[3.8] WIP Toxic Rain Pathfinder League Starter, 297% MS 5.9k life All Content + Great mapper/delver

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KingAlistair написал:

1- I notice that you're using Swift Affliction in your toxic rain links. Based on what I've read here, it sounds like it may not be the best option due to the reduced duration. What are your thoughts on this?

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JayCy написал:

Any suggestions?

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Viktranka написал:

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JayCy написал:

Any suggestions?

1. Get rid of these crit nodes next to heartseeker. Chaos Dots don't crit. Poison builds may use crit, chaos dot ones be it essence drain, caustic arrow or toxic rain don't. Or at least the pod part we care about with all the +gem level scaling.

2. Using "Alchemist Jade Flask of Reflexes" and / or Quartz Flask will add a bit to your evasion / dodge and reduce (but not completely elliminate) the number of random 1-shots in mapping, but will have to come at a damage loss. For example on my character I decided to sacrifice "Nature's Adrenaline" (20% attack speed) for "Master Alchemist" (immunity to shock, ignite and freeze / chill). That allowed me to run anti-curse and +evasion flask but it's a trade off that doesn't come without a cost. Sacrificing Master Toxicist instead of Nature's Adrenaline could be an option too when damage is high enough and movement speed and ailment immunity would be more valuable overall.

Otherwise it's mostly about constantly moving out of harm's way (don't let mobs come to melee, use toxic rain's innate slow, dodge projectiles that are shot at direction not namelocked to you), keeping your jade + stibnite up (you should use them to the max as pathfinder) and accepting that sometimes you'll just die to unlucky 1 shot.

Using basalt flask together with flesh & stone in stone form is also a way to reduce probability of getting 1 shot. Swapping stone golem for chaos golem could make sense too, evasion characters mostly die to 1-shots and life regen doesn't help as much on them as on let's say Juggernauts that can outregen a lot of hits (thanks to armor / endurance charges nothing should 1 shot them).

3. Your cast when damage taken doesn't work. It can only support spells lvl 38 and your Steelskin is lvl 58 (requirement not gem level). Either you use it manually and save a gem slot, or you have to use low lvl Steelskin.

4. You could pick more life from tree. 146% is on the low side. Easiest way is to pick from Scion's area (around Constitution), but again something has to give. You defo get 2 points from the crit nodes, after that you could sacrifice a jewel, freedom of movement wheel or master fletcher wheel. You can also save 1 point by pathing to Growth and Decay on the regen side instead of damage. But it's up to you if you want to trade off or no.

That 1 point next to Resourcefulness is also quite pointless, you're way overcapped on resistances so I'd imagine you'd get more from picking the extra point behind Revenge of the Hunted if you want evasion and life node.

5. Your gloves are first candidate for replacement. They don't have chaos multi. They have tons of resists you mostly don't need (except fire). You could get something with life + strength (allowing you to unspec Prowess and get a point) + chaos multi if you can find one. They're also energy shield base which is not very useful.

The jewel "Cataclysm Wound" is also weak - no life%, no chaos multi. Personally I would swap it with "Spirit Prism" and completely unspec these 3 points above Sentinel, they're basically worthless as you're over resist cap. Btw if anyone says about capping for ele weakness, just use anti-curse flask, pathfinders have close to 100% flask uptime. Crafting a spare Quicksilver of Warding and swapping it for maps with curses like Temp Chains / Ele Weakness and then back to Adrenaline on no curse maps would probably be my first pick.

The abyssal jewel you have in the belt - "Enthralling Stare" is also pretty worthless for this spec. Since you already have chance to gain onslaught on quiver getting gem with one isn't as useful, but you could get some defensive stats on it or maybe something with attack speed? I don't remember all mods but all the "adds x to y to bow attacks" type of gems won't do much, pods don't scale from initial hit unfortunately. Crit is also useless.

That are my ideas. Anything beyond that point would have to come at severe alterations to the build.

For example I played toxic rain in legion and was indeed tired of constantly dying to monolith mobs so I respecced iron reflexes and tanked everything with vaal molten shell. This comes at a compromise of not using queen of the forest (I seriously don't think it'll work together), so losing the movement speed from it, and changing the pathing on the tree (I skipped the whole side with Acrobatics and picked Perfect Form as a way to preserve Phase Acrobatics).

Another option is to play more defensive oriented class - like Trickster, Raider or Champion. But I think that's beyond the scope of advice anyone is looking for.

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GreenWaltz написал:

Sporeguard provides some corpse destruction, crowd control, and an anointment (I took Harrier, Discipline and Training, and Dirty Techniques are the best options imo).