Poison Gas Arrow Pathfinder

This build is about pure poison from arrows

Not about blasting poison clouds or throwing flasks - this is different builds with different trees and you shoudl find a proper discussion for them.

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SomeSome#2539 wrote:

I ditched fire conc - as my ignite chance is consistent enough with the armor break explosions alone. Rolling gas arrow > toxic growth (single target) or rain of arrows (aoe help, armor consume, frenzy charge generate/consume). Herald of Ash didn't do much to help with ignites, so I added the frenzy charge generation on Pin spirit gem. Now I'm stacking all 3 damaging ailments: poison, bleed and ignite.

Hey SomeSome do you have any updated link to see what you are currently on?
I really like the ideas, corrosion and armor explosion was the first thing I've did when I started the game and I really enjoyed it. I've followed deadeye so I've change the build. But now I am creating a new pathfinder char and want to explore that idea again, poison, explosions and bleeding.

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I ditched fire conc - as my ignite chance is consistent enough with the armor break explosions alone. Rolling gas arrow > toxic growth (single target) or rain of arrows (aoe help, armor consume, frenzy charge generate/consume). Herald of Ash didn't do much to help with ignites, so I added the frenzy charge generation on Pin spirit gem. Now I'm stacking all 3 damaging ailments: poison, bleed and ignite.

This type of build seems ok for mapping, but I don't see it being ideal for bosses.

I liked the theory of one big poison, but I think that also plays into more of a mapping build since the additional poison stack rolls are what contributes a huge amount of damage to bosses. You do lose duration when you add passives, and it makes sense that's probably not useful when mobs die quicker than that, but on bosses you are getting another stack of poison that ticks dmg simultaneously. That's still a net dps increase over increasing its duration.

Which leads me to think, I don't see much value in using an explosion since clearing mobs is mostly a non-issue just stacking poison anyway. Outside of fun value, of course.

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Noferini#3893 wrote:

Does the Execute support work on the poison from Gas arrow? The gem says more damage from hits.

Yeah, ailments in PoE2 are based on the hit damage, similar to Impale in PoE1. So anything that scales the hit before enemy defenses also affects the poison.

I found an interesting interaction with Corpsewade Iron Greaves - it is bad itself, but making poisons just by walking, which stacks, seems to destroy packs without need of clicking a lot

I was trying to do some gas arrow to figure out a way of using gas arrow to clear maps with armor corrosion + armor explosion and then to deal with bosses I was thinking in snipe to combo with that armor break. Since boss armor will be broke by the gas arrow, snipe would do some good amount of damage, but I still need to figure it out how to use barrage and have a good generation of frenzy charges, if someone have any ideas or already saw something similar let me know :)

I made a small update to the gem setups and removed Plague Bearer to add a couple of extra supports to Alchemist's Boon. I've been doing a lot of Breaches recently and noticed that it's typically way better to just have Magnified Effect on the Gas Arrow for that. Plague Bearer can't really scale up to deal enough damage late game because this build doesn't provide it with enough extra gem levels to do so.

this one or traditional deadeye lightning arrow for maps? dps wise?

I made a different thread for my armour explosion focused build.

Would a dual string bow with 100 less dps but an additional additional srrow be better than a dual string with 100 more dps no additional srrow