[PoE 3.23] Poison Caustic Arrow LEVELING Guide for Leaguestart

And youre not using caustic Arrow? Any updates for peepz who are new to this buold.

any update on this build, about gear, ...

Why do you remove the Life Mastery "Skills Cost Life instead of 30% of Mana Cost" in AfterActs?

i think i found my new fav league starter , i have been wanting to do a totem ca but im too noob to do it . thank you for this awesome build guide. build has been smooth af no issues

Are there a good loot filter for a Ranger build with socket and stuff ?

can i lvl as a duelist with those gems up to lvl 28 as well before switching to EA champion, i find the spectral throw way so annoying and bad, was enjoying CA a lot, maybe i can level with the EA campion tree and use the skills from that POB (new player)^^

I just wanna say, "BRAVO" man. This has been one of the comfiest league starters ever. It even manages to go toe-to-toe with Affliction (sometimes) during campaign on scuffed gear, while others get bodied.

Hi @Palsteron, thanks for the awesome guide. Couple of quick question, managed to get the transfigured caustic gem. Do I swap it over now? Just wondering as this gem is doing DoT anymore and don't benefit from those passive nodes. Would you put it on the totem or self? Cheers.

im fairly new to POE and trying to follow this guide but what is oathe of the maji ive never seen this before ? and how do u unlock it

why Withering Step if you have wither ascendancy?

Bro... People love to put a long stream on in the background with commentary! Upload that shit. Then make smaller cuts to focus on parts if you need.

great, all of that good stuff...

Any plans to release a video on crafting a midgame and/or endgame bow for this build assuming you're using the tincture for all damage can poison?

what to check in the POB to see damage scaling?

Can we get a full item list? im not that good at crafting items or jewels and would be very happy to have a list of items that i can somewhat work towards to

any leveling filter?

Is there going to be an endgame pob?

You are the 😊best, like always. Thx mate to make my game easy.

"Now we can play for 8-10 hours without completely screewing up our sleep rythm" yeah, going to bed at 6 in the morning is not completely screwing up mh sleep rythm...

does precise technique help?

Our lord and saviour, Ballisteron

can we also include the low tolerance penance mark stuff in this build? some say this will be OP

Looks to be a very solid build for league start. But after playing EA and freezing pulse totems several leagues, I know it's not my taste and stay away from it.
I prefer self casting else I find no joy playing PoE even if totems are easy mode

Am I dumb or the POB is incomplete? I don't see any items or skills after A4. I want to league start this!

can this build do well in Expedition?

poisonous concoction is another option for leveling this build. absolutely clowns on the campaign in conjunction with plague bearer but falls off pretty hard after you run out of life flask upgrades. trees are similar but probably want to do a minor respec in early yellow maps once you find a useable bow.

It doesnt say in the PoB if we kill or save bandits, which one do we pick pls?

Can i replace the Caustic Arrow of Poison with the new Toxic Rain of Sporebrust ?

There's now on hit toxic rain too

Thanks Pal. I think I'm go with this and try get Void Stones and do lab a bit. Get those few gems for Jugg and then level that.
So many cool builds to put together lots of FOMO I think from a lot of players this league lol.

I didn't quite understand, does Master Toxicist work with Ancestral Bond?

I have a christmas dinner with work during league start - I'm so bummed :p. Hope you have a good time blasting guys!
I'll be leaguestarting this after watching a gazillion videos, seems so fun to play and scale.

Hi Pal, huge fan here, i have this question for you; do you think its doable to start league your tornado shot frenzy charge stacker Slayer guide from last league ? Or start it Lightning Arrow then convert ?

Is this a build where i can automate the flasks and do we actually need a manaflask here?

How do you think this will be for bossing? I can't pick between this and EA, but want to kill some Ubers

I think you can also take the 5% ms for 1 point near the ranger start. I would take it ASAP while you don't have much ms anywhere else and unspec later after the transition to poison and at least 25% ms boots

Where do you get the added chaos gem? It sounded like you said "you should definitely do Lab Request" but that clearly isnt right.

Would you be able to create an item filter for the leveling CA build? Im really down to use one ! 😁😁

what are some good league mechanics to farm with this build?

I haven't done ballista since i did EA like 4 leagues ago, looking forward to this one.

Hey! I started the last league with your Hexblast Mine, it was really fun to play and fun to gear! But mine play style kills my wrists at this age, so I was looking into totem builds. And TADA! You have a build for us this league too!

I did a few test runs of different non-meta builds(I like meta builds but EA, SRS, and ignite all got stale for me) and this Poison Caustic Arrow build is one of the smoothest, most fun experiences I had. I might go as far as to say this feels better than toxic rain, and EA. Minimal passive respec, visually clean and fun, faster damage output, decently tanky for a totem build. The only downside is gearing is a bit harder than TR, EA but I find it not a huge deal if you play trade league.

For a few people who are curious, yes you can actually use 2L CA all the way from the start. I did have a 3L Toxic Rain totem set up but I didn't use it except for a boss fight or tougher rares. self attack 2L(preferably 3L) CA is enough to handle most of the situations. Mid act 4 and beyond, having 2 4L set ups(one for totem CA, one for self attack CA) speeds up early game progression. You can melt pretty much everything within a sec self attacking with no gear. So if you're tired of TR, or don't like how slow TR is just use CA from the get go. Not a big deal.

With totem nodes invested(placement speed especially), having some attack speed, you can get rid of self attack part. OR the other way, you can go self attack route only using totem for bosses. Poison CA is that solid. CUDOS to Palsteron for finding out this fun build! And I did the test run with, obviously, normal CA gem. AND with no tincture(all damage CAN poison). So you can only imagine how smooth this build's gonna feel once the league actually starts and you have all the new stuff.

were is the EndGame POB ?

Do you think this will be added to Maxroll?

I was league starting with my guy Aero.. This build has me cheating on my camp. Fkn did it to me again! There are just SO many ways to problem solve with this build. Even for an average player like myself, with tinctures, and the ability to get poison cap so easy, The Flask power with this ascendency, the up time with dmg, there is just to much to ignore.

Also, Aer0 is league starting my FAVORITE build that he has made to date lol.. So its a sweet and sour feeling to not be league starting that with him. But this build is impossible for me notto play.

Im a HH enjoyer. You think I can go full phys for all the added damages from hh or is an elemental bow strictly better. Also you see a way transferring this to mf. I played CA MF last league and it was pretty good just the single target sucked and that hh didn’t provide any damages. Cheers

I'll prob start with this cuzz i have a cool TR mtx lol

Nice guide. Tried leveling with your pob and it was smoother than i thought it would be. The only thing that i changed and was a good quality of life addition was blink arrow cooldown recovery bow mastery.
Hopefully we will all get transfigured ca in first lab.

I feel like only thing at league launch in first town I see is rangers :D

Dude, now I have a problem choosing my league starter. CA ballista or Guardian SRS…..?

Though I'll make another league starter, I'm still watching your vids and guides
Guess I want to learn how to make my own builds in the future 😁