[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

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Irongunner 님이 작성:

Taking offers on my bow:

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If there is an appealing one, I might reroll a different build :)

Would you take a 3L Voltaxic for it? :D

I enjoy the guide currently 84, no luck yet ive gotten all my gear with the Chaos recipe. how do i improve my unique drop chance? i have 125% IIR 31 IIQ. what im really trying to say is... should i alch 68-70 maps and just chain running them? or should i not invest so much into a low level map and just run them blue?

If you're running 68-70, try to alt and aug them until you get +10-15% to size of groups.
At these levels it's interesting to kill lots of monsters (more mobs killed = more loot rolls happening).

I'd start alc usage at 74+, preferably 76.

Also, do keep items that can be useful for leveling, once you hit 80+ lvl dying takes away a lot of exp.

Wow, just checked my PA cloud damage and its only 2,361 dps with the infractem. Any other bow and its 1,974.

That seems VERY low. I'm level 65 with a level 16 PA gem. With it go up significantly soon?

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Shinare 님이 작성:

Wow, just checked my PA cloud damage and its only 2,361 dps with the infractem. Any other bow and its 1,974.

That seems VERY low. I'm level 65 with a level 16 PA gem. With it go up significantly soon?

You should buy a 5L at this point and roll +2 bow gems on it. That'll be a much more significant difference than anything else you can do. That alone should push you up above 3k.

PA scales slowly early on, but 17+ it starts to accelerate. It operates very much like a spell gem: gem levels are key.

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I enjoy the guide currently 84, no luck yet ive gotten all my gear with the Chaos recipe. how do i improve my unique drop chance? i have 125% IIR 31 IIQ. what im really trying to say is... should i alch 68-70 maps and just chain running them? or should i not invest so much into a low level map and just run them blue?

That's fairly low IIR. That's part of your problem. You should be able to break 150% without much issue, but it's clear you're more than likely running Sadima's and Goldwyrm. You should be looking for gloves with IIR.

Second, MF setups are never about getting the uniques. You should be approaching it with the mentality that if you happen to get a good unique, great, but it's mostly about brute forcing the RNG to get as many rares as possible to have something halfway decent to sell at all times, and pushing the raw currency farming by vendoring rares and shit uniques for alterations, doing as many recipes as possible, and generally just grinding the hell out of currency farming faster than you would without any other MF.

The GG unique drops are meant to be treated as just gravy on the potatoes: adds flavour, but not the substance of the meal.

PA MF Gear Give-away!!! 300+ / 18

Due to real-life reasons I want to give away my char.
I would appreciate if someone with trash gear gets the stuff.
All you need is a Ranger in Warbands between lvl 60-72.
Just whisper me ingame and the items are yours.

IGN: poisonedGIFT

I used this build but took some extra resistance nodes near scion and and "Cloth and Chain" near "Savagery.
I got capped res in mf gear at lvl 88 with purity of elements and with blue leveling/dps gear too.





STUFF IS GONE =) TY Serleth for an awesome mf build and gl to all busy farmers!!! =)

How useful is a 20% quality PA gem? I'm aware that level is more important, so I try to trade one lvl 20 20%Q gem, but I don't know if it's worth it.

Which gems are the best to have 20% quality on?

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ukab 님이 작성:

How useful is a 20% quality PA gem? I'm aware that level is more important, so I try to trade one lvl 20 20%Q gem, but I don't know if it's worth it.

Which gems are the best to have 20% quality on?

The fortunate thing about this build and the gems used is you can get away without needing quality on any of them. It's all just QoL stuff

In the case of Conc, AoE, and Slower Proj, each provides 10% increased damage at 20% quality, for a total of 30% increased damage. So you can use the vendor recipe and just relevel those gems and you're fine.

Same goes for IIR, in that you can just recipe that to 20%.

Quality on PA itself is just QoL: it's increased area of effect (10% @ 20% qual). It's not necessary but it's definitely helpful to have it.

You can pick up a 20/20 corrupted PA for 15-20 chaos. Pretty cheap, and worth the investment until you can vaal your own successfully to 21/20.

Hello guys, I've been playing a LA arrow up to lvl79 but been slowly getting interested of the poison arrow setups. I was thinking of respeccing for it and buying a +2 bow, lvl2 empower and lvl20 poison arrow to start with. Would this be viable or would my dmg go down too much compared to my current LA setup?

Also how's the PA for grouping? I often play with my 2 friends and I see people mostly opting for this just as a solo build..

Mostly Im interested of this because of the MF possibilities (never played a MF char before) and the versability (For example reflect maps not being a problem like they are currently for me)

hey lolpy

I too played LA (crit), but some leagues ago. Imo it's only worth with Windripper or Voltaxic, depending on what your goal is and how you want to achieve it.

Now for PA, with my actual setup (nothing overly fancy, just a 5L bow, no quality gems, LOT of room for improvement) I still can contribute well to group play like Zana 7+ rotations and high maps. The creator of this build even clears the highest maps, but he has much better gear and a mechanical skill of playing, too.

Yes we don't play cyclone or SRS, but we do just fine in groups too!

Now if you really are buying a lvl 20 PA gem make sure its not corrupted for a chance at a lvl 21 one. This build evolves around gem levels, that's why we aim for +3 bows and Empower to get those sweet PA levels.

For map mods, we do all except the no-regen and BM ones, I avoid temp / chilled / -max just out of convenience, they are doable for sure. Reflect is no problem at all.

Edit: if you don't aim for a magic finder build, I fear you have to look for another guide or adapt the parts with MF towards survivability or clearspeed.