[EA] Spark Stormweaver - Mana Stacking Archmage MoM+CI - freezing/electrocution

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stnikolauswagne#1468 wrote:

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DeerFart#2293 wrote:

Thinking out loud here…

So the ascendency that causes all damage from hits to contribute to shock. It seems no one takes it… and at first it made sense as it seems useless if you’re purely lightning… but this got me thinking:

There’s a node in the passive tree (I have it, forget what it’s called) that adds %Extra as cold. Also on 99% of our wands, we have extra %damage as ____.

Having that ascendency would make those various types of damage contribute to shock, which would be huge. Way more impactful than crappy crit storm thing.

It’s hard for me to tell via testing because everything on the screen gets deleted regardless, but, feedback/discussion needed.

The way I understand conversion/"gain as extra" in poe 2 is that it only applies to base damage and not the damage you allready "gain as extra", you can see this in the skill tooltip when taking the %lightning as cold node, its a miniscule amount of damage since it doesnt scale the archmage damage (which is where most of our flat comes from). As such the ascendancy seems kind of bad since 95+% of our damage is still going to be lightning.

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DeerFart#2293 wrote:

Yeah, this is how I understand it also, but even still, having that damage contribute to shock is the best option out of all the others, no? Storm is underwhelming, recoup is even worse. Idk.

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misterwong#1801 wrote:

What do you guys think of captain lance's sparkmage guide? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o0cl3_V0MQ

I gave it a shot and I found the branching bolts node(s) helping my clear speed greatly. However, I am a bit puzzled because he does not spec much into defense such as increased ES and Manareg. Therefore, I am a bit torn currently on what approach to follow.

My gear is not great.

Also, I am still wondering about how much lightning pen is needed. The aforementioned guide does not spec into this at all and also does not use the lightning pen gem. I think the idea is that the needed penetration comes from conductivity and exposure. Do normal mobs have like 0% lightning res and therefore penetration is only needed for mobs with special affixes?

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Deleverage#0700 wrote:

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misterwong#1801 wrote:

What do you guys think of captain lance's sparkmage guide? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o0cl3_V0MQ

I gave it a shot and I found the branching bolts node(s) helping my clear speed greatly. However, I am a bit puzzled because he does not spec much into defense such as increased ES and Manareg. Therefore, I am a bit torn currently on what approach to follow.

My gear is not great.

Also, I am still wondering about how much lightning pen is needed. The aforementioned guide does not spec into this at all and also does not use the lightning pen gem. I think the idea is that the needed penetration comes from conductivity and exposure. Do normal mobs have like 0% lightning res and therefore penetration is only needed for mobs with special affixes?

the shield block is great. however i still die in t15 maps even with shield.

especially rituals i die easily. anyone having issues with t15-16 rituals ?

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stnikolauswagne#1468 wrote:

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Deleverage#0700 wrote:

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misterwong#1801 wrote:

What do you guys think of captain lance's sparkmage guide? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o0cl3_V0MQ

I gave it a shot and I found the branching bolts node(s) helping my clear speed greatly. However, I am a bit puzzled because he does not spec much into defense such as increased ES and Manareg. Therefore, I am a bit torn currently on what approach to follow.

My gear is not great.

Also, I am still wondering about how much lightning pen is needed. The aforementioned guide does not spec into this at all and also does not use the lightning pen gem. I think the idea is that the needed penetration comes from conductivity and exposure. Do normal mobs have like 0% lightning res and therefore penetration is only needed for mobs with special affixes?

the shield block is great. however i still die in t15 maps even with shield.

especially rituals i die easily. anyone having issues with t15-16 rituals ?

Your issue is likely a lack of DPS. Even at 12k combined Mana+ES I would still fall over if I get surrounded and attacked. The best way of surviving close-quarter combat is just deleting enemies. With ritual specifically you have two approaches:

1) Just get a lot of mana/spell damage/gem levels/etc and brute force the DPS check.

2) Go for 100% pierce through Annoint+Jewels and remove the pierce gem/chain nodes if you have them. With that combination you get insane DPS in ritual specifically since your sparks just bounce around the tiny arena with infinite pierce and keep hitting every enemy.