(Stormweaver) Max projectiles cold converted fireballs. Cheap, easy, powerful, FUN! (T16+ ready)

I play this build with ~ 100% Rarity. I wear 2Ventors Gamble and have Rarity on the helmet. Sitting at 2k Life/5k ES and 2k Mana. Have 10k Damage on sheet. Feels great for Speedfarming Bosses. But i know, 2 good rolled Ventors can expensive, got really lucly as I got an insane one in Ritual (60Life, 11 Spirit, 23 Rarity and all positive Res (lik 35, 20, 15). Other then Tant we can get Rarity on Helmet, Amulet and Boots. But since everyone doing it right now it might be expensive and i'm pretty Sure they will nerf rarity (sadly, as i think, its a lot of fun with rarity). So be aware if you invest huge in rarity it might be dead after the next Patch.

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jakob450#0331 wrote:

I play this build with ~ 100% Rarity. I wear 2Ventors Gamble and have Rarity on the helmet. Sitting at 2k Life/5k ES and 2k Mana. Have 10k Damage on sheet. Feels great for Speedfarming Bosses. But i know, 2 good rolled Ventors can expensive, got really lucly as I got an insane one in Ritual (60Life, 11 Spirit, 23 Rarity and all positive Res (lik 35, 20, 15). Other then Tant we can get Rarity on Helmet, Amulet and Boots. But since everyone doing it right now it might be expensive and i'm pretty Sure they will nerf rarity (sadly, as i think, its a lot of fun with rarity). So be aware if you invest huge in rarity it might be dead after the next Patch.

I'm currently running the glasscannon version with 16k tooltip damage and 242% rarity since i'm running Mahoxotl shield with 2 rarity cores. I'm just in the process of trying out each version with rarity to see whatever works better and feels "safer" in a sense but honestly not sure. Morior Invictus chest is kinda flexible with it's stats but also expensive depending on what you want. Just trying to find out what could be a feel good version with the rarity.

My tooltip damage is horrendous, honestly I need more cast speed but I'd have to either drop mana regen or uncap resists... Or actually get some div orbs to drop lol

Sadly I think I'm pretty much as good as I can get for my budget, which I'm very happy with.

1,100 Life
6,668 ES
1,474 Mana
75/75/75/61 Resists
94% damage recouped as mana

I could technically get 100% recoup and a smidgen more Mana, I dropped a Midnight Braid which I corrupted and got 56% recoup but it has lower all res so I'd drop down to 73 in all.

So my Tooltip DPS is only 10k with this absurd beast of a wand, why?


Playing the non AOE-Version. I shoot 2 Fireballs per second

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jakob450#0331 wrote:

So my Tooltip DPS is only 10k with this absurd beast of a wand, why?

What's your Mana at? I'm pretty sure a large chunk of our damage, especially tooltip, comes from the mana scaling of Archmage.


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Also wondering what I've done to make mine so abysmally low. I'm on, like, 1700ish for explosion tooltip. Some of it is cast speed for sure, but with decent cast speed I should be at like 2500... still a huge difference.

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FreedomDoge#5499 wrote:

Hey! Really like the fireball build and been trying it out for a bit, but since rarity is such an issue and I have some stuff from a different build, made me wonder if there is a version of this build, either the OP's build or the glass cannon version that could be turned into a rarity fireballer? Any suggestions on what to do / where to go with it or just not do it?

Thanks!

I was able to get it on rings and boots and have around 80% with it on those pieces and it didn't sacrifice TOO much. You can definitely gear towards it while playing the build and you shouldn't feel it too much.

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HigherTimes#6965 wrote:

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FreedomDoge#5499 wrote:

Hey! Really like the fireball build and been trying it out for a bit, but since rarity is such an issue and I have some stuff from a different build, made me wonder if there is a version of this build, either the OP's build or the glass cannon version that could be turned into a rarity fireballer? Any suggestions on what to do / where to go with it or just not do it?

Thanks!

I was able to get it on rings and boots and have around 80% with it on those pieces and it didn't sacrifice TOO much. You can definitely gear towards it while playing the build and you shouldn't feel it too much.

Swapped over to the AoE build and currently only at 9k or so tooltip on fireball, still with all my rarity and I would love to just dump more rarity into it since it's broken. But i'm not sure if I can put more without losing damage to actually make use of all the rarity. Not sure if "rarity stacking" on the fireball build is actually a good idea

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HigherTimes#6965 wrote:

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Been messing with gear a lot, especially now finding out how much lightning damage is better than cold by a good margin.

Will try to fix up res and scale out the damage I don't need for utility/mana. Gear is listed on page 1 under the CI/EB/MoM variation.

Wow, 37k . Could you show case your gear?

I swapped out 2 rings to prior cast speed and mana. now my dps sheet jumped from 3.5k to 7k

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rionguyenngoc#8230 wrote:

Wow, 37k . Could you show case your gear?

He has CI+EB...only 3,8K Mana Feels very very squishy. Basically no Chaos Res and Lightning isnt even capped. Very impressive DPS numbers but i cant imagine playing this in high maps is any survivable or am i missing something?

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jakob450#0331 wrote:

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rionguyenngoc#8230 wrote:

Wow, 37k . Could you show case your gear?

He has CI+EB...only 3,8K Mana Feels very very squishy. Basically no Chaos Res and Lightning isnt even capped. Very impressive DPS numbers but i cant imagine playing this in high maps is any survivable or am i missing something?

I have CI, so chaos damage isn't a thing and nor do we need it on gear.

The mana pool is definitely low for one shots, but when you kill everything before you get touched, that's the idea. It's glass cannon, kill before being killed.

@jakob450 Gear is linked onto the maxroll which is on the first page.

I'm still working on making the build more viable for end game as best I can, although like I've talked about before and admit, it's not great due to the one shot mechanics taking you out pretty easily. I do 80-81s easily as long as I'm paying attention to rares and making sure I'm not getting to close for 1 shot mechanics to hit me. The biggest thing I've noticed is just staying mobile and never stop moving. I got from 90-91 simply by sticking to this mindset more and not over committing into rares/bosses.

It's actually crazy how much frost wall does when you manually cast it. Fireball doesn't even come close to when I manual cast a frost wall on top of a boss in terms of damage done. After the wall is casted, you burst into it for even more damage. Bosses in trials die in 2 walls, lol.

DPS went from 27k to 37k when optimizing for lightning damage and going into different skill tree nodes that benefit more from it. Frost Bomb + conduction + lightning exposure is also something I've teched into the build and I'm currently testing to see how well it works.