PoE Caustic Arrow builds

As I noticed many people complained about the current state of TR/CA pathfinder, I decided to share my personal experience with the build. Disclaimer: I am a bad player so feel free to correct me I knew I couldn't play a lot during the first week, so my focus was farming currency during the first weekend and investing in items that will eventually appreciate. Therefore, the investments I have made in my build are minimal. Key steps: I leveled as PC until about T8 maps after which I swapped to a 5 link +2 gems bow (<5c). You need vaal CA for single target combined with withering s

I ran this build as my league starter in 3.17 when ashes was easy to get, I loved the clear speed I got from this as well as how tanky it felt vs bosses so I farmed a lot of uber elders with it, not really invincible but with divine flesh and few phys damage reduction sources not much could one shot it at that time. I kinda wanna do the same build for my second or third build for this league with new Vaal Caustic arrow but not sure how meta has changed and what is new, skipped most of Sentinel and Kaladnra leagues. I could not find all the gear pieces that i used but missing ones were nothing

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 cha

I have wanted to play caustic arrow for a while now but it doesn't seem to do enough damage. I threw together this POB and it doesn't look promising: There's little gear, but even with expensive stuff I don't see it doing more than maybe 3 million DPS, and since its tankiness and speed isn't great, it doesn't seem worthwhile to play. Has anyone found success with Caustic Arrow?

This is not meant to serve as a guide, more of a showcase of whats possible and why i plan to play it. this build brings: high dps with low investment (currently sitting at 12mil, can easily double that on higher investment) a comfortable play style, just normal totem things. an insane recovery mechanic, you are near immortal to all hits. dots still hurt. auto flask usage really pretty mtx (celestial caustic arrow is so pretty😊) the option to spec into crazy movement speed optional self cast + fo