Poison Gas Arrow Pathfinder

Thanks for the Guide! It's all a bit different from what I'm doing and ive seen others play, I'll def. try it out. One big plus side is that I don't have to juggle Des, Int and Str. for life since it plays no curse and nearly no int supports. Rain of arrows-Chaos damage support-Withering touch could still be nice though.

I've been struggeling with the mana cost of gas arrow and to apply 10 stacks. Simply stacking more damage is a good way out. Would you say it's overkill to play snakebites? At least until you can affford the belt?

How does the mana leech on physical interact with Gas arrow? does it only leech for the damage you do with the actual arrow, since the cloud deals poison/chaos damage?

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Shubidu#0412 wrote:

Thanks for the Guide! It's all a bit different from what I'm doing and ive seen others play, I'll def. try it out. One big plus side is that I don't have to juggle Des, Int and Str. for life since it plays no curse and nearly no int supports. Rain of arrows-Chaos damage support-Withering touch could still be nice though.

I've been struggeling with the mana cost of gas arrow and to apply 10 stacks. Simply stacking more damage is a good way out. Would you say it's overkill to play snakebites? At least until you can affford the belt?

How does the mana leech on physical interact with Gas arrow? does it only leech for the damage you do with the actual arrow, since the cloud deals poison/chaos damage?

Hey, thanks for chiming in. You're right that only the actual arrow can cause leech since the cloud doesn't do any hit damage. The mana leech on my bow is mostly a dead stat. I think mana costs are a pretty universal issue across classes currently, especially at high skill levels. I 6-linked my Gas Arrow today and it now costs 177 mana to use.
I am sustaining all of my mana with flask, with Alchemist's Boon, the charge generation prefix on the flask and charge generation passives it's enough to sustain for longer bossfights.

Snakesbites are pretty good damage wise if you can manage your resists, going from 6 to 8 charges can be up to 33% damage increase. I think Comorbidity is not a good support anymore after getting both +1 poison passives though. There are other supports that give good DPS and having to stack more poisons with less duration means a) you have to shoot more often and b) you get less damage from Heft/Ryslatha's because you will have lower damage rolls on your active poisons.

Still testing gems out for this. I'm not using a Dualstring bow so I'm using scattershot for easier poison stacks and QoL...but that drops my tooltip dps by like 3k which sucks. However I did kill Zarokh pretty easily even with that.

I'll have to test with vines...I've been using Toxic Rain occasionally...but mostly it's 99% Gas Arrow and 1% Rain of Arrrows :D

hi! gas arrow support: Executioner i cant find it?
also question for vine arrow:
can it damage multiple times(for each pod) like toxic rain? so multi proj will add damage or no?

I used fire wall + crit chance to go for an explosion gas arrow build, but yours is definitely better. At least dps wise. Do you use tornado shot to clears maps faster?

Hey, great build!

I've just rerolled my pathfinder from a lightning archer to this build and it's going great.

One question - none of your gear looks to have chaos res?

I was under the impression you'd need to cap it for late maps.

Thanks again <3

Quick update:



I bought 3 grand spectrums with life to increase my hp pool, so I'm at 2863 life now (level 90).
I also noticed that you can get an extra jewel socket for 1 point which is definitely worth it, so the final tree is now updated to level 91.

Edit: also found another way to get +1 jewel for 0 points, so I updated that too.

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santaKEK#3185 wrote:

hi! gas arrow support: Executioner i cant find it?
also question for vine arrow:
can it damage multiple times(for each pod) like toxic rain? so multi proj will add damage or no?

It was a typo from my side, the gem is called Execute. The dot from Vine Arrow doesn't stack, so additional proj don't increase the damage.

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Kozymeister#2495 wrote:

I used fire wall + crit chance to go for an explosion gas arrow build, but yours is definitely better. At least dps wise. Do you use tornado shot to clears maps faster?

I tried TS but I didn't really like it. There is still room for gems if you want to use it though.

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Underspray#6303 wrote:

Hey, great build!

I've just rerolled my pathfinder from a lightning archer to this build and it's going great.

One question - none of your gear looks to have chaos res?

I was under the impression you'd need to cap it for late maps.

Thanks again <3

Yeah chaos damage hits pretty hard, but at the moment it's pretty difficult to cap resistances with gear so I don't have room for it. (There is another resistance penalty at t11 maps, FYI)
I think it's probably better to gear more for life and evasion instead of chaos res because those help against all damage types.

dps wise - this build or traditional gas arrow + flame wall? still in mid-game, so need to consider it :D