I think a video like this on spectres would be very helpful for a lot of people.

i could also use some clarification on the damage calculations. i see many people use increased projectile damage, but what does that increase exactly? - the initial damage of the arrows? - is that initial damage also chaos or physical? - does it also increase the chaos dot since that one was caused by a projectile ability? ive seen the debate attack speed vs projectile speed. i was told projectile speed is more important but i dont understand why. sure, its neat if the arrows find their mark faster, but at the end of a day the amount of arrows in the air and on the ground matter, not how fast they got there. right? how does increasing the chaos damage actually work? there is a flat initial (chaos?) damage on impact, and then the dot right? depending on the numbers what is most benefitial? - first increasing the flat chaos damage or the flat chaos dot so all the % increases have a larger base to work with? - will increasing the dot give the most benefit cause flat increases are too little? there are so many unknowns i could find no answer anywhere to. your video was the first to go in the right direction.

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Good stuff!

Appreciate it!

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Thank you! Cheers!

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Sounds like you're on the right path. You'll need to upgrade your character until you can handle the harder content. Keep at it!

Thank you!

Now he gone. Must be putting all the loots in stash 😹

It's ok but feels kind of slow for me. It totally works though!

Did you find out which mtx he has by any chance?

Sorry for the late response. That was the Overseer and Silver Crescent sets together. Cheers!

Good recommendations!

Thank you! Just made one for ya: pastebin.com/nCPpY47j

This version clears way better and, in my opinion, has better survival with a life gain on hit vitality watchers eye. I..honestly don't really like the CA clear version very much and I've tried them all. Your mileage may vary!

@@subtractem i LOVE this version. But I didn't know if this one was viable since I didn't see it a lot. Thanks a lot for this build!

Thank you! Working on one literally right now!

@@subtractem What an absolute legend you are!

@@fischer8447 www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Subtractem/item-filters SubtractemRegular is the filter. It's still in very early days so needs a lot of work but that's the general style I'm going for this league. I know it's not for everyone but I want to treat this time. :)

Yes, I talk about this in the video. Conc effect effectively hard counters the increase aoe from carcass jack to the point that it isn't noticeable and +50% area damage is pretty significant. This has been tested thoroughly and there is a reason why everyone is still using one. As a tanky alternative Kintsugi is good but you can also just craft an influenced chest with +1 gems to boost your auras.

@@subtractem "Conc effect effectively hard counters the increase aoe from carcass jack to the point that it isn't noticeable" on my set up with conc effect I go from 18 aoe radius to 15 aoe, and if I put a carcass jack it goes back to 18 radius. That means that the benefit of reduced aoe on conc effect is largely negated. "+50% area damage is pretty significant" It's increased area damage, that means the damage difference isn't that significant (because there are already many sources of increased damage). My set up goes from 3.1 mil to 3.3mil. While that's a nice increase, you are most likely losing damage by equipping carcass because of the aoe increase. And before you say that this is only limited to my set up, you can go onto remi casters pob's (the guy with a very extensive TR guide on the forums), and you'll see very similar results. So basically, you are equipping a chest that gives you 50-70 life, 9-12 all res, and some es and evasion, and probably losing some damage. Considering all these points, carcass jack is an absolute waste of a chest slot if you are optimizing your single target damage.

@@ado_4297 Fair enough! However, I would still recommend CJ as a cheap 5c starter chest that will carry you to T16s that you can then double corrupt for a huge boost if you hit something good. I think the balance of clear and damage is still overall going to be some of the best that you're going to get for the value. Once you have two full cluster jewel setups and scaling over 300% increased damage then that 50% wont be much, but initially it's going to be pretty significant. Cheers!

@@subtractem Yeah it's a decent starter chest for sure, you pay chaos to lose damage when you can buy a rare that doesnt decrease your damage.

Pretty much yeah! The big difference you'll want is to anoint Panopticon for better totems but otherwise you're good!

Yes

It's not toxic rain which is fast, it's the ascendancy - Raider.

with mirage archer no less, im glad that self casting TR comes with a big single stack punch so it makes me feel better once i get my curse nad life on hit rings so i can drop skitters and maybe use like petrfied blood or something so i die less haha

You can buy it once you get to merveils caverns.

@@subtractem why dont you want to add poison?

@@rorybisson756 Poison is only for on-hit, it's a very different way to scale.

