Level 100 Toxic Rain Pathfinder^3.25

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How much area of effect we needfor the maximum overlap?

You need 37-43% increased area of effect. To reach this we take the Bow mastery for 20%, craft gloves for 10% and 9% helmet implicit with eldritch ichor.
For leveling you dont need to worry about this just for endgame. 


I added a custom mod to the gloves. Reason:
The Veiled and Crafting Bench Modifiers that granted Area of Effect and Area Damage, Projectile Speed and Projectile Damage, and 
Melee Damage and Melee Strike Range can now roll on Gloves instead of Amulets.




Mana problems while leveling and early maps. You have a few options:

1. Mana flask. Sadly you cant run without mana flask in early game
2. Life tap if you dont want to use mana flask. You can counter the Life tap with vitality or life flask. (personal opinion here: i dont like this solution)


When to switch to Eldritch Battery?

Personally im only switch to this when i have 400-500 Energy shield. You can use this at early levels but you need a few energy shield and evasion base 
OR a big energy shield helmet just like in the early maps gear.

I'm running out energy shield too fast, why?

1. You have  low energy shield 
2. You can craft +150 energy sheild regen while there is a rare or unique enemy nearby.
3. You can use % increased Energy Shield Recharge Rate mod on your boots and helmet.




How to use the clear setup:

1. You will use toxic rain links in the body armour because of that you need to recoulour the chest or buy another and use that. 
1.5 You can also just use the ballistas so you dont need to recolour. You can test is it out how you like it. You still need use your caustic arrow so your ballistas will start attacking because of the focused ballista.
2. In the weapon you swaping out the toxic rain to caustic arrow. Mirage archer to arrow nova support.


Weapon progression:

Even in the first day (or even in the first few hours) of the league you can buy Silverbranch. The price for it around 1-3 alchemy or 1 chaos. You can use this one till maps! 
You need 10 jewellers or for 4 socket and 5 fusing for 4 link (use for both the crafting bench) You can use caustic arrow for clear and when you fight aganist act bosses switch out the caustic arrow to toxic rain.
Also dont forget to switch out the pierce support to mirage archer.



If you dont have the currency for it keep your eye on any bow with good attack speed OR +1 to socketed bow gems and use you skill here.

If you are a GOD GAMER and getting lucky you can use Quill Rain or just buy this with good ilvl to get at least 4 socket. But with this bow you can't use the caustic arrow because it will deal much less damage
You will use toxic rain even for clear!

Another option you use Widowhail bow as well but you need a good quiver for it (damage with bow skill or damage overtime multiplier with attack skills)


This is how I'm doing the weapon progression:

1. Acts buy Silverbranch soon as possible and 4 link it (bech craft for socket and link)
2. Early maps Widowhail or Quill Rain depends if i can find a good quiver then Widowhail. If i cant buy a good quiver then Quill Rain 
2.5 At this point you can buy a six link body armour (or "just" drop one) and use your six link setup and skip the 3. step.
3. Farm (Porcupine) or buy a six link short bow. Use Shrieking Essence of Dread and hope you hit attack speed and open suffix (for chaos damage overtime)
4. Caft my endgame bow. If you know how to get currency early then this should be done in the first two day. (for example i had around 20 divine in my stash under two day)


Item and stat priority:

0. Cap your resistance and (on maps even in acts if possible) your suppression (if you have around 50-60% it should be fine in white or maybe even yellow maps but for red maps 100% suggested)
1. Good bow (see the weapon progression)
1.5 If you have a good rolled Widowhail - quiver
2. Quiver (Life - damage overtime multiplier with attack skills - Damage with bow skills - Attack speed) 
3. Reach 450 - 500 energy shield for your divine blessing
4. Get a belt with flask charge gain (30% needed) for your flask uptime
5. 20%-30% movement speed on boots
6. Start getting luxury items (see the next topic)



"Luxury" items and your goals:

- Get Lightning Coil (six link)
- Empower 3 or 4 (if you rich early)
- Awakened gems
- Crafted bow
- Clusters (end game)
- Watcher eye (end game)
- Expensive jewels (end game)
- Crafted quiver (see the crafting section)


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All crafting is very deterministic so dont worry! if you have doubt in yourself about crafting then you can "practice" in      https://www.craftofexile.com/


Before you start crafting make sure you have the following bech crafts:
                                                                                                                - Can have up to 3 Crafted Modifiers (The Putrid Cloister unqiue map needed)
                                                                                                                - Cannot roll Attack Modifiers (Caer Blaidd, Wolfpack's Den)
                                                                                                                - +2 to Level of Socketed Support Gems (Unveil Catarina weapons form immortal syndicate)
                                                                                                                - Chaos Damage Over Time Multiplier (unveil weapons for it)

