[1.0.6]CI Stormcall Build - Low Budget Endgame Build - 30k AoE DPS [FINALLY with VIDEOS]

71 Strand Map: http://youtu.be/UcQMxdEVZE4
74 Maze Map - Double Boss: http://youtu.be/sq2SAUHfK1s
75 Necropolis Map - Enfeeble: http://youtu.be/FSVXPEn-MnA
76 Academy Map Boss - hard modshttp://youtu.be/LNT7WMVKtOQ
Dominus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_ARdHfHZ9A


I am still leveling this first char and hit 85 on the day the first version of this build was released. I am playing all maps up to 74 solo and finished some 75-78 maps in party. (Update: Soloed a 76 Rare map including the boss on lvl 87)
For farming purposes i mainly run Merciless Dominus, which is a safe kill every 6 Minutes (including the run).

I am able to cast 7 markers of Storm Call while each hit does 298 - 5699 (~3073) AoE Damage (35k AoE DPS debuffed - see below). As i play NonCrit i use the passive Static Blows and Arc Totem with Elemental Proliferation for shock stacking mobs and cast conductivity for increased damage / shock stacks.

Defence


StormCall


Arc Totem

Only mandatory gear is an Eye of Chayula (10 to 20 Chaos) and Dream Fragments (1.5Ex) if you spec into CI. You can even play without the Dream Fragments, but it will feel a lot better if you get it.

I needed to arrange on Damage/Energy Shield a lot and you will do so, too.
I often rearrange my skills if i get different pieces of gear, which makes this build very versile. You can easily skill out of Damage nodes and into EnergyShield and vice versa if you need some adjustment. The build scales with your findings but never leaves you behind if you get unlucky

The other passives that need to be adjusted are Castspeed and Mana Regeneration. Because Storm Call has a 1.5 Seconds trigger (starting after you set the first marker) you need to reach different castspeed milestones to achieve a new marker.

Normal:
4 Markers = 1 Starting mark + 3*(0.5 sec cast time) ~ 0% Castspeed
5 Markers = 1 Starting mark + 4*(0,375 sec cast time) ~ 34% Castspeed
6 Markers = 1 Starting mark + 5*(0,3 sec cast time) ~ 67% Castspeed
7 Markers = 1 Starting mark + 6*(0,25 sec cast time) ~100% Castspeed
8 Markers = 1 Starting mark + 7*(0,214 sec cast time) ~134% Castspeed

To afford to cast permanently you need enough mana regeneration to cast a 18 Mana Spell, that will probably be linked to heavy mana modifiers (~50 Mana per Cast)

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMBAuMFWwdjB6UIZxFQEZYVUBXXFvMabBzcHaod2R8CIcMmPCepKU8snCymLL8tHy9vL500CjbFN2Y62DvhPAU9X0NURKtGcUbXRwZJsk3YT79SU1WuVmNXK1fhXcZfamBtZ71tGXC7c1N2EX1Tfq9_xoIQgpuDCYaui4yMdo0Zj0aPpo_6kNaTJ5uhnYCdrp_foqOnCKcrtAy1BLaGu9bAVMG0wcXB88Nt0NDXhtgk2RPb592M3fPfsOAS4XPhiOL35CLk7OaB7BjsOO0g7m_vfPll

I run Clarity (mandatory), Discipline (Highly advisable as CI) and Purity of Elements (depends on your resistance gear). If you get enough mana and mana reserve nodes you could try haste in exchange for purity to get extra cast speed.

Storm Call:
Storm Call - LifeLeech - Concentrated Effect

Do not laugh, this is all what is needed to play maps. Sure a 5L or a 6L will boost your DPS highly, but it is not mandatory to get this equipment to play map content.
For more links you have to check your playstyle and passive arrangement. If you reach a new marker with faster casting, always link faster casting first. If your AoE is to low due to concentrated effects use a increased area of effect. Added Lightning Damage is a huge DPS plus and lightning penetration helps, too.

Arc Totem:
Arc - Spell Totem - Elemental Proliferation - Lightning Penetration (Drop LP if you only have 3L)
By skilling a total of 32% AoE Increase your Elemental Proliferation gem will shock a quarter of the map per hit.


Movement:
Lightning Warp - Faster Casting - Reduced Duration

This spell is insanely powerful at higher levels and at higher quality. It won't ever become your mainspell (Even if you can clear lowlvl maps with it, as soon as you are able to play 75+ Maps ;-)), so don't use Gemcutter Prisms onto them, but as soon as these gems reach lvl 20 you should trade them for 20 Quality lvl gems and level them again. Your speed will excel nearly every other class/movement skill and the usefulness of lightning warp in combination with Stormcall is undescribeable. "Cast and Warp" improves your clearspeed drastically, because you have no downtime by running somewhere and not being able to cast while running.


Survival Autocast:

Supersafe:
Cast When Damage Taken - Decoy Totem - Summon Skeletons - Enfeeble
You can work around this. An enfeeble curse instead of nova boosts your survivabilty while it decurses your conductivity. A Decoy Totem kills your arc totem which lowers your dps (shock stacks) but helps you survive.

Without damage loss:
Cast When Damage Taken - Molten Shell - Summon Skeletons - Coldsnap
Neither your totem, nor your curse will disappear by this build which gives you maximum damage at the cost of survivability.
Feel Free to experiment what feels best to you.

