[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

One note:

If you're looking to pursue challenges, make sure Shipyard is your only (or one of a few) tier 12, Beacon / Sulphur Wastes for T13.

Reason being, the Warbands challenge. You want to try isolate those specific tier drops to Warbands until you get them done. Track the kills and once you have them complete, polish off the rest of 12/13.

Same can be said for doing Overgrown Ruin, Core and Dark Forest, while leaving the other T15s until you're done the end-game grinds (assuming you want to go for 40/40).

You can 36/40 without Guardians, Warbands, Shaper and End-Game if you want, but yeah, just some tips for the 40/40 push.

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hankinsohl wrote:

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BigBankHank wrote:

The postet skill tree is not entirely connected. It seems like OP forgot to take the first three Dex nodes in order to connect the beginning of his tree with the rest? Or am I getting this wrong?

The Scion Ascendancy "Path of the Ranger" is taken so that we can save those 3 dex points and swap them for 3 starting nodes on the ranger starting area.

Ah thank you. So I do in fact take those three dex nodes but remove them later once I get Path of the Ranger? Else I would be super stuck with my character for a while which doesn't sound great.

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BigBankHank wrote:

So I do in fact take those three dex nodes but remove them later once I get Path of the Ranger?

Yup - take those nodes temporarily.

Found these the other day. Might be worth quoting in the optional gear area of your build.

Wasnt a fan of CA but yr vid inspired me to try it out. Loled to see you shoot once and everything in the area just fell over and died. Straight out of one of those cartoon westerns.

Not doing MF until Ive completed a few more challenges. It just isnt worth the hassle of juggling resists and suchlike. But enjoying thee thread...gives me ideas and pointers.

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Sh_dow wrote:

Found these the other day. Might be worth quoting in the optional gear area of your build.

The reason they aren't in the main thread is because quantity is more scarce, and if you have to make a decision while you're leveling the build between Aurseize and Sadima's, you pick Sadima's, hands down, everytime, until you can get your hands on a Goldwyrm.

By then, you can get Andvarius, which renders Aurseize a moot point.

There's also another tidbit addressed in the FAQ about it.

Well those twinned T15 Core Groups are sure hit and miss.

The latest I joined was fantastic. Got 12 boss kills out of the group - didn't die once. Only had maybe 1 or 2 deaths from the party members during the entire run.

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Scilarion wrote:

Forgive me if this has already been asked, but there's a lot of pages to this awesome thread. Is there a consensus on IR or Acrobatics (incl. phase)? It seems we're able to get a helluva lot of evasion, and while I normally go for Acrobatics (it's position usually being the factor), IR seems to be a really tempting choice.

IR for me, always. I also run Enduring Cry instead of Blood Rage. I played this build the firsttime pre-Ascendandy patch as a Ranger and with Acro/Phase in Warbands and never even made it to 90 for all the dying. (granted, I was an inexperienced player, started playing two weeks before Warbands hit). Started going IR in Talisman and never looked back, I still die but it's rarely and the trip to lvl 90 is smooth sailing. I find IR to be a lot more forgiving compared to Acro.

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dagrumm wrote:

Once I'm not worried about leveling, what level maps are good to run?

After 90 I pretty much run everything, T8 the lowest, T10 is easily sustainable and the ones I run most of the time. Sitting at T12 right now and it's all good and doable, though I reroll BM and no regen because it's way too time consuming to be efficient (or enjoyable), Temp chains + chilled is a brutal slog as well.

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dagrumm wrote:

Thanks for the reply. How should I be rolling the maps?

Alterations to get +pack siz? I imagine alching T1-7s isn't worth it.

I don't bother rerolling anything before T6 and start alching at T6, no rerolls though. I usually don't reroll for packsize or anything, only rolling off shitty/undoable mods, Map droprate is insane in AoW.

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hankinsohl wrote:

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Serleth wrote:

I wouldn't worry about rolling pack size til T10+

+1

Make sure to get the Atlas map completion bonus on as many maps as you can. Run whatever new map you find to increase the bonus. With high Atlas bonus, map drops are really nice - I've been sustaining T14+ mostly due to the bonus.

Absolutely this!




Posting these thoughts from the perspective of a not-so-hardcore player.

@hank Damn, I didn't know you still needed Kalria; the only OgR map I ran today had her in it :/

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Sacrifized wrote:

...though I reroll BM and no regen because it's way too time consuming to be efficient (or enjoyable), Temp chains + chilled is a brutal slog as well.

Swap for a quicksilver for a mana flask for no regen, clear speed is more or less sustainable (as long as it's not some labyrinthine map type like Torture Chamber or something).

Blood Magic's easy, drop auras and go. Only starts to get problematic for around T11+ I'd say for your average player, but as a veteran, I've done T14 BM's without slowing down.

I reroll chilled EVERY time. I simply can't stand that mod. UGH.

It's like EVERY time I get chilled, I get fetid shamblers, too. :/

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Serleth wrote:

@hank Damn, I didn't know you still needed Kalria; the only OgR map I ran today had her in it :/

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Sacrifized wrote:

...though I reroll BM and no regen because it's way too time consuming to be efficient (or enjoyable), Temp chains + chilled is a brutal slog as well.

Swap for a quicksilver for a mana flask for no regen, clear speed is more or less sustainable (as long as it's not some labyrinthine map type like Torture Chamber or something).

Blood Magic's easy, drop auras and go. Only starts to get problematic for around T11+ I'd say for your average player, but as a veteran, I've done T14 BM's without slowing down.

I reroll chilled EVERY time. I simply can't stand that mod. UGH.

It's like EVERY time I get chilled, I get fetid shamblers, too. :/

I hate chilled , tempchain AND no reggen its a pain how long i need with no reggen. i spend brightly a chaos to get it not.

And grats hank to your anew victory in the challenge battle hank / ser. and now stay ahaid. :-)

Your post abaut playing can be from me. I played long time wow as a maintank and was with my guild 3 guild on server. BUT i lost my life (3 year s online time and 60 to 80 hours per week with working at day and gaming at night and sleep is not necessary) and nearly my wife.
so i look to a game i can do myself. And poe is it. it dosent care if i play 40 hours per week or only 2. and that is the reason i only play solo.
AND i dont like noob groups. So IF i play in group i must know the members and then its a problem to organice my play time.
But what is different from this game is. The comunity is so helpfool and like in this thread happy and mostly friendly. That is why i like this game and its comunity so much.

AND the last part. In this game are things like this worminator (how the hell managed he his
flasks) possible. they will be nerfed (how he shows in his video) BUT he found a way to go on. Thats a great show. I never play such a build because i dont like to make a build and then bummm they make it dead . But to look what kind of poe breaking builds are possible its verry funny to see.
AND again. Thanks crono and serlet for all the answers and hank for the answers AND the funny build he show me.

Unless Hank is forced to reroll due to his build being unable to kill the Shaper, he'll beat me to 40/40. He has one Warband boss to kill, Shaper, and that's it.

I still have the majority of the end-game grinds to finish. I'd guess I'm at least three days away. Takes me about 10 minutes to do Uber lab if I go for the Argus kill for an extra treasure key, and I have 58 runs to do. That's about 10 hours work right there, plus about 5 mins per Core/Dark forest twinned (about 1.5 hours). Call it 12 hours of grinding.