PoE 3.22·Ancestor·Pathfinder
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! :)
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Passive Tree


- 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