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Hi,

I like your build and I'm trying it.
But,

I don't have the same "ES Leech/on Hit Rate" and it's too complicated to survive at this moment.

I'm seaching for the "big difference" but, I'm really lost (item, or gem or ..) For my excuse it's my first cast caracter :)


Can you help me a little ?


https://pastebin.com/gbFd0Gk3


Thanks

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debehu wrote:

Hi,

I like your build and I'm trying it.
But,

I don't have the same "ES Leech/on Hit Rate" and it's too complicated to survive at this moment.

I'm seaching for the "big difference" but, I'm really lost (item, or gem or ..) For my excuse it's my first cast caracter :)


Can you help me a little ?


https://pastebin.com/gbFd0Gk3


Thanks

Set up seems fine, but there are many small mistakes, many small mistakes adds up and things get screwed up

Should be looking at much higher ES pool, 63es on gloves and 250es on helm seems a lil bit too low

Your boots craft was substandard, it can roll higher (18-20% movement speed)


I dont understand why is there lion's roar, you dont do any melee damage

You have THREE mana flask, none of them are enduring, huge mana issues there

You changed the gem set up, why? spell echo is probably the most or 2nd most important gem there

You leveled your flash dash, i did say that it should not exceed level 7

You dont have 2 curses, but you use hextouch with 2 curses, thats not gonna help

I went with a crystal belt just because of the huge amount of ES it gives, your abyss jewel is far inferior compared to a crystal belt, just use a flask with staunching mod to counter corrupted blood

The precursor emblem there is pretty useless too, just get a random rare ring with es+resist to free up gearing requirement on other pieces of gear. Maybe get dex/str so you can free up 2 points on tree

Thanks you for this reply !

Hi, I transitioned to this build yesterday using the last of my currency, but it's underperforming a bit. The DPS is not very high, with everything up i might be able to kill Izaro in under a second, but even while mobbing/delving the damage feels poor and I can forget entirely about tier 10+ map bosses.

Here is my POB, the only thing missing really is my flasks which are just there temporarily until i can work up the currency to roll some new ones :P https://pastebin.com/LAvby6y1

Also, I'm at 5.7kES which honestly feels pretty low, but that might be because I dont kill packs fast enough to stop them from swarming me first...

Please send some advice my way! Thanks :)



E: to clarify, I'm not running GMP/LMP because I'm using dying sun, and felt like I really couldnt afford to lose more projectile damage from GMP

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ARESTICE wrote:

Hi, I transitioned to this build yesterday using the last of my currency, but it's underperforming a bit. The DPS is not very high, with everything up i might be able to kill Izaro in under a second, but even while mobbing/delving the damage feels poor and I can forget entirely about tier 10+ map bosses.

Here is my POB, the only thing missing really is my flasks which are just there temporarily until i can work up the currency to roll some new ones :P https://pastebin.com/LAvby6y1

Also, I'm at 5.7kES which honestly feels pretty low, but that might be because I dont kill packs fast enough to stop them from swarming me first...

Please send some advice my way! Thanks :)

E: to clarify, I'm not running GMP/LMP because I'm using dying sun, and felt like I really couldnt afford to lose more projectile damage from GMP

I would say, understanding the base mechanics of the skills and scaling mechanics in the build is pretty important. You cant just buy similar looking items, slap it onto a character and expect good results most of the time


Firstly, you are level 83, with lots of ES nodes missing, of course if you are building damage first this is totally fine, meaning your next few level will be decently big ES nodes(unnatural calm, faith and steel). You shouldnt expect like 10k ES on this build, but 7-8k is doable at roughly lvl 93-95

Your uniques are rolled really low, considering its standard, it shouldnt be hard to get decent rolled uniques(casting speed on wands are extremely important, you only got 11/15% casting speed on them respectively, low roll ES shavs). Every bit of cast speed matters, on my 3.10 version, i have 5.43 cast per second, compared to your 4.27 cast per second. Spell casting speed is super important for a spell echo build because you are locked in the repeat animation every cast
20 tempering/fertile catalyst on the amulet does wonder

Most importantly for damage, your ball lightning is level 17, 0 quality, not alt quality(divergent for the 10% chance to supercharge). Spell builds heavily relies on spell gem level for damage, because spell gem level adds base damage on the spell
Most of your gems has no quality, not considering them not being level capped since you are still leveling
Realised you dont have vaal RF, the extra damage for burst is pretty important for bosses(ill take out vaal arc just for sirus, because it will eat up the soul charges for vaal rf. You always get a vaal rf cast on sirus last phase). Portal gem isnt as good as vaal rf when it comes to damage
On my 3.10 version i also took out the vaal arc set up for a purifying flame totem set up, thats more focused on bossing

