[3.16] Caustic Arrow/Death's Oath Occultist [Life based Chaos Autobomber]

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SUNRA3000 wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I'm just a casual POE player in the process of re-speccing from a Skelly Necro to this build, everything is going well so far following the no Cluster POB and having an almost BIS Bow it was not so expensive. (around 12 EX no 21/awakaned gems)

I just wanted to confirm something with you I'm having a terrible time maxing out any resistances with 2 magic rings, being the most worrying chaos resistance.

But then I saw on the POB for 3.15 that none of the trees have capped resistances, being chaos around 30%.

Does this mean it's ok to run without capped resistances? Is there some mod or defense layer I'm missing?

I do have Arakaali and Shakari and plan to put Aspect on gloves but still all the build guides I followed in the last 3 years say it's oh so important to be capped.

Please shed a light on this casual, thank you in advance!

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f4ward wrote:

You always need to cap elemental resists and close to capped Chaos DoT res (25% comes from upgraded Arakaali)

Most of the resists should come from Quiver, Belt and Gloves. I'm not paying close attention to the resists in POB, since gear can vary a lot.

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Inkaflare wrote:

I have all resistances capped on my character here:
https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Inkaflare/characters/PurplePopcornWalker

I am using Divine Flesh so capped Chaos resist is a must. It took getting some resists on jewels, and I don't have optimum gear yet to be able to drop the Inertia jewel (it's doable but I'll need a better belt or 2 Implicit synthesized rings), since rings need to cover resists there is no space for strength.
You could also drop Atziri's step for influenced boots with life + resists + movement speed + spell dodge (slightly lower value than Atziri's), this will make getting your resists capped significantly easier as well but it's obviously more expensive too.
I definitely recommend getting your Chaos resist capped, though. It's both to reduce the self degen from Death's Oath and for generally being able to shrug off Chaos damage from enemies more easily. Poisons are especially deadly this patch.

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f4ward wrote:

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Amir_Ban wrote:

The one without Cluster Jewel is good but damage to the bosses are bad,

The one with one Cluster is fine, damage to the bosses are fine but your character will pop out of nowhere, you die alot. the bow doesn't even exist on the trade this is how bad things are this league.

The one with Two Cluster is so expensive that is not buildable. but i guess it kills you even more since monsters have speed of light and attack speed of gods.

Guess it's not the problem with the build but how pathetic the state of the game is right now. expensive/useless.


Edit: Threw aways that usless Aspect of the Spider gloves and got one with better evasion and cap resistances, Threw aways Flesh and Stone since it does nothing and most of the deaths happens two screens aways even after patch. Got Grace/Dispare/Malevolence setup instead of F&S and Spider. can survive alot more.

The bows are abundant (and were there since the end of the first week) or can be easily crafted

Single cluster, if you look at the perfect cluster, is even more expensive that dual cluster (medium with Flow of life+Brush with death is 7-8ex)
With dual cluster you can mix and match Flow and Brush with different notables and get it significantly much cheaper.
You also get more regular jewel sockets and can use life+res to help cap res, or whatever else you need.

You have 4.3k life and only a single Brush with death, so your recovery is limited, and no wonder you complain about lots of deaths.

Flesh and stone gives you 11% less damage taken from enemies not nearby (including off-screen) and huge avoidance bonus when they are near you.
Spider is both offensive and defensive and has lower reservation than other auras, so you can fit 4 aura.
But, whatever works for you.

You didn't go for Forbidden Taste, which is the best survivability upgrade this league

This build got hit very mildly this league, and frankly can still do anything it could previously. There is nothing sad about the state of the game ;)

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Protax010 wrote:

I've a level 97 Occulist, that I'm not using currently. Thinking of making this my mapper alt.

Currently have around 30 ex to spend, do you guys think it's possible to build this char with amount of currency?

Thanks :)

Edit: Got the helmet on my FR char.

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SUNRA3000 wrote:

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Protax010 wrote:

I've a level 97 Occulist, that I'm not using currently. Thinking of making this my mapper alt.

Currently have around 30 ex to spend, do you guys think it's possible to build this char with amount of currency?

Thanks :)

Edit: Got the helmet on my FR char.

Changed from Necromancer Skelly Mages to this build with 15 Ex, had to skip awakened gems, level 21 gems, empower and enlighten 4, clusters > still very good T16 mapper but bosses are a pain.

I reckon that with 30 Ex if you are really careful with what items make a difference in damage you can make your character also a decent bosser but you won't achieve everything that is on the POB.