[2.3] Ele / Sly Sparker ( Low Life as IIR/IIQ version )

Updated for 2.3 // mostly the tree




- Dropped The inc duration nodes and a few es node
- grabbed the frenzy / crit / pierce nodes on the left side

What do you think about taking Assassin ascendancy instead of Elementalist?

@luckyshin


i dont think its worth it

you gain

+1%base crit
+ 40% multi
+ free power charges


vs


4% reduced ele dmg
5% ele penetration
30% inc light dmg
40-70% uptime for free chill/shock/ignite
with your uber laby you can safe 2 oints in the tree ( its more or less a free jewl slot, a bit less )



so yeah i think in every possible way elementalist wins by far ^^ better defence + more overall dmg

Love to see a video :)

@hegsbro here you go^^




Video's

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KillerKrug wrote:

We play as a Scion ^^ ( Elementalist / Slyer ( + Witch Start for your 7/8 pts )

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KillerKrug wrote:

@xplutox

We dont have to take LL, its just helps alot vs reflect. We get Life Leech with the Acc tree "Berserker" which grants 1,5% Life Leech, which is enough in most cases ( when u run a Topaz Flask )

Ok, um, I'm confused. Do you get Slayer or Berserker? You can only pick two ascendancy classes. In one place you say Slayer, in one place Berserker. Should you skill berserker over elementalist? Or over Slayer? I think that Culling Strike is pretty important especially in party... Perhaps Slayer/Bers would be better than Elementalist/Slayer?

Its pretty easy in patch 2.2 i was ber/dea but with the recent changes i changed to sly/ele

Ok, sorry, more questions..

Energy from Within? I don't see any life nodes in your passive tree. Are we getting it just for 10% shield?

:D dont apologize, i am happy when u like the build or wanna try it out


Energy from Within? I don't see any life nodes in your passive tree. Are we getting it just for 10% shield?





atm i dont use it, but i recommand the life/es cluster around scion/shadow/witch,


i just dont feel like i need it, i would loose 4 pts for the cluster itself and a jewel slot ( the next one cost 4 pts too ) so 8 pts for 48-52% increased maximum Energy Shield


But when u wanna play more defence, its one of the best ways to boost your defence for rly cheap :)

Hey, I'm currently level 82 on hardcore, using your build (more or less).

I will go through the gear prices in Hardcore Prophecy and my thoughts for anyone thinking about running this in HCP.

This build is EXPENSIVE:
- It's difficult to find a high ES helm with rarity on this league. The best I could do was 250 ES with 35 rarity. I dumped it for a The Vertex for the chaos resist, and 300 ES / 600 evasion.

- 6s shavs was just under 300c, and another 15-20c of fus just to 5 link it.

- A corrupted level 4 Enlighten would be even more than shavs, upwards of 350c+.
I got a level 3 Enlighten for 80c, and use my auras in The Vertex - bam, level 4 Enlighten.

- I bought a level 20 Blood Magic for 20c, because I was ready to go low life before my gems were ;)
Level 20 is required to use Wrath on life.

- Got a really dope 141%crit/87%spell dmg dagger for 35c, crafted .2% lightning leech on it.

- Jewels are huge in this build. I spent 5c-25c on each jewel. Mostly % lightning damage and Fire and Cold resists, some ES%, and one with strength.

- Good amulet with ES%, ES, and rarity, at least 20c. Ventors with good resists, 9% iiq, and garbage rarity (3%) was 30c. TIP: Get a ventors with good fire/cold, bad lightning.. You will have plenty of lightning res from Purity of Lightning and Shavs

- ES Shield is also difficult to find! I luckily found one with Crit, 15 all res, and 323 ES for 25c.

*** Got REALLY lucky with cruel lab enchant on my Wondertrap boots: 0.4% Damage leeched as mana and life if you've killed recently
Honestly how the %#@$ do you maintain mana without this? My mana regen is 19.
No luck with the +1 to gems corruption- and none exist on poe.trade for this league. The Vertex is proving a great alternative with its +1 to gems.

Skillpoints:
- I spent two extra points to get Sentinel on the bottom of the scion start area. 6% projectile dmg, 10% all res, 24% Evasion & Armour.
- I spent four extra points on Conduit and Overcharged (I like to partner up for maps and share my charges)
- I got the Life & ES nodes right by Pain Attunement and put Energy From Within in the jewel socket there.
- I am skipping the witch power charge (2 pts) and the 30% crit multiplier in the Doom Cast wheel (2 pts) to get all the ES and jewel nodes first. Then I will get the power charge, and lastly down to Heartseeker and the frenzy charge (unlikely - this will take until level 97.)

** I took Pathfinder over Elementalist. I weighed the options for quite some time, and I believe pathfinder is superior defensively for hardcore. The flask charges, and immunity to status ailments when using flasks(which opens up your flask mods to use iron skin instead of staunching for example) are simply too much to ignore, and lets us use Vessel of Vinktar a lot more often.

The pros of Elementalist over Pathfinder:
- 5% more damage, from golem not flasks
- 5% penetration.
- Elemental Conflux for 4 seconds when killing a rare.

Pathfinder also adds about the same damage, and reduces the same damage (4% elemental), when using a flask. It also adds:
- 50% increased flask charges. (Huge on Vinktar).
- 50% chance to be immune to Shock, Freeze, Ignite and Bleed on flask (pretty much guaranteed if you use more than 2 flasks)

Flasks:
- I dropped the Doedre's flask for a Kiara's Determination, and I don't miss it one bit. Kiara's is wonderful - you don't have to swap flasks for strongboxes, and you can't get owned by stuns or freeze (we have no stun defense!!).
- Using a Chemists Granite Flask of Iron Skin
- Using a Perpetual Diamond flask of Grounding (could replace grounding here with Reflexes or Iron Skin)
- Vessel of Vinktar (leech=safety!)
- Divination Distillate: A note on this.. It's difficult to use it often. I am able to drop HoT and pop it before boss kills, but 95% of the time it's useless. Considering dropping it.


So, I'm at 5.6 ES, growing to 6k hopefully, 20% evade, 1% PDR (49% with flask), 24.4k hideout dps, 30k-35k DPS with charges and flasks. 259IIR/17IIQ, 315/31 with divination. Remember Item Quality gem drop is disabled in league.



Anywho, I feel somewhat squishy, but safe solely from leech. The leech from lab enchant is really, really awesome for this build. I'm really enjoying having higher uptime on my flasks, because this build seriously lacks defense. I will let you know if I RIP and what I RIP to if I do..

Otherwise, as a final note, playing a rarity build is pretty damn fun! I'm doing tier 5-6 maps right now, and I make at least 10c a day just from the chaos recipe(I have 20 unid rare rings in stash from the past two days lol), about 10c from selling rares for alts (thats 180 alts a day), and then finding random currency and random good rares that sell for 2-10c. Soon I'll make back all the chaos I spent on this build!

Thanks for the build guide OP. I hope my post encourages more people to play it on PHC.




Edit: lol, ok RIP, one single rare reflect spiker in t10 necropolis with no bad mods, I must have crit him without vinktar and then ate the spikes without granite, bam 6000 ES and 500+ chaos gone in an instant.