[3.16][HC][ON BREAK] Caustic Arrow Raider, DoT Focused | Tanky | 6k+ Health | All Content | In-depth

Thanks for the build! I didn't follow it step-by-step, but I could tell you built it from a labor of love. For alternative leveling items, I wonder if you've ever considered this Bow with this set up? I've cleared everthing except for Uber Elder, But it was pretty cheap, And it clears maps like a boss.

and while not cheap (it only cost 4 Ex), I found this ammy to be awesome, and let me use herald of Agony.

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Smoofart 님이 작성:

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Thanks for the build! I didn't follow it step-by-step, but I could tell you built it from a labor of love. For alternative leveling items, I wonder if you've ever considered this Bow with this set up? I've cleared everthing except for Uber Elder, But it was pretty cheap, And it clears maps like a boss.

and while not cheap (it only cost 4 Ex), I found this ammy to be awesome, and let me use herald of Agony.

"I didn't follow it step-by-step" is an understatement, because it's a completely different build. You're scaling... everything? Kind of?

* CA, except you don't scale gem level and effectively deal ~1/3rd of the damage you should.
* Poison, but it's not a dedicated poison build
* Herald of Agony, which is small addition to the build but prolly deals highest damage out of all setups? (i'm not good at calculating minion DPS)
* Bane and Contagion are there for... not sure why, because their damage is minimal.

It's something all over the place with no clear focus. In PoE fashion it usually means it's not a good build, at all. There's many ways you can potentially improve it, starting from picking ONE thing you want to scale.

December 3rd, 2019
Equipment:
* Added suggested amulet annointments.

Videos:
* Added 13 new videos.

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Should've done this long time ago. With Blight going core there was no choice but to perform that simple action. Speaking of Blight, i've turned my Guide to Blight Towers into actual guide rather than data dump. You might want to take a look at if you're stuggling.

GGG showcased Arrow Nova support in one of their recent teasers, combined with Caustic Arrow. It was very, very underwhelming. Might be better with high amount of arrows but i'm still very sceptical. Gotta test it myself first.

Greater Volley support is much more interesting, because it might enable poison based version of CA. Well, technically it's already possible but tight arrow spread allows to shotgun enemies from long range instead of having to facetank them. I do like good DoT builds so it's something i would like to play around with. Probably CA is still gonna be suboptimal to Scourge Arrow and similar.

Anyway, only thing left for me is to work on other guides and wait for patch notes.

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magicdownunder 님이 작성:

Just wanted to say thanks for the build (just took down U.Elder).

i didnt enjoy the leveling experience but once the gear and high 72 range gets in the build became a blast.

When did leveling become better?
I know this sounds ridiculous but I liked how it started with CA but with level 17 it kind of felt slow. Blight encounters become tedious and so on.
Am I right when I say that CA mostly scales off of its gem level. So the bow doesnt matter that much during leveling?

I would like to give this character another go for the weekend before the league closes. Endgame seems great with this build (judging by the videos)

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magicdownunder 님이 작성:

Just wanted to say thanks for the build (just took down U.Elder).

i didnt enjoy the leveling experience but once the gear and high 72 range gets in the build became a blast.

When did leveling become better?
I know this sounds ridiculous but I liked how it started with CA but with level 17 it kind of felt slow. Blight encounters become tedious and so on.
Am I right when I say that CA mostly scales off of its gem level. So the bow doesnt matter that much during leveling?

I would like to give this character another go for the weekend before the league closes. Endgame seems great with this build (judging by the videos)

Around Act 4-5.

Once you start picking up the damage nodes between Ranger and Shadow things really start to even out. Act 2-3 always feels a bit rough, even with twink gear. By the time you get to the Respec things mostly melt - although obviously not as much as a flavour of the month build (e.g. summoners in Blight)

PoE Scrub that returned to the game a few weeks ago and have been using this build SSF while I re-learn the game. Just got to maps and it's been great up to t6 maps so far, and that's with me still being unlucky and not having a 5l or 6l yet... I've used all my fusings :(

Any thoughts on 3.9 yet? I saw the slight nerf to CA, but it didn't sound like it would affect the way this build is structured too much.

Anyway, thanks for the build! It's been a blast.

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When did leveling become better?
I know this sounds ridiculous but I liked how it started with CA but with level 17 it kind of felt slow. Blight encounters become tedious and so on.
Am I right when I say that CA mostly scales off of its gem level. So the bow doesnt matter that much during leveling?

I would like to give this character another go for the weekend before the league closes. Endgame seems great with this build (judging by the videos)

Levelling at act 2-3 are quite slow due to suggested passive tree pathing. It's not very efficient speed-wise, but is more tanky and straightforward - so perfect unexperienced players. I also expect them to slightly overlevel so the extra damage from gem level should carry. It finally picks up the pace starting from act 3 Piety, where you finally get to great damage nodes. It only gets better from there.

CA during levelling cares only about +1 bow gem level bows and few specific uniques. Nothing else increases the damage.

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PoE Scrub that returned to the game a few weeks ago and have been using this build SSF while I re-learn the game. Just got to maps and it's been great up to t6 maps so far, and that's with me still being unlucky and not having a 5l or 6l yet... I've used all my fusings :(

Any thoughts on 3.9 yet? I saw the slight nerf to CA, but it didn't sound like it would affect the way this build is structured too much.

Anyway, thanks for the build! It's been a blast.

In order to drop 6-link you have to be extremely lucky, something you can't count on. 5-link is much more realistic but still takes some time. In SSF you're supposed to farm specific divination cards (Imperial Legacy) that gives 6-linked Imperial Bow if you collected full deck.

Atlas receives big changes next league. I'll provide info how you should approach farming it shortly before league start or once i hit maps (~24h after launch).

I never heard about any nerfs to CA next league. Only indirect nerf due to massive focus on bosses might count as one. Either way, i'm not fan of Metamorph league but i will happily engage with new permanent content (atlas).

Thank you both maxdking and DankawSL. Looking forward to the weekend :)

Just wanted to drop by at the end of the league to tell you how fantastic this build guide was!

I'm still very much a PoE newbie and this league was the first time I had made it to red maps. I had never encoutered Shaper/Elder/Uber Elder/Aul/Mastermind before but I was able to kill them on first sight read with this build.

I had wanted to get a deathless Uber Elder before league's end but once I saw that they were reworking the Atlas I gave up, best attempt was 1 death!

All this to say, thank you so much DankawSL, hope you keep up the excellent work

From the development manifesto:

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Some modifiers no longer appear on Shaper or Elder items, like the "increased Physical Damage and Socketed Gems are Supported By" modifiers on Two Handed Weapons.

Welp, does that mean RIP vicious projectiles bows? :(