3.3 OBEY THE ORB (Orb of Storms - based build, SSF)

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Hogenov wrote:

Hey,

sorry for asking, but I dont understand properly how does this work. could oyu explain me the mechanism?

You just summon orb and then just spamming tempest shield and the orb is spamming the lightining strike?? Or what is the mechanism?

Orb of Storm deals his damage every time, you use a lightning skill inside its area of effect. Tempest shield has by far the lowest base cast time (0,25 sec) of all lightning skills. Only some Channeld skills are faster , but channeling only triggers orb of storm every 0,5 sec, and ignores any increase to castspeed.

why are there those 2 stormcalls then? Thats what confuses me, how does that cast?

I dont know exactly what you mean, i only use one vaal stormcaal for some burst damage on tought fights.

This build looks great and I'm fully committed to making it work.

I'm not sure that I understand how the auras are working though. The listed skill gems in your equipment seem to be too much for a standard mana pool. I have an essence worm with grace but we cannot also run the wrath and the arctic armor that are listed in this build. Do we just choose one or another for the given situation?

Thanks for the fun build.

I dont run wrath^^

I only have leveled it in case i need it. But that dont happend to be.

I only run arctic armor and Grace.

I seem to start every centence with "i", god that looks so weird xD

Thanks for the feedback.

Any reason why you didn't use lightning tendrils instead of tempest shield? Both channel but tendrils provides additional damage. From what I can tell, tempest shield really only gives about 1% additional spell block and it rarely triggers the culling strike since the damage is coming directly from the orb.

Cool build. I've been enjoying experimenting around it. Definitely a fun playstyle. I might post an similar alternative for feedback and if I do I'll definitely link back here.

Great gear for SSF btw. You should be proud of this one all around.

Lighning tendrills: cast time 0,23 sec
Tempest Shield: cast time 0,25 sec

So tendrills semms like a better choice, BUT, as i said erlier, lightning tendrills is a channeld skill, tempest shield is not, so lightning tendrills only triggers orb of storm ever 0,6 seconds AND this doenst scale with cast speed. Tempest shield will trigger it every 0,25 sec, and skales with castspeed (iam at a cast time of 0,07sec at peak)

Tempest shield is used, becasue it is by far the most fastest way to trigger orb of storm, and that was the foal of this build.

The culling strike is mostly there to increase the castspeed by another 10% with quality. But fun fact, in my video where i kill ash, tempest shield actualy culls ash.

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IsodorRodosi wrote:

Lighning tendrills: cast time 0,23 sec
Tempest Shield: cast time 0,25 sec

So tendrills semms like a better choice, BUT, as i said erlier, lightning tendrills is a channeld skill, tempest shield is not, so lightning tendrills only triggers orb of storm ever 0,6 seconds AND this doenst scale with cast speed. Tempest shield will trigger it every 0,25 sec, and skales with castspeed (iam at a cast time of 0,07sec at peak)

Tempest shield is used, becasue it is by far the most fastest way to trigger orb of storm, and that was the foal of this build.

The culling strike is mostly there to increase the castspeed by another 10% with quality. But fun fact, in my video where i kill ash, tempest shield actualy culls ash.

Thanks again for clarifying. Sorry I must have forgotten your original rationale; I should have re-read your OP again. The trigger speed makes sense as to why tempest shield would be best. How did you figure this out? I was looking at https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Orb_of_Storms for information but it doesn't seem to fully explain the mechanics.

What do you think would be the second best lighting spell for triggering orb? I'm trying to experiment with a dual 5L setup (staff + armor) to see if there are other interesting uses of orb. It would be interesting if there was a good option for weapon swapping during boss fights or just other playstyles, even if they weren't as orb-optimized as tempest shield.

That's also pretty cool that culling strike actually did get the kill on Ash. On fast-casting enemies it probably does trigger more than one might think.

In case of second fastest, it is Any bow based lightning attack with quillrain, but thats highly inneficient, becasue you loose shield an weapon for damage, and it is slower.

Noormal, damaging spells, maybe spark, and ofcourse, overwpoerd Arc. But that was not the plan for this build. It was not to reach the highest possible damage with the caracter overall, it was about dealing the highest possible damage WITH orb of Storm.

Worried that with the instant cast change coming up that this build is going to be dead.