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

So I was thinking is there anything I can gear swap for bossing like A8 Sirus? I just finished A4 Sirus and think the fight will be easier with more ES instead of the move speed on QoTF. Are other ppl gear swapping anything for him? Is there a more defense armor I should be running for bosses?

Here is my current setup, I feel good about my damage and I can easily do hard t16s but still have trouble getting 1 shot by high end bosses. Anything I should look to upgrade/change?

How beneficial is Empower4 (difference between lvl 28 and 29 Toxic Rain)?

I'm undecided whether I should buy one or continue saving up for Unnatural Instinct whose price continues to shoot up...

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LegendaryMewtwo wrote:

How beneficial is Empower4 (difference between lvl 28 and 29 Toxic Rain)?

I'm undecided whether I should buy one or continue saving up for Unnatural Instinct whose price continues to shoot up...

Tbh I'd buy the empower, unnatural instinct doesn't give that much for this spec... if you slot it by melding you get some chance to get charges on kill (won't help on bosses) and some life, that's it? In POB upgrading empower from 3 to 4 gives ~10% damage gain (imported your char and checked) and that will apply all the time. For about 1/3rd of the price.

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TheZinter wrote:

Hi, can u look my gear? I have problem with survivability on t14+.

Somehow nearly all your items have no life or crafted life (excluding the uniques that always have it). Crafted life caps at much lower value than having it rolled on an item. That's why you have 3k life when you could have around a quarter more.

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Viktranka wrote:

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LegendaryMewtwo wrote:

How beneficial is Empower4 (difference between lvl 28 and 29 Toxic Rain)?

I'm undecided whether I should buy one or continue saving up for Unnatural Instinct whose price continues to shoot up...

Tbh I'd buy the empower, unnatural instinct doesn't give that much for this spec... if you slot it by melding you get some chance to get charges on kill (won't help on bosses) and some life, that's it? In POB upgrading empower from 3 to 4 gives ~10% damage gain (imported your char and checked) and that will apply all the time. For about 1/3rd of the price.

Thanks again! 10% is actually a pretty sizable boost.

Also... I've been pretty desperate to get to lvl 96, that'll let me path to Survivalist. I don't think many people are grabbing this but seems pretty good even if you are resist capped already.

Edit: just bought Empower4, its a big jump in DPS - tooltip chaos dmg/s went from 77,311.3 to 85,399.7

Thanks for the build idéa, im early in at lvl 55ish but SSF feels like a full twink build in clear speed and survivability.
Going Caustic arrow with toxic for yellows/bosses in separate links.
Havent played in a while so might be some power creep involved but feels really smooth.
5 stars *****

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LegendaryMewtwo wrote:

Also... I've been pretty desperate to get to lvl 96, that'll let me path to Survivalist. I don't think many people are grabbing this but seems pretty good even if you are resist capped already.

It's a defensive node and probably stronger on elemental specs that use taste of hate flask because it has good synergy with the 1% max cold res.

But if you want that I'd just cut that 4% all res node next to resourcefulness, and trickery (20% increased and 10 int is okay but nothing amazing, there's so many sources of stacking "increased damage" that it's a drop in a bucket).

Having trouble deciding where to go from here. I could either get Empower lv4, Enlighten lv 4 (so I can get flesh and stone), a maloney's for QOL or a better necklace with -mana cost to skill so I can optimize my flask setup. I feel like I need survivability as much as I need dps so I can't decide lol.

So i am very noob with crafting,anyone can explain me how do i "isolate" suffixes to craft the end game bow? Ty

Hi!

Been having lots of fun with this build in SSF. Just did Awakener level 1 without dying once. Seems to be pretty stable.

Now I'm curious what to go for next. Is there anything in particular in my build that needs to be replaced?

I feel like I'm mostly lacking in damage. Although survivability is sometimes hard as well in for instance uber atziri.

Very thankful for advice. Please note that I'm SSF so I won't be able to get Vertex for instance, not until I can actually beat uber atziri.

Character: https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/PopiT/characters?characterName=AngouSsf

I know that my auras are a bit messed up and I have to run clarity, but again I can't get level 4 enlighten just like that in SSF so it's a bit hard.


Edit: Also is it worth replacing a gem in the bow with Empower lower than level 4? I got empower level 2. Is this worth using?

whats better for end game bow? provided in guide or +5 gem lvls?