|| Discharge Witch Build || 50k+ AOE DPS 0.11.c

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lukeiy wrote:

Brief levelling guide added.

Survivability is fine, you just can't be careless. It's super tempting to run into the middle of the biggest pack you can find and try discharge, but there's a good chance you'll get stunlocked if the enemies unfreeze. It's better to stand at the edge of the pack and clear them progressively using the frenzy and endurance charges you gain on kill. This is why extra area of effect is quite important. The range of my discharge exceeds the range of archers and most casters allowing me to quickly kill any sized pack safely, even magic monsters. Just watch for the blue spikes from ele reflect, or seeing your ES drop as you are casting ice spear is another giveaway.

Ok, I'm still wondering how you progressed passed cruel act 1, my main concern being that you've only shown your expected end game builds. A lot of people will try and follow that, but at the same time having 300-400 hp at cruel act 1 (due to lack of hp node) will be hard to progress with.

So, would you suggest people at lower levels to go for hp nodes at first till they're comfortable to make the transition to CI and respec. Or did you just straight up go for CI at like level 30-40..or so...

I can't tell you how he did it but I can tell you how I leveled and made it easy on myself.

Normal I build like this.



I used a pari of Bones of Ullr from my first Summoner Witch. This basicly gives you Skelly bombs for bosses and 5 Zombie meat shield and some back up dps with 2 spec.

I also used FP for dps and CS for Crow Control. As my Wand skills and wand dps got better it became my single target dmg ablity before normal was up.

By the end of Normal I had a tree looking something like this.



I know I ran though Curl as life/shield and changed over in act one on Merc to CI. From my summoner I knew the main thing for changing over smothly was saving up passive points pluse your buy back points from any life nodes.

What you need as a base in passive nodes when a shield blocking at base is the full Witch shield nodes pluse all 5 nodes with CI including Infused shield and before hand point your way into Unnatural Calm and having 750-1000 ES before the switch makes changing over alot easyer and smoother.

And it was even smoother for me becouse I was able to though Ghost Reaver into the mix at the same time and had been leveling Blood Rage and Warlords for life leech. So my change over happend all at once and worked nicely.

Here is what my tree looked like right before the change over.



After change over. Buying back 5 points from were I have life nodes.



Also early on in Act 1 Curl I stopped using FP and was mainly using Power Siphon+Skelly totem and CS for CC. As that is the heart and soul of my builds bread and butter ablitys so to speak.

After that I just keept flushing out some main abiltys like more power charges and more wand nodes.

By the time I finshed killing Piety in Act 3 at level 68 I had around 3k ES max rest base shield blocking and this passive tree.



I had also stoped using spec and Zombie's some were olong the way but I don't remeaber were but I do remeaber why. Becouse my skelly totem and dps was geting the job done so I that's when I stopped using them. I also started leaning on CS's CC with Elemental Prolif. And I upgraded the boots also when I no longer needed the zombie/spec to help out.

I hope that helps some how lol. Sorry I'm not very good at this.

Edit: I should also though in there that I use a +2 minion head gear ES base for my Skelly totem. This do's help alot with there low health and inc's MI dmg. Also high jacked from my witch summoner lol.

Added some low level skill trees for those who were asking. Pretty similar to a cold crit build early on.

Seems like it's taking a while to clear things. Like the ice spear part is taking too long. Check this out. http://youtu.be/yDQHfLZSZeE The AOE with EP kills the entire screen. Like the song :)

Nice vid.

What is that PA and Redbeak sword with ghost reaver and mybe even a Aegis Aurora?

Double Enduring Cry's for End charges nice I like that too :)

And if your farming you probly don't wish to die to Chaos dmg so mybe even making good use of Shavronne's ?

Nice

Hay if your not already using Kaom's that coud possably improve this build.

lol never mind I just looked at your gear. Your already on it :)

That's cool, but really only viable for maps once you've got a shavronne's. I would change to low life discharge if i could ever afford it hehehe. This build is functional with way higher DPS (50k), and doesn't require such an expensive item.

I've been wanting to make a Life based version. It works pretty good with the Searing Touch staff but it made the burn too much from RF.

Actually This build + the max end charges from Templar and Marauder would be perfect.
http://youtu.be/LFwNbGy5Cxg

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Necrogue wrote:

I've been wanting to make a Life based version. It works pretty good with the Searing Touch staff but it made the burn too much from RF.

Actually This build + the max end charges from Templar and Marauder would be perfect.
http://youtu.be/LFwNbGy5Cxg

This is kinda what you are looking for
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/270264
Uses ele equilibrium too which is cool.