[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

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Godfeast_1 wrote:

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i just finished act 10 and got a merci lab carry, so ive gotten both occultist and deadeye but havent connected ranger starting nodes.

Ive deviated very little from the passive tree as youve outlined it (2 nodes to get +15% all resist, and i havent taken many jewel slots just because i cant find any of more value than what the tree gives as i go).

starting level 1 maps and damn if harbingers arent tearing my ass up , as well as, the end boss (again), lol.

Still getting the error viewing your character: "This profile tab has been set to private or you the lack the permissions to view it."

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Serleth wrote:

...I can't see your character...

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lmk if something looks messed up if you could. ty

i just finished act 10 and got a merci lab carry, so ive gotten both occultist and deadeye but havent connected ranger starting nodes.

Ive deviated very little from the passive tree as youve outlined it (2 nodes to get +15% all resist, and i havent taken many jewel slots just because i cant find any of more value than what the tree gives as i go).

starting level 1 maps and damn if harbingers arent tearing my ass up , as well as, the end boss (again), lol.

As grim said, your characters are still hidden. Click your account name top left, go to privacy settings and uncheck "hide characters"

Yeah, when leveling I pick up Cloth & Chain as well, as far as I'm concerned that's a standard deviation =)

Found some stuff by Empyrian about doctor farming on youtube. These 2 are pretty funny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYzMcRW4src
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpZxvp2ihdc

If you google his name and twitch there's some condensed clips showing some of his MF gear plus what he's doing to his atlas.

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Man, I remember the days of Dominus farming with no filter in 6-man parties as MF-culler.

Looking back on it now, I'm not sure how the hell I put up with it lol.

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Godfeast_1 wrote:

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Uhhh.

Yeah.

No life on gear. Like actually none, other than on Drillneck.

So you're probably trying to map with like... 1500 life.

You should have double that.

You've focused waaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy too much on trying to get the MF portion of things working without balancing the survivability portion of it.

Adding IIR comes after you've got the build at least somewhat structured around defense.

This means: replacing your gloves, belt, helmet, amulet, and rings with life and resistances, and add IIR if you can, and getting some other 5L as well with life and resistances on it, but at the very least something NON-corrupted so you can alteration-craft life. A 5L chest isn't really necessary though, so you can pick up a life + dual/tri-res chest for dirt cheap and worry about 5L'ing it later while settling for 4Ling it in the interim.

And like I suspected, no seething life flasks. Those are NECESSARY imho for the build to have at least two of them because there's no leech, the regen is sucked up by Blood Rage, etc., so the defense side of the build is pretty much evasion, manually dodging stuff, and instant heal flasks.

You could get away with keeping the helmet for now, because that is nice IIR, if you swapped to a rare chest with life but honestly just getting bits of IIR here and there to start is fine, you don't have to go full tilt. A life helmet with resistances and even 12% IIR is better than a 44% IIR helmet with nothing else on it. Worry about piecemeal upgrading more IIR into the build after your defense is sorted.

Tree looks fine for your level, though, so it's pretty much just a gearing issue.

Hi, thanks for the guide, I finally got my gems to level 20 and 7 of them are CA, just wanted to know how important the quality on CA is before I vaal them as 20x7 gcp can be quite expensive or is it possibly worth it to level all but 1 of them again with gem recipe.

Also I am running a mana flask instead of clarity and the 4 mana nodes and never had any issues with mana, is the extra life flask and passive mana regen that much better than having 4 extra skill points?

Hey Serleth have you considered goin Full IIQ/IIR gear and farm low tier maps for chaos recipes? And what is your approach on farming with MF build, as in what maps you would prefer to run and whats your goal farming in general? At certain point its hard to progress in red maps with Andvarius and im not sure its worth it, while you can safely farm low tier maps as long as your bow is decent, and then possibly switch to DPS oriented gear to do red maps etc.

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Nvrmd wrote:

Hi, thanks for the guide, I finally got my gems to level 20 and 7 of them are CA, just wanted to know how important the quality on CA is before I vaal them as 20x7 gcp can be quite expensive or is it possibly worth it to level all but 1 of them again with gem recipe.

Also I am running a mana flask instead of clarity and the 4 mana nodes and never had any issues with mana, is the extra life flask and passive mana regen that much better than having 4 extra skill points?

Quality is far less important than gem level. Go for 21/0 first, then 21/20.

If you prefer flasks and would rather put the passive points elsewhere, that's fine, but I prefer running two quicksilvers and a third, longer duration life flask for boss fights for when I don't feel I need to panic and spam.

The central reason behind clarity with mana flows + soul siphon is for reduced recovery maps. It negates the need to swap to a mana flask for any map roll OTHER than no regen.

Just a QoL decision more than anything to make alc-and-go a bit easier.

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KostoLev wrote:

Hey Serleth have you considered goin Full IIQ/IIR gear and farm low tier maps for chaos recipes? And what is your approach on farming with MF build, as in what maps you would prefer to run and whats your goal farming in general? At certain point its hard to progress in red maps with Andvarius and im not sure its worth it, while you can safely farm low tier maps as long as your bow is decent, and then possibly switch to DPS oriented gear to do red maps etc.

Yes, and in my opinion running higher level maps is more beneficial than looking to pure chaos recipe farm. If you're running low-tier maps (namely, T1-3) specifically to chaos farm, you're going to get a lot less items worth selling and your currency generation is going to largely rely on the recipe and some alt farming, with the occasional good unique drop.

The moment you hit T4 maps, you're going to be iding all accessories and armours because magic mobs will drop ilvl 72 gear, where the second-highest resistance affix becomes available, and at that point NOT iding gear could result in you vendoring valuable items.

Anything less than ilvl 72 gear after the first couple weeks will pretty much just not sell for much, as people are at that point looking to min-max gear.

(NOTE: This is different in hardcore, where people are constantly rerolling and things that would be vendor food in SC will still sell in HC).

In my opinion, once you have a finished build (CA 21, Empower 3, +3 bow), red tier maps T11-13 shouldn't be much of an issue.

To answer what maps I prefer to run, I look for a combination of speed and affix availability. Given that some of the better attack mods (namely, attack speed) begin at ilvl 77, I like to farm T8 (75) to T11 (78) maps. This allows me to farm tiers that don't really slow the build down, while giving me good access to item drops.

Hi,

I want to thank you for such an enjoyable build.

-Kit