(3.14) Toxic Rain + Caustic Arrow | 5-10m Sirus DPS | Fast + Durable | 50c Budget/SSF Uber Elder

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outlierlol wrote:

Am I missing something obvious?

Except the fact all bosses life got buffed 4-5 times from what their old health pools were? If you kill let's say, Shaper, that has 4x more life, only "a tad bit slower" than last league it already means your current character has much more damage than your old one.

Also toxic rain was never really an "S tier" bossing skill, in comparison to builds that were "look I'm insta phasing this boss in under 1 sec" (and even these will struggle to achieve this nowadays, or can only do so with mirror tier gear).

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Chief_Brody wrote:

Hello and a happy new year @ll first :)

so i`m tired to play my Ball Lightning Miner and search for another build. Now i am here :)
for the first i have only one question.... what the min investment to play T16 maps incl Metamorph bosses?
the bow ... what he must min. get to play fine with it?
for example... i found this one coast 6.5exa. Is it to expensive for that kind of Bow?

Imperial Bow
Physical Damage: 19-78
Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
Attacks per Second: 1.45
Item Level: 100
Requires Level 66, 212 Dex
23% increased Elemental Damage with Attack Skills

+1 to Level of Socketed Gems
+2 to Level of Socketed Bow Gems
+19% to Damage over Time Multiplier
+4 Life gained for each Enemy hit by Attacks
+35% to Chaos Damage over Time Multiplier (crafted)

Honestly, I'd say the biggest investment is the time to level a new character up to 85+. The cost in items - especially several weeks into the league - isn't that much.

Helm: The Vertex
Chest: Queen of the Forest / Carcass Jack / The Perfect Form. 6S, no 6L needed.
Boots: Atziri's Step
Gloves: Typical life / resists. Attack speed & damage over time multiplier are really helpful.
Belt: Stygian with lots of life and resists.
Bow: Any of the +2 +1 6L high attack speed base bows with at least one supporting affix - attack speed, DOT multiplier, etc.
Quiver: Life, resists, attack speed, DOT multiplier(s).
Jewels: 5-15c each, but you only need 3-4, depending on your level and skill tree. Watcher's eye is an optional upgrade.
Flasks: Basic flasks. Upgrades are Witchfire brew and Dying Sun. Neither are required.
Gems: I'd suggest springing for a level 21 toxic rain as soon as you can slot it, but even that isn't expensive, they start at 40c now.

If you price all that out, I expect you're not looking at more than a couple exalts. Can you spend more? Absolutley.

I think the bow you posted is probably a bit over priced, but I haven't actually checked the market recently, so...

Managed to roll Plus 1 to gems, 26 damage over time multi, 7% attack speed on my bow, I'm just going to continue crafting that one, not the ideal tiers I wanted but took so many alts+regals to get it that I'm going to call it a day.

Below are the items I am using at the moment in tier 14 maps, I'm upgrading everything except helm, boots. Can't wait to see how my damage will increase.

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Viktranka wrote:

I'm wondering since 3.9 would it make sense if someone doesn't like perfect form but wants to run more ES focused / no acro build, to use the awakener jewel (thread of hope) in the "lioneye slot" (above acro) with correct radius it should let you pick phase acro without acro itself.

If I'm correct about radius that one should allow to pick Hunter's Gambit without the 3 preceding points if you wanna save them for more impactful nodes, and silent steps should also be in radius for a decent defensive.

Anyone has an awakener jewel lying around to test this? POB doesn't have it implemented to test the different sizes of circles.

i did it, it is good. Also explosions crusader chest is amazing. Dropped vertex too, got +1 arrow hubris instead. Sitting at 8k EHP and my hp\es rolls are not the best

how do you get the rings at a 50c budget? any elreon mod ring is way more than that, especially with life and resists...

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spectrearc wrote:

how do you get the rings at a 50c budget? any elreon mod ring is way more than that, especially with life and resists...

Buy them with an open prefix and craft it on. The craft is only 4 chaos IIRC. I had a crafter re-do mine until I hit max numbers, cost me 20c plus some scours. The base rings didn't cost me even 10c each.

Small update :



I managed to have a +1 toxic rain and -9chaos resist helmet and a new little ring.

Next big upgrade will be lvl4 empower it will be by far the biggest dps boost

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Uriacesjaces wrote:

Small update :

I managed to have a +1 toxic rain and -9chaos resist helmet and a new little ring.

Next big upgrade will be lvl4 empower it will be by far the biggest dps boost

All 4 of my level 3 empowers that I leveled failed to vaal to level 4 :( I guess I will just have to spend the currency, POB says it's a decent dps upgrade.

My feedback on the build now that I have been playing it quite a while is that it maps extremely well, no affixes cause me grief and I have pretty cheap gear. Bosses are safe but a bit slow compared to more expensive builds, but for a league starter this build has done everything I could hope for and more, I don't understand the complaints at all.

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Quantised wrote:

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Uriacesjaces wrote:

Small update :

I managed to have a +1 toxic rain and -9chaos resist helmet and a new little ring.

Next big upgrade will be lvl4 empower it will be by far the biggest dps boost

All 4 of my level 3 empowers that I leveled failed to vaal to level 4 :( I guess I will just have to spend the currency, POB says it's a decent dps upgrade.

My feedback on the build now that I have been playing it quite a while is that it maps extremely well, no affixes cause me grief and I have pretty cheap gear. Bosses are safe but a bit slow compared to more expensive builds, but for a league starter this build has done everything I could hope for and more, I don't understand the complaints at all.

Yes compared to the cost ( it's not a cheap build i think , i've already put like 20Ex).

Mapping is great and single target is a bit low but the build feels realy safe, my previous build was realyt strong but i died a lot.

this build feels realy smooth and is a great all in one i think.

do you guys think "Skills fire an additional Projectile" can be as good as attack speed as suffix in the bow (1.5 base)?