(3.14) Toxic Rain + Caustic Arrow | 5-10m Sirus DPS | Fast + Durable | 50c Budget/SSF Uber Elder

"

I rolled 25% quality for easier linking later

"

You could beastcraft an imprint just before the Beast craft -1 suffix, +1 prefix step

"

Edit: Well, I ran the numbers in PoB and plugged them into the spreadsheet, and I was incorrect. This method gives some wicked damage numbers, but it still loses to the attack speed / DoT multi bow. On my setup, the attack speed / DoT multi bow is putting out 9.2 million, this is 8.4 million.

"

Luck Bow Craft
Short Bow
Unique ID: edf4376b38dfc119344f8a913ed2f3ac90db06358adab891257cb6ab9231590f
Item Level: 1
Quality: 25
Sockets: R-G-G-B-G-G
LevelReq: 5
Implicits: 1
Item sells for much more to vendors
+1 to Level of Socketed Strength Gems
+1 to Level of Socketed Dexterity Gems
+1 to Level of Socketed Gems
{crafted}Can have up to 3 Crafted Modifiers
{crafted}+2 to Level of Socketed Support Gems
{crafted}+38% to Chaos Damage over Time Multiplier

"

Kelerain เขียน:

"

Edit: Well, I ran the numbers in PoB and plugged them into the spreadsheet, and I was incorrect. This method gives some wicked damage numbers, but it still loses to the attack speed / DoT multi bow. On my setup, the attack speed / DoT multi bow is putting out 9.2 million, this is 8.4 million.

Thanks for the feedback!

Did you use the literal bow I posted, or the theoretical luckier variation with an additional +1 all dex gems?

Here is the luckier variation I mocked up in PoB text:

"

Luck Bow Craft
Short Bow
Unique ID: edf4376b38dfc119344f8a913ed2f3ac90db06358adab891257cb6ab9231590f
Item Level: 1
Quality: 25
Sockets: R-G-G-B-G-G
LevelReq: 5
Implicits: 1
Item sells for much more to vendors
+1 to Level of Socketed Strength Gems
+1 to Level of Socketed Dexterity Gems
+1 to Level of Socketed Gems
{crafted}Can have up to 3 Crafted Modifiers
{crafted}+2 to Level of Socketed Support Gems
{crafted}+38% to Chaos Damage over Time Multiplier

I did some calculation but dropped the non-changing factors just to compare, and it appears to come to within about 2% of your posted bow in my build. I believe since it's multiplicative all the other changing factors wouldn't change the result percentage?

Hopefully if it's that close it provides another option that is a little more reliable, and maybe we can come up with better variations.

One thought I had was can we work in a "suffixes cannot be changed" for the beast craft? This apparently works to just add +prefix! I didn't have room because you'd need that, and cannot roll attack mods at the same time, which would require multimod, and that needs 2 suffixes when we have 1.

You're welcome to include the method in the first post if it seems useful.

Thanks much for the feedback! And thanks so much for my favorite build to date that's taken me farther into the end game than before :)

"

sbaral88 เขียน:

Cool build, really enjoying it. Any tips on how I can up my DPS/overall gear?

https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/sbaral88 Character's name is Pantalamion.

"

grimjack68 เขียน:

"

sbaral88 เขียน:

Cool build, really enjoying it. Any tips on how I can up my DPS/overall gear?

https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/sbaral88 Character's name is Pantalamion.

Easy things to fix. :)
- Pick up a level 21 Toxic Rain gem.
- Pick up a bow with +3 to gems.

Our primary method of increasing damage is gem levels. Those two will boost your damage massively. No need to go for the killer end game bow - that's a nice to have if you decide to max out the character - but I'm clearing all content with much less than that:

You can buy one as good or better than that for ~9 exalt. If that's still above your budget, you can get one with +1 gems & +2 bow gems, 6 linked, for an exalt or less.

A level 21 Toxic Rain gem is 10 chaos. Keep leveling yours in your off hand weapons, 20 quality it, then vaal it and hope for the 21/20 corrupt version.

- Scrap the increased AOE that you have linked to your curse on hit. When you link the curse with CoH, you lose the AOE, so that gem isn't doing anything except maybe boosting how much mana it costs to cast. Actually, I'd probably scrap the entire CoH setup, and just rely on your Witchfire Brew for cursing - that's how I'm setup now, it works pretty awesome.
- Move your auras to your helm along with that Enlighten. The +1 level to Enlighten is worth it.
- Switch to a Stygian Vise belt for the extra jewel socket.
- Try to farm the lab or outright buy gloves, helm, and boots with useful lab enchants.

"

sbaral88 เขียน:

How much of a DPS upgrade is Damage on Full Light over Efficacy? I was running that at first and while I am on max HP quite often, I do occasionally dip when fighting bosses/conquerors which always has me nervous. I'd also have to regear to get more strength to keep leveling that gem up.

I've heard Empower support isn't worth it until you get to level 4 so I just have it socketed somewhere else to let it keep generating EXP, I figure that's the right move.

Also still need to do the fourth labyrinth(endless I believe?). Am I strong enough to do it now? I'm Awakening level four but A4 Drox was kickin my ass pretty hard(just didn't quite have the DPS to kill flags fast enough).

"

sbaral88 เขียน:

Thanks pal. Unfortunately I'm like super low on currency at the moment including no Exalts(I had geared up another toon before this so I guess I could sell her gear), but should be able to get the gem. I didn't think about that since I'm already so close to level 20 on Toxic Rain.

How much of a DPS upgrade is Damage on Full Light over Efficacy? I was running that at first and while I am on max HP quite often, I do occasionally dip when fighting bosses/conquerors which always has me nervous. I'd also have to regear to get more strength to keep leveling that gem up.

I've heard Empower support isn't worth it until you get to level 4 so I just have it socketed somewhere else to let it keep generating EXP, I figure that's the right move.

Also still need to do the fourth labyrinth(endless I believe?). Am I strong enough to do it now? I'm Awakening level four but A4 Drox was kickin my ass pretty hard(just didn't quite have the DPS to kill flags fast enough).

"

sbaral88 เขียน:

Yeah I did Uber Lab today and steamrolled it. The boss was a joke he went down so fast...lolol. The only thing that threatened me were the traps, had some close calls since I was trying to rush through it. Man the power swing you get when you upgrade to Escape Artist is massive.

With Escape Artist I'm actually thinking of trying Damage on Full Life now over Efficacy.

The big issue for me now is mana. It wasn't a problem before because I had the other ascendancy, Arcane Weave or whatever, but I specced out of that for the survivability of the Escape Artist route. I have -cost of mana on my rings and amulet, and AOE isn't an issue, but on long single target bosses mana can be an issue.