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

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percydaman2 wrote:

What would be the best way to craft this moving forward? I know it's not the best bow type, but it's a 6link I have to use moving forward. I'm a bit of a noob with meta crafting. Thanks!

Depends on what you want to end up with. If you're just looking for a +3 bow gems and keeping the extra arrow - which, by the way, I thought you could only get with corruption? - then craft cannot roll attack mods, exalt slam for +1 gems, then can have up to 3 crafted, attack speed and damage multiplier.

It's not an influenced bow, right? No Shaper / Elder / Crusader / etc?

That's correct. Totally non influenced. The suffix is 'of splintering'. Which is capable of rolling on 86 or higher. I saw it a couple times while alt spamming over 100 alts.

Well shit. Crafted cannot roll attack mods and exalted it. Got suffix increased projectile speed. Not sure what I should do with that.

Edit: Well I slammed again and got the +1. Which means I have 1 free suffix and one free affix. So it's no help to craft multi-mod. I guess I either craft the chaos damage over time or attack speed? Maybe slam to try and get the other?

Looking at poedb, I have no chance of slamming the chaos so I need to craft that and then slam and hope I get the attack speed or maybe damage over time and it becomes a nice caustic arrow bow...

Edit 2. I put on the chaos damage over time. Saw a warlord exalt 3 out of 4 chances at something useful. Unfortunately I got the 1 useless mod. Perhaps I can sell this and just buy a decent TR bow.



Final bow.

You could scrub off the craft, buy a craicic chimeral, imprint, and annul, and hope you scrub off something you didn't want. If you fail, just use the imprint and you're back to where you are now.

The beastcraft is worth just shy of 200c each attempt last I checked, but if you've completed everything else, why not? :)

sup dudes. im trying to break free of the summoner menace and try something different. im still low level (75) and leveling gems, but could use some advice on what to try to prioritize next.

also couple questions -

-how often are you using totem? it crushes mana so guessing on boss/meta spawns.
-are you using blink arrow as a movement skill or when a boss gets low for the culling strike?

thanks for all the good posts.

Does POB show empower dps correctly? I try swapping in a lvl 4 empower for my build and it show as a dps loss or very small gain for all my current supports other than mirage archer.

Would also appreciate any recommendations for what to upgrade next if not empower. Im guessing quiver but wasnt sure. Ive got about 8ex to spend.

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Snibe wrote:

sup dudes. im trying to break free of the summoner menace and try something different. im still low level (75) and leveling gems, but could use some advice on what to try to prioritize next.

also couple questions -

-how often are you using totem? it crushes mana so guessing on boss/meta spawns.
-are you using blink arrow as a movement skill or when a boss gets low for the culling strike?

thanks for all the good posts.

Totem just on hard critters - and cast it twice, you get 3 totems. And on delve nodes. Occasionally I'll use it in dark maps just to highlight critters so I know where to shoot.

Use blink arrow for both, and as subterfuge. So for instance, when summoning a metamorph, I'll cast three totems, blink arrow away, then hit all my flasks / vaal skills and drop TR pods on the spawn location. When it spawns, it's taking massive damage over time, and often will go after the totems or my archer clone instead of attacking me straight off. Usually by the time it figures out who's who, it's dead.

I'd scrap withering touch. Either run a self cast despair curse, or hook it up with frenzy / COH. Frenzy boosts our dps output a fair bit, despair is the curse we want on tough critters.

Quiver could use an upgrade - a bigger damage multiplier, and either a second multiplier, extra attack speed, or even more AOE.

Gloves need attack speed at a minimum.

20quality on flasks, and flask affixes to cover freeze, bleed, and curses, while still keeping your Evasion rating high enough to make queen of the forest worthwhile. You shouldn't still need a mana flask. Or even a life flask, for the most part - I carry a life flask for Sirus, that's about it. I only equip a mana flask on no regen maps - and you don't need a life flask there, either, with the recovery on kill from our ascendancies.

Lab enchants. Oil anointments for Cassia encounters on your rings.

After that you're into endgame gear, probably want to start with your bow at that point.

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thwartedlion wrote:

Does POB show empower dps correctly? I try swapping in a lvl 4 empower for my build and it show as a dps loss or very small gain for all my current supports other than mirage archer.

Would also appreciate any recommendations for what to upgrade next if not empower. Im guessing quiver but wasnt sure. Ive got about 8ex to spend.

It does. A level 4 empower should be a reasonable damage boost over efficiacy, although POB doesn't go all the way, for that you need to run the calculations at the bottom of the build guide.

Quiver with damage multiplier... or two... and attack speed or increased AOE for sure. Rings & amulet with -9 to mana cost. Gloves with attack speed. Lab enchants on boots / gloves / helm.

My current gear.

The next steps, I'm assuming in this order:
* Empower 4
* Ammy with a +1 to Dex gems
* annoint the new ammy
* better quiver with double multipliers

And the following whenever:
* better -mana rings (but I'm comfortable with current mana usage, maybe it'll change once I get Empower4)
* better enchants on helm and boots (running lab gets boring though)
* health flask to Witchfire whenever I get anti-bleed jewel

Anything else I'm missing? I'm assuming that'll cost me the next 20-30ex?

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Also, roughly how much chaos resist should I aim for? I currently have +24.

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What are stats priority for us after meeting gear requirements?
Str for health first, Int for mana, then Dex for evade?

How important are the -9 mana cost rolls on rings? I can’t seem to find any on the marketplace. Are they craft only at -9?

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d373rmined wrote:

How important are the -9 mana cost rolls on rings? I can’t seem to find any on the marketplace. Are they craft only at -9?

-9 is craft only. Temple rings only go to -8.

It's not hard to get, just buy them without the craft and add it on. It's only a few chaos. Just need to have an open prefix.

You'll need it for sure if you want to squeeze the most out of your mana pool.