[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

Late to the party, but congrats on the completion of the 40 challenges. And all before the race rewards became available.

Good advice in getting the Nemesis sextant mod. Found a seller within the hour of joining /trade 820. Now to see if I can find a Warbands Strongbox...

So are you saying to start with Scion in SC and go for chain from deadeye and then some stuff from one of the witches ascendancy trees? I'd like to try this if I have time this league, I really like damage over time.

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Umbral_Spectre wrote:

So are you saying to start with Scion in SC and go for chain from deadeye and then some stuff from one of the witches ascendancy trees? I'd like to try this if I have time this league, I really like damage over time.

Yes for the scion start in SC. Ranger ascendancy is Deadeye (Pierce and Extra Projectile). Witch ascendancy is Occultist (Cursed enemies -15% chaos res, 20% damage boost if cursed enemy was killed recently). Eventually Path of the Ranger to save a few travel nodes.

The build is a lot of fun, would recommend if you have the time.

edit: found it in the FAQ

Sadly, I think I'm going to lay this build to rest for now.
Not that it isn't good, but MF is in a really weird position right now and I feel like I'm getting overpowered by other builds that have way more DPS and just clear much faster. I also feel like I'm nearly reaching the peak of my damage, with the only optimizations being 2 more frenzy charges and lvl21 gems + lvl4 empower.

However, I do really love the CA playstyle in general, so I still want to at least try respeccing to a CA build without MF and see how it goes. Would this require a lot of respec points and/or changes in gear and how is the DPS compared to MF CA? I'm rocking a 6L bow + 6L chest right now and got about 5ex to blow, so I'd love to see some suggestions :)

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DarkKaine wrote:

edit: found it in the FAQ

Sadly, I think I'm going to lay this build to rest for now.
Not that it isn't good, but MF is in a really weird position right now and I feel like I'm getting overpowered by other builds that have way more DPS and just clear much faster. I also feel like I'm nearly reaching the peak of my damage, with the only optimizations being 2 more frenzy charges and lvl21 gems + lvl4 empower.

However, I do really love the CA playstyle in general, so I still want to at least try respeccing to a CA build without MF and see how it goes. Would this require a lot of respec points and/or changes in gear and how is the DPS compared to MF CA? I'm rocking a 6L bow + 6L chest right now and got about 5ex to blow, so I'd love to see some suggestions :)

There's a few options out there. Hidden Potential life build, CI Occultist build, etc.

Tree wise, wouldn't require respeccing much of anything to go Hidden Potential life, but you'd need to regear. Keep Drillneck but go basically magic everything else.

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Chronoexile wrote:

Late to the party, but congrats on the completion of the 40 challenges. And all before the race rewards became available.

Thanks, bud!

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Serleth wrote:

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DarkKaine wrote:

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However, I do really love the CA playstyle in general, so I still want to at least try respeccing to a CA build without MF and see how it goes. Would this require a lot of respec points and/or changes in gear and how is the DPS compared to MF CA? I'm rocking a 6L bow + 6L chest right now and got about 5ex to blow, so I'd love to see some suggestions :)

There's a few options out there. Hidden Potential life build, CI Occultist build, etc.

Tree wise, wouldn't require respeccing much of anything to go Hidden Potential life, but you'd need to regear. Keep Drillneck but go basically magic everything else.

If you don't want to switch to Hidden Potential, you could stay a life build and just swap around four or five gear pieces for more damage. Not sure if you are running a Carcass, but if not that should be the chest. Switch your three jewelry pieces to pieces crafted with Deafening of Envy (bonus points if the Amulet is a +1 Frenzy). Switch your boots for a pair of Blooddance, Darkray, or Atziri's Step (preferably with a +1 Frenzy corruption).

Ohh and the obvious statement, recolor your bow to replace IR with VM, RD, or Pierce (which ever one is currently not in your links).

Hi and Many thanks for guide and this great build.

