[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

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ichbinwerichbi wrote:

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Serleth wrote:

For sure.

Although for the Fingerless Silk Gloves I plan on using high level Woe's, and a bit of prayer =)

is that for your second char? or why silk gloves? they dont do anything for ca right?

I all leages verry interested in seing how fast people make the challenges.

And shaper with this build is undoable i think.

I like this thread so much because its one of the only threads where are so much nice people and the thread builder serleth is verry aktive. and he answers with two or three other nice people all questions. thats verry rare here in forum. Often people take over old threads to give people further advice. But this thread is verry long and verry helpful and lives now since over a year.
great work and thanks to all who help to let it grow further.

For the fingerless gloves: profit. =) Hoping to get lucky.

I'm normally 36/40 by this point, but I'm changing the way I approach the challenges this league. Normally I just do things like how in Prophecy I bought the twinned T15 kill and leeched some stuff for other things, like the Unique strongbox.

This league, I want to solo everything. So it's taking me more time.

I'm glad you really enjoy this thread, ichbinwerichbi. Thanks for your kind words =)

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What are the fine people of this thread planning on doing for grinds?

Uber lab (my second build will crush this easily, making it profitable to do), Rigwald, and either Core Malachai or Vaal Temple bosses.

Im newbie with this build and just returned to game since invasion league. But I already have opinion (this noobs always do have some, huh?). First what I see, speed benefits SO MUCH. I really doubt goldwyrm is good enough. Run, click, run, click, enemies dead. Running just like additional layer of defense. Sure 2 speed flasks helps, but it helps on long runs, during fight u spam and click too much, to include one more switch(actually 2) to rotation. Second, on HC league perfecting this build, with all craft and buying stuff, not sure, at the end of the day, this build is support-farm build for main char, it should not take half league to equip farmer. Ill be back with more feelings after 5-6 levels advance.

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First what I see, speed benefits SO MUCH. I really doubt goldwyrm is good enough. Run, click, run, click, enemies dead. Running just like additional layer of defense. Sure 2 speed flasks helps, but it helps on long runs, during fight u spam and click too much, to include one more switch(actually 2) to rotation.

a) Base speed is almost irrelevant for any MF'er whose intent is to pick up most of the drops. You're stopping too much to make it worthwhile to invest in speed with something like QotF, high MS rare boots, certain Ascendancies. Hence the dual quicksilver, the second of which is largely to help cover off when you have to do a lot of backtracking. Maps like Grotto or Tower come to mind for this.

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Second, on HC league perfecting this build, with all craft and buying stuff, not sure, at the end of the day, this build is support-farm build for main char, it should not take half league to equip farmer. Ill be back with more feelings after 5-6 levels advance.

I had this build fully geared, other than the Empower gem, on day 3. That took me about 16 hours of play. That included a 6L, dual andies, Goldwyrm, and Drillneck. I got the +arrow Drillneck (4ex) the next day.

If it takes you half a league to equip a farmer, it's not an issue with the build.

So, can I use Silverbough for leveling? Which level should I aim for a better bow? Thx :D

Silverbranch* yes, but CA isn't a very good levelling skill. You would be better off levelling in a normal phys bow type setup and transitioning from Storm Cloud or something into Roth's Reach, then Death's Harp to carry you into maps. If you wanted to level with bows

thank u for share this build, i will try later

@hank

You buy out the rare items?

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Serleth wrote:

@hank

You buy out the rare items?

I had 4 of the 6 bases complete already. So I then bought out some white/blue Fingerless Silk Gloves and Spiked Gloves, spending at most 1 fuse on each of them, and used those to complete the challenge.

For me, it's a waste of time trying to hunt them down yourself.

The only other challenges gated by running lots of instances are the "Claim these Essences" and "Complete three Endgame Grinds."

But you can double-dip on these, finding the essences while doing the endgame grinds. But whatever you run for the endgame grinds won't help finding the new bases so I decided to just buy them - and for well under 4c spent, totally worth it.

Cool.

I'll hunt for them myself, probably. I'm going to need to farm up currency anyway in order to afford to buy the maps for the end-game grinds / guardian maps, so I might as well at least give it a go. Gonna be a few exalt of chaos, esp considering I want to solo everything down and not buy vaal temple kills or whatever.

I'm 3/5 on a few base types already, so it shouldn't be an issue. Besides, I gotta try attrition down the last essence I need, might as well just crush a bunch of maps and generate currency while I go hunting.

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Serleth wrote:

Cool.

I'll hunt for them myself, probably. I'm going to need to farm up currency anyway in order to afford to buy the maps for the end-game grinds / guardian maps, so I might as well at least give it a go. Gonna be a few exalt of chaos, esp considering I want to solo everything down and not buy vaal temple kills or whatever.

I'm 3/5 on a few base types already, so it shouldn't be an issue. Besides, I gotta try attrition down the last essence I need, might as well just crush a bunch of maps and generate currency while I go hunting.

The Atlas bonus is really nice. For sure you'll need to do a bit of grinding - but if you chisel and roll 14s and 15s for packsize/quantity, you'll generate a surprising number of high tier maps:



I also have a couple of Colosseum's for sale.