[3.7] Storm Brand Elementalist. League Starter, Deathless Uber Elder.

Thanks for sharing the build. Hard to understand the interaction at first but it works fine so far. For someone who plays elemental overload with every build it's god sent lol. I didn't invest anything to the build but inpulsa from my other account, quite cheap. i think i'm gonna play this build in the next league as well, wands are relatively cheap and inpulsa isn't a must have, great league starter build. It was smooth till t15 maps with tabula. Haven't tried end game bosses yet, gonna see how it's gonna perform.

Your wands are crazy tho i can't imagine how much damage output i'd get with those wands but not sure if i can ever farm enough currency to craft them, for now i'll just try to get 7 link helm for traps i think. What do you think should i try to craft first ? I'm fine with using mana flasks for MoM as wrath watcher eye jewels are very expensive.

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ulfasar1 wrote:

Thanks for sharing the build. Hard to understand the interaction at first but it works fine so far. For someone who plays elemental overload with every build it's god sent lol. I didn't invest anything to the build but inpulsa from my other account, quite cheap. i think i'm gonna play this build in the next league as well, wands are relatively cheap and inpulsa isn't a must have, great league starter build. It was smooth till t15 maps with tabula. Haven't tried end game bosses yet, gonna see how it's gonna perform.

Yeah this was my league starter for betrayal, and a big part of why I went with wands was because I could get good ones for cheap early league.

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What do you think should i try to craft first ? I'm fine with using mana flasks for MoM as wrath watcher eye jewels are very expensive.

The only things I'm using that are crafted are the wands. For more budget wands, check out the "answered questions" section of the OP, where I go over how to get a nice wand cheap.

For mana, the wrath watcher's eye is nice, but not needed. While mapping, you can fix mana with the life/mana leech if you killed recently lab boot enchant. You can even just rely on cinderswallow if you're comfortable with the flasky playstyle.

For bosses the cheapest way to fix mana is just to use atziri's foible:


My first ~30 uber elder kills this league (including the one in the video, which was I think my 3rd or 4th kill this league) I was using atziri's foible, a mana flask, and the regen boot enchant on my kaom's:


I used the atziri's foible while mapping early league as well, since I didn't want to spend time farming lab. I picked up the boot enchant 'round about the same time I picked up inpulsa (level ~90, T15).

Decided to hit the stones a little and finish off 100.



Final build:
https://pastebin.com/xVVyhx8F


I leveled 92 to 98 basically just farming uber elder (occasional temple, delve, daily). 99 and 100 were about 25% uber farming, 75% pure breach stone rotations. Them stones just too juicy.

Tthis is only my second league really playing and Im really enjoying playing this build. However im having an hard time figuring out what to upgrade next since i feel my dps is quite low..

This is my gear atm.

The only obvious thing missing is the lightning spire trap. The reason lightning spire trap is in the build is for single target damage.

I did this build as my league starter, and didn't find storm brand to kill bosses very well at low gear levels. That's why I added the lightning spire trap to the setup. It also works well on the doors to syndicate forts.

A 7-link hat for lightning spire trap, with room to craft life, looks to be about 80 chaos right now:
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Betrayal/lD9DgkFV

If that's too rich for your blood, a 6-link hat is 1 chaos:
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Betrayal/Kdwd8PU5

There are other things you could upgrade of course, but getting that lightning spire going is going to help fix single target the most.

If you want to up your storm brand damage, better wands are going to do that the best. In the "answered questions" section of the OP I go into some detail into how to find good wands at affordable prices.

I am really enjoying this build.

Anyone can check which upgrade would be worth here? Also the tree skill, because I think I messed up something.

Really appreciated.

My issue is I die a lot, and don't have all that damage I thought.

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Luciferoxx wrote:

I am really enjoying this build.

Anyone can check which upgrade would be worth here? Also the tree skill, because I think I messed up something.

Really appreciated.

My issue is I die a lot, and don't have all that damage I thought.

On the damage front:

1: No source of cold damage to spells to activate hypothermia, so you're basically doing 5-link damage. An abyss jewel that adds cold damage to spells is the standard solution to this. A source of fire damage to spells to activate cinderswallow would be nice too, but the cold is much more important, hypothermia is a really big source of damage.

2: your mainhand wand "foe charm" is terrible. The other wand at least has one okay damage stat (lightning damage to spells) but both could be massively upgraded for 5c or less.

