[3.14] No BS Storm Brand Hierophant | Tanky | League Starter | Good DPS & Clear

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AedwyneofFolkstone wrote:

Hi. Playing the build and enjoying it thoroughly, most of the way through Act 9. Some questions:

1. Why do you bother with cloak of defiance when you can get MOM from the keystone?

2. Agnostic reduces your ES to 0. I'm confused why you have ES gear. What am I missing?

3. Since we went right by Elemental Equilibrium anyway, I took is and proc it by having flame wall on a CWDT. Good idea, Bad idea or meh?

Thanks for the very cool build.

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THE_NAT wrote:

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maxdudemax wrote:

Thank you for the build guide!

Could you recommend an early alternative for Atziri's Foible? Still saving up for Cloak of Defiance and the amulet is quite expensive this league so far.

Would it make sense to pick up a rare amulet with mana regen?

I would just use a rare amulet with life, mana, and ele res.

It will drop in price as the league goes on though so keep that in mind

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KatorSu wrote:

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THE_NAT wrote:

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maxdudemax wrote:

Thank you for the build guide!

Could you recommend an early alternative for Atziri's Foible? Still saving up for Cloak of Defiance and the amulet is quite expensive this league so far.

Would it make sense to pick up a rare amulet with mana regen?

I would just use a rare amulet with life, mana, and ele res.

It will drop in price as the league goes on though so keep that in mind

Hi. Sorry for this, but where did you get this graph?

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HavskattenWAOW wrote:

we only proc conductivity by manually casting orb of storms?

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maxdudemax wrote:

Thanks for the quick replies to questions :)

Overall the build has felt quite good, particularly against bosses. I'm up to tier 11 maps and have had absolutely no trouble against conquerors.

However, I'm finding survivability iffy against larger packs, particularly in Ultimatums. Stopping to cast storm brand feels really dangerous, even inside sigil, and I find myself getting killed by rapid fire attacks from ranged mobs.

POB has me at upwards of 25k ehp, but I suspect the problem arises with a lack of good damage mitigation/defensive layers, which might explain why it feels good tanking one-shots, but many smaller hits break through the agnostic regen.

A couple questions:

1. Your POB has you blinding enemies. How are you applying blind?
2. Any tips on adding some mitigation, even maybe at the cost of a little DPS? Would it make sense to maybe try swapping from a staff to wand/shield (would that even add any block)?

My POB in case you have time to take a look: https://pastebin.com/ATM4qXtm

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THE_NAT wrote:

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maxdudemax wrote:

Thanks for the quick replies to questions :)

Overall the build has felt quite good, particularly against bosses. I'm up to tier 11 maps and have had absolutely no trouble against conquerors.

However, I'm finding survivability iffy against larger packs, particularly in Ultimatums. Stopping to cast storm brand feels really dangerous, even inside sigil, and I find myself getting killed by rapid fire attacks from ranged mobs.

POB has me at upwards of 25k ehp, but I suspect the problem arises with a lack of good damage mitigation/defensive layers, which might explain why it feels good tanking one-shots, but many smaller hits break through the agnostic regen.

A couple questions:

1. Your POB has you blinding enemies. How are you applying blind?
2. Any tips on adding some mitigation, even maybe at the cost of a little DPS? Would it make sense to maybe try swapping from a staff to wand/shield (would that even add any block)?

My POB in case you have time to take a look: https://pastebin.com/ATM4qXtm

Vs large packs there are a couple of things you can do to increase your survivability.

1. Kill them if you invest into good wands you should see ~20% damage increase(This will be expensive). additionally you can get a medium brand cluster with the notable 'Holy Conquest' this will make you kill packs faster so they can't kill you. As a final way to increase you damage you could grab a timeless jewel in the name of Dominus to get 12% more damage.

2. Get blind if the packs hit you less you take less damage. You can get blind through the notable 'Disorienting Display' which is a suffix on large cluster jewels.

3. Increase you resistances to Chaos and phys. You can achieve this by getting chaos res on your gear (This will be expensive) and by swapping your quartz flask for a basalt flask.

4. Increase your HP pool your current pool is ~7k which is solid don't get me wrong but it could definitely be higher. (This will also be expensive).

5. This is more of a playstyle thing but storm brand a a pretty good range and can go around corners. Don't just flame dash into 35 enemies and die, use your range, mobility, and targetability to your advantage.

I hope this clears everything up for you.

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unsmith wrote:

Are you all binding Arcane Cloak to your left click, or saving it to pop as a buff along with everything else?

I'm trying to figure out how to boost my "walking around" damage, and it seems like stuff like Arcane Cloak, Sigil of Power, Vaal RF, etc are just there to pop on bosses.