[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

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Zedda 님이 작성:

Anyone know how to find +3 bows on poe.trade? I've tried any number of combo's but nothing ever shows up.

In the interim, would a +2 legacy Silverbranch be as good as a high dps +2 rare bow?

http://poe.trade/search/imukazumgusoma
You have to search for "Level of socketed bow gems" +3, because poe.trade will add the +2 bow and +1 overall together for that. Happy hunting :)

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ozten 님이 작성:

Is the order of gems still the same with a +2 5L with IRR being the 6L?

Depends on if you have Empower 2. If you don't, use Faster Projectiles or Iron Grip as the 5L.

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Chronodroid 님이 작성:

Did they come from maps or merciless zones? I'm always tempted to run some mercizones if I spot them. Maps hold higher returns overall but are limited and I constantly burn through the 4-dots :D

But then again, you played like double or triple my time in WB, only normal I guess.

Maps mostly but one did come from a Northern Forest farm run I think it was.

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shumi82 님이 작성:

and btw,thanks for the great build,and to other people here helping out,thanks a lot,makes this build realy nice to play

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Boss_Crab 님이 작성:

This build dropped me a Kaom's Heart. Thanks, Serleth.

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incredi 님이 작성:

Just gonna chime in here and say thank you for this great build and the many answers in the thread. My PA MF'er is lvl 85 now and I'm really enjoying it.

Have you checked out Clad's Uber-viable PA Scion? Perhaps it could give you some ideas on how to tweak a PA-Ranger to be non-mf-but-uber-atziri-viable :)

=D

Thanks all for your kind words. Glad you're all enjoying it.

As for Uber viable, while I haven't checked out Clad's version, the tree I have is Uber viable already, it's just that you'll need to do a gear-swap in order to run the Alluring Abyss; Hyrri's Ire and Atziri's Step for both Atziri and Double Vaal and QotF or a high evasion rare chest for the Trio, and maybe Blood Dance for trash clears. You'll break 6k life with this tree @ level 93 and full life gear, should still have about 5.5 or so with Step/Ire on.

You should be able to do it with the IIR gem still in as well as long as you're playing reasonably careful so you can partial-MF the Abyss while you're at it.

Kinda regretting not just buying a +2 5L at this point for 10-15c, used 170-200 alts so far no +2 :(

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Zedda 님이 작성:

In the interim, would a +2 legacy Silverbranch be as good as a high dps +2 rare bow?

Anyone know the answer to this? I'm using a Death's Harp atm. for leveling, would +2 Silverbranch be a good idea? Mind you, I'm using a Tabula for the links, so perhaps switching from a free 6L to a 4L with +2 bow skills wouldn't make much difference.

Edit: just bought a 5L +2 bow for 10 chaos
1561dps with death's harp & tabula
2402dps with 5L rare +2 bow

Very nice upgrade.

Are there any differences in terms of damage between following modifiers:
Chaos Damage, Projectile Damage, Area Damage, Damage over Time ?

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_Elminister_ 님이 작성:

Are there any differences in terms of damage between following modifiers:
Chaos Damage, Projectile Damage, Area Damage, Damage over Time ?

Nope. Only thing is Area damage won't appear on the tooltip (it does apply, though).

Also, nice Forgotten Realms nod with your name =)

bought a 20/20 pa gem today,now 3 more levels before i can use it,got a +2 bow atm,+3 bows are so expensive this league with the insane exalt to chaos ratio,but just started,gonna see where we end

btw,if i use frenzy gmps curse on hit,i always curse packs,so i keep up frenzy charges manualy,can i swap out blood rage,or why keep it then?

I would like to put this to use somehow.....


Only a 5 link but it has 4 off colors on it....

Best I can come up with so far is

Split Arrow - Chain - Culling - IIR - Life Gain on hit....


any ideas or is this item totally wrong for this build?



EDIT..... wtf is up with Goldwyrm pricing I must have bough 50 of them last league to vaal at 1-2 fuse each

Hello dont know if anyone already asked this but Im too lazy to read 137pages, Im in standard is it worth it to use IIQ gem? If so which gem should I replace?

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shumi82 님이 작성:

bought a 20/20 pa gem today,now 3 more levels before i can use it,got a +2 bow atm,+3 bows are so expensive this league with the insane exalt to chaos ratio,but just started,gonna see where we end

btw,if i use frenzy gmps curse on hit,i always curse packs,so i keep up frenzy charges manualy,can i swap out blood rage,or why keep it then?

You can drop it if you want. I leave it there as an alternative since there's often long stretches of a map where you don't have to curse, so actually stopping to Frenzy COH slows the clear speed down. Keeping Blood rage up lets you just power through and curse whenever necessary.

@Gryphn re: Greed's Embrace & Goldwyrm

- Greed's is fine, I just don't include it because I find a huge portion of the player base absolutely despises going into the negative movespeed values. 10% goldwyrm, -20% greed's, -10% net = chilled ground all day long.
- They adjusted the drop rate of Goldwyrm. It's nowhere near as common now. It's a high T2 or low T1 unique drop.

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Im in standard is it worth it to use IIQ gem? If so which gem should I replace?

If you have a 20/20 or 21/20 PA, and particularly if you have Carcass as well, drop the AoE gem for IIQ.