Curse:
Conductivity - Increased Area of Effect - Reduced Mana
You do not need the Increased AoE and the reduced mana gem (Except your manapool is short running three auras). You can also socket an "Increased Duration" or whatever feels best for you.

Auras:
Clarity - Discipline - Purity of Elements - Reduced Mana
Use and level clarity everytime you can (except there is a hypothetic scenario in which you would not be able to cast anymore). Clarity is your most important aura and you should level it up to 20.
Discipline is very useful, but not mandatory to play this build. I would not know a better 2nd aura to run on this build, but feel free to surprise me ;-)
Purity of Elements is just a gear pusher, which allows you to play Elemental Weakness maps easily. If you get powerful resistance gear you do not need it, but i think i made a good deal focusing on ES/ManaReg/Damage mainly on gear.

Only mandatory gear is an Eye of Chayula (10 to 20 Chaos) and Dream Fragments (1.5Ex) if you spec into CI. You can even play without the Dream Fragments and use "Dispels Frozen Flasks" instead, but it will feel a lot better if you get it.

Easy 5Link (1 Chaos)
An easy method to achieve a super cheap 5L is to use the unique item Rims Gaze (1 Chaos). It has a built in Concentrated Effect, which is a needed gem for your mainskill and allows you to get a 5L very early at the cost of a better headpiece.http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Rime_Gaze

Good Wand (1 Chaos)
Moonsorrow is a cheap wand, that has up to +70% Lightning Damage and a nice +10% Castspeed. You can buy a Moonsorrow wand for an Alchemy Orb, which makes it a cheap but good item. While i used Moonsorrow i linked it with my lightning warp, which gave me an additional chance to blind on warp and resulted in a slightly higher survivability.http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Moonsorrow

On all other slots i recommend resistances/energy shield/cast speed/mana/int with a focus on High Energy Shield.

Perfect gear to aim for:

>>Take a look at the gearing tips - There are super cheap uniques, that no other build really needs, which give you a big midlvl advantage <<

I used Raise Zombies for leveling. They are extremely powerful tanks early on and hold monsters in the place to make your storm call hit perfectly. For 2-3 early Skillpoints you get a huge minion boost, that will help you until ~70- Other players in this thread mention they used a Spell Totem with Summon Skeletons, which should work fine aswell.

This is what the first 25 Skillpoints looked like for me
21 Points used - 9 free for Survivability


At Level 31 you will be able to use a concentrated effect gem, which will boost your main spell DPS by 50% (at lvl 1) at the cost of 30% AoE reduction. Its your choice how you handle this. You can either spec into some Increased AoE nodes or focus on mana regeneration to use an increased area of effect gem.

42 Points used - 8 free for survivability




This is the time where you decide if your gear is good enough to spec into CI or stay on live. I suggest you do not switch to CI if your Energy Shield is below 2.5k unless you have capped resistances already.
61 Points used - 9 free for survivability

How do you deal with reflect?
To be honest - while i was leveling i just died to reflect. I was new to the game and often noticed the reflect tag AFTER i had put 3-4 maerkers in a 20+ group of mobs, which resulted in a self onehit. After i learned what reflect looks like, i died much rarer and at the moment i am able to play elemental reflect maps without greater problemes. 75% resist and 5k ES+ is a good way to know, you are ready to play reflect maps (if your damage does not outstand your defence by far).
My advice for reflect maps: Change your increased aoe/faster casting support gem with lightning penetration or item rarity. It helps to controll your damage.

tl;dr: Everything except double reflect works fine



LifeLeech without VaalPact / Zealoaths Oath? Are you some kind of stupid
I am sure i am some kind of stupid, but it works for a reason. After you set your first Stormcall marker there will be a 1.5 sec intervall without any damage or lifeleech. If you teleported into a whole lot amount of mobs this is the time you have to survive. After 1.5 seconds your insane damage kicks in and you regenerate about 2k ES/Hit mob.
If this regeneration would be instant your ES would be spiking hard every 1.5 seconds (from near to death to full in a milli second). By not leveling Vaal Pact and not putting any kind of quality on the lifeleech gem your lifeleech will timespan over the next 1.5 seconds which counters new incoming damage.
This means you need to survive the first 1.5 seconds and after that it will be fine - even if you fight a minute or two. E.g. i killed the Jungle Valley Map Boss yesterday (thousands of spiders) without any big problems. The main trick was to hold position in a corner and just permacast ;-)

Furthermore i never saw a need for Zealoath's Oath and didn't miss it so far. But hey feel free to experiment.

tl;dr: Do NOT skill Vaal Pact!


Bandits

I took 8% resist in normal, but if i had to chose today i would just kill them all for the additional skill point.

I am having Mana problems. What should i do?
A good way to solve your mana problems is gear with % Increased Mana Regeneration / + to maximum Mana.
Your base mana regeneration, which is buffed by %increased Mana Regneration nodes and equipment depends on your maximum Mana and your Clarity manareg. If you can not afford to permacast for atleast 7.5 seconds (without flasking), you should definitely try to upgrade your gear.
If you can't afford gear upgrades, you can spec into some % increased mana reg / % increased base mana nodes.
Another way to fix mana problems is to drop the "Faster Casting" gem. I did not used the faster casting gem (which gave me +1 Marker) until i was about lvl 75 and linked my StormCall with LifeLeech - Concentrated Effect - Added Lightning Damage instead (add a Lightning Penetration if you already own a 5L or a 4L Rims Gaze).