[3.10] MRSEANCONNORS CRIT / ARC TOTEMS - Hierophant 4.5 MIL DPS / BEGINNER FRIENDLY [All Content]

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I've made some changes to this build that some of you should really consider. They are pretty big improvements for not that much investment.

Here's my PoB of current char at lvl 91: https://pastebin.com/fa91fBUT

And here is supposed to be the finished product at lvl 100: https://pastebin.com/04Zvj9fY

Current is around 4M Shaper-DPS and finished will be around 5.3M Shaper-DPS. And really, it's more than this if you put more curses on you and you hit bigger shocks. Plus my gear certainly has room for improvement and these awakened gems take forever to level.


The 5 main changes you should look into are:

1. Getting Whispers of Doom anointment so you can do 2 curses... Assassins Mark with Conductivity. AM is huge for adding crit chance, power charges, and some life/mana on kills.


2. Arcane Cloak. Whatever your mana pool is, a 20/20 Arcane Cloak will give you about 64% of your mana pool as an additional damage buffer. In our case, with around 2500 mana, it's like having an extra 1600 life for 6 seconds with a 4 second cooldown inbetween each use which refreshes the 1600. On top of this, you get a MORE dmg buff (lightning). In this case, about 14% of 1600, or around +225 lightning damage, which scales to huge DPS addition.

Attach this to a 20/20 Arcane Surge + 20/20 increased duration, and now you're cookin. But make sure you get your mana regen up as much as possible. You should try to have at least 600+ to sustain Arcane Cloak + MoM + normal casting of spells.

With this setup, we should have an effective health pool of around 8500-9500. Which is more than enough to kite and stay out of the fray while our totems get in the thick of it.


3. Put Wave of Conviction by itself attached to a 20/20 spell totem support. And make sure you have +lightning damage somewhere on the build, either on gear somewhere or from the tree (this will insure you do more lightning dmg than fire dmg so the debuff is -25 lightning). Then just remember to occasionally drop a WoC totem somewhere in between your Arc Totems to hit the targets with another -25 lightning resist that stacks on top of your Conductivity debuff.


4. Get a level 1 Ball Lightning, attach it to Curse on Hit + Conductivity + Assassins Mark. It's 100x easier to apply both curses to everything this way.


5. Scrap Lightning Warp and the 3 supports you need to make it work and just use Flame Dash and a mid-level Phase Run (mine is 13 with 131 dex and gives +46% movement speed), along with a 20/20 increased duration, then put Phase Run in your movement button (left mouse button for me), and you have a +40-something percent movement speed like 90% of the time. And Flame Dash is available to traverse gaps and elevated terrain.


Also, 20/20 lightning penetration is better for bosses than added lightning damage. If you're having trouble getting 100% crit chance, you can swap out controlled destruction for lightning pen, too. But, with AM, crit chance shouldn't be an issue anymore. I don't even run with a diamond flask and I'm at 100% crit chance easy with 8 power charges. And it's absolute cake to keep up 8 power charges (and 3 endurance charges), and I don't even use Inya's boots.

You want to crit every hit as this will guarantee you shock, and you want hard hitting shocks to maximize your damage. There are different levels of shock, and most people don't realize this.

If you use this PoB Fork ( https://github.com/PathOfBuildingCommunity/PathOfBuilding ), you can change the shock levels and see how significant the difference is between them.



Anyway, hope this helps some of you. Good luck.

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DemonicDonna wrote:

why are we using x2 kikazaru? isnt it counter intuitive reducing our curses?

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DemonicDonna wrote:

im sorry i didnt mean it like this, ill run atziri's reflection so to my point, is it still worth going for x2 kikazaru since im unaffected by curses?

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SkylerOG wrote:

Put Wave of Conviction by itself attached to a 20/20 spell totem support. And make sure you have +lightning damage somewhere on the build, either on gear somewhere or from the tree (this will insure you do more lightning dmg than fire dmg so the debuff is -25 lightning). Then just remember to occasionally drop a WoC totem somewhere in between your Arc Totems to hit the targets with another -25 lightning resist that stacks on top of your Conductivity debuff.

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daiverok wrote:

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SkylerOG wrote:

Put Wave of Conviction by itself attached to a 20/20 spell totem support. And make sure you have +lightning damage somewhere on the build, either on gear somewhere or from the tree (this will insure you do more lightning dmg than fire dmg so the debuff is -25 lightning). Then just remember to occasionally drop a WoC totem somewhere in between your Arc Totems to hit the targets with another -25 lightning resist that stacks on top of your Conductivity debuff.

Is this matter what kind of light damage ?
+ to attacks, or +to spells ?
I have +to attacks on my gloves, and +to spell while dual wield on abyss gem
this will work ?
PS stygians are expencive (
PPS i can get items close to yours in POB (but not too close =)). mana regen is not so good . with 4 totems - 379.5 certainly will have problems with arcane cloak (but im just 71, will get 20% mana reg from coldhearth calc till 91 lvl)

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SkylerOG wrote:

Needs to be generic +lightning dmg or "to spells"