[1.2.4] Equin's Ball Lightning Witch | Dual Curse | Solo the Game | Build / Vids
 Hi my name is Mike and i want to share my Ball Lightning Build! This Build is Tanky and do high Damage without a high crit Chance! How the build works: First, my English is really bad, sorry for that :D! In my opinion, „Ball Lightning“ is because of the low tooltip dps, a really underestimated spell. The tooltip dps is of course, like the in the most cases, absolutely not representative. After a lot of testing, I use this setup: Increased AoE - Slower Projectiles - Faster Casting - Life Leech - Spell Echo With this, u get the most damage on a single target with one Ball. Of course there are spells like “Added Lightning/Chaos dmg” that increases the tooltip dps, but because of the mechanics of “Ball Lightning”, that results not always in a better dps in reality. I would love to add “Lightning Penetration” in my setup, but I sacrificed it for the survivability of a life leech gem. The “Conductivity” curse, is obviously the best choice with “Ball Lightning”, it gives you a great chance to shock and reduces the resistance of your enemy's against lightning damage. “Herald of Thunder” with “Curse on Hit”, curses the target with “Projectile Weakness”. Thanks to “Doedre's Damning” ring you can have two curses on your enemy’s. This combination ends in a really fast clear speed and survivability. A bit theory crafting Each single cast of Ball Lightning hits a target every 0.2ms. You can’t change this fact, so I build around this. Because of this, “GMP” or “LMP” have not effect, you can’t get more then 5 hits in a second per cast. “Concentrated Effect” has absolutely no effect, okay it has an effect, it makes your hit range with every ball smaller, what is terrible. Explanation: The cast itself is an AOE but the projectiles, that’s does the damage, are not. So how can we build around this 0.2ms cap? Projectile speed would only decrease my dps, because as faster the ball fly, as shorter is the time it can hit the enemy. As I sad, “LMP” and “GMP” only reduces my damage, so I used some other mechanics in the game: “Slower Projectiles” is obviously, to slow my balls down and give them more time to hit the enemy. AoE work the same way. Because the AoE gets bigger, the ball has more time to hit the mobs he fly trough. Together with my very high cast speed, the balls overlap each other. That means, an enemy can get hit by 4 balls at the same time. Cause of the Knockback from my “Projectile Weakness” they get hit even more. I would say every monster get hit by a ball around 5-8 times. I am not good at theory crafting, but if one hit from a Ball does 4000 damage and it does this 5 times in a second, you came up to 20’000 damage x 4 balls, so it gets up to 80’000 damage per second, what is very impressive without crit. Of course this numbers are all without resist, curses and anyway, complete nonsense, but it gives you a feeling of the potential that “Ball Lightning” offers.
BALL LIGHTNING - Skill Gem Analysis & Mechanics Guide from Ziggy D
Survivability You need a lot of ES! If you have to fight a hard hitting enemy, “Decoy Totem” and “Immortal Call” linked to a CwdT, should do it. With life leech and Vaal Pact, u can easy Leech the damage back. Also Reflect is not a Problem, even in double reflect scenarios, cause of your strong leech. I use Projectile Weakness, It has some nice advantages, like the Knockback and projectile damage. If you are in trouble, use your “Vaal Discipline” and curse “Warlords Mark”, but you won’t need this often! Videos on Youtube
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Palace Map LvL 78 Dominus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASgEdD0nuCQ
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Shrine Map LvL 77 Piety https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN1ZVicBXj0
