[3.12] Hasunic's Toxic Rain / Caustic Arrow Trickster | Leaguestarter | Ailment Immunity | SSF

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mchawks39 wrote:

Hey all, I'm playing a different version this build but wanted see if a ~15 ex budget would be enough to full swap over to this version of the build. My build is way too squishy and has annoying mana problems, so that would be the big reason as to why I want to switch.

I saw this build in the other TR thread... It's the Evra Ergul one? Please don't play it. It's a POB warrior spec.

Taking both Swift killer and Prolonged pain while neglecting your defenses from Escape Artist (that gives you also decent protection from stuns!) It takes several inefficient nodes like the extra frenzy charges, while you could cut a lot of those (farsight, fury bolts, etc.) and just invest into well rolled cluster jewel for more damage.

It's also completely life based ignoring Trickster synergy with building hybrid (part life part ES) I can understand that on a ranger but on trickster it's such a waste to not go Escape Artist and build some ES.

Also don't know if you bought jewels to the guide's specification or on your own, but you should definitely not buy jewels with poison mods, like the one you have on duelist area. Damage over time, chaos damage, and damage while wielding a bow are the goals (not: "damage with bows", that only buffs initial hit not the whole spell, it needs to say "while wielding a bow"). Area damage is fine too afaik.

Personally I think both Hasunic's and Typicaldemon's guides are better than the youtube one, and this one is definitely more tanky while the other one has Queen of the Forest so has more emphasis on speed / mapclear (for example the other one defaults to no life flask and patient reaper regen).

Also I think Hasunic's idea is better with having TR in bow and CA in body than the other way around. CA is used for mobs that die fast (mapclear), so can be without the gem buffs from bow, but TR is used to help in bossing, if it's in chest and deals less damage than CA in a +3 bow it's counter productive. Especially when you have lvl 20 TR with no empower, no chest corruptions with +gems mods, I expect this to be a waste of a 6-link. I think it's workable with a weapon swap or gem swap too (have CA in bow and swap for TR for bosses and swap conc effect for efficacy), but the current setup rises my doubts.

Anyway Hasunic cleared all endgame content with this build so at least you can trust this guide that the build is indeed viable for everything.

P.S. You don't need unnatural instinct, it might be good but not 12ex+ good. It's a luxury upgrade you should save for your last purchase (that or watcher's eye, depending which one ends up more expensive, probably UI).

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I saw this build in the other TR thread... It's the Evra Ergul one?

You caught me haha. The build did well enough to get me to T16 maps, but yeah I'll definitely be swapping over to this version. I know my jewels are pretty terrible, they're usually some of the last things I look to buy and upgrade. I really just took those two for the corrupted blood immunity on one and some easy evasion and life on the other. Thanks for the advice!

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Defo worth a respec.

And respec I shall do! Thanks again for the help

How many ex do you think is the minimum to get UElder and Sirus A8 safe down?

Hey all, I'm back.

Was just crafting my amulet and I think I might've did something.

Any ideas on what I should do with this thing? The yolo enthusiast in me wants to go for a beastcraft to remove that mana prefix so I can craft some life or ES or something. Anyone know what I should do here?

Keep it as is. Not worth risking something like this

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Hasunic wrote:

Keep it as is. Not worth risking something like this

That's what I figured haha. I think I'm probably going to just sell it and grab some other big gear upgrades. Any idea what I should price this as? Looks like there's a couple of better ones list at about 70 ex.

I just rolled this, is it worth proceeding with the craft even though the regal failed?

I probably wouldn't keep it myself, but I was happy with a bow like thst for a while on ssf

With alts being 4:1 right now, do y'all think it's better to just buy a bow than crafting it yourself?

Just looking for one with attack speed, and those are around 10 ex.

Also love the build. It's great how good it can perform with minimal gear and also have such great scaling.

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nosl1w wrote:

With alts being 4:1 right now, do y'all think it's better to just buy a bow than crafting it yourself.

Just looking for one with attack speed, and those are around 10 ex.

Also love the build. It's great how good it can perform with minimal gear and also have such great scaling.

Thanks! It's most definently expensive to craft yourself with the alt prices.

I think the alts are more like 350:100, so you can get about 473 alterations per exalt atm.

I feel bad about this, because I usually don't like builds that cost that many exalts to put together.