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

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f4ward wrote:

After some thoughts about the defenses, I decided to drop Determination and instead use Enfeeble, since we have a second curse available anyway.

While Armour reduces our Phys damage taken, Enfeeble reduces all monster damage including Elemental.

And without Impresence, we can fit in Despair, Enfeeble, Malevolence and Purity of Elements.

Caustic Arrow and Withering Step are linked to Lifetap, so we don't need mana for them and we always have Lifetap buff up.

Next significant upgrades, for me, in this order:
Impresence - to free Despair reservation, so we can fit in Aspect of the Spider.
Enlighten - For Malevolence and Purity
Empower - For CA DPS (only once we have enough available mana)
And somewhere in between - better Bow, Gloves and Quiver

I have updated the POB, removed the evasion variant and changed the armour variant.

There's "Current" tree and gear, which is my current, mostly scrappy, gear.

There's "Target" tree and gear, which is what to aim for.

No cluster variant has 80% stun avoidance, which seems enough. For cluster version, Brine King would be needed unless we find a better way.

POB: https://pastebin.com/H8z6G71e

Thanks for giving the guild. I've been following yours for 2 leagues.

This league I chose to go with Evasion rating and took advantage of '8% increased damage per aura' from Reservasion Mastery to run 5 auras (3 of them at lvl1) + Despair to boost damage

For defense I use Enfeeble, Vaal Grace and Def Banner so I get damage reduction and evasion at the same time

Evasion around 20k, life 5k2, no cluster
Dodging most of the hits, clear super fast and bossing pretty good with a shitty bow.

Anyway just want to share my set up this leauge! Here the POB: https://pastebin.com/Hz4YNkNr

One easy way to deal with stuns are getting avoidance implicits on our jewels. We have enough to get 100% stun avoidance from that alone and still have a slot open for corrupted blood immunity. They are really cheap to get and you can harvest craft an implicit on anything expensive, like our timeless jewel.

Currently starting on red maps, and figured I'd chip in. Build generally feels fantastic while mapping, but bossing is generally rougher due to a lack of sustain (most of it is from lifegain on kill). I'm currently testing out running a life flask + Soul of Ryslatha to see if that helps.

I've switched to using Divine Flesh, which is great for most damage, but also krangles the Resistance / Ailment Protection cluster. Currently looking into a replacement solution for stun avoidance and corrupted blood immunity - it feels like physical DoTs are extremely lethal. Looking at my PoB, I have ~30-45k EHP against most damage, but only 5k against physical DoTs, which is... not great.

Anyway, I've put bleed/corrupted blood prevention on my life flask, so hopefully that will help... Long-term, stun avoidance harvest implicits on my jewels + corrupted blood jewel definitely seems like the optimal solution.

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frost21 wrote:

Damn, yeah I think I would deff want to just craft the bow. But how much would that cost, like 8-9ex or so right? Could I finish up rest of the build decently for another 1-2ex?

Personally, i was lucky to bough a shitty bow at 1ex for beginning, ( +3 gems 6L Thicket ), and then, i crafted another one from a base with just "T1 damage over time", got lucky to 6L with less than 50 fus, and i think, i spend 10 ex for craft the rest, let's see :

- Imprint/Regal first try : 0.3ex
-Multi craft : 2ex
- Cannot roll Attack : 1 ex
- 1 ex for + 1 socketed gem
- 1 hunter exalt for chaos damage over time
- Multi craft again : 2ex
- +2 support gem : 2ex

So more than 8 exalts + 1 hunter exalt + base.

But if you start with a thicket 6L ilvl82, it will cost more than 1ex.

So i think you will spend around 11ex in general. You can buy one for 10 ex i think, but you will have T4 chaos damage over time.
If you craft it by yourself, maybe you will have T2 or T1 for the same price, like mine :

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Keussef wrote:

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frost21 wrote:

Damn, yeah I think I would deff want to just craft the bow. But how much would that cost, like 8-9ex or so right? Could I finish up rest of the build decently for another 1-2ex?

Personally, i was lucky to bough a shitty bow at 1ex for beginning, ( +3 gems 6L Thicket ), and then, i crafted another one from a base with just "T1 damage over time", got lucky to 6L with less than 50 fus, and i think, i spend 10 ex for craft the rest, let's see :

- Imprint/Regal first try : 0.3ex
-Multi craft : 2ex
- Cannot roll Attack : 1 ex
- 1 ex for + 1 socketed gem
- 1 hunter exalt for chaos damage over time
- Multi craft again : 2ex
- +2 support gem : 2ex

So more than 8 exalts + 1 hunter exalt + base.

But if you start with a thicket 6L ilvl82, it will cost more than 1ex.

So i think you will spend around 11ex in general. You can buy one for 10 ex i think, but you will have T4 chaos damage over time.
If you craft it by yourself, maybe you will have T2 or T1 for the same price, like mine :

Alright, thanks for all the info.

I think I have like 12 ex total right now without selling some of my other stuff. So I may try to craft the bow and then look to grab the rest of the gear. How much do you think the rest costs?

Okay, I crafted a new bow and bought an empower, so my CA is lvl 27 now and this has solved all my bossing issues because I can nuke most things within 10-15 seconds now and don't run out of flasks/sustain. Wish I managed to slam T1 Chaos Dmg Over Time, but T2 is still great. Build feels amazing now!



Also with Enlighten Level 3 I can also fit in Clarity lvl 20 which solves the mana sustain issues once you switch lifetap for empower in your CA 6l, so feeling pretty good for now.

What's the best way to level the build? I was wondering if essence drain/bane setup is good?

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frost21 wrote:

What's the best way to level the build? I was wondering if essence drain/bane setup is good?

Yes, Bane/ED is really good for leveling after lvl24, because we need absolutly nothing special for items, and the trees is totally the same. ( And the build really insane to play fast )

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frost21 wrote:

Alright, thanks for all the info.

I think I have like 12 ex total right now without selling some of my other stuff. So I may try to craft the bow and then look to grab the rest of the gear. How much do you think the rest costs?

You're Welcome. Don't forget to fallow this guide for crafting, to not make a mystake.

About the rest, i don't know, most expensive are Empower and Glorious Vanity i think. And Enlighten if you really need to run more Aura.

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Keussef wrote:

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frost21 wrote:

What's the best way to level the build? I was wondering if essence drain/bane setup is good?

Yes, Bane/ED is really good for leveling after lvl24, because we need absolutly nothing special for items, and the trees is totally the same. ( And the build really insane to play fast )

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frost21 wrote:

Alright, thanks for all the info.

I think I have like 12 ex total right now without selling some of my other stuff. So I may try to craft the bow and then look to grab the rest of the gear. How much do you think the rest costs?

You're Welcome. Don't forget to fallow this guide for crafting, to not make a mystake.

About the rest, i don't know, most expensive are Empower and Glorious Vanity i think. And Enlighten if you really need to run more Aura.

Alright, cool I'll prob try to craft the bow tomorrow possibly and grab the empower first and the GV afterwards.

I think I'll just level as CA actually, any recommendations or anything till I can use Death's Oath?

Hello!

I'm recently trying out this build and quite enjoy the carefree playstyle of it.
But as of now I am lacking in dps on both my death aura and caustic arrow, can someone help me take a look at my build and let me know what's the difference with the guide provided please.

POB: https://pastebin.com/97xHYDAv