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Poison Caustic Arrow Pathfinder - Cheap league start, great endgame

by Foreign-Brief-87473 years ago31

DPS
1.16M
Effective HP
131.25K
Life
3.65K
Level
99
Min budget

Overview

Poison Caustic Arrow Pathfinder - Cheap league start, great endgame is a Path of Exile Pathfinder build by Foreign-Brief-8747, made for the Ancestor league (3.22). It is centered on Caustic Arrow and plays as a dexterity, attack, projectile, area archetype. In Path of Building it reaches 1.16M DPS with 131.25K effective HP, 3.65K life. Suited for: Mapping, Simulacrum, Delirium, Bossing. Key uniques include Asenath's Gentle Touch, Darkscorn, Headhunter, Zerphi's Heart, Progenesis.

Build Video

Foreign-Brief-8747's Notes

Hello! Just wanting to share the caustic arrow poison pathfinder build I put together this league, which I've been playing since league start and have had a ton of fun on and am really happy with! Wanted to play something a bit off meta and see how far I could push it. It's a slightly different way to play CA and it's been really really fun!

tldr: An off meta build that can league start with some very surprising power and clear speed on virtually no budget, and allow you to farm quickly and scale into a very powerful and fast endgame build that can clear all content efficiently with a bit more investment.

PoB https://pobb.in/ieAJo-sP1BmT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY4dJv2EBUU - low investment - my clear on about day 4 of the league https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYArh86ouq0 - high investment

More details!:

Build has triple curse, triple mirage archer and 4x totems. DPS is significantly higher than the PoB might suggest, I don't know how to config it for poison stacking but we are almost certainly hitting DoT cap on bigger targets. Build is fast and tanky and has great sustain too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYArh86ouq0 - Some endgame farming, build can run 100% delirium and solofarm 5 way very profitably.

I played this build from league start to farming end game juiced content and it has a great progression curve. I levelled with poison conc and mapped for a day with it, on day 3 I bought a darkscorn and asenaths, and that's really all you need to get going.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY4dJv2EBUU - This is the kind of clear you could expect on a 5-10d budget, I have replica headhunter in that video but the rest of the gear is budget and you can just swap a biscos over the replica HH which is probably going to give you even better clear, replica HH is just fun before I was able to farm enough for regular HH, and with the clear speed the build has, I was easily farming around 6-8d per hour on alch and go strategies.

My only disappointment is that I wanted to beat wave 30 simulacrum on the build. I'm confident that the build has the DPS, tankiness and sustain to clear 30 and I've made it to 26 with 6 rewards the whole way. However by around wave 27 the monsters have so much HP that the amount of poison stacks lags the server to the point where I get disconnected. I also live in the countryside and use a very weak satellite internet connection so maybe it's my internet issue rather than a server issue, not sure. A shame since my goal since league start was to take a meme/off meta build and push it to the point where it could clear sim30.

Also haven't tried uber bosses since I just enjoy mapping and don't enjoy bossing content, I think the build should be able to kill them, might give it a go at some stage, but tbh after years of playing PoE I still don't know the mechanics since I just don't enjoy bossing.

If anyone has any questions on the build / farming strategy with it or has a theory crafting idea or way to optimize it even more I'd love to hear it! :)

Gear

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Darkscorn
Behemoth Visage
Daresso's Defiance
Zerphi's Heart
Circle of Nostalgia
Death Rush
Asenath's Gentle Touch
Headhunter
Windscream
Chimeric Quill
Dusk Joy
Foe Spark
Watcher's Eye
Forbidden Flesh
Thread of Hope
Forbidden Flame
Sol Glisten

Skills

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Weapon 1

  • Caustic ArrowCaustic Arrow20/20WMain
  • Awakened Added Chaos DamageAwakened Added Chaos Damage5/20W
  • Awakened Vicious ProjectilesAwakened Vicious Projectiles5/20W
  • Awakened Unbound AilmentsAwakened Unbound Ailments5/20W
  • Mirage ArcherMirage Archer20/20W
  • Awakened Greater Multiple ProjectilesAwakened Greater Multiple Projectiles5/20W

Body Armour

  • Caustic ArrowCaustic Arrow20/20WMain
  • Awakened Added Chaos DamageAwakened Added Chaos Damage5/20W
  • Awakened Unbound AilmentsAwakened Unbound Ailments5/20W
  • Awakened Vicious ProjectilesAwakened Vicious Projectiles5/20W
  • Greater Multiple ProjectilesGreater Multiple Projectiles20/20W
  • Ballista TotemBallista Totem20/20W

Boots

  • Vaal GraceVaal Grace20W
  • MalevolenceMalevolence20W
  • Herald of AgonyHerald of Agony20/20W
  • EnlightenEnlighten4/6W

Gloves

  • Ensnaring ArrowEnsnaring Arrow20/20W
  • FrenzyFrenzy20/20W
  • Manaforged ArrowsManaforged Arrows20/20W
  • Culling StrikeCulling Strike20/20W

Helmet

  • Immortal CallImmortal Call1/20W
  • VitalityVitality1W
  • Cast when Damage TakenCast when Damage Taken1/20W

Helmet

  • DashDash19/20W

Gloves

  • DespairDespair1W

Gloves

  • EnfeebleEnfeeble1W

Gloves

  • Temporal ChainsTemporal Chains1W

Passive Tree

Passive tree 3.22
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Pathfinder
Pathfinder
Bandits
Eramir (1 Passive Skill Point)

Character Stats

Level
99

Damage

Full DPS
0
Combined DPS
1.16M
Hit DPS
33.47K
With Poison DPS
888.24K
With Ignite DPS
46.73K
With Bleed DPS
33.47K
Damage over Time
1M
Poison DPS
45.05K
Ignite DPS
13.26K
Mirage DPS
121.44K
Culling DPS
0
Reservation DPS
0
Average Damage
9.3K
Burst Damage
9.3K

Attack & Crit

Attack/Cast Rate
3.6/s
Hit Chance
98%
Crit Chance
8%
Crit Multiplier
150%
Totem Limit
1
Mana Cost
43
Life Cost
0

Defence

Effective Hit Pool
131.25K
Life
3.65K
Energy Shield
37
Mana
527
Ward
0
Armour
6.35K
Evasion
13.75K
Phys Damage Reduction
83%

Mitigation & Avoidance

Block
0%
Spell Block
0%
Spell Suppression
100%
Evade (Melee)
79%
Evade (Projectile)
79%
Attack Dodge
0%
Spell Dodge
0%

Resistances

Fire Resistance
75% (+23%)
Cold Resistance
75% (+17%)
Lightning Resistance
75% (+18%)
Chaos Resistance
75% (+30%)

Max Hit Taken

Physical
31.84K
Fire
48.58K
Cold
48.58K
Lightning
48.58K
Chaos
36.19K

Recovery

Life Regen
1.64K/s
ES Regen
0/s
ES Recharge
37/s
Mana Regen
25.5/s
Life Leech
438.46/s
ES Leech
0/s
Mana Leech
263.83/s

Attributes & Utility

Strength
183
Intelligence
193
Dexterity
344
Movement Speed
107%
Endurance Charges
3
Frenzy Charges
3
Power Charges
3
Devotion
0