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

It is SO awesome to see people still playing this and making all these 2.0 changes! It seems like 2.0 was very kind with the new jewels and frenzy charge changes.

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Yordle wrote:

I no longer have the gear for this character, so I cannot really test the changes in 2.0. I can maybe theorycraft a new passive tree if there is interest, though.

please do it mate :)

do you guys think it would make sense to play this build with this chest?

Inspired myself by this build, it's really great. Started out shadow, though, because leveling with freezing pulse and other spells was much easier than leveling Bows with ranger, especially in this patch. I'm running double Static Electricity Jewels, a rare jewel and inspired learning, very fun jewels.

Items so far:


Not rich enough for maligaro's or rat's nest, but they are not needed anyways. Also, a +2 minions helmet is very good with a golem socketed in it.

Using ice shot atm but I leveled with lightning arrow, and I switch the gems around for more diversity. Ice shot is mainly because of chilled ground, and my friend running temporal chains, so it just stops the mobs that I don't outright oneshot.

Ice shot dps all charged up


Frenzy dps


Very fun build.
Passive tree
http://poeurl.com/ztGIjcB

Jewels:


Got a video of it in action too.

There is a jewel, that allows you to leech from chaos damage. Why dont try it for Voltaxis?

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MortalKombat3 wrote:

There is a jewel, that allows you to leech from chaos damage. Why dont try it for Voltaxis?

That jewel requires 5 corrupted items right?

Besides you better off using Lgoh with the build I find.


Tried to record a Wasteland last night, was all good until the boss.

Build doesn't have enough boss sustain I feel. Plus that boss hitboxes are dumpster juice

Awesome to see Voltaxic love is still around.(◕‿◕)♡

If I were to play the build in 2.0, I would probably use a tree similar to this:

https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwYARXyXl_v1tDjlGYw2E55VS6SRYeJ-MyaVXfIWvw5IAx4RluOEH0EHHn_GG8iVLqKjMFs2PfDVwfOsl52qSVGCHpWHYqxsjBSw9Okdg0wtT682iREPZ72smDsNfq86WO_rjRm1hVXG4BLvUIPb2V_BtN2MLX20xc_d8YrC7AW1jb_UIzBx3ahLeDpCUUc31O0_Ps-95gzypcswfI19I_ZNkn8r1opW-t1GY6cRge4O_MUNjYd2459KfWeg73rTfn11_rq748SiAF4Zju2DCC6Tla0zGdc=

I edited it onto the main post as well.

It's basically the same as my first tree with jewels and some new pathing. It's focused on raw lightning damage.

Some things I would personally change from my 1.3 version:

• Drop Lightning Coil / Purity of Lightning and run a Hyrri's Ire for extra dodge. Coil is expensive now and with aura changes, I'd run just Wrath/HoL.
• Run a Frenzy set-up to generate charges. I'd have 6 charges total probably.
• Change up the links quite a bit. I'm not sure what I'd do, but the new Wrath would give a huge boost to Vaal Spark and I'd want to use a Trap/MultiTrap/MirrorArrow set-up to give the build more survivability.
• Test out new skills for delivering the damage. Split/Chain and Lightning Arrow for example.

I may try and re-make the build on Warbands if the league goes on long enough and I run out of new build ideas. I had some of the most fun in the entire game blowing up packs with my Voltaxic - a return would be nice.

@yordle

i have hyrri´s and the bow, but wasnt sure which build i should use. all 2.0 builds with the voltaxic were not rly optimized in my eyes. tommorrow i will reroll with your tree :)
one point: im not sure if dancing arrow is worth to pick it. it looks kinda meh.

For those who want much higher damage, you can use this same Voltaxic theme of stacking lightning damage, but using Windripper instead.

I think the key to getting very high damage on the Windripper version is to:

- Get many frenzy charges
- Add as many Static Electricity jewels
- And then use Surgebinders

If you can get 10 frenzy charges with the Windripper version you will get 40% more damage, as well as up to 70% increased elemental damage from the Surgebinders. Add in lots of lightning damage from Static Elec jewels being added as payload to your attacks, and combined with getting all the bow crit nodes -> you could start doing some very serious damage.

If you want even more damage you could take out Blood Magic and just rely on surgeon mana flasks with slow mana regen.. 2 of these flasks should be enough.

You can maintain Frenzy charges using Frenzy + LMP/GMP + COH + Ele Weakness in a simple 4L. Then you can have a 6L AOE in bow and 6L single target in chest. OR you could just make the Frenzy a 6L with PCOC and maybe something like Blind. And then use TS as the other 6L.

For life regen - you will have to rely on pots which is not a big deal.

I see Surgebinders are going for <25 chaos. You should get much more DPS from these than other more expensive gloves like Thunderfist.

This is a possible Windripper+Surgebinder tree (maxed out):


Key gems to use would be WED and Slower Projectiles to get the extra MORE modifiers to all your elemental and projectile damage.