[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

More or less.

Here's the deal.

a) The majority of nerfs that GGG performs are never outright crippling to a build or subset of builds. CoC, Mjolner, Crit Multi, Freezing Pulse, the shotgun changes, etc. None of those outright killed builds. They just made them less OP as hell. The only two exceptions that come to mind are the initial (and subsequently rebuffed) Spell and Ranged Attack Totem nerfs, and the bricking of the Elemental Prolif Gem.
b) Poison Arrow itself isn't OpieOP, it's just meta. It's got good pack clearing capability but it requires a significant amount of investment in order to really get up there in terms of damage, and it's not a one-shot boss killer like Flameblast Ignite was.

If any nerfs are coming to PA, this is likely the way that it's going to go down.

1. The 10% buff it received in Beta will get reverted.
2. That buff will instead be shifted into the quality bonus of the gem, in an attempt to force players to invest in Area of Effect nodes or gear.
3. The cost of the Catarina and Vagan (for fire staff crafting) mods will be increased.

Flameblast was overpowered as hell from patch 1.1 to patch 2.0. That was over a year worth of FB being meta.

If any changes are forthcoming to PA, they will be minor first, in the near future, before (and if) they decide to brick it at all.

Does anyone besides me think that 75c:1ex is a little ridiculous? What the heck is going on with the economy in warbands?

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Shinare escreveu:

Does anyone besides me think that 75c:1ex is a little ridiculous? What the heck is going on with the economy in warbands?

Jewels and the removal of eternals are the central reason exalts are up in price this time around. Nobody feels the need to save up their exalts at an attempted GG craft, so there's more yolo exalts on your typical gear and people are doing a lot of exalting on their alt/aug/regal'd jewels to try get something good in that last affix.

Less supply + more demand = pricey exalts.

A good explanation, except that people selling a 30ex item haven't lowered the price to 15ex. So it really seems that the chaos is extremely devalued rather than the exalt more valuable.

All I know is its going to be extremely hard for me to save up exalts now to use on getting a nice +3 bow, heh. Even saving up for a white 6L seems out of reach now.

My next 3 purchases for this build are 3x +%life +DoT +res jewels and thats going to break me on chaos. (only have 35 heh). Loosing the IIR in my 5L to iron will kinda lowerd my earnings potential.

Still love this build though. Its actually revitalized my interest in PoE. Was really getting "burnt out" on my incinerate builds (har har). XD

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Shinare escreveu:

A good explanation, except that people selling a 30ex item haven't lowered the price to 15ex. So it really seems that the chaos is extremely devalued rather than the exalt more valuable.

All I know is its going to be extremely hard for me to save up exalts now to use on getting a nice +3 bow, heh. Even saving up for a white 6L seems out of reach now.

My next 3 purchases for this build are 3x +%life +DoT +res jewels and thats going to break me on chaos. (only have 35 heh). Loosing the IIR in my 5L to iron will kinda lowerd my earnings potential.

Still love this build though. Its actually revitalized my interest in PoE. Was really getting "burnt out" on my incinerate builds (har har). XD

Well, there's the double factor of chaos actually increasing in opportunity value as well, since a LOT more people are burning chaos on maps than before. What this does is increase the value proposition of items since now you have to make a consideration on where it is that you spend your chaos.

In 1.3 most people would just alt-spam to magic pack size and then run it, even with 76 maps.

Now you're seeing people alcing and chaosing by 74.

In other words, the double hit of eternals/jewels and the changes to map affixes, in conjunction with the increased rarity (and thus, value) of specific uniques, have put a rather drastic hit on the economy in a number of significant ways that simply haven't had time yet to balance out as they normally would.

Magic Find at Work


4 uniques dropped for me after chasing a tormented spirit into a pack of mobs in an alched Dunes map.

So I finished my respec to this build yesterday (From neversinks TS build). Using the +2 bow with empower lvl2 now and 5-link.

Damage definitely seemed a bit low to start, but it's still decent especially combined with vulnerability. Also got some budget MF gear and got +24% quantity and +99% Rarity now.

Overall Im loving it this far. Much more fun to play and easier to do some bosses that before gave some trouble, since I can just shoot and run more easily.
Now I can start aiming for a +3 bow 6L and drillneck :). Just gotta hope for those exa drops.

PS: Using gemcutters prism on Empower should not affect the exp on it right? I put +4 quality on it yesterday and I could almost swear it had much more exp when I bought it. I dont know if I'm just imagining it or if it actually "reseted".

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Lolpy escreveu:

PS: Using gemcutters prism on Empower should not affect the exp on it right? I put +4 quality on it yesterday and I could almost swear it had much more exp when I bought it. I dont know if I'm just imagining it or if it actually "reseted".

No it won't.

Amazing, since the reddit post "how to get rich" there is 15+ bow +3lvl with leo dot in standart for less than 6 ex (no 6l for this price of course). Before that you had to put easily 20 ex for a +3 bow with free affix

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Amazing, since the reddit post "how to get rich" there is 15+ bow +3lvl with leo dot in standart for less than 6 ex (no 6l for this price of course). Before that you had to put easily 20 ex for a +3 bow with free affix

I payed 7ex for this (non linked) 1.5 weeks ago. I dont think anybody was paying 20ex for a non linked +3 bow and free affix. the buyouts those bows had were just too overprized imo.