Budget Caustic Arrow MF guide - The Most Cost Effective MF Build - 3.22 Path of Exile

Budget CA for 8 mod mapping. Requires 70-80~ divines. (Price is variable, if build gets more popular then it will be more expensive). I would also suggest to have 15~ divines for map supplies. In total I would suggest 90 divs before starting (for cost of build+mapping supplies). Remember you don't need perfect quant on every piece, sacrifcing 1% quant on a few items can make the build significantly cheaper. Bow: Preferable get a 240%+ bow. Can use regular chromatic but it does have a dex bias(tainted chroms also work). use until 4b/1g, 6th color can be anything. (if red put in steelskin, if green put in withering step, if blue put in frostblink) Helmet/Quiver. Watch my crafting guide if you want to know how to self craft. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZpnOEoyMlU (make sure the quiver is ilvl 86). (highly recommended crafting as it's currently significantly cheaper then if you bought them off the market.) Don't go for a triple rarity helm if you're on a budget. double rarity is 1~ divine to make. Grand Ember for "Reduced mana cost with attacks" and Greater Ichor for mana reservation efficiency. 40% CA dmg is the best enchant, but not needed. Broadhead quiver is fine to buy if it's cheap, feel free to check before crafting. (+1 pierce is very good, just not mandatory on a budget). Greed's embrace. Use tainted chromatic orbs. 5g/1b can work if your chest is +2, but 5g/1r is optimal. (Need +2 proj, +2 duration, +2 aoe or +1 socketed gems corruption). If you have 5g/1b then replace Empower with efficacy (about 13%~ dps loss). Goldwyrms, make sure you get the lab enchant to be stun immune. (useful corruption is chance to suppress spell damage or movement speed). Sadima's, despair on hit is very important for a lot of free dmg. (get 9% quant if 10% quant sadimas is expensive). Amulet. You need at minimum a 12% mana reservation roll. If you have lower, then you'll need to get mana reservation tattoos. This amulet isn't really replaceable because of how much dmg it gives. Ventors. Aim for 9% quant, 30+ life, 20%+ rarity and enough res to get you capped. Belt. Biscos or stygian vise. stygian is good for a lot more life and allows you to easily use a corrupted blood jewel. Make sure you have the correct flask prefixes/suffixes, listed on the pob. (Use increase evasion over movement speed on your flask if you feel squishy). Jewels. get %max life and then a combination of either chaos multi, dot multi, projectile damage, area damage, chaos damage, increased damage. (Do not skip out on %max life) You also need 1 corrupted blood jewel. Watcher's eye: Multi with malev or Phasing with haste or onslaught on kill with haste or grace with evade. (multi is good, but not needed, might be expensive). Elegant hubris needs to be caspiro and you just want at least 1 rarity node on "Mind drinker". Use this search and buy the cheapest one. https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Ancestor/4q00QoZC9 Tattoos: 2% movement speed on all dexterity nodes, 2% max life or 1% mana reservation on strength/intelligence nodes. (Only run mana reservation if you need it). "Honoured tattoo of the hunter" use this on alacrity (the 30 dexterity node). Pantheon = Soul of solaris or lunaris and Shakiri for minor Important: To have enough mana to cast haste you need to have 25% mana cost reduction on flask, divergent Inspiration and divergent Divine bleesing. Regex to run for 8 mod mapping: "!non|ask|r at|gen|r el|% ma|rev" (This will show the maps you want to run). This regex blocks - No regen/monster accuracy/monster attack speed/-max res/reduce aura effect/chaos res/monster life/phys as chaos (You can take out monster life/added chaos damage when your build is stronger, I recommend to keep everything else). -------------------Upgrade Priority----------------- 1) Progenesis is your biggest upgrade by far for a massive increase in survivability. When you switch to progenesis, get phasing from another source. Watchers eye with phasing/onslaught is a good choice. This would also be the time to get spell suppression corruption on boots. Sacrifcing gold flask is also okay, still use the rarity craft on another flask. Ideally you want to always have onslaught/phasing/96%~ suppress with lucky. 2) lvl 4 enlighten to run dread banner, this is a pretty big defense increase. 3) 21/20 vaal caustic arrow is another big upgrade. Make it yourself to save currency, will cost 10~ divs. (1/12 from temple corrupt ). 4) Headhunter would be the next best upgrade for the price, gives a lot of speed/defense. Headhunter for this build gives 0 dmg. Can switch to the quant amulet when you get a better mana reservation helmet and mana reservation on jewels (or tattoos) and a +3 or +4 greeds. (Expensive) The last upgrade would be forbidden flesh/flame, this would probably be your last upgrade with the current prices. Endgame PoB: https://pobb.in/wKyWk-07s5P0 (endgame version cost around 800~ divines for everything). --------------------------------------------Questions & Answers----------------------------------- Q) Why dread banner with generosity support? A) dread banner affects enemies and you don't care for the buff on yourself, making this support a free 40% aura effect. Q) Do I need a pierce implicit quiver? A) No, pierce implicit is the best but not mandatory. With widowhail it gives +3 pierce, this is also why double pierce on the quiver is reduntant (+1 on implicit and explicit) as you don't need +6 pierce. Q) Are there any breakpoints with Widowhail, do I need a 240% bow? A) There is no specific breakpoints with widowhail in my build, higher % just more means more dmg/life/movement speed. Q) Why do I not have enough mana to cast haste? A) You need all pathfinder ascendancy nodes, 25% reduced mana cost on flask, divergent inspiriation and divergent divine blessing. Q) I feel squishy, how do I fix this? A) Make sure you're lvl 95+ and have around 3.8k~ HP. You can also try using %evasion roll on your quicksilver. But this is still a MF build, you will die, just not as often as other MF builds. There is also a chance you're not running the correct regex, if you just put in any map (like -max) then you will die, I recommend to use my regex posted in these notes. I recommend to not run perm deli if you're on the budget version. Wait until progenesis and dread banner and then try it out. Q) Can I play this build with Mageblood? A) Yes, but in my personal testing headhunter felt strictly better. The endgame version is already 260%~ MS without mageblood and Mageblood will make you pretty squishy in comparison. Q) Why cant I activate all of my auras? A) Make sure you have double mana reservation on helmet and amulet annoint. You cannot run dread banner until lvl 4 enlighten. Q) Why does my damage feel low? A) Recheck the pob and make sure you copied correctly, at minimum you should have 1m dps the same config I use. You need +lvls on chest and a decent quiver. Q) Why does my boss damage feel low? A). This is what vaal CA and withering step is for. Cast vaal CA when you enter the boss room, walk into melee range and press withering step on CD while casting regular CA. Q) How do I use divination distillate at full life? A) You need master surgeon from pathfinder ascendancy and "Recover 4% of life when you use a flask" from flask mastery.