[1.2.] Serge's Ultimate Ball Lightning (3 Versions: EB-MoM-AA / hybrid HP-ES Crit / CI Crit!)

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ComradeSerge wrote:

I do not know why you use life leech if you can get life leech on gear (not only uniques, but also from lvl6 catarina). Imo, that is a waste of a slot.

I can't even craft strength on items to free some passive points since all my gear is either 6 stats or doesn't have a free suffix, and you want me to also craft leech. Surely, its easy when you are gearing up your character from nothing, not so much when any of your upgrades would cost several to tens of ex. And then also go find a rare that would have 4 t1-2 affixes you need, standard or not. These just won't always be on the market.

Anyway, the concern with leech is not just leech rate, but reflect too. Atm I can only use the skill safely with topaz on top of PoL when facing ele reflect pack. I also suspect 1 or 2% wouldn't be enough. Tried to go with 1%, it certainly isn't. 3% maybe, if counting more dps from additional support too.

CI Crit Witch, heres where I stand on gear

pretty tanky, about 6k ES without all the scion nodes taken, and a those evasion/ES shadow nodes aren't taken yet

Granted I have been very good with finds and flipping items and finding good deals on the uniques



Divinarius is probably BIS for the weapon, but requires like 115 dex, and you'd probably need to run a 6L chest with a life leech. Which is fine, I don't think the Increased AOE really adds all that much except allow you to be lazy with aiming your balls.

The Vaal spark setup for bosses is incredible though, especially bosses in an area where you an get them between two walls. I was doing shore and triggered it with me and hail rake in the ship, which is super narrow, and he went from full to dead in about a second

Yep, Vaal Spark is awesome. :)

I'm running Divinarius atm since I got the gear for dex and str and also added some more dex on my gloves from Haku's bench. Running a 5L now, with the setup: BL - Spell Echo - Lightning Pen - PCoC - Inc. Crit Dmg. Seems the best setup for a 5L for the cirt build. I can solo any content, tested up to 77 maps. With the full Scion circle, I'm at 6.8k ES. Only problem is, I'd love to craft that life leech, but it goes only on wands/staves/sceptres/daggers, i.e. I cannot add it onto Divinarius.

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ComradeSerge wrote:

Yep, Vaal Spark is awesome. :)

I'm running Divinarius atm since I got the gear for dex and str and also added some more dex on my gloves from Haku's bench. Running a 5L now, with the setup: BL - Spell Echo - Lightning Pen - PCoC - Inc. Crit Dmg. Seems the best setup for a 5L for the cirt build. I can solo any content, tested up to 77 maps. With the full Scion circle, I'm at 6.8k ES. Only problem is, I'd love to craft that life leech, but it goes only on wands/staves/sceptres/daggers, i.e. I cannot add it onto Divinarius.

Uniques cant be crafted on

If you are using divinarius you probably need to get a doryanis invitation

Good luck lol

That's what I said -.-

Hi!

I'm trying to decide which build to go with but am still not really sure.

I play on Rampage and I don't care about dying every now and then as long as it's not horribly squishy.

Any recommendations for a Rampager? I will definitely be using Tabula Rasa.

vall storm call + ic + spell echo + conc effect

This setup is pretty OP as well, only need 16 souls, wich means almost 100% uptime, perfect for kill any rare or boss

Im doing the build with some MF gear, i hope to upgrade 1 of my ring so i can go with other iir ring.

Any advice on where i should put like 2-3 points for dps ? ele dmg or c speed? keep the proj nodes ?

Sorry for this question that maybe has been already done cuz i haven't read 23 pages of comments.. But in CI build, how do u substain the mana cost of BL?? it's about 113 mana on level 20 BL..and i don't know how many cast per second do u have, but i think at least 3 or 4 for a total of 200 mana per second..Is it possilbe to get them?

I always used arctic armor so sustaining high mana costs of skills was never a problem too. Somehow scion going up in the passive tree also has more accessible mana/regen nodes than the int classes, unless they also go to scion area. Yes, it is ~ 200 mana/sec in a 6l.

Starting as a witch, you have your starting mana nodes and the deep wisdom cluster. Coldhearted calculation notable in the shadow area has mana regen too, you will need ghost reaver there and then if you go for crit its on your way. If that won't be enough then it depends on where you go next. If you go to the scion area for es and maybe aura reservation or inner force there are nodes nearby. If you go deep into the templar area for aoe there are templar's nodes. If you use arctic armor you will need more than 200, 240 for 20/20 AA without inner force or 280 with inner force.

You will likely use dream fragments and it has both mana and regen. Your other ring should have regen too, and the necklace if you won't be using chayula. Circlets may have flat mana rolls and then rainbowstrides also have flat mana. Last, wands and spirit shields may have mana regen rolls.




Vaal spark can be placed on a trap, that way it ignores reflect. Vaal spark - trap - lmp - lightning pen. Trap support also has 33% more damage multiplier that will compensate for what you loose from linking it with lmp. Trap thrown right at the boss does waaaay more damage than vaal spark would do when cast manually from a distance since all the sparks are released right where the boss stands. The downside is that you need to aim it carefully and traps can also be destroyed by aoe skills.

I used that in 1.1 but don't have sockets for it now. It oneshotted all bosses up to Palace Dominus on crit in groups of 3-4 people. Back in 1.1 it was 2.3 million damage on crit, 380k on non-crit, in case all the sparks hit the target, that never happens of course. Don't know what the number may be like in 1.2. All sparks are considered one cast, so they either all crit or all do not. To crit more reliably I got my power charges up, crit weakness (assasin's mark) on the target and diamond flask. Also don't miss diamond shrines if you use vaal spark ).

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Valentia wrote:

Hi!

I'm trying to decide which build to go with but am still not really sure.

I play on Rampage and I don't care about dying every now and then as long as it's not horribly squishy.

Any recommendations for a Rampager? I will definitely be using Tabula Rasa.

The tankiest of the 3 is the EB MoM AA build, ofc. I recommend that one for you.