What do you think of Lightning Spear?

I'm not too far into the league so far, just hit level 20. I'm not rushing.
I was excited to play with lightning spear - it was clearly inspired by d2 amazon.

However, I gotta say, so far... it's pretty ass. The dps seems very low.
In act 2 I reserved to just spamming barrage->storm lance->explosive spear to burst down crowds, because they chain react each other.
It's kinda clunky, but it feels much faster than very slowly throwing lightning spears and watching healthbars on enemies go down a little.

What do you guys think of Lightning Spear?

Early on you will need to make full use of the combo system that GGG have implemented before you get better gear.

I am act 3 cruel and lightning spear is amazing with my build.

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Archfiend#7746 wrote:

Early on you will need to make full use of the combo system that GGG have implemented before you get better gear.

I am act 3 cruel and lightning spear is amazing with my build.

I didn't want to bother with parrying, frankly, it just doesn't sound appealing to me to be forced into spamming it to get frenzy charges.
But using barrage-storm lance-explosive spear and then raise shield to wait for the screen to explode works nice.
So I guess without frenzy charges lightning spear will continue to be ass?

What you need for lightning spear is the volt support gem. It becomes very strong then - even without frenzy charge.

By now GGG should realize that not all players love parrying of active blocking, should made them auto

I was actually wondering other that those listed in the patch note what are the changes that actually causing the game to feel slugish? I know changes are mostly on gears, but is there any stealth changes that are not listed or bug happening causing all this ?

Btw i am playing titan warrior and gemling legionare and yes i am aware just like early launch, without proper gear both setup are a slog when leveling.

Game too heavy dependant on gears and passive skill not much makes a different. Should make them at least 50-50 skill and gear dependant

Now that I'm at the end of act 2, level 30, and after I finally found a decent spear at the vendor with rune socket, Lightning Spear is MUCH better. It actually clears nicely.
But before that, the entire act 1 and half of act 2 was such a slog with this skill.

its common in poe that you have one skill for aoe clearing and one for bossing, lightning spear is broken at clearing aoe

I support my Lightning spear with Scattershot so I can get 3 spears out instantly and save Barrage for Twisters.

So my combo is

Whirlwinds -> Barrage -> Twisters -> Lightning Spear -> Explosive Spear (Spectral Volley support) -> Do something -> Lightning spear for the Spectral Volleyd 2nd explosive spear

So Twisters are my source of DPS and Lightning spear source of burst.

I also have Rapid Assault in my build for melee DPS and to add more for my explosive spear to detonate.

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Kligan#2575 wrote:

I'm not too far into the league so far, just hit level 20. I'm not rushing.
I was excited to play with lightning spear - it was clearly inspired by d2 amazon.

However, I gotta say, so far... it's pretty ass. The dps seems very low.
In act 2 I reserved to just spamming barrage->storm lance->explosive spear to burst down crowds, because they chain react each other.
It's kinda clunky, but it feels much faster than very slowly throwing lightning spears and watching healthbars on enemies go down a little.

What do you guys think of Lightning Spear?

It's the one button spam spell of huntress. I don't know why they bothered adding so many skills with combos most of which are less effective. Either do it right or abandon the idea of the combo playstyle, because it's pointless when they also add lightning spear right next to them.