[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

hank if u need some help on start lemme know, im sure ive got some gear that can fit u!,
Slimak1980 u have light res +18% near the scion starting wheel, and ofc u can get from jewels, thats what im planning to do.

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erani wrote:

hank if u need some help on start lemme know, im sure ive got some gear that can fit u!,
Slimak1980 u have light res +18% near the scion starting wheel, and ofc u can get from jewels, thats what im planning to do.

Thanks for your kind offer. I've got semi-OK gear now for Dried Lake farming and am saving for a few big ticket items to complete my build.

Most of my gear at this point is self found (I'm even using a Greed's Embrace I found - Shhh! - don't tell Serleth :-)). I found a pair of killer +30 movement speed boots to compensate though so it's not so bad.

Buddy.



On day 3.

You can keep your Greed's with my congrats =)

Ouch... way to make us all look bad, Serleth! ;)

Slow start for me as well, Hank. Pretty much always is for me at least, I'm always at work Friday, and the weekend is generally family time with the pack of raving dogs... err... I mean, children.

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Serleth wrote:

Buddy.

Spoiler

On day 3.

You can keep your Greed's with my congrats =)

Damnit! Who told Serleth! :-)

Yeah... I actually wasn't planning to magic find at all. Spent 50 chaos on some facebreakers and then realized I actually need about 3ex more for my build to really take off. So I'm cobbling together a magic find set making due with whatever is at hand. So some of the gear is sub-optimal, LOL.

Anyhow, looks like you're off to a nice start Serleth.

=)

Should probably have a better +3 bow by tomorrow, with a slot available for DoT.

Unless I decide to go straight for a 6L.

*****

Also, Warbands challenge :/

You know if they spawn in any maps, or is it all from Prophecy / Unique boxes?

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Serleth wrote:

=)

Also, Warbands challenge :/

You know if they spawn in any maps, or is it all from Prophecy / Unique boxes?

When I first saw this challenge I thought Zana mod - but it looks like Warbands isn't offered this league. So no idea...

According to reddit, Chaos leaders are in Overgrown Ruin, and some guy says he got lightning Warbands in Shipyard, so I'm thinking at least some of them are new map bosses now.

Maybe Shipyard rotates through the rest of them.

Otherwise, what an annoying as piss challenge to have to buy Prophecies ad nauseum to get it done.

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Serleth wrote:

Update re: Essence crafting for our bow:

According to the datamined information on the wiki, there is no +2 to bow gems Essence.

Don't believe everything you read. ;)



Deafening of Dread doesn't give +3, I checked the upgrade in the vendor window.

I wondered if this essence works on bows with ilvl < 64, so in the name of science I farmed for hours (read: 2 minutes) for an ilvl 3 crude bow, and presto:



The ilvl is still 3, but the +2 is guaranteed. I guess this means that you can use a +2 bow at level 51 while leveling this league.

I also wondered if spamming this essence could give you a good start for +3 crafting later on, but I think it's not really worth it. It's very easy to hit useless affixes or worse: no free slot for +1 all or cata mod. You could always try for +1 all, but that would take around 100 of these essences and they're not that common.

My tries so far, in pre- and suffix counts: 3P2S, 3P1S, 1P3S, 2P2S. The last attempt is what I'm using right now:

Nice, man.

That explains the significantly lower +3 bow prices, at least for ones without an open prefix.

I was looking to confirm it myself, since I don't ever trust datamines to be 100% accurate, but seems you beat me to it.

Thanks for sharing =)