(Stormweaver) Max projectiles cold converted fireballs. Cheap, easy, powerful, FUN! (T16+ ready)
Well I tried out Cast on Shock without any other changes and... yeah, nope lol
Definitely needs other stuff, Archmage alone isn't doing it (Or potentially everything was dying too quick) Attempted my first 10 trial Ultimatum, but the crap servers decided I had to die on trial 8... Rubber banded the same dodge 6 times to ensure that I died. Any less and I'd have been fine. |
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" It doesn't proc as much as I would have liked. We could search for energy reduction on gems, but I got my my mana on kill gems before they got crazy expensive. I'm a bit over trying to spend currency to redo the build or buy anything that won't noticeably add a good mana bump. Kind of wish we could get the nodes that shorten time for recoup by 25%, but leveling takes me about two weeks at this point. Can't just spend those passives on anything. I'm thinking the best bump I can get is just playing extremely carefully. Usually I die because I got a bit cocky or stopped paying attention (e.g., walked through a delirium start without registering it). |
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" I would LOVE to speed up the mana recoup. Like the 4 second Recoup from Chrono has me salivating, but they don't really have anything else appealing and the massive arcane surge just isn't worth losing unfortunately. My last non-server-rubber-band death was because I misread a map mod and got stunlocked to oblivion. Stone Charm can't overcome stupidity lol |
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Updated the header of the OP to reflect the direction the thread is going.
Cast on freeze hybrid starting out definitely works and definitely easy to gear. Extreme endgame transitioning into EB cast on shock frost wall boss deleter looks like its super OP for bossing, and shouldn't be ignored if you want to "enjoy something before it gets nerfed". Looks about as strong as the various deadeye or spark nonsense builds out there to me. I'm personally not a fan of EB/mom for mapping due to lol1portal, but the gameplay style is confirmed working and has great synergy with archmage. |
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Here again.
With CoS Comet + Frost wall, Curse, I one shot bosses. Just did Xhest today with my friend, and nuke half his HP with one combo in 1 second. But I do not recommend playing CoS Comet + Frost Wall + Fireball for breach. You are very slow and mana draining very fast if you are spamming. Use your frost wall wisely. |
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" @Zephryl, last night I realized that I had not specced into the lightning ascendency nodes yet (I haven’t done my fourth yet). After speccing into the double shock node, I did notice a slight increase in comet procs. |
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Trying to get a ball lightning setup to work for applying shock but it just doesn't seem to be doing it. Additionally, it says its only 750% more shock chance for me? I thought it was supposed to be 1000%? Am i doing something wrong
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" Possibly got nerfed and websites and stuff haven't been updated? Or it's tied to gem level. @scotchfist Maybe I'll give it another go when I get 4th ascendancy then, for now the only thing that kills me is bad decisions so I'll keep with what I've got. |
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" I've been switching back and forth with Ice Bomb and Ball Lightning. Ice Bomb also applies cold exposure that I have some nodes in the tree to help as well. It also innately applies 20% more cold exposure. The downside is, you have to wait till it explodes to proc shock/lightning exposure. This is where ball lightning is just better. Shoot it at a rare/boss and it should apply the shock/exposure a little easier. " Sounds like you need more mana regen. You shouldn't be losing mana from fireball. You should really only go down in mana if you spam all your abilities, as the curse for me costs 900-1000 mana. Other abilities all around 500. But if you have enough regen and don't spam, you should never really be killing yourself (besides when your comets drop against bosses, you'll almost kill yourself w/ this and it's why I've thought about investing in the unique flask. Instant recovery after it dumps from comets.) Last edited by HigherTimes#6965 on Jan 2, 2025, 7:00:48 PM
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Speaking of Exposure:
Can it go into the negatives in PoE2? Mine currently does 86% cold, and I assume that takes it down to the negatives but I'm genuinely not sure since they've done a bunch of stuff differently, and it would be nice to know if there's any possibly wasted stats somewhere. |
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