Due to POE 3.23 Affliction League’s arrival, I’m back on the journey to Tornado Shot Magic Find.
At first, I continued to farm the Cemetery Map in the hope of getting a couple of Brother’s Gifts. But since I received only 2 Brothers’ Stash and no gift, I decided to start farming Crimson Temple instead of the Cemetery.
Also, many people farm Burial Chambers Map since it has the Doctor and the Fortunate, but I didn’t try it.
The first Ventor’s Gamble Gold Ring looks good. I can use it for the first time.
Since I don’t have enough damage for comfortable mapping, I decided to try making a new bow.
First, I need Spine Bow 86 item level, and we need fracture 3 additional arrows: Glyph Nock, Horror Twine & Kraken Branch. If you have enough POE Currency, you can also fracture Eagle Breeze and Agony Volley.
Finally, it would be cheaper to buy a ready-made base. First, we will make 30% quality. I spent about 1 Divine Orb on Fossils before I got it.
For crafting, I use the Shrieking Essence. Any that gives flat damage (Anger, Wrath, or Hatred) will do. I used Anger since it was the cheapest.
We use them until we get one of the other Elemental Damage. After which, it is best to use Beastcraft, remove suffix at prefix so that we have free suffixes, and hope to get the third Elemental Damage. After which, we make the ‘Prefix Cannot Be Changed’ in Aisling.
But since I didn’t want to look for Aisling, I just used Veiled Chaos Orb. Don’t repeat after me as it might ruin your suffixes.
Next, we craft damage for any charges and unveil. Critical chance or attack speed is best, but mods such as critical multiplier or double damage can also be left and craft attack speed or critical chance.
Of course, we do 6-Links. I usually don’t use the bench to do this, but my double click mouse is broken, so I have to use craft and enchant attack speed. In short, I have 1047 Elemental DPS, 8% Critical Strike Chance, and 2 additional arrows. Not bad!
Unlike a physical bow, I don’t have much experience in crafting an elemental one, so perhaps there are other cheaper or easier crafting options that I don’t know about.
These are scarabs and sextants that I used in the first couple of dozen maps:
- Gilded Divination Scarab
- Rusted Legion Scarab
- Polished Reliquary Scarab
- Polished Ambush Scarab
- Charged Compass
So, at the moment, I ran about 100 maps and got 8 seven years’ bad luck and won the Apothecary. Now, I have about 100 Divine Orbs, and I’m still missing out on Headhunter.
Now, my build looks like this. I have enough damage but still lack speed and survivability. This will be fixed with the purchase of a Headhunter and other improvements to the build. For now, this is only the initial version.
I highly do not recommend starting MF without a Headhunter, as you will die very often. There are also a couple of useful charms, such as:
- ‘Chance to gain Onslaught for 4 seconds on kill’, which allows you to remove Silver Flask, recover 1% of life, and mana on kill.
- 'Cannot take reflected Elemental Damage'
They are cheap, but extremely useful.