[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

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grimjack68 wrote:

Hey, for those of you that have completed the Perandus Chests Challenge... I'm still missing the Archive. Anyone recall where you found that one? Does it only spawn on t12+ maps or some such?

I got one yesterday in a magic unid Reef map. Was hella surprised! Missing 3 other boxes though.

just curious, any benefits to projectile speed? or should i scour

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Statusblue wrote:

just curious, any benefits to projectile speed? or should i scour

Not really, all those using Slower Projectiles as a 6th link would possibly prefer it.

I'd still take attack speed though, especially on a 1.4 AS base.

Heya ,
How is AoE clear speed and mapping speed with this build? Will I be able to run high tier/reflect maps? ^^

Hi Serlet

i like this build so much and it s the build i least died.

But how do you manage to get 30 challenges in 4 days. I tried it since the
leage began and had 14 as you had 8 and dont play for a few days. I played every
day 2 to 3 hours and still have only 18.

Is there a trick ?

Still need a locker chest and some chest guards. Are there zones they stay often?

Thanks for the help and excuse my bad english.

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Aedre32 wrote:

Heya ,
How is AoE clear speed and mapping speed with this build? Will I be able to run high tier/reflect maps? ^^

Clear speed is very good up until mid tiers (T9-T10 or so) but after that there is a little bit of waiting if you want to see your drops since you have to wait for the DOT cloud to kill the enemies. If you want to speed it up a bit you can add sounds to your loot filter and only go back to check drops if you hear something good drop.

High tier maps are no issue, as long as you are alone. I ran up to T13s last season and still found them extremely smooth and easy. Once you join a group, the life multiplier makes the enemies take far too long to kill, and you become mostly useless to your party.

In lower tier maps, the clear speed is very good but still doesn't compare to something like cyclone CoC discharge where you can clear at run speed.


Reflect maps are a non issue since chaos damage cannot be reflected. If you are very unlucky there is a small chance you can 1 shot yourself on a physical reflect map with our frenzy curse set up, but I've never had this issue. Either keep your frenzy gem low level or just don't try to curse for that map.

@grim: I don't remember where I got archive, but if it was in a map, it was a relatively low tier one... I think I got one in Merciless as well... any lvl 60 map should work same as regular map drops... also got Locker, the other hard one, in Solaris 1

@Aedre: the AoE is good just with Deadeye's 2nd arrow shooting out in a V-shape... you can expand that with helm enchant, Caustic Arrow quality, and corrupting Drillneck for a 3rd Arrow +1 implicit

As for clear speed... with my current 16k maxed tooltip (lvl 24 CA), I think up to tier 5-7 go pretty quick... 3-5 minutes when I start rushing around... once I get CA up to lvl 26-28, I'm sure I'll be able to get similar speeds up to tier 8-10... from what I understand, that's where the build caps out for speed clearing

@ichbin: I think there are a number of factors to challenge speed... how many friends you have to share the burden, and how willing you are to lurk in global 820, trade 820, and trade 304 buying and snatching up free challenge completions... among other things

I've been playing way too much, and done most progress solo, and have kept to about a challenge a day on average, with most of the rest of the challenges 50-75% complete... still need last lvl to 90, 700k Zana, 7 enchantments, 3 cadiro deals, High Templar, Vaal Temple and Tormented Thief, 2 Divination Sets, 4 Twinned clears, four 8mods, and one treasure ID (self found so far Hegemony, Crown, and Kaom)

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Piros wrote:

@ichbin: I think there are a number of factors to challenge speed... how many friends you have to share the burden, and how willing you are to lurk in global 820, trade 820, and trade 304 buying and snatching up free challenge completions... among other things

I've been playing way too much, and done most progress solo, and have kept to about a challenge a day on average, with most of the rest of the challenges 50-75% complete... still need last lvl to 90, 700k Zana, 7 enchantments, 3 cadiro deals, High Templar, Vaal Temple and Tormented Thief, 2 Divination Sets, 4 Twinned clears, four 8mods, and one treasure ID (self found so far Hegemony, Crown, and Kaom)

Thanks for the answer. I play only solo, because wow (i was maintank)nearly destroyed my life. No friends no job and nearly the same what someone write here sometime no girlfriend anymore.
So i had the choise between girlfriend and wow.
I choosed girlfriend and stoped playing any game.
After 3 years i found this game and its verry nice to play. But i will never play with friends or guild to not set playing over real life.

So i play only solo.

but i think then is 18 not sooo bad :-)

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ichbinwerichbi wrote:

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Piros wrote:

@ichbin: I think there are a number of factors to challenge speed... how many friends you have to share the burden, and how willing you are to lurk in global 820, trade 820, and trade 304 buying and snatching up free challenge completions... among other things

I've been playing way too much, and done most progress solo, and have kept to about a challenge a day on average, with most of the rest of the challenges 50-75% complete... still need last lvl to 90, 700k Zana, 7 enchantments, 3 cadiro deals, High Templar, Vaal Temple and Tormented Thief, 2 Divination Sets, 4 Twinned clears, four 8mods, and one treasure ID (self found so far Hegemony, Crown, and Kaom)

Thanks for the answer. I play only solo, because wow (i was maintank)nearly destroyed my life. No friends no job and nearly the same what someone write here sometime no girlfriend anymore.
So i had the choise between girlfriend and wow.
I choosed girlfriend and stoped playing any game.
After 3 years i found this game and its verry nice to play. But i will never play with friends or guild to not set playing over real life.

So i play only solo.

but i think then is 18 not sooo bad :-)

Well you won't get to 40 challenges with this attitude. Get your head in the game, man!

I dunno... his attitude is the better one to have, I think. And with 18 challenges in 27 days, he can probably get most of the last 22 in the next 60 days...

Less likely to burn-out before the league ends, too, probably.

I'm at my highest gaming time in nearly a decade the last few months... and I only rationalize it because I've been listening to so many books instead of reading them :D... Could get more listening done if I didn't waste so much time on masters rotations in 820