Am not sure what i can change to improve my dps and my build.
My Caustc arrow is 17101.8 chaos damage. Can we go higher or it wont be possible. I seen some guys got 28k on Caustic arrow,

My gear.


Skill Trea

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max1982 wrote:

Hi and Many thanks for guide and this great build.

Am not sure what i can change to improve my dps and my build.
My Caustc arrow is 17101.8 chaos damage. Can we go higher or it wont be possible. I seen some guys got 28k on Caustic arrow,

My gear.

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Skill Trea

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https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAABAABeAO4B0QMeBS0FtQguCdkM8g5IES8TbRQJFHUVIBa_GNsZjhm0Go0byB9BI_YmiCaVKk0qWyzpLYMuIy5TMHwxNTWSNj031D7PPydDMUM2R35KyE2SUUdS7FoaWlJbJluvYeJirGVNbIxuaW6qdO11y3aCefZ7bnvDfXV_-4TZhrOHB419jX6Nv5OZlyGbXZzEnaqhIqJAo4qly6iar-u0xbTRtUi18rcitzC3trueu-O9Nr3mvqfBfMLswzPEosgMykbP3dNv037UI9X42L3awd0N4q3jhOXm6mLrY-0_7YPuDu968Yryl_T49qP-j_66

Fully buffed you'll hit about 25k or so.

That's about as potent as this build gets because of the IIR gem in the bow.

You still need quality on Conc, Rapid and Void. That'll improve you a little bit once you 20/20 those.

Tree-wise, you're fine. The only way you're getting more damage is if you do Uber Lab to get Path of the Ranger and then respec pretty much completely out of Scion like this, going from 26% dmg from Scion to 101% dmg from Shadow. Accounting for 24% on your jewel socketed there, you'd get an additional 51% increased at the cost of the 10% res all.

Hence, we go Scion. More balance between life / resistance / survivability with less of a focus on dps.

There's no real way to squeeze damage out of gear in an MF setup unless you're willing to blow a lot of currency rolling your amulet with Envy essences.

For your gear in general, honestly I don't know what values you're going for here. If you want to aim for how I have the build set up, you'll need to sacrifice your helmet's MF for better res balance and life, you should be able to pick up a decent IIR amulet in Standard that's better than that one, with life and some res, recover some of the helmet's lost IIR on your gloves instead, and it seems like you're really heavily investing in getting stats on your gear. Don't be afraid to pick up a +30 int node on the tree to make gearing easier.

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max1982 wrote:

Hi and Many thanks for guide and this great build.

Am not sure what i can change to improve my dps and my build.
My Caustc arrow is 17101.8 chaos damage. Can we go higher or it wont be possible. I seen some guys got 28k on Caustic arrow,

My gear.

Spoiler

Skill Trea

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https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAABAABeAO4B0QMeBS0FtQguCdkM8g5IES8TbRQJFHUVIBa_GNsZjhm0Go0byB9BI_YmiCaVKk0qWyzpLYMuIy5TMHwxNTWSNj031D7PPydDMUM2R35KyE2SUUdS7FoaWlJbJluvYeJirGVNbIxuaW6qdO11y3aCefZ7bnvDfXV_-4TZhrOHB419jX6Nv5OZlyGbXZzEnaqhIqJAo4qly6iar-u0xbTRtUi18rcitzC3trueu-O9Nr3mvqfBfMLswzPEosgMykbP3dNv037UI9X42L3awd0N4q3jhOXm6mLrY-0_7YPuDu968Yryl_T49qP-j_66

All your jewels need to be upgraded. I run with all my jewels being double damage mods + dual resist until I get resist capped, then the remaining ones are either 3 damage mods or 2 + life. For ~20c you should be able to boost quite a bit. Try a search like this: http://poe.trade/search/ukekazuboketag

Ninja edit: Just noticed you are in Standard, not breach. Search link edited to reflect that.