[1.3] Shock Pulse Shadow - 25k GMP tooltip Reflect Resistant Freezing Pulse

Bigger hit does indeed make shocking easier, but you can shock every single map boss in the game (excluding Atziri stuff, although those without "cannot be shocked" still get shocked from my limited experience doing Atziri with this build) without crit multi gem. This includes thing such as 77 Dungeon boss (thanks Zana).

I much prefer faster casting as it 1. gives better overall DPS 2. means you spend less time stuck in animation - this improves clear speed as you one shot many packs anyway, but it also improves mobility (and hence survivability) against bosses that you don't down before they can attack. It also mitigates the amount of time you're likely to go without a crit (which is rolled once per echo).

All that being said, pre-nerf crit multi gem would be miles ahead of faster casting, but pre-nerf crit multi would probably make reflect hurt on crits.

edit: oh, you were asking me about dual wielding. There are 2 reasons I decided to go with the shield instead of dual wielding: the main reason is the defensive boost (around 350 effective life form my shield in the form of unres mana and life, of course), the second reason is that while I was using Pyre it would have been impossible to sustain a level 21+, 26% buff effect AA with mana regen on amulet and one ring only.

You haven't taken Vaal Pact. I don't know if you forgot but you definitely need it. Even if you have AA.

There is also a lack of significant max mana/mana regen. There is no way you will be able to run a level 20 AA with Inner Force. Unless of course you have the most perfected mana regen jewerly which is highly unlikely. You will struggle to keep AA up while soaking hard blows with your mana pool.

I even plan on using a level 3 Empower on my AA to further boost the flat fire/phys reduction. It will cost me even more mana regen. My suggestion is to drop the entire Templar section for the witch area. Deep Wisdom followed by 3 Max mana/Mana regen nodes. The rest can be used on the scion Life wheel. You will lose damage no doubt but for the cost of survivability, I am okay with that.


What do you think?

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gtrans wrote:

You haven't taken Vaal Pact. I don't know if you forgot but you definitely need it. Even if you have AA.

There is also a lack of significant max mana/mana regen. There is no way you will be able to run a level 20 AA with Inner Force. Unless of course you have the most perfected mana regen jewerly which is highly unlikely. You will struggle to keep AA up while soaking hard blows with your mana pool.

I even plan on using a level 3 Empower on my AA to further boost the flat fire/phys reduction. It will cost me even more mana regen. My suggestion is to drop the entire Templar section for the witch area. Deep Wisdom followed by 3 Max mana/Mana regen nodes. The rest can be used on the scion Life wheel. You will lose damage no doubt but for the cost of survivability, I am okay with that.

Example tree

Level 91

What do you think?

Why not keep the templar portion and take the mana regen nodes at templar start?

Seems pretty cool :)

While I agree that if you're using the Life Leech gem you might as well get VP, I don't agree that is mandatory. I did plenty of reflect maps and fired mindlessly into plenty of reflect packs with only 21 AA and 26% buff effect (got empower to 3 now, so 22 AA). VP would just be added survivability, not a must-have.

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xSyK0TiC wrote:

Why not keep the templar portion and take the mana regen nodes at templar start?

Because for one, Vaal Pact nullifies life regen rendering it useless (partially wasted stats). And two, mana regen scales off maximum mana. If you have a small mana pool, even with 400% mana regen, you will hardly fill up any mana.

Base regen is 1.75% of Max mana per second. Mana regen will buff the initial 1.75% + the flat mana regen that clarity provides.

-If you have a mana pool of 500 with 500% regen. Your regen will be 43.75 mana/sec (without clarity)
-If you have a mana pool of 3000 with 0% regen. Your regen will be 52.5 mana/sec (without clarity)

That is why just stacking mana regen is a as downgrading as stacking only max mana. Both are crucially important.

Holy shit that makes a lot of "MANA"

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Mana_regeneration

To honest i think that you would be better of switching your elixir of the mongoose for a big cup of eat a dick.
Whilst i do applaud you for your extremely detailed guide, i also believe that your path skills are way beyond par and you should KYS.

Although a very solid build/set of items, poor guide, lots of spelling errors.
GGWP shit guide.

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Trixtor wrote:

:/ no video

Added Atziri kill video. I'll add Gorge vid on the weekend if I stop feeling sick and I'm not drowning in uni work.

@AvocadoCake can you share your leveling tree ? :)

I levelled with Pyre + 3 Dragons (both have really nice resistances, too, so levelling becomes easier). I like to get any nodes with resistances before end game so I can min-max gear properly. Basically traverse the tree as you see it, getting Throatseeker only at the end.

31 points

40 points

50 points

71 points

80 points (I had to rush mana regen to sustain)

At this point I'd go for AoF, drop Pyre for a good rings with life/dex (if needed)/manaregen, get the Devotion cluster and Inner Force (assuming you can still sustain AA), get the last life/mana node, the last power charge, go for the Scion 14% life node, then get Heart of Flame. You'll be in your high 80s at this point, get Throatseeker if you have a level 2 empower and all buff effect nodes (to not die to reflect) then just fill out the Scion life wheel.


I've added this to the OP.