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

GMP or LMP I found the low damage too (I was really surprised how bad it was.), the best combination I got was this.
Ball Ligh. + Pen. Ligh. + Slow Proj. + Spell Echo + in. Area of ​​Effect + Life Leech. my 7th choice Added Lightning Damage.

The nodes something next to it:

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgUABAcEswVbB2MI9Ax9EH8RlhOeFE0WbxcvGYUabBzcHwIkPCSqJpUnqSlPLJwtHy1HL282xTbpO-E9X0SrRtdJUVBCUlNVS1WuVcZV1lcrWm1dxmBtZOdnvW0ZbXtwu3NTdhF5A35Zfq9_xoCkgh6Cm4M4i3qLjIw2jRmPRo-ml5WboZ2Ana6iAKKjpJGnCKcrp1y0OLUEuJPAVMHzxp7PZdDQ1U_YJNkT2t3bC92M3fPed-AS4XPi9-Nq5CLlGe0g7m_vfPAf8Xbz3frS-_U=

Aura: Red Mana + Clarity + Discipline - Purity of Lightning + Arctic Armour, you need good rings and amulet with mana regen. Mana regen is not a problem? choose Carcass Jack (20% increase in area), if you do not use the Cloak of Defiance.

has someone tested if the two projectiles from Echo share the 200ms cd per target? or are those two projectiles like two different casts

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Sobeck wrote:

has someone tested if the two projectiles from Echo share the 200ms cd per target? or are those two projectiles like two different casts

Haven't tested it myself personally but from what I've heard they behave like two different casts.

How does this build do against reflect by the way? Still waiting for my ball lightning gem to level up before I can test it out.

First video uploaded:
http://youtu.be/LFYCQszOJKg

I encountered only 1 reflect pack in docks, it was no problem at all with 2% life leech I have from the doryani mace and belt. I think it could be a problem only when DPS gets higher (higher gem level) in -max maps.

Still looks kind of weak compaired to Arc.

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Sobeck wrote:

has someone tested if the two projectiles from Echo share the 200ms cd per target? or are those two projectiles like two different casts

Here's your answer:
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/960492

EDIT: Seems LMP should be a bad idea. I'm still not entirely convinced of this, but I'll do additional testing with Inc. AoE instead of LMP.

Inc aoe seems to be better den lmp. It also makes your balls hit the target more times as the range increase.

A great video from ZiggyD on the mechanics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2KxtC3Ks04

And he shares my thoughts as well: yes, LMP makes you lose DPