[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

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hankinsohl wrote:

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ichbinwerichbi wrote:

one question i forgot. can i get 4 essence monster only per corruption or is there a possibility they have in a map 4 essences?

As others have replied, the only way to get this is to successfully corrupt three essences into four.

You'll probably get this done simply by running a lot of maps.

But I brute-forced this in under an hour by running Merciless Lunaris level 1 (enter via the front door, not the door leading to 2nd level) and making my way into the 2nd room. Usually there's one or two sets of Essence monsters in that room. If not, leave and reset; just repeatedly reset until you find a set that contains three essences and corrupt.

You should actually be able to do this much faster than I did because I was killing all the mobs anytime I found essences to build up an essence stash. If you just skip killing anything that doesn't contain 3 essences this shouldn't take more than 30 minutes or so max I'd say.

Hi Hank
thanks a lot for this hint. I run maps as a monkey and had only 5 times a three essence mob and the corruption didn bring a 4 essence mob.
But lunaris should be much faster. Thats a really good idea.

As another question. why wrote serlet he would essence silk gloves. Has this anything to do with this build. He didnd answer my question :-)

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hankinsohl wrote:

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Serleth wrote:

Haaaaaaaaaaaank.

Got any decent non-meta melee builds you've scoped out recently? Say, T13 capable?

Not at the moment.

I'm working on Ancestral Warchief toon number 3 this league, LOL. I'm going triple-totem, Berserker for maximum DPS. I'm trying to figure out which Warchief toon to use for Guardian/Shaper kills - my triple-totem Chieftan can kill all the guardians albeit with a bit of a struggle. I'm hoping to find something that will make Shaper key farming a bit easier.

For Shaper, I hear that high DPS really helps - hence the Berserker toon.

Mathil always trys out a lot of toons each league, most of them non-meta. He prefers ranged but once in awhile he rolls melee. You might want to see if he has any toons that catch your fancy.

as i wrote
The ancestral warshief toon is amazing. But you know that yourself :-)

I never saw a faster uber kill atziri and itzaro.

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ichbinwerichbi wrote:

why wrote serlet he would essence silk gloves. Has this anything to do with this build.

There's quite a lot of questions/discussion going on so sometimes questions are overlooked and thus go unanswered.

At any rate, Serleth was just hoping for a lucky enchant to generate a pair of really high value gloves to sell.

And as for the 6 link rnd generator discussion

look at this :-)

The probability for this is so low that this shouldend happen. Only if the rng is not really rng

and this guy makes that not the first time in a leage.

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ichbinwerichbi wrote:

And as for the 6 link rnd generator discussion

look at this :-)

The probability for this is so low that this shouldend happen. Only if the rng is not really rng

and this guy makes that not the first time in a leage.

There are so many things going on in POE, so many players doing things, that extremely unusual things happen all the time.

Trust me... it's all RNG. The reason you see unusual results with any frequency is that when they occur, people announce them - either extreme good or bad luck. The average result is almost never mentioned - and when it is, ho-hum, so-what.... it's ignored.

So unless you're trying to 6-link multiple items in a league, don't try to self 6-link; yes you could get lucky, but equally as well you might fail - pretty much ruining your experience for that league.

I recommend that:
If you need a 5 or 6 link, 6 socket not using Vorici - you'll be very unlucky to fail this. But if you just need to 6-socket one item, I'd use Vorici.

Next, 5-link on your own. Occasionally you'll get lucky and 6-link.

If not, stop.

From theat point on, just save fuses until you can 6-link using Vorici - it's a 20% premium to use Vorici - but the result is guaranteed.

OtOH, if you want to 6-link but don't play enough to save up enough fuses to 6-link using Vorici, then roll the dice. Hopefully you can purchase 2 of the items you want to 6-link - once you hit 5-links on one of the items, stop on that item - you now have a 5-link - and try to 6-link the 2nd item.

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hankinsohl wrote:

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ichbinwerichbi wrote:

one question i forgot. can i get 4 essence monster only per corruption or is there a possibility they have in a map 4 essences?

As others have replied, the only way to get this is to successfully corrupt three essences into four.

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This is not true. You can find 4 Essence monsters in the wild. I found one yesterday, or maybe the day before. I am pretty sure I saved a screenshot. When I am back home from work I will check, and if I did I will post the image.

Until I can post my own image, here is someone's screenshot of a Corrupted 5 Essence monster. As corrupting can only add one more Essence it must have started as a 4.

what is the best tier for mapping? Because i can clear tier 13 easily but at the boss i fight him for
2-4 min. Or i should skip bosses ?

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ChronoExile wrote:

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hankinsohl wrote:

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ichbinwerichbi wrote:

one question i forgot. can i get 4 essence monster only per corruption or is there a possibility they have in a map 4 essences?

As others have replied, the only way to get this is to successfully corrupt three essences into four.

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This is not true. You can find 4 Essence monsters in the wild. I found one yesterday, or maybe the day before. I am pretty sure I saved a screenshot. When I am back home from work I will check, and if I did I will post the image.

Yeah, I forgot that some essence packs are already corrupted. I stand corrected.

Nonetheless this is exceedingly rare.

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hankinsohl wrote:

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Nonetheless this is exceedingly rare.

Agreed, I've only found two 4 essence monsters so far, and the most recent was in a T15 map. My Screenshot

Huh. I never saw a raw 4-essence monster. Just assumed it was corrupt only after pushing two characters to 91.