[1.3] Purple Rain; a shockingly chaotic Voltaxic Rift build (w/ budget version!)

Thanks for sharing your Windripper version! Looks very solid. I might have to try that in standard at some point!

I wonder, wouldn't it be good to use Warlord's Mark with the LA-CoT-GMP-Chain combo?

As far as I read now Warlord's Mark description it provide Life and Mana Leech on Hit. It's not limited to physical damage anymore. So all the chaos damage should also enable leech.

That way, you won't need Berek's ring.

Ok, that works fine... on large packs use LA, GMP, CoH, Warlord's, Chain which currently shows me as tool tip a bit above 1k but it melts the packs down nicely... and the survivors and rare mobes use then the 6L Tornado.... free mana and life leech.

I still need to 6L the LA... not sure if I should add Added Lightning because of shock chance of faster attacks to melt them down quicker...

Hmmm, soon I'll have all nodes done (lvl 88 now) and I wonder what to do afterwards. There's a cluster of inc. % chaos dmg nodes just one node way leading up to the Method to the Madness keynode. That should improve damage output.

Another option I consider would be the Survivalist keynode cluster... granting 14% all resist, +1 max cold resist and 4(% increased evasion for just 3 skill points...

But then, in two months, everything will be different anyway ;)

awesome build, tried it out and loving it so far

Quick update to the Windripper version I am trying. Decided to YOLO and just try and see how high my DPS could get. I dropped Acuity and added Thunderfists. I dropped resistance ring and use Sibyl's Lament on left slot although there is probably better rare ring with added lightning damage to use.


DPS I am getting with 5PCs up and Atziri Flask:

- Split Arrow (WED + AL + PCOC + FA + Pierce) = 68K

- GMP Tornado Shot (WED + AL + PCOC + FA + GMP) = 51K

- Ele Hit (WED + Add.Acc. + FA + ICD + Mana Leech) = 103K

Overall I prefer Tornado Shot as it seems to have better clearing speed than split arrow with 100% pierce.

If you remove Ele Hit you can use both Split Arrow 6L and Tornado Shot 6L. Split Arrow 6l will be for generating PCs with PCOC and cheap AOE. And Tornado Shot will be for high AOE and single target.

You can then replace PCOC from the Tornado Shot set-up and add ICD - this will gets me to about 64K GMP Tornado Shot.

Build looks really neat. I don't like Tornado Shot. What else can I use? I'm assuming Ice Shot and Lightning Arrow are out of the question as main skill since they scale with physical damage?

I've been playing Voltaxic on Hardcore for a few weeks now, finally have most of my gear together. My build is probably very weird compared to you guys - I decided to grab Resolute Technique! As a result, I focused entirely on flat lightning damage and weapon elemental. Here's my gear:



I'm in the process of ditching the gloves for gloves with attack speed and more evasion. With this gear, I have 21k evasion which is 61% Evade chance at level 88. I also have capped resists and 5,400 hp. Here's my tree:

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgIAAF4DHgW1CC4Kmw3ND6sTnha_GYoZjho4Go8czh2qH0Ei6iP2JIsmlScvKk0rUDBxMHwyATWSOkI8LT0PPydGcUrIS1dLeE2SUUdRTFM1VUtX4l5FYeJh62jybqpvnnKpdqx35XjrfLt82X1bfXV_K4KbgwmMNo19jb-QVZLzmyabjZu1ogCjiqSRrEetja_rshm18rc-wOPDOsQVxPbGrspKz3rPftN-1CPWiti93ajhc-GI5wro1uoY6xTsOO0g7YPuDu968B_xs_ba9zL66_sJ_gr-VP66

I'm not totally happy with it yet and will probably change some things up in the expansion. Ondar's Guile is getting a pretty mean nerf, so... might not go that route next time.

As for DPS, I only do like 6k GMP Tornado Shot so I'm not the meanest guy around, but I have very little damage in the tree. And 6k pure chaos acts more like 10k for elemental or physical, it just rips stuff apart.

Hi so i'm thinking of trying this out, i recently got my hands on a cherrubim's maleficience chestpiece, wondering if it would work with the build ! or if lightning coil is just straight up better

Cherrubim's is a decent offensive option to use, but I would only go for that in a standard league. Also, Lightning Coil is slightly less important if you can't get your hands on a legacy version. But all things considered, a legacy Lightning Coil is going to really help boost your otherwise mediocre defense.

Personally, I wouldn't value a Cherrubim's much more than a decent rare. At most, you are getting about two nodes of damage from it. Since you can scale your damage off projectile, elemental, lightning *and* chaos, you don't need to worry about a lack of ways to find damage (unlike other, pure chaos skills).