[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

I just noticed on my tooltip for caustic arrow I only have a 90% chance to pierce.

The 10% that isn't applying is from the Drillneck.

The wording is different:

All our passives give projectile pierce chance, while the Drillneck gives arrow pierce chance.

Does this mean we need to pick up an extra 10% on the tree to make up that last 10%? Or use the poachers aim jewel?

Or maybe its just a display bug?

Press C -> offense tab : there you see 100% chance
Maybe display bug.

So far doing good in Perandus SC at lvl 74, managed to get 17/199 (not counting iir gem).

Gear


The only thing that is annoying is trying to solo Izaro. Taking any upgrade tips regarding gear (my next item will be the +3 bow)

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spetakju escreveu:

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So far doing good in Perandus SC at lvl 74, managed to get 17/199 (not counting iir gem).

Gear

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The only thing that is annoying is trying to solo Izaro. Taking any upgrade tips regarding gear (my next item will be the +3 bow)

Hey, i where wondering. How much life you got with gear like that?

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spetakju escreveu:

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So far doing good in Perandus SC at lvl 74, managed to get 17/199 (not counting iir gem).

Gear

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The only thing that is annoying is trying to solo Izaro. Taking any upgrade tips regarding gear (my next item will be the +3 bow)

Hey, i where wondering. How much life you got with gear like that?

Very little. The only +HP he has is the 87 on gloves.

How can i see the ascendancy skill tree? or where? lol thanks!

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spetakju escreveu:

The only thing that is annoying is trying to solo Izaro. Taking any upgrade tips regarding gear (my next item will be the +3 bow)

You might want to drop your mf gear temporarily and invest in some gear with life solely for izaro because unless you're a masochist, I highly doubt you will ever kill izaro with that gear.

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surferforlife escreveu:

How can i see the ascendancy skill tree? or where? lol thanks!

It's under 2.2 Scion tree. I don't think he made a ranger tree, although you can just look at this scion tree and adapt it to your ranger if you choose to go ranger ascendancy

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spetakju escreveu:

So far doing good in Perandus SC at lvl 74, managed to get 17/199 (not counting iir gem).

Gear

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The only thing that is annoying is trying to solo Izaro. Taking any upgrade tips regarding gear (my next item will be the +3 bow)

Instead on going for the +3 bow I would first recommend swapping out your chest, helm, and belt for something with life on it; or at the very least, try to master-craft some on if you have the open affixes.


The helm and chest should be rather inexpensive; I picked these up for I think 2 chaos each:



Don't think that you have to have a 5L chest - it's nice, but overall the stats are more important than the extra link.



For Izaro, I would recommend three things:
1 - get some life gear (as discussed above)
2 - get some extra rings to swap out for Andvarius - These don't need to be fancy. I just like using something with life and rarity. This will make you much stronger against fights that you aren't feeling confident about.
3 - Swap out your rarity gem for slower projectiles - the extra dps will make the fight much quicker.

I just completed Izaro on merciless last night at level 74 with 3800 HP + 200 ES, and I couldn't have had any less because I only got hit once the entire fight, but that single hit took me below 100 life remaining.



edit: I also noticed you don't have vaal lightning trap. While this won't help with Izaro (you won't be able to charge it up to use it in his fight), it will help a lot with other map bosses as well as quickly taking down strong packs such as the perandus guardians.
I didn't think this was a big deal last season so I waited until 2 months in to get one, but now that I see the impact it makes I made sure to grab one on day 2 of this league.

Re 90% pierce 'issue': I also have the same bug. Character panel shows 100%, tooltip shows 90%. I hope the damage calculations go off what's on the character sheet :P

I always play standard, so I started this Scion, rerolled from my 90 ranger. So that's a little painful. But its 75 now. Here's my gear:



My jewels are:
1. dmg/life/dmg
2. dmg/life/allres
3. dmg/life/allres
4. dmg/life/dmg
... so the last 2 jewels I spec into will be dmg/life/dmg.

Merciless Laby down at level 74 with 3700 hp O_o that was one hell of a fight!

Is a 5L Carcass Jack useful anymore (for chain?) Now that the build features 100% pierce, I mean... Otherwise I should really drop the portal gem and go for a 5L.

Thoughts on gear? Advice appreciated. Primarily wondering how people are getting over 5k HP with MF!? I'm working on HP now through the skill tree. Sub-4k HP is brutal. Even my 90 ranger only had 4300 HP with the same gear, and that wasn't that great either.

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SpidaFly escreveu:

Thoughts on gear? Advice appreciated. Primarily wondering how people are getting over 5k with MF!? I'm working on HP now through the skill tree. Sub-4k is brutal. Even my 90 ranger only had 4300 with the same gear, and that wasn't that great either.

About your gemsetup: With the introduction of ascendancy, my damage has been boosted to 20k cloud dps tooltip with frenzy charges (15k before). That's with using CA-Empower-Void Manipulation-Conc Effect-IIR-IIQ. This is more than enough to clear high tier maps and even ran duo with a culler (lol?). With two projectiles that pierces!, I really don't think AoE gem is worth using. And even then pre-ascendancy, I cleared maps fine without it also due to carcass jack.

For life, I eventually dropped dual andy's for ventor's with life and I've specced the whole scion life wheel which helps tremendously. You can check my character (stillmatiK) for ideas.