Started the league a few days ago. Am already around 50, I started as a toxic rain pathfinder because I read a few guides saying it was a relatively easy build to progress through the game and learn. I found a few guides for the tree, but nothing much on what to do for gear. Any suggestions? I'm running around in A5 now and just got introduced to the 5 sockets but i have no idea what colors I need. I'm assuming greens and blues?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

You have to check which gems you Need (check a guide for that) and based on those gems, you Color your items.

A quick google shows me a video like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKZ_iGBwfp0

Also there are guides on the forums, which have detailed info.

I started with this char as well

I just used a tabula,quill rain, rare glove,boot,belt,ammy,rings all with life / res starkonja, and malonys nightfall

mine did okay I wasn't clearing t15's though, I couldn't afford to gear with really good stuff.

This post was edited by 672 on Feb 21 2019 09:43am

https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Toxic_Rain

Since the DoT stacks and it has a 1 second base duration, investing into skill duration greatly scales your damage without introducing too crazy build up times.

you have 3 types of damage:
1) you shoot arrows, there where they land you Deal (50-72.8)% of Base attack Damage
2) there where the arrows landed, you Deals (6.7-283.7) Base Chaos Damage per second PER SPORE POD, Base duration is 1 seconds
3) AFTER THE BASE DURATION ENDS, SPORE POD explodes for 50% of Physical attack Damage Converted to Chaos Damage



so, you added lightning damage support only works on the initial arrow (1)
so your, physical bow damage only works on 1+3
if you have a fast bow and a slow bow, same dps, your fast bow will deal most DoT (2) damage
if you have a big damage (slow) bow, reduced duration will increase your clearspeed but have almost zero effect vs boss
if have a weak damage fast bow, increased duration will increase your clearspeed

This post was edited by Tommyvv on Feb 21 2019 09:43am

Awesome thank you so much everyone. I'll keep at it and hopefully will find most of the gear. The market place looks a little confusing and without buying the stash it looks like I wont be able to use the in game market to sell stuff.

pmd