Aura  Herald of Thunder | Clarity | Discipline | Blood Rage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pros: - can do all bosses in the game - high clear speed - high dps - cannot be stunned - cannot be frozen - rly good solo play - good lifeleech with Vaal Pact - aoe doing a good job! - no problem with reflect maps - can do almost every map - high ES - Dual Curse (Conductivity and Projectile Weakness) Cons: - almost zero armor (but with a highlvl CwdT and Immortal Call np) - Bloodmagic / no, or reduced regeneration Maps -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bandit rewards: Normal: Kill All (for +1 passive point) Cruel: Kill all (for +1 passive point) Merciless: Help Alira (for +1 Frency Charge) Keypoints / Unique's u need * Chaos Inoculation * Ghost Reaver * Vaal Pact * Unwavering Stance Focus Prio on: - ES - Castspeed - Spell Damage - Increased AoE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Skills Helm Curse on Hit - Projectile Weakness - Herald of Thunder - Reduced Mana Shield Warlords Mark - Increased AoE - Conductivity BodyArmour Ball Lightning - Increased AoE - Slower Projectiles - Faster Casting - Life Leech - Spell Echo Boots Reduced Mana - Blood Rage - Clarity - Discipline Gloves Decoy Totem - Immortal Call - Cast When Damage Taken - Vaal Discipline (Vaal Discipline is not working with CwdT) Focus 20/20 gems: * Ball Lightning * Spell Echo * Faster Casting * Slower Projectiles * Increased AoE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My Gear with LvL 91 Gear
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 Ball Lightning Spell  Herald of Thunder
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 Passive Skill Tree with LvL 91 http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMBAuMEBwdjB6UNfA48EFgRDxFQE54UsBXXFecW8xslHNwfAiY8KjgqTSpTLJwspiy_LUctfS-dMjQ0CjW5Nug3ZjpSPV8_J0V8RnFHBkmySshLrkwtUEJRTFJTVmNXK1ivXGtfKl9qYpVtGW6qb55zs3RVdhF4DX1bfll-r3_GghCCHoMJhEiGrohCjDaNGY_6kNaTJ5eVl5eX9J_LpJGnK6lurEesmLJwtAy1hbXyvYLBtMHFw23KSsu90NDZW9lf2-fdjN-K37DgEuTs6QLquuvk7BjvUPBr99f-sw== Passive skill tree breakdown Health 158% increased maximum Energy Shield 64 to maximum Energy Shield Life Leech applies instantly at 40% effectiveness. Life Regeneration has no effect. 35% faster start of Energy Shield Recharge 15% more maximum Energy Shield Maximum Life becomes 1, Immune to Chaos Damage Mitigation 54% increased Evasion Rating 50 to Evasion Rating 24% increased Evasion Rating and Armour 15% to Lightning Resistance 10% to all Elemental Resistances 1% to maximum Lightning Resistance Damage 139% increased Lightning Damage 64% increased Elemental Damage 48% increased Spell Damage 48% increased Cast Speed 20% increased Critical Strike Chance 16% increased Elemental Damage with Spells 12% increased Area Damage 10% increased Attack Speed 6% increased Movement Speed Damage Penetrates 2% Lightning Resistance Other 310 to Intelligence 118% increased maximum Mana 95% increased Mana Regeneration Rate 90 to Strength 70 to Dexterity 50 to maximum Mana 50% increased Shock Duration on enemies 20% increased Radius of Area Skills 15% chance to Shock 5 Mana Gained on Kill -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/equinxx @equinxx https://twitter.com/equinxx Twitch http://www.twitch.tv/equ1n  Last edited by equin#4124 on Nov 16, 2014, 7:24:55 AM
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Hey there
It's nice to see some working "Ball Lightning" Builds out there. When i look at your video, i would say it's clearly a strong spell, when you know the mechanics. Good Job. Gone try this out soon. See ya Last edited by Venenarius#2462 on Nov 13, 2014, 11:08:34 AM
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" Tyty. Yes it's a rly strong spell! i just tested it with haste. but it is not that mutch better than before.. better use discipline instead of haste. Hope u have fun with the build! if u have some questions, ask me :) |
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I was thinking, since I'have
wouldn't be better to use that instead of unwavering stane? I could use those 6 points somewhere else. Last edited by TettaVolante#6477 on Dec 6, 2014, 8:35:38 AM
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Hello.
Would you rush vaal pact for HC? |
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" Hi. I had that before.. yes u right.. but if u get a good amulet.. u cant get that damage with 6 points. and u also need the strength for your gems.. thats why i switched to a normal amulet and go for US |
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" Hi, i never played HC with this Build. but i think yes i would.. cause the heal is a lot better than without it.. |
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