Caustic arrow and crit

[Genjuro]

Hi guys

I recently take the decision to do a CA trickster and i was looking for the information i need, i just wanna know if crit chance is buffing CA in any way, i would like to play quill rain but im not sure if crit is actually a good idea. i know that DOT cannot crit but i was wondering if the hit himself can crit and then buff CA dmg. i saw a lots of build with Darkscorn using Toxic Rain with crits, maybe its a better idea ?

[la_nague]

if you want to scale the dot then no, crits do nothing.
Other people scale poison or the hit damage, then crit does something.

[Phobos]

Sure about the poison or are you talking about % poison on hit, scaling that?

Caustic Arrow is a bow attack that fires an arrow dealing chaos damage and exploding in a caustic cloud. Enemies standing within it receive a debuff that deals chaos damage over time. The caustic cloud does not poison and is therefore not affected by poison-related modifiers.

https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Caustic_Arrow[/qoute]

[Genjuro]

ok it seems to be useless to play crit with that..

[Phobos]

Originally posted by Genjuro:

ok it seems to be useless to play crit with that..

TR still might be good with DoT and Crit

Fire a number of arrows into the air that rain down around the targeted area, dealing damage to enemies they hit and creating spore pods where they land. Each spore pod deals chaos damage over time to nearby enemies and lessens their movement speed. After a short duration, the pods burst, dealing area damage.

https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Toxic_Rain

If I read that correctly there is two things happening
1. Initial attack - on hits, projectile support, crit?
2. Spores - dot, area, increase chaos, increased duration, etc

:edit

[3.4] The Plague Archer - Assassin Crit/Poison based Toxic Rain!
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2201095

[la_nague]

Originally posted by Prophet:

Sure about the poison or are you talking about % poison on hit, scaling that?

Caustic Arrow is a bow attack that fires an arrow dealing chaos damage and exploding in a caustic cloud. Enemies standing within it receive a debuff that deals chaos damage over time. The caustic cloud does not poison and is therefore not affected by poison-related modifiers.

https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Caustic_Arrow[/qoute]

https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Perfect_Agony

[Phobos]

Oh yes that one...

[Drake]

Originally posted by la_nague:

Originally posted by Prophet:

Sure about the poison or are you talking about % poison on hit, scaling that?




https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Perfect_Agony

Perfect agony is a special case. You don't build a regular dot poison build like you build a perfect agony dot crit build.