[3.10] Bashtart's SPARK INQUISITOR * farming like a god! :)
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Wanted to share some general thoughts.
I'm level 81 right now. This is my first self-cast sparker ever. I am having a the time of my life playing this build. Spark is so incredibly satisfying once the build really gets rolling and I think I've only scratched the surface of the build's potential. I love in this build what I love in the old 50-stack SRS builds: You get to watch your sparks/spirits flood across the map and annihilate everything. Now for some bullets with feedback / tips for others! - My gear is shitty (see below), but working just fine in mid-tier maps. - Diamond Flask + Atziri's Promise has boosted my single target damage considerably. Can't afford Vinktar's just yet. - 5L is working just fine - My links are still WIP, but get that CWDT Temp Chains / Warlord's setup going ASAP. The Warlord's leech with Ghost Reaver boost sustain against bosses tremendously. - Instruments of Virtue is tremendous QoL in tandem with Shield Charge movement - consider getting it first (or around the time you switch to Spark). - Investing in a 20/20 Spark gem at level 70 is a cheap way to get a big boost. Thanks to bashtart - I haven't enjoyed a build this much since EA in Breach.
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Last edited by ConsPark#2414 on Apr 12, 2017, 1:50:14 AM
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Hi there!
After having played Diablo 2 for ages, I started PoE some time ago. Then I played exclusively chars with bows until I decided that using Energy Shield for a change might be fun and profitable, since I would learn what ES-items not to throw away. I am still learning. :-) But today, the question concerns another item: From what I read here, the line concerning uncapped lightning resistances and critical strike chance translates into: the amount of lightning resist percentage above 75% is added to the critical strike chance, right? so if my character has (in merciless) a lightning resistance of 155%, then it gains an additional 80% chance for critical strike? I am asking because a) i don't understand the wording of the item, and b) if my assumption were correct, then chars with this amulet should pack lightning resist via jewels. But jewels with enhanced freeze Duration and lightning resist (= crit chance!) and some third benefitial affix are dirt-cheap at poe.trade. All the while jewels with freeze duration and blatant crit chance are, in fact, not. So where am I wrong? Thanks! |
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@Donnerdrummel: PoE ist very complex and sometimes confusing and you are not the first who asking about Choir.... I guess you more or less correct...just its everthing above 75% in normal as far as I know. Check out the link I posted on page 16 concerning this topic.
[3.2] Bashtart's Spark Inquisitor: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1838569 [3.2] Oni-Goroshi Frost Blades Trickster: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2077486 Last edited by bashtart#2403 on Apr 12, 2017, 7:24:43 AM
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So one Mark_GGG wrote at reddit the following, when confronted with the mention, that "total" would have been a better word instead of "uncapped":
Reddit-user Mark_GGG
"Total" implies the final value of something, after all calculations affecting it. That's literally the opposite of what this is, because the "cap" (maximum resistance) is a thing that affects your actual, final, "total" resistance value, and we're taking the value from before that's applied. If anything, that's explicitly a subtotal, not the total (subtotal would be a horrible choice of word for a host of other reasons). Interestingly, we ran this, and other, wordings past a bunch of people looking for more suggestions, and none of them ever considered "uncapped" to mean "how much under the cap", so the segment of the community which leapt to that conclusion surprised us. I suspect that might be either a regional thing, or depend on what games/game communities someone's been part of in the past that might affect their terminology. As I've already pointed out on the forums, even with this wording, which was the best we could do, we were not happy to put it on an item alone because there was too much room for misunderstanding (particularly in that the game refers to "maximum resistance", but never to a "cap"). We considered implementing reminder text on items a necessary feature before we could do these modifiers, because we needed the extra explanation. The website doesn't give you the chance to hold alt (or other rebound key) to see the alt-text version of the item. The game does. No-one in game will have to work out what these items does from the base stat description alone. If I interpret that correctly, a resistance of 75 (155) would result in the amulet granting + 155% chance for critical strike. Nice. Last edited by Donnerdrummel#4686 on Apr 12, 2017, 8:11:59 AM
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" Yeah CHoir is really good for lightning based builds... damage calculation is kinda a really complex topic and I am also still learning. When you sometime not sure what brings more just try it out... in your case take a jewel with crit chance and another one with same amount lightning res and look how you values change ;) [3.2] Bashtart's Spark Inquisitor: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1838569 [3.2] Oni-Goroshi Frost Blades Trickster: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2077486 Last edited by bashtart#2403 on Apr 13, 2017, 12:52:18 AM
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How much more resistance to lightning? Does this increase the chance of being critical? How much do you get from Chance to criticize? Could you look at my profile and any tips?
http://poe-profile.info/profile/SubDrag https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/SubDrag/characters Thanks |
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" More or less you just need to level your skill gems to 20 and you will get boosted big time... your gear already looks pretty good. Yes lightning resistance also increases your crit change because of choir of the storm. [3.2] Bashtart's Spark Inquisitor: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1838569 [3.2] Oni-Goroshi Frost Blades Trickster: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2077486 Last edited by bashtart#2403 on Apr 13, 2017, 2:57:52 PM
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How much is your critical chance % currently?
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" Hi, added selfbuffed Off/Def-Screenhot with two herald's in HO in my guide. I guess this might help. [3.2] Bashtart's Spark Inquisitor: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1838569
[3.2] Oni-Goroshi Frost Blades Trickster: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2077486 |
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You can save a skillpoint if you take the direkt route to the right from deep wisdom via int / dex / int. instead, you currently connect the middle part to the right part by taking the int / int / int /int above arcane focus. so you could scrap all those 4 int and instead use one more point in interruption while casting and, as described above, connect via in / dex.
/edit: never mind, you took the throatseeker, i did not. so you dont get to save opne point. however, you still get to change an int -node for he interruption while casting point. Last edited by Donnerdrummel#4686 on Apr 15, 2017, 7:59:49 PM
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