In the OP, under the "answered questions" section, I go into some detail about how to find good wands for cheap.

3: Level 18 storm brand on a level 93 character? Just buy a 20/20 failed corrupt if you can't afford a 21/20. 20/20 are like 3-5 chaos.

Your amulet is also kind of odd. We do have some int I guess so you do get some damage from that mod, but the phys to lightning is useless, and you could get more damage from just running a cast speed rare, and potentially pick up life/mana/resists on that slot too.

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On the survival side:

1: You've got grace? The build calls for vaal grace for dodge chance. We can't run grace because we're a mind over matter build and it would reserve all our mana.

2: Not much life to be found on any of your items.

3: Cinderswallow is only mana solution? That can be done, but a leech boot enchant would make it less critical to have perfect uptime on the flask. Atziri's foible as your amulet is also an option if you can cover resists without that slot. I used atziri's foible up to about level 90 before I got leech boot enchant. It has tons of mana, which is basically the same as tons of life, 'cause mind over matter, and it also gives big regen.


4: Speaking of boots, 17 life? Obviously you're using this slot to try to fix resists at the moment, but yikes. Not having 30% move speed would infuriate me as well, since we're using running as our primary way to get around (flame dash has a cooldown). Temple dodge boots are a big deal and should be your end goal, but they can be expensive if you need that much resist on them. If you can fix some resists on other slots then you could get temple dodge boots and bump up over 50% dodge chance.


Basically your rare gear you've got gloves and hat which are good, and the rest of it seems to be junk. Obviously you're not poor since you can afford a 6L inpulsa, so you're going to want to spend some currency to get decent weapons, boots, ammy, belt.

I realize you're doing the delve crafted belt thing to try to get some damage on that slot, and while that's not a terrible idea in the abstract, when looking at your other gear, it isn't even close to the best place to pick up damage. Get some decent wands for damage, use your belt slot to help fix resists, then maybe you'll have enough resists free to get temple dodge boots.

Thanks man. I spent last ex I got from a lucky HH drop to upgrade boots and weapons.

Now mobs and bosses explodes literally, but still need to fix the res..

I miss some points on light and cold res.

Which ench is the one on the booth you are talking about? So I can change the amulet ( I had it, it dropped and I just saved it weeks ago)

I want to thank you. I am really enjoying the build.

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Luciferoxx wrote:

Thanks man. I spent last ex I got from a lucky HH drop to upgrade boots and weapons.

Now mobs and bosses explodes literally, but still need to fix the res..

I miss some points on light and cold res.

Jewels are one way to help fix resists. You could pull a point out of a damage node to pick up your next socket and fix resists that way.

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Which ench is the one on the booth you are talking about? So I can change the amulet ( I had it, it dropped and I just saved it weeks ago)

0.6% of damage leeched as life and mana if you've killed recently.

There are other mana solutions as well. I talk about them a bit in the OP gear section. The one I'm currently using is a wrath mana leech watcher's eye.


That's a bit more expensive of a solution, of course. But it can be pretty nice since it is always active.

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magicrectangle wrote:

Yeah that's a sweet combo for a more clearspeed oriented setup.

Are you running cold to fire on your herald of ice? Or a pyre ring?

edit: or something like this instead of pyre:

Solves mana and gets you fire damage onto your HoI at the same time (adds fire damage without a "to x" specified works with heralds).

Yes, i have a ring similar to this, but soon realises that the "mana gain" is kind of usless cause our spell do not hit much (seem herald ice + inpulson dont count as our spell). The clear speed is amzing and safe because of explosion and frezee from ligtning dmg but quite hard on bossing. It may better with build using Mastermind of Discord.

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ulfasar1 wrote:

Your wands are crazy tho i can't imagine how much damage output i'd get with those wands but not sure if i can ever farm enough currency to craft them, for now i'll just try to get 7 link helm for traps i think. What do you think should i try to craft first ? I'm fine with using mana flasks for MoM as wrath watcher eye jewels are very expensive.

6 link gloves is another choice, im using gloves with fast cast/advanced trap and the output dmg is still good. With this you can buy a helmet with enhance and craft -res by fossil. This set up have more dmg in Uber elder cause we rarely use trap in this fight. The downside is it's hard to cap res.
Wand should be your top priority though. A wand with gain 20 ele + multicrap mod cost you 5-6 ex at max and this boots your dmg alot.