is low, I would always swap in a dps gem. Clearspeed is essentially pseudo item quantity. I'd rather spend time clearing maps in 5 minutes than take 10+ minutes in the same map trying to kill stuff.

oh man, poor Hank :D

I've levelled up to 82.5 now. All ascendet and fun, yet I really look forward to meet Cadiro or his pestilenced mob of guards. I saved up a huge bulk of coins (well not so huge when I see the prices) to hope getting me a nice lil gift, since really, this league I dropped a Tabula at 80 and that has been it.

thanks to brute-force 101 I still own a few things, but that's hard work :(



chest lacks proper links and colors as doe the boots, yet I could get my stuff in a quickie most of the times. Drillneck was 600 coins or so, thanks Cad!

Hi, it is my first time playing a MF build was hoping people could answer a few questions.

1. What map range do you typically stay in. Do you farm Tier 1-5 to keep getting chaos recipes since regals become worthless? Or do you push into the mid/upper tier maps?

2. At what point do you transition from iding rares to doing unid recipes? With the influx of cadiro and the trade improvements is it likely to be something you'd switch to sooner now?

It doesn't seem to do so, but just making sure here. Wither doesn't apply on-hit effect does it?
Thanks,