ELE LIGHTNING STRIKE - ALL T16s, Shaper, Uber Atziri, HOGM, Chayula, Elder

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JeremCom wrote:

I run my own version of the themes of your build, claw-based and no uniques, that doesn't scale nearly as much damage as yours. I haven't died yet up to level 73, but my life globe completely empties out about every 10 minutes it seems. I'm only at 3.5k life and I haven't done any maps over 69 yet. I can't imagine my goal of 4k making a major difference as I push up to higher levels. All I know is I've been using enfeeble for the first time since Nemesis.

Physical damage is the main culprit. It's a little strong and they might drop it over the course of the beta. If not, I'll have to push for 5k life instead. I almost never get stunned with my live characters, but with this damage it seems every little hit stuns me despite Heart of Oak's best efforts.

I'm using an ice golem currently, but I'd rather not. I've slapped greater and lesser projectiles and blind on him and that works pretty well, but as soon as I get the gems I want and the proper sockets he's gone.

I'm not too impressed with Abyssal Cry. The shout radius is incredibly small and the things it kill were going to die pretty quick anyway. However, Rallying Cry has been pretty fun. It only gives "increased" damage, so if you've already piled a lot of that off the tree the effect gets watered down. However the majority of my damage, and I think this will be true with yours as well, is mostly attack speed, crit, flat physical on gear, and elemental that scales off of physical. The effect is a lot bigger that way. Using it on just one monster boosts my damage by about 5%. But it's got a very large radius and a room full of monsters have given me up to 20% extra damage.

While leveling up, I played around with Innervate and Ice Bite as well. Innervate gives the linked attack 10% chance to shock and grants onslaught when you kill a shocked enemy. Possibly due to a bug, it doesn't trigger on shattered enemies right now though, and with hatred running that's a no go. Ice Bite gives a 10% chance to freeze and a chance of a frenzy charge on killing a frozen enemy. With the new updated frenzy charges, it was a nice boost. I could easily rework my build to cap out at 6 charges. But I'd still be wasting a support slot (and four passives) for an inconsistent 24% more damage and increased attack speed.

All three of these skills are powerful against large groups of enemies, but are pretty weak against bosses. As it is, I'll probably work rallying cry into my final build, but the others don't really synergize enough with what I have.

While Lightning Strike still gets blocked by obstacles, it and arctic breath were mentioned when glacial cascade's changes were made. It's still probable that'll change over time.

Also I always had a trick for the Jungle Valley boss, though it might not be enough for the new 74 version. I'd just find a little indention in the wall and put my back into it. Only two or three spiders can get to you at a time that way and the burst damage drops quite a bit. As long as the new version doesn't kill me in one hit anyway.

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fae76 wrote:

Thanks for your help and all the good tips :-)

I hope the ~800 ES from Aegis on every block smooths things out quite a bit and they're instant not over time like normal leech. It's an additional 800point life buffer against 1-shots which at my current state is a huge 20% increase of effective hit points. Even if I do not hit max leech with my current dps, leech seems too slow. I can not regenerate enough life between hits in situations like the Jungle Vally boss room. Evasion is very spiky, whereas mitigation is way more predictable and the chance of getting 1-shot seems a lot smaller. As you probably found out already I do not have a lot of 70+ map experience. This is only my 2nd build which allows me to surpass the 10k dps mark. The biggest problem with self-found is finding good weapons and so far I found only the dagger linked below and a phys bow that allow me to enter early end-game. Good daggers are especially rare due to the huge pool of prefixes and suffixes. On the other hand I had some good luck with unique drops. I'm also limited to 5L. You can see now that 34k is actually a lot for me.

Here's my best dagger (~ dps seems very close to Bino's):

The empty socket is reserved for Vaal Grace which unfortunately did not yet drop for me.

My current tree: @level 73

I more or less followed your guide except that I took all the life, mana regen and INT nodes first. From here on it's only damage but I suspect I will not reach 80k with my current dagger. Cross your fingers for an upgrade to drop :-)

You don't have to be sorry. I've a lot of fun playing this build. Probably I also push things too hard right now doing 73 maps at level 73 with suboptimal gear. On the other hand anything below 70 is no challenge at all except for double Merv of course ;-) I simply hit a wall and will only be able to push forward once I pass the gear check. It's the same with all ARPGs.

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ClumsyExile wrote:

Ive been looking for a new miles build to test on beta and play in the new leagues after the expansion, unfortunately I don't have much time for theory crafting. Was wondering if you have a rough build I could test in the next wipe in the closed beta?
It's been some time since I've played lightning strike, though I did love it long ago :)

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fae76 wrote:

No, I don't know Kingkiller Chonicles, but I will have a look at it. Why do you ask? I do read a lot of fantasy mostly Forgotten Realms.

The current version of Aegis has 2% leech. I'm lucky enough to own a legacy version with 4% leech. As for the 1-shots, right now I'm sitting at 3.5k HP. You have 4k with real end-game gear and don't get 1-shot. It seems that I'm lacking around 500 HP to solve my problem. Aegis would provide exactly that in form of ES that regenerates during combat and the armor mitigation further lowers the damage taken from the big hits. Even if mitigation is bad on big hits, even taking off 200-300 HP could save my toon. On the other hand instead of investing the points towards the IR build I could as well simply invest them into more life and try to get to 4k HP that way.

I will level some more and if my problems persist I will just try the Aegis version and since I have the gear your quad version as well. I will post feedback once I have the experience.

I'm not looking for a tank build. I prefer agility & tactics over brute force as well hence I mostly play rangers in d&d as well ;-) My last 5 poe builds are all evasion based too. I mostly used dual curses (Enfeeble + Temp Chains) + Blind as defense layers but I always got busted by Spells. This brought me to your build.