Using slower projectile for clear is detrimental because the balls dont reach the enemies fast enough. The damage issue is fixed if you have up to levelled gems and with quality. I only swap to slower projectile on tougher bosses(i used GMP on uber elder because i didnt want to aim)


Your flasks are a mess, probably run into mana issues using a hallowed flask, i would always go for an enduring eternal flask
Why would you need a bismuth flask? Ease up resistance gearing on your helm/gloves, having proper flask is much more important than the bit of ES
Why would you need kiara's determination? you shouldnt be stunned, roll blue flask with freeze, bleed and curse immunity
At your current situation, ill take diamond flask, mana flask, cinderswallow, quicksilver, quartz flask. Changing into bottled faith(expensive) or wise oak(either you balance all 3 resist or make lightning highest) isnt the most friendly option until you reach the min maxing stage
Cap your resist without flask, you cant rely on flask for resist

Why would you take opportunistic instead of deadly infusion for merciless lab? The base crit chance increase and crit multi heavily outweights the buff from opportunistic


Sniper's mark does not work with hextouch, having to press an additional button is pretty troublesome, ill just go with conductivity+elemental weakness here


I am not a standard player, i cant suggest what to build/upgrade next, but i recommend fixing the many small tiny mistakes that built up to something huge
Ill prioritize fixing the flask(that includes capping res without flask), getting proper quality gems/up to level gems(lvl 17 gems is pretty much t1-5 map standard damage league start), getting proper wands with higher cast speed rolls within budget


Also, check out my 3.10 version of this build, thats where i brought the power level up another notch
https://pastebin.com/7YsdUKWd
P3 sirus on A8 took me less than 20 seconds, with him teleporting 4 times. I dont see how single target will be an issue

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Astarift wrote:

I would say, understanding the base mechanics of the skills and scaling mechanics in the build is pretty important. You cant just buy similar looking items, slap it onto a character and expect good results most of the time

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Thanks a ton for your quick reply!!

Yeah the flask situation is because I'm actually out of alts, and I dont happen to have the right flasks on hand. I'm gonna keep working at it and post an update later. The bismuth was only there for the anti-bleed, since the mana flask i rolled took the res during flask effect mod.

I will be applying your advice, and hopefully getting the last lab done today, will post an update later!

Thank you so much for the brilliant idea, I was so frustrated with my poison build but thanks to you I played Arc, Ball Lightning, and Freezing Pulse and had fun with them. Now I will switch to storm brand and see how it goes, according to POB it will have a nice damage :D

Edit: OMG the DPS is insane with low investment (I don't even have Watcher's Eye), about ~10.5m shaper DPS with everything up (~14.5m if 4 stages sigil of power instead of 1).

Each attached brand deals ~3.9m (5.2m if 4 stages SoP) and non attached deals ~1.5m (2.1m if 4 stages SoP)

Also the energy leech is so good so I decided to get even more with Ethereal Feast so that I become immortal xD the next step is to get more ES (I have trash rares :D)

POB if anyone is interested: https://pastebin.com/Qcimh4Pz

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fornoobzz wrote:

Thank you so much for the brilliant idea, I was so frustrated with my poison build but thanks to you I played Arc, Ball Lightning, and Freezing Pulse and had fun with them. Now I will switch to storm brand and see how it goes, according to POB it will have a nice damage :D

Edit: OMG the DPS is insane with low investment (I don't even have Watcher's Eye), about ~10.5m shaper DPS with everything up (~14.5m if 4 stages sigil of power instead of 1).

Each attached brand deals ~3.9m (5.2m if 4 stages SoP) and non attached deals ~1.5m (2.1m if 4 stages SoP)

Also the energy leech is so good so I decided to get even more with Ethereal Feast so that I become immortal xD the next step is to get more ES (I have trash rares :D)

POB if anyone is interested: https://pastebin.com/Qcimh4Pz

You need a mana sink to use sigil efficiently btw, getting 4 stages on storm brand seems pretty tough

Yes you are right, I also felt that brand isn't really my style so I switched to Cyclone CWC Ball Lightning with Sire of Shards and Dying Sun flask and thanks to the idea of the build it's working like a charm even without Void Batteries ^^
I like it so much and I believe that's what I am gonna stick with :D
Thanks Again.

Would you make any changes now to the ball lightning build in 3.11 with some of the changes in the recent patches?

I'm also currently saving up for a +1 power charge precursor emblem, any suggestions as to better immediate upgrades?

Thanks again for the build! Been running it for 2 leagues now :)

Here's my pastebin; https://pastebin.com/aFxhFPit