[0.10.0] HP/ES Spork Shadow Battle Mage (Twinkle twinkle deadly Sparks!) [Videos included]

I'm level 18.

I have Spark, Fork, Clarity (level 3, don't know if I should keep leveling it), Fire Trap, Bear Trap, Raise Zombie and Summon Skeleton.

What gems do you recommend me? I'm trying Conductivity and Temporal Chains but I'm not really sure about that.

You recommend Phase Run in your guide but I think it's not available now so I don't know what another option should I choose.

Btw, I have problems with mana and manaregen since level 1...

Hey Loving the build. I was wondering, since I am playing normal mode I was thinking about getting some more offensive passives and skipping a few of the +life and defense passives.
So far I haven't been having much troubles at all mowing things down. The only problems I have are killing some of the boss's solo. Mainly boss's that cast like Piety. She destroys me.

Any tips on that?

Im currently level 64 playing this build, if I were you, I would NOT skipped the def nodes at all, trust me, when you get to Merc stuff pwns the shit out of you.

Currently Im testing out going CI and picking up massive + %es nodes, hoping this works out, seeing a lot of stuff is Chaos dmg and would be nice to skip out on Chaos resist.

Do you need to reach a higher level before Faster Projectiles starts getting better, because at the moment (lvl 32) Added Cold Damage adds a massive amount to the spells dps.

Another question: If I use Added Lightning damage on spark, does it give me an additional chance to shock with each hit?

Currently 53 and farming docks quite easily. Tried to do cruel Solaris temple at 50 but that was early in the day and DCed 4 times when I was in the middle of level 2 and decided to just over level it so I can just mow everything down or run past it all in a few more levels.

Mana problem is becoming less harsh with int/regen nodes, but my gear is still very bad (every item I've rolled so far with an alchemy orb has been awful), at least for the build. I've been using Freeze Pulse with LMP to slow/freeze mobs as the totem tends to die fairly quickly and is kind of expensive to chain cast at the moment.

Hi :)

I see HP gear and +life gear , what is the difference ?

"+life" mean hpregen/s ?

Running this in HC fairly easy so far.

Mana regen sucks early on though :(

Thinking I should do 2/3 flasks (hp/mana)

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Chesis wrote:

Hi :)

I see HP gear and +life gear , what is the difference ?

"+life" mean hpregen/s ?

+life means +life. hp regen/s isn't in the same category. I apologize for the ambiguity in wording i'll change it to be more consistent.

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FireTako wrote:

Running this in HC fairly easy so far.

Mana regen sucks early on though :(

Thinking I should do 2/3 flasks (hp/mana)

try using freezing pulse instead early on :) Spark tends to get better only in the middle of act2

Hi,

I want to try running this build with CI,
So I was wondering which quest reward I should get from the normal bandit quest,

I was thinking about the skillpoint for some possible ES/DPS nodes

Oh and I'm playing default

Awesome guide Mr. Invalesco!

I have a question though:

Do you have any recommendations for leveling up Clarity?
Currently I feel it takes so much mana away, I might as well not use it (I'm 31 and the gem is at lvl 5).
Also, at what (character) level did you start using clarity with this build?


Regardless, thanks for the build, it's working out great!