St. ELMO's Fire (Dual Totem, Dual Curse, EE, Fire Trap Templar) NERFED :( RIP build

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Aufwiedersehen wrote:

Hey Bud, was curious as to why you took the Avoid Cast Interruption passive? Does it affect your totem, i guess so it can get more Arc's off while takeing dmg? Since we ourselves don't really cast :P Just curious i just hit 31, but it's hard to tell weither or not the totem is being delayed lol

Plus i can progress the build faster if its not really needed :)

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Laststranger wrote:

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Aufwiedersehen wrote:

Hey Bud, was curious as to why you took the Avoid Cast Interruption passive? Does it affect your totem, i guess so it can get more Arc's off while takeing dmg? Since we ourselves don't really cast :P Just curious i just hit 31, but it's hard to tell weither or not the totem is being delayed lol

Plus i can progress the build faster if its not really needed :)

usually monster interrupt while you trying to get out your totem. Since casting the totem is pretty slow without any faster casting nodes in early lv.

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Aufwiedersehen wrote:

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Laststranger wrote:

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Aufwiedersehen wrote:

Hey Bud, was curious as to why you took the Avoid Cast Interruption passive? Does it affect your totem, i guess so it can get more Arc's off while takeing dmg? Since we ourselves don't really cast :P Just curious i just hit 31, but it's hard to tell weither or not the totem is being delayed lol

Plus i can progress the build faster if its not really needed :)

usually monster interrupt while you trying to get out your totem. Since casting the totem is pretty slow without any faster casting nodes in early lv.I don't think we might need it at later lv.

Ah gotcha, thanks for the info! I bought Quality gems for majority of my skill before making this build, so my faster casting linked to my totem is sexay. Think i'll pass on it :)

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YeahPete wrote:

I'm very curious about the ideas behind Lightning Penetration vs. Iron Will as well
lightning penetration does not put monsters into negative resistances. so its completly useless.
2 curses + Elemental equilibrium at higher levels is about -120% resists.

Since my build differs from elmo's ( I Take EB, go more towards witch tree)
A few people have been asking me for it.


Also, any reason why the Increased Critical Chance gem isn't used since we benefit majorly from the increased Shock from crit?
I don't have one yet is why I don't use it. But I did update it in the build to use increased crit chance. It is better to switch to increased crit chance once you get additional crit gear.

I believe Fire Penetration would be more valuable here as well, right? I may have miscalculated things, so I'd love to get some feedback from YeahPete and others on this slight adjustment.
I don't know what the resists of monsters are, but again fire penetration does not put enemies into negative resistance, which defeats the whole purpose of dual curses and Elemental equilibrium. I guess you can spec out of EE and dual curses and go that route but I dont think it will be as effective end game.
ELemental weakness + elemental equilibrium = -95% resistances


Hey Bud, was curious as to why you took the Avoid Cast Interruption passive?
I took this early when I was using molten shell + frost nova. I think its worth it if you ever get in a sticky situation it may save your life for only 1 point. Since casting totems is sometimes slow, I do take a few hits on harder maps trying to get a totem out and this is where that 1 passive point shines. Also when recasting your zombie wall while getting pelted by projectiles. Instead of having to run away like a little bitch you can sit there and recast ur zombies with a higher probability of not getitng interrupted.