[1.1 SC/Ambush] High DPS Trapper with Reliable Shocking

Hey, I'm currently making a EE/shock trapper using the searing touch variant. Following the searing touch tree that you posted. Currently in L51 in A1M, doing fine, but having trouble with life and crowd control. Don't have Cloak yet. Will post an update when I get to do some 73+ maps and complete the tree.

I looked at your posted gear, and wanted to offer you this shield as a TY for the guide if you're interested:

Cool, it'll be interesting to see how the searing touch variant works out since I haven't tried it myself, but rather just calculated some damage numbers. I was pretty squishy too around that level/area. Nowadays, I tend to level without much investment in survivability if the build affords it, so I didn't have much life around then either. I find it more fun and efficient that way. Then around level 60 or so, I started getting just life nodes for a while, and focusing on getting the life/ES up from gear. With all the life nodes, ES, and the cloak, I'm still by no means a tank, but I'm tanky enough to be able to survive most burst. Using potions well becomes quite helpful too.

I really appreciate the shield offer, thanks a lot. I'm willing to pay for it too. I looked for a better shield a good number of times a while ago but didn't find anything that really fits. That one is really nice and suitable, so I have no problem with paying for it. I'll try to catch you on some time (though I'm busy with school projects lately so not on much).

uhm this build is surprisingly powerful.. im one shotting bosses in most maps lol especially if shocks proliferate from nearby mobs

really great build for such cheap gear

edit: forgot to mention.. i removed a bit of dps from your tree to add shield block, and its still super powerful

Think this build is dead now? I have a lvl 85 that I was hoping to start playing again....

I'm not sure what to do with this build now, with the changes to shock. Now it only does 1.5x damage, so instead of 3.91x damage with triple shock we get 2.5x. Also, since we don't need to triple shock, the entire triple shock setup is maybe should move from Shock Nova to Arc? Not sure.