Eckalina | SC | FARMBUILD [Amazing dps and IQ/IR] | Dual Spark | Low Life Mode - RF |

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use the Elemental Proliferation support gem (conveniently the same color as power charges on crit)

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vandaall wrote:

Quick notes about your build Ecka:

1 - Power Charges on Critical sucks for this build, it sucks for any totem build because when totems crits -> YOU get the power charges but the totems do not, unless you recast them. Plus you will have trouble keeping them up (the charges) between packs of mobs. A much better choice would be Elemental Proliferation, even with your low critical strike chance, spreading the shocks on multiple mobs is better than totems not getting charges benefits or you recasting them!

2 - Whenever playing with lightning, you better get shocks! Simply put, a shock stack gives you 40% MORE damage, making shock stacking fast, a much better dps boost than any talents you currently have on your proposed skill tree. Shock stacking is what makes lightning builds so wildly successful in this game.

3 - If you are looking for better dps (when fighting actual mob packs) getting shocks through a combination of HIGH critical strike chance AND Static Blows AND Elemental Proliferation is far better than spending 12 (!!) points on +6% lightning damage nodes ;)
Put those points in Static Blows, more critical strike chance and more critical strike multiplier, use the Elemental Proliferation support gem (conveniently the same color as power charges on crit) and watch the mobs melt.

4 - Getting Static Blows + Shock (in the Shadow starting area) gives you 25% chance to shock mobs per hit - this means actually per cast!;
you have roughly 30% chance to critical strike (before gear) with spark;
assuming 2 casts per second x 2 totems you have 8(!!) x 30% chances per second to shock your targets ... let Elemental Proliferation do the rest :)

Just my 2 cents!

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evantide2 wrote:

Any chance you can show a build for level 70~?


As is, it's currently a lvl 95 build and kind of unrealistic. I'm unsure of where exactly to cut off stats right now, outside of damage nodes.

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Synchro69 wrote:

Hello guys, just my feedback on the build as requested from Ecka.

I was in the same boat as Ecka. I have around 6-7 characters around level 70-80. Couple of them on Hardcore. In every spec you reach a point where you either gotta be extremly lucky with drops (including currency) or have friends which play with you to share loot between eachother. Well that wasn't the case for me. I play solo from time to time my Gf
plays with me, but we didn't had any luck whatsoever.

I was looking for farming spec and I was heading 99% for summoner with heavy stacking specters and IIR/IIQ gear, but then again I was really worried I won't enjoy the spec. My very first character in Poe as dual totem ice spear. I knew I will like the build from Ecka as soon as I saw it.

Anyway enough BS let's get on with the feedback on the actual build.First thing first as stated from Ecka this is not newbie friendly build and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who doesn't know a thing about PoE. Running around with 100hp low resist (in my case due to bad gear) is not fun for new player. Also this is no go in Hardcore for obvious reasons so I won't even go there. However if you have an idea how things work in the game and your RNG God forget you since long time then this is the spec for you.

The beauty of the spec is that you can play totally self found as at some point you won't have enough town portals to get the loot.Almost all other specs reach a point where they tell you that a good thing will be if you have 50 exalted for godlike gear, well guess what you don't need a single orb to start this one.

I am currently level 65 nothing high, but the potential of this build is huge and it will only
keep improving. I saw few guys suggested shock passives. This is not how the spec works. The
stacking from crit,casting and spell damage will give you more DPS than shock stacking. Also STOP LOOKING AT THE TOOLTIP dps. The tooltip does not take in consideration a lot of the stuff which are going on with a spell. Sure it gives you an idea, but nothing more. I entered docks merciless with 500 dps on tooltip and that was more than enough for that place. I have cleaver
25k tooltip DPS which can't drop even 10% of the loot that this witch is dropping atm.
Today in about 6 hours of farming I got 5 legendarys and two of them should sell pretty well (fingers crossed)

Final words from me.I didn't post my gear because is no where near finished. Follow what Ecka said in first post and you can't go wrong. Also I want to give him a big credit for the spec and also to say thank you for being so helpful in game as well with all my questions.

TL;DR Don't be lazy and read the post.