[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

hy Serlet i really appreciated your guide i found it very detailed and noobfriendly - 2nd character on poe , 1st one was a classic Crit ranger with split/tornado - but the crafting part was a bit complicated i would say (for now). So here is my questions :
1- is this build viable with a +2 bow at higher lvl ??
2- is it worthy to farm cruel cause im already hiting hard - even rare monsters died in one/two shot -and i have a 15/230 mf but the drop is not what i was expecting?
for now im only lvl 57,and i really enjoy seeing those monsters melting under my CA cloud.
Thx for your reply , and sorry for my bad english not my mother thongue actually.

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SpiponsS wrote:

hy Serlet i really appreciated your guide i found it very detailed and noobfriendly - 2nd character on poe , 1st one was a classic Crit ranger with split/tornado - but the crafting part was a bit complicated i would say (for now). So here is my questions :
1- is this build viable with a +2 bow at higher lvl ??
2- is it worthy to farm cruel cause im already hiting hard - even rare monsters died in one/two shot -and i have a 15/230 mf but the drop is not what i was expecting?
for now im only lvl 57,and i really enjoy seeing those monsters melting under my CA cloud.
Thx for your reply , and sorry for my bad english not my mother thongue actually.

Hi SpiponsS:

Welcome to the CA thread.

>> 1- is this build viable with a +2 bow at higher lvl ??
Yes, for farming low level maps certainly. But you'll want to save up for a +3 bow to get the full benefit of this build.

>> 2- is it worthy to farm cruel
No. You'll want to push on to merciless. If you're having trouble surviving make sure that your resists are capped and that you have a decent life pool (maybe 1200-1500 or so in cruel, shooting for 3500 or so eventually (perhaps a bit more once you're ready to move onto higher level maps).

Another important survival tip is to make sure that you have 2 Seething Hallowed Life Flasks - these recover health instantly; when you're in trouble, just spam the flasks and move back out of danger.


What I usually do is push into merciless dried lakes and farm that - leveling is fastest in merciless dried lakes and you can both level and magic find at the same time.

Hope this helps.

Hi spiponss

I played this build with a +2 bow and had no big problems with atziri and till t12 maps. the +1 is a nice dmg boost but you can do it without problems with a +2 bow.
And also with all gems at 20/20 and empower 3 and +3 bow i have problems with uber lab and some phys dmg bosses. But that is the evasions part (i survived a map with 3 big slams only because i had luck with evade, and died in a lol map only because i dont realise that all jumping goatmans are jumping on me and i dont evade. so the dmg part is not the real problem as long as you play carefully. With more dmg = more fun and more speed. but its not necessary

yesterday i had the first time corrupted a 4 essence mob.
BUT it was a ele weekness, 79 % more life and 30 attak and movespeed map AND the mob has so much life reggen that i cant kill him. I died 3 times because i cant accept that i had no chance to kill him, because he moved so fast out off my cloud and made frost and fire bolds and jumped on me. so if i go arround him to have a big cloud he allways jumped on me and when i cant shoot a moment he regenerates so fast that i cant kill him.

tried 12 min bevore i give up.

feels verry verry bad man. And i wished i had a wormblaster build :-(((

but it was the first mob i cant kill.

but feels bad :-(((

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ichbinwerichbi wrote:

but it was the first mob i cant kill.

but feels bad :-(((

Two words.

Just two words.

Ancestral Warchief.

In all seriousness, dropping MF for DPS gear might have done the trick for you. Hit it with temporal chains and ice shot to slow it down and have it take cloud damage.

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hankinsohl wrote:

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ichbinwerichbi wrote:

but it was the first mob i cant kill.

but feels bad :-(((

Two words.

Just two words.

Ancestral Warchief.

In all seriousness, dropping MF for DPS gear might have done the trick for you. Hit it with temporal chains and ice shot to slow it down and have it take cloud damage.

oh i am so stupid. i have a pair of gloves with temporal chain on hit. I dont think on that. now i feel more bad. I am so stupid.
that with ice shot i cant understand. should i switch the weapon or instead off frenzy? Ice shot i never used. what the benefit from that. The biggest problem was that the mob regenerates extremly fast. I had never seen a mob with that reg. Is temp chains also slow down the regeneration ? I never used it only for the rampage archievment, because i had the slow down in a map. I was stupid enought to run the map with ele weekness and more mob life because it slow down the clearspeed extrem.
can you short explain what the benefit from iceshot is?

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hankinsohl wrote:

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ichbinwerichbi wrote:

but it was the first mob i cant kill.

but feels bad :-(((

Two words.

Just two words.

Ancestral Warchief.

wasent you the guy who show the wormblaster build in this thread?
I know the ancestral warchief, but the wormblaster seems to be similar effective and looks much more fun

I tried out the solaris hint. But i farmed 2 hours solaris and had no 3 essence mob. so i gave it up, because i hate to farm so long time the same contend. that the reason i had give up hardcore. because there i must be so carefully that the game make no fun for me.
yesterday with the 3 death of the mob i go back from 68 to 38 experience but i am 91 and didnd need really more points. so i can try things without care.

hi, Thank you both for your fast reply , will make sure to follow your advices , i think im doing well till now (1800hp / resistances almost capd and im running 2 andvarius , sadima's touch & sundunce ) was hoping to farm some 60lvl cruel areas to get some chaos recipe to save for a better gear and especally a +3 bow , but i think i will let the farming part untill i reach merciless.
Once i get more comfortable with the crafting mechanics i will surelly come back for more advices.

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ichbinwerichbi wrote:

should i switch the weapon or instead off frenzy? Ice shot i never used. what the benefit from that.

You may need dual curse to handle that kind of silly regen.
Vulnerability increases damage over time and temporal chains makes time pass more slowly for the mob so in a fixed time span it takes more damage. Plus wither stacking - ideally you'd run circles around the mob so that it remains sort of in the same spot so that wither can stack.

Ice shot effectively creates chilled ground under the mob, slowing its movement and other actions.

In a DPS variant of CA, you can link Ice Shot-Curse on Hit-Vulnerability (or Enfeeble or Temporal Chains)-GMP-Frenzy. You use frenzy for single target for frenzy charges - or in this case you'd alternate between frenzy and ice shot.

Continuously shocking it with Vaal Lightning Trap and/or Vessel of Vinktar, plus use of Witchfire Brew could probably burst it down - but those high regen mobs can indeed be a huge pain.