Hierophant, the Templar ascendency. Cheers!

@@subtractem Thank you! Appreciated!

It does!

If you really want to be tankier I suggest looking into a Trickster version. He gets a lot of defense from ghost shrouds and the combination of Evasion+Energy Shield working together.

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​@@subtractem im just saying you should be Pathfinder, for first getting the extra 40% phy to chaos, 2nd the new mechanic of immortality that make you regen 24% max life when hit, and if you add Replica Albernon + STR stacker build items you can get a crazy amount of Chaos DPS so all your chaos damage % notables from Cluster will get boosted a lot more. And if you addd Medling of Ice + Purity of fire (cause of STR) and Ashes from the Stars and maybe annoint Cleansed Thoughts, you could get to around at least 83% max ele res, and 75% chaos res. And now you get a crazy amount of LIFE thanks to the Wall of Muscles that give 10% max life + 5% increase STR/ea you get 10 of those, its a 100% max lfie + 50% increased STR. So the end up result is you having a little less maybe of DPS i dunno cause i didnt have the budget to make it yet, but you are immortal and can facetank almost anything. So my point is you should do your build but with Flask Immortality + More life, and then switch to anything else when you get your replicas, or just boost it and go all the way. And the gift part was cause i enjoyed your way of crafting that bow, and explanation of the build.

@@janodiaz92 On hit flat damage does not change how much damage over time you do. It would not benefit this style of build at all. Glad you liked the video.

It's way easier to get the gem levels with fossils. Essence can get you a nice bow but it's really tough to get those gem levels with it.

As far as I know you can actually overlap more than that number of pods if you have enough duration and enough attack speed. It's just a convenience in PoB to deal with the common situations.

@@subtractem I see, thanks for the input!

Good catch! I did miss that line. It's traditionally mostly skipped over for other mods but it's a nice to have.

Yeah in later tier maps you'll have to invest a touch more into defense. If you want to scale back harder into defense temporarily consider a Kintsugi and getting a hunter/elder stygian with life% and flat life to get over 4k. Cheers!

@@subtractem kintsugi smoothes it up, for a chunk of damage. But I like it a lot!

It's a great option for getting tankier!

@@subtractem Absolutely! And since I have seen (and been killed by) tons of Boss mechanics that I have never seen before (since the bosses were usually already dead^^) I would like some more time to figure out what is killing me and why^^

@@DirkVomEck I'd suggest running Hyrri's Ire for more dodge and evade. Helped me. You'll lose a bit of life but that dodge covers for it.

@@pingpong9959 seems like a worse kintsugi to me.

@@meke7777 You can get ~20K evasion with 10% Attack/Spell dodge. Idk how it's bad.

I have survivability issues as well. I have almost the exact same gear set up as the video, took elusive + life nodes on my lv90 tree (went up to 4.8k life at some point), run quartz + jade flask, vitality + no more blood rage. I’m guessing that to solve my survivability issues it would be better to prioritize scaling damage over more defensive layers like use +3 bow and 20/20 gems (I only have +2 w/ CDot and still leveling my gems after quality recipe). Kill monsters first before they kill us type of logic?

Yeah! Really the game is about hitting just that right balance of life to not get one shot too much and then play defensively and focus on damage. Peoples' instinct is going to be to build more life and defense but, due to how spiky the damage in PoE is, you're better off going damage most of the time.

@@subtractem thank you for this reassuring info! I just dropped some life nodes for other things a few hours ago and now I’m breezing through t14 maps now haha. Looking forward to future videos!

@@catsoffon Heck yeah!

Interesting, you should be seeing 5 blossoms on the ground. Are you not?

@@subtractem 1 keystroke equals 1 arrow up and 1 blossom on the ground. I have Empower, Void Mani, Mirage Archer, Vicious Projectile, and Efficacy as my support gems on a Golem siege Thicket Bow.

@@jeffkrueger7510 there is...something wrong with your config. I'm not sure what's up but something is broken with how your build is set up. I just took a naked character to Act 1 and put in toxic rain by itself and this is what a single shot looked like: i.imgur.com/7DWFWZh.png I would rebuild your pieces from scratch and figure out what's doing it. I could take a quick look at your PoB but something is definitely wrong.

