Caustic Arrow
- "Borrowing a bit of toxic chemistry from the secretive Oriath Necromancers guild, a skilled archer infuses their arrowhead with a wicked venom. Once enchanted, the arrow will explode violently when it impacts a target, showering both foes and the surrounding area with a cloud of choking death. Anything living caught in the cloud will suffocate quickly, suffering heavy chaos damage until they move far away."
- — Description on the official Path of Exile website[1]
Caustic Arrow is a ranged attack skill that fires an arrow dealing chaos damage and exploding in a cloud of poison.
Skill Functions and Interactions
Caustic Arrow creates a caustic cloud, which deals chaos damage over time to enemies standing within it.
Duration: Skill Duration supports and passives will increase the duration of the poison cloud.
Explosive Projectile: Caustic Arrow will explode either at the specified location or on the first monster or obstacle encountered. If it hits an enemy, it will deal additional chaos damage based on your weapon damage. Wherever it explodes, it will leave a poison cloud that causes a debuff.
Multiple Projectiles: Additional projectiles added will cause additional poison clouds, but multiple clouds will not cause additional debuffs.
Piercing: Piercing Caustic Arrow Projectiles will cause additional clouds each time they hit and will receive the chaos damage bonus any time they impact an enemy, but multiple overlapping clouds will not cause additional debuffs.
Ranged Attack Totem: Caustic Arrow works with ranged attacks totem since patch 1.0.2. [2]
Projectile Damage: Passive nodes and gems (such as Slower Projectiles) that increase projectile damage will increase both the damage on hit and the area of effect damage.
Concentrated Effect: Concentrated Effect will decrease the size of the AoE and increase its damage. However, due to the nature of the skill and the wording of its modifiers, the damage increase will not appear on the tooltip. [3]
Point Blank: Point Blank does not affect the poison cloud damage, it only affects projectile attack damage. [4]
Iron Grip: Iron Grip does not affect the poison cloud damage for the same reason as Point Blank: the cloud is not considered as an attack.
Accuracy: The projectile attack is subject to accuracy and can miss, however the explosion will create poison cloud and do damage regardless of whether the projectile attack hit or missed. Piercing poison arrow will not create additional clouds if missed.
Culling Strike: The increased damage you get from Culling Strike applies to Cloud damage, but the cloud does not kill enemies instantly when they have less than 10% life.
Gem level progression
Template:GemLevelTable |- ! 1 | 4 | 16 | 8 | 2.80s | 5.20 | 30% | 0 | 0 |- ! 2 | 6 | 20 | 8 | 2.90s | 6.52 | 31% | 841 | 841 |- ! 3 | 9 | 27 | 8 | 3.00s | 8.83 | 32% | 3,099 | 3,940 |- ! 4 | 12 | 33 | 9 | 3.10s | 11.70 | 33% | 7,433 | 11,373 |- ! 5 | 16 | 41 | 9 | 3.20s | 16.52 | 34% | 22,895 | 34,268 |- ! 6 | 20 | 50 | 9 | 3.30s | 22.75 | 35% | 49,725 | 83,993 |- ! 7 | 24 | 58 | 10 | 3.40s | 30.77 | 36% | 95,714 | 179,707 |- ! 8 | 28 | 67 | 10 | 3.50s | 41.03 | 37% | 169,595 | 349,302 |- ! 9 | 32 | 75 | 10 | 3.60s | 54.12 | 38% | 283,759 | 633,061 |- ! 10 | 36 | 83 | 11 | 3.70s | 70.72 | 39% | 453,996 | 1,087,057 |- ! 11 | 40 | 92 | 11 | 3.90s | 91.68 | 40% | 703,128 | 1,790,185 |- ! 12 | 44 | 100 | 12 | 4.00s | 118.13 | 41% | 1,061,223 | 2,851,408 |- ! 13 | 48 | 109 | 12 | 4.10s | 151.35 | 42% | 2,065,870 | 4,917,278 |- ! 14 | 52 | 117 | 13 | 4.20s | 192.97 | 43% | 2,507,110 | 7,424,388 |- ! 15 | 55 | 123 | 13 | 4.30s | 230.92 | 44% | 2,573,731 | 9,998,119 |- ! 16 | 58 | 130 | 14 | 4.40s | 275.70 | 45% | 7,611,351 | 17,609,470 |- ! 17 | 61 | 136 | 14 | 4.50s | 328.55 | 46% | 13,437,908 | 31,047,378 |- ! 18 | 64 | 142 | 15 | 4.60s | 390.82 | 47% | 25,052,147 | 56,099,525 |- ! 19 | 67 | 148 | 15 | 4.70s | 464.13 | 48% | 43,869,436 | 99,968,961 |- ! 20 | 70 | 155 | 16 | 4.80s | 550.33 | 49% | 242,081,178 | 342,050,139 |- ! 21 | 72 | 159 | 16 | 5.00s | 616.05 | 50% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 22 | 74 | | 17 | 5.10s | 689.20 | 51% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 23 | 76 | | 17 | 5.20s | 770.58 | 52% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 24 | 78 | | 18 | 5.30s | 861.12 | 53% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 25 | 80 | | 18 | 5.40s | 961.78 | 54% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 26 | 82 | | 19 | 5.50s | 1073.68 | 55% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 27 | 84 | | 19 | 5.60s | 1198.05 | 56% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 28 | 86 | | 20 | 5.70s | 1336.20 | 57% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 29 | 88 | | 20 | 5.80s | 1489.62 | 58% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 30 | 90 | | 21 | 5.90s | 1659.98 | 59% | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A | class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |}
Quest reward
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Vendor reward
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Version history
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2.1.0 |
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2.0.0 |
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1.3.0 |
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1.1.2 |
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1.0.6 |
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1.0.3 |
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1.0.2 |
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0.9.13 |
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0.9.12 |
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0.9.9 |
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0.9.7 |
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0.9.5g |
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0.9.5 |
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0.9.4 |
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0.9.2 |
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References
- ↑ Path of Exile. "Dexterity skills". Official Path of Exile website.
- ↑ Mark_GGG (27 November 2013). "1.0.2 Microtransaction Videos and Damage Over Time Changes". Path of Exile Forum. Retrieved July 8, 2014.
- ↑ Daniel_GGG (3 December 2013 14:05). "Bug: Poison Arrow Skill not working with Concentrated Effect Support Gem". Path of Exile Forum. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ Daniel_GGG (January 5, 2014 12:10). "Point blank and poison arrow". Path of Exile Forum. Retrieved May 13, 2014.