[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

@Slimak1980
I just examined your character - you're currently wearing Kaom's Heart right? Switching from Kaom's to Lightning Coil probably isn't going to do much for you IMO.

Someone on this thread can probably point you at an effective life calculator with which you'd be able to compare Kaom's versus Lightning Coil. I'd make the comparison before investing into LC.

Other factors:
* LC harder to gear for especially if you're intentionally wearing a lot of blues.

* High health from Kaom's helps against all damage types, not just physical.

* High health from Kaom's means that your life regen per second will be higher - a nice benefit.

* In favor of LC is that you'll have up to 6 more sockets available which affords you the ability to run a bunch of quality of life stuff (portal, bone/flesh offering to remove corpses (necrovigil and possibly lock box safety, etc.)

@hank

u making me want to switch to koams after i just bought LC, feelsbadman ;[

kappa

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erani wrote:

@hank

u making me want to switch to koams after i just bought LC, feelsbadman ;[

kappa

Haha :-)

There are pluses and minuses either way - and I suspect that the effective health is pretty close as well. And those 6 sockets you have with coil are worth quite a bit so LC isn't by any means a bad choice. I went coil myself a few leagues back when I was somewhat following Havoc's Poison Arrow character.

For what it's worth I slightly prefer LC over Kaom's - but if I already had Kaom's I wouldn't switch unless I couldn't stand the loss of sockets.

With LC Havoc went dual curse and used something like:

Ice Shot - Curse on Hit - Vulnerability - Temp Chains - GMP

Ice Shot plus Temp Chains slows mobs to a crawl which makes melee mobs really safe to kill.

This sort of setup just isn't possible with Kaom's.

ic, ill try that out!,

how did u get +1curse?, skill tree?, corrupted neck?, uniq ring?

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erani wrote:

ic, ill try that out!,

how did u get +1curse?, skill tree?, corrupted neck?, uniq ring?

Corrupted amulet.

Oh frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!

nice!, 7 more to go,

got this with an essence, dunno if im happy about getting it, or sad about essence thing taking owr MF sweet drops ;[

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erani wrote:

nice!, 7 more to go,

got this with an essence, dunno if im happy about getting it, or sad about essence thing taking owr MF sweet drops ;[

Grats! Me likey.

I'm assuming this is still a viable build in 2.4 or no? I wanted to get started with a budget MF build and have no idea of what to pick.

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Worryed wrote:

I'm assuming this is still a viable build in 2.4 or no? I wanted to get started with a budget MF build and have no idea of what to pick.

I picked this build to start the Essence league with. I think it's very viable as an MF build. It does require attention and encourages an active play style. If leaning back with a bag of Doritos while your totems MF for you is more your style, look somewhere else. I played bow builds during the previous three leagues, so the play style felt natural to me.

This build does take a while to get going. It's easier now, since it's easier to buy leveling gear now. I leveled with shrapnel shot, then LMP lightning arrow and finally GMP tornado shot until my CA got gud. Leveling as a caster should be possible as well, but I didn't feel comfortable doing that.

For me the build started going at lvl 70-ish, having a +2 5-link bow and lvl 17 caustic arrow (CA > void manip. > conc. effect > inc. aoe > pierce). The next big jump in power happened after whacking normal and cruel Izaro for the deadeye ascendancy (replacing inc. aoe with slower projectiles).

Estimated startup cost: around 5-7 chaos for a +2 5-link and a few chaos for basic resist/mf/leveling gear. For leveling without leveling gear, use essences often if you're playing in the league.