Caustic Arrow / Toxic Rain Trickster lvl 90 Forbidden Sanctum softcore league starter

Notes: A build that has great defence and movespeed, great clearspeed at a relatively low investment. With investment it can do all game content except from the hardest Uber bosses. You will be vulnerable to physical hits, so your manual dodge skills have to be excellent, but since you are doing damage over time it will be much easier to not get hit. * Playstyle: Uses both Caustic Arrow and Toxic Rain against hard monsters - place the totems, cover area in caustic ground, then spam toxic rain as long as you can before taking damage or get some other reason to change character position. Use Caustic Arrow with Arrow Nova for huge AOE clear when mapping, then swap it out with Concentrated Effect versus hard bosses. (requires 1 white socket). * Swift Killer ascendancy gives you about 30 seconds frenzy charge duration, so no need to spam frenzy skill all the time after you reach max charges. Ultimately you want a frenzycharge on hit body armor. * Self cast Despair on tanky monsters until you get Impresence onyx amulet chaos version. * With cluster jewels and a decent investment in gear, the build can reach 2-3 million caustic arrow single target damage vs normal shaper, 6-7 million combined with Toxic Rain. * It's not Uber uber boss viable without high investment and really good game mechanic skills. * Very good in Simulacrums until the damage becomes to low with Arrow Nova. * Endgame body armor can be a Redeemer ES/EV Sadist Garb or Carnal Armor with high ES/EV/Life, Frenzy charge on hit chance and resistances. * Helmet Enchant should probably be 30% Malevolence mana reservation efficiency to free up skill points from mana that can be used on damage nodes on chaos cluster jewels. * Should be good against this leagues mechanic in regards to not getting hit and hige AOE for offscreen clearing. * If you get to 100% ailment avoidance and bleed immunity you can take the Lethe Shade node for a huge defence boost. This is my standard league character from Harvest league, use it for reference if you want to minmax the build - https://pastebin.com/92hyFWDa Also look at poe.ninja for ideas on what items and setups other Caustic Arrow / Toxic Rain players do. Leveling guide provided by Zizaran: https://youtu.be/5RB_v5akxOY Zizaran PoB for more info in the Notes: https://pobb.in/MqBwqqTLVBhW > LEVELING < Starting out in act 1 you'll use Caustic Arrow and Puncture. This is the part where you'll be the weakest, so don't be discouraged! Use puncture on bosses and Caustic Arrow to clear, try to hit level 12 before Merveil as this will make that fight much easier After we hit 12 level with poisonous concoction(pconc). This is a poison-based attack that requires you to not equip a weapon(make sure to disable auto equip!). We take some claw nodes early on because the poison portion of it still affects pconc, and the life/mana gain on hit mastery is really nice early on. Gearing pconc is really simple: all you need to upgrade to get more damage is your flask and links. So just get life and resist gear and keep a lookout for linked fast bows for when we swap to Toxic Rain. For twink leveling gear there's not that much outside of the usual suspects: +1/+2 tabula, goldrim, Wanderlust and Thrillsteel. You switch to Toxic Rain around Blood Aquaducts, make sure you have a decently fast bow by then AND USE A MANA FLASK UNTIL YOU > CRAFTING < Farming Porcupine Early on you'll want to farm a set of The Porcupine divination card. You can do this in the following maps: - Courtyard - Gardens - Orchard - Terrace Slightly cheaper endgame bow(better when you have no empower) 1. Get a Hunter Thicket Bow(ilvl 78+) 2. Use shrieking essences of dread until you hit T1 attack speed 3. Annul until you have 2 open prefixes(the only one should be +2 to bow gems), and 1 open suffix. If you have 2 open suffixes craft "Can have up to 3 Crafted Modifiers" in the next step before the "Cannot roll attack mods" 4. Craft "Cannot roll Attack Modifiers"(1 divine) 5. Slam 2 exalts(closing eyes is optional), this will guarantee +1 socketed gems and chaos damage over time 6. Remove crafted mods 7. Craft "Chaos Damage Over Time Multiplier" 8. Done! Best endgame bow(+1, +2 support gems, chaos damage over time, attack speed, chaos dot mult) 1. Alteration roll a Hunter Thicket Bow(ilvl 78+) for T1 attack speed 2. Regal 3. Annul until you have only the attack speed left, if you miss start over 4. Craft "Can have up to 3 Crafted Modifiers"(2 divines) and "Cannot roll Attack Modifiers"(1 divine) 5. Slam 2 exalts(closing eyes is optional), this will guarantee +1 socketed gems and chaos damage over time 6. Remove crafted mods 7. Craft "Can have up to 3 Crafted Modifiers"(2 divines), "Chaos Damage Over Time Multiplier" and "+2 to Level of Socketed Support Gems"(2 exalts) 8. Done!