@@subtractem I just started a new TR Raider using your suggestions. Wow! I made lvl 45 in 2 days. I was moving the gear from my original into my stash to move over to my new character as I leveled. Well, I found the amulet I was wearing was the problem.. Item Class: Amulets Rarity: Unique Fury Valve Turquoise Amulet -------- Requirements: Level: 40 -------- Item Level: 80 -------- +23 to Dexterity and Intelligence (implicit) -------- 16% increased Evasion Rating +18% to all Elemental Resistances Skills fire 2 additional Projectiles 28% increased Projectile Speed Modifiers to number of Projectiles instead apply to the number of targets Projectiles Split towards -------- A single act of anger travels countless paths of destruction. I dont understand the stat that reduced my 5 arrows to 1. What made it even worse was I was playing with a "Greater Multiple projectile support" in there thinking I had 9 arrows blossoming (totally useless). Thanks to you showing your damage and arrows by mousing over the hotkey, I saw I only had 1 arrow. I pretty much gave up on The Toxic Rain build thinking only streamers could play it correctly. So much Fun to play it the way your video explained it. Thank you for the interacting with your subscribers.

You can check out my Bane Occultist guide here that uses ED for single target: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bc5nqsep25vVaHU.html I'm playing that build right now so you can swing by the stream and ask any question you'd like!

I highly recommend grabbing path of building community fork. Then go to import and put in the link. Pretty much all build guides use pob links so it's worth the setup.

It's a unique helmet called Asenaths Chant that triggers spells on bow attack. Cheers!

@@subtractem oh wow! thanks for getting back that quick! and holy crap! that helmet is freaking expensive hahahaha. I just finished the campaign btw with a toxic rain. and I follow your advice especially on the skill tree. thanks for all this!

It's all in the path of building link in the description

it didn't exist when i made this video...also it's a different skill

Carcass Jack is for a mid tier build. Later on, for uniques, I'd go for a Kintsugi or a Hyrri's Ire. Rares are always better (a fact which I "kinda" don't like about this game), +1 max curse, life, frenzy, res, these things are all good and yes.. max evade. You can continue running Carcass Jack if you have Anomalous Toxic Rain, Dying Sun, Phantasmal Mirage Archer with Conc effect support. (This is around 100 ex spent toxic rain build 😅).

@@pingpong9959 Perfect form is decent right now for mid tier since artctic armor has freeze immunity now.

@@ado_4297 -3 Move speed hurts, but other stats are good, I can also free some points in skill tree. Thanks for the suggestion! I'm still learning my ways through the game (2nd league 😅).

@@pingpong9959 i mean rares arent always better, for example atziri’s reflection and paradoxica builds also for mid tier items ziz just recommends a generic rare body armour with life and res but also you can’t say it’s a mid tier item then list 100 ex of shit lmao

@@iambadplsdontmad-leagueofl5102 Carcass Jack is more damage basically, you can run this till end game Gives res, life, damage, what else you want. A decent corrupt will make it even stronger.

Stormrend with the Celestial Cat MTX. Cheers!

@@subtractem thanks a lot, I'm new to POE and the way you explain the mechanics is brilliant. Thanks for the content and help :)

I made this video months ago. Prices change dramatically between leagues. Its useful to remember that when watching old videos. Toxic rain was changed a year ago so the arrows are further apart based on aoe. It lowers your dps.

​@@subtractem thanks for replying so quickly. thats extremely important to know. i was under the impression more aoe = more dmg. i could also use some clarification on the damage calculations. i see many people use increased projectile damage, but what does that increase exactly? - the initial damage of the arrows? - is that initial damage also chaos or physical? - does it also increase the chaos dot since that one was caused by a projectile ability? ive seen the debate attack speed vs projectile speed. i was told projectile speed is more important but i dont understand why. sure, its neat if the arrows find their mark faster, but at the end of a day the amount of arrows in the air and on the ground matter, not how fast they got there. right? how does increasing the chaos damage actually work? there is a flat initial (chaos?) damage on impact, and then the dot right? depending on the numbers what is most benefitial? - first increasing the flat chaos damage or the flat chaos dot so all the % increases have a larger base to work with? - will increasing the dot give the most benefit cause flat increases are too little? there are so many unknowns i could find no answer anywhere to. your video was the first to go in the right direction.

@@subtractem thanks to your guidance i just crafted a bow thats worth 1ex now and made my damage jump from 17k to 52k :D (from quill, so i had a decent bow before)