Bow (+1, +2 support gems, chaos damage over time, attack speed, chaos dot mult)
The cost: 5 divines and 4 Exalted orbs and Alteration orbs
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. This step 33% or 50% (depends 3 or 2 mod you have) chance to fail so if you annuled the attack speed than start from step 1.
4. Craft "Can have up to 3 Crafted Modifiers"(2 divines) and "Cannot roll Attack Modifiers"(1 divine)
5. Slam 2 exalts, 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


Quiver (can be really expensive, both in Harvest juice and raw divines)


1. Get an ilvl 86 Hunter Broadhead Quiver
2. Spam the Harvest mod "Reforge a Rare item with random modifiers, including a Chaos modifier" until you hit both normal dot mult AND chaos dot mult of a tier you're satisfied with.
3. Make it so the 2 dot mult mods are the only 2 suffixes. You can do this with annuls, if you remove one of the dot multis you have to restart (this is why going to be expensive pretty easily)
4. Make sure there are no prefixes. The easiest way to do this is to craft suffixes cannot be changed and scour.
    If no prefixes are attack mods you can also craft cannot roll attack mods and annul (and recraft it if the cannot roll attack mods craft gets removed). Cannot roll attack mods and scour DOES NOT WORK!

5. Craft cannot roll attack mods
6. Slam an exalt, this is guaranteed to hit 1 of 3 mods: life, damage with bow skills or movement speed.
7. If the tier of the mod you just slammed is good enough for you, go back to step 6 again and repeat until prefixes are full. If you don't like the tier you'll have to go back to step 4.
8. Finish the quiver off with an attack speed craft


Amulet
Pick a base (Turquoise Amulet or Onyx Amulet)  with ilvl 82 and Fractured Chaos resistance atleast 25% or so

1. Spam the Harvest mod "Reforge a Rare item with random modifiers, including a Chaos modifier" until you hit "Damage over time multiplier" (around 23% is fine) and "+1 to chaos skill gems". 
Doing this step it will always give the "+1 to chaos skill gems" because there are no other chaos modifiers. So you only need the good over time multi.
2. Hope you have an open prefix .
2.1 If you dont have open Prefix than you need to annul a prefix if you remove the  "Damage over time multiplier" or "+1 to chaos skill gems" start over from step 1.
2.2 You had open prefix or you was successfull with the annul craft life and you done

Why not +2 to skill amulet? 
Well i think its hard to give up the +55 life mod and if i trying to put the +2 amulet in to the end game PoB the damage will be silghtly lower than this amulet 
and you will be also less "TONKY" also this is way cheaper than the other method.



Gloves

Pick a base with Armour and evasion with fractured attack speed.

1. Use life essence till you hit the suppression
2. Craft increased area effect and +1 socketed area gems
3. Use the eldritch currency to get: Suppression and chaos damage overtime ( for the overtime roll is fine to get "while there is a unqieu enemy nearby) 


Boots

Pick a base with Armour and evasion with fractured Spell suppression

1. Use life essence till you hit movement speed and you need to have an open suffix
2. Craft avoid elemental avoidance
3. Use the eldritch currency to get:  Elemental avoidance and action speed.


Helmet

Pick as the base hubris circlet with fractured life.

1. Reforge chaos with harves (horticrafting station) till you hit high energy shield roll and chaos resistance (around 250 energy shield is super fine) 
2. Use the eldritch currency to get: Phys damage taken as lightning. Now you have two options. Get reduced mana cost of attacks or despair curse effectivenss.
If you runing out energy shield often then you can use the reduced mana cost but should be not the case if you have enough energy shield.


Belt

If you don't use yet Tides of Time, Stygian base

1. Use fertile catalyst on the WHITE base
2. Start spam strenght essences till you hit: Life, Flask charge gain (at least 30%)
3. If you have open prefix you can craft energy shield and evasion (you can't do this if you rolled energy shield)
4. OPTIONAL Lets say you got lucky and you still have an open prefix. You can try to hunter's exalted orb slam the belt it's very expensive but you could get increased chaos damage or % increased life.


Ring

Vermillion as your base


1. Use fertile catalyst on the WHITE base
2. Start spam strenght essences till you hit: Big life roll (it can roll up to 120 life) 
3. I don't know what stats you looking on your ring so try to get one thats fit in your build.
4. If you have open prefix craft -mana cost 
5. If you have open suffix craft Minimum Endurance charge




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