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

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totalogy wrote:

I'm an old guy (slower reflexes) and a lefty (attacks/flasks on numpad). I am struggling at t11-t12 maps. I dont generate a lot of currency so awakened gems aren't likely, and +2 to support gems on bow (6 ex) may take a while.

Watching the video, the Can't Bleed ring stays up most of the time and mine doesn't. To get my resistances maxed after wearing the Impresence amulet, cost me 200 life.

I just got my last ascendency, so i can use another curse. Using blasphemy requires mana reservation and defeats the Malediction benefit. Dare I get rid of clarity?

Do I have to replace my empower on my bow with lifetap so it doesnt use mana?

My stun avoidance is at 96%. should it be 100%?

It would be so helpful if someone would look at my setup and make 1 or 2 suggestions to improve my survivability. Just found my 2nd exalt.

To survive more encounters you need to buy some gems/jewels and follow someones POB passive pathing because your passive management is not good right now, as you fix it, in the future you are going to drop the double mana flask for defensive ones and with Instilling Orbs you can set the flasks to work as they reach full charges, so less things for you to think off and with passives fixed you gonna reserve less mana to fit more defensive auras like Determination+Defiance banner.

For now you need to buy:
Awakened Blasphemy
Divergent Lifetap (for withering step link)
Anomalous Withering Step
3 silver oils (to anoint Sovereignty on amulet)
Glorious Vanity Timeless Jewel (of Xibaqua), this jewel with Eldritch Battery, changes the way energy shield works so you spend energy shield for the skill cost of Caustic Arrow instead of mana using empower.
Better belt/boots.

Need to drop:
the 20% quality Less duration gem is not necessary, level 20 without Q is enough.
All the links for Flame dash, put it together with Withering Step+Lifetap(+Molten Shell) so it uses the lifetap gem.
Vitality won't be good later, later a low level 1-3 gem for bonus to dmg from a reservation mastery point but you are reserving too much mana now for Vitality.
Your Health flask that uses 10% mana, change that for something like the 2nd one but with bleeding immunity.
And last, the passives pathing... please look into a Path of Building build, there's plenty in the last 3 pages alone to fix yours.

Put Despair, Awakened Blasphemy in your Helmet.

Hi, is Transcendent Mind really essential for this build, as GGG did change the tree so if I counted correctly we only benefit 12% DoT Multi from it. So I'm thinking about replacing the jew with WE or a rare jew with double DoT Multi in Suffixes and a %Life Prefix (the price would be really exorbitant tho), what're your thoughts about that? Thanks!

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MrShika13 wrote:

Hi, is Transcendent Mind really essential for this build, as GGG did change the tree so if I counted correctly we only benefit 12% DoT Multi from it. So I'm thinking about replacing the jew with WE or a rare jew with double DoT Multi in Suffixes and a %Life Prefix (the price would be really exorbitant tho), what're your thoughts about that? Thanks!

We get 18% DoT multi.
Watcher's eye is better now, but more expensive.
Do the math, and feel free to replace it with whatever you want/can afford

Hey Guys! Iam having a blast playing this character. First one that i can do T14+. U guys got Some adivce how i can improve it furhtermore?
Got a few Ex to spend on it.
Greetings.



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Great guide, breezing through alot of content. Killed sirus a8 alot easier than expected.

I'm starting to get into purchasing my awakened gems, just got 2x void manips, what's the suggested order after that?

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Gnoxxi wrote:

Hey Guys! Iam having a blast playing this character. First one that i can do T14+. U guys got Some adivce how i can improve it furhtermore?

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First problem I see you do not have lifetap on movement skill to activate the buff (death's aura doesn't activate it by itself). So it's like missing support gem altogether.

Secondly, you don't have a lvl 21 caustic arrow gem.

Thirdly, you don't have anointment. I think the "meta" was to anoint some mana reservation efficiency nodes and instead of using enfeeble w/ blasphemy using determination or some defensive aura (vast majority of players use grace or determination nowadays, really hard without it). You could also try to keep enfeeble and squeeze a defiance banner in, but I think that will be weaker.

You should also get +2 to gems on your viridi, it's cheap af this league, and get anomalous withering step (or whichever alt qual is +2 withers), otherwise the enhance doesn't do much to it.

Also why is your life flask lvl 50? Go loot some lvl 60 ones, they give more hp.

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Thunderbus wrote:

Great guide, breezing through alot of content. Killed sirus a8 alot easier than expected.

I'm starting to get into purchasing my awakened gems, just got 2x void manips, what's the suggested order after that?

I loaded ur POB and I don't see how you are running all your auras at the same time. It shows -37% total mana.

Are you not using aspect of the spider? I'm assuming not, since you have it linked to lifetap, which increases its reservation by a bunch

Is there a consensus on the anointment?

Corruption? Sovereignty?

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mryellow1 wrote:

Is there a consensus on the anointment?

Corruption? Sovereignty?

Sovereignty is more common so people can fit more auras, defensive ones like Determination, Def Banner and Aspect of the Spider... there's other anoints like Disciple of the Slaughter (8%inc dmg per frenzy charge), Acrimony (DoT Multi), Corruption (Wither Effect) or Whispers of Doom (+1 curse).

Hello mate, I couldn't find the skilltree in your guide. Please I'd really appreciate you can share it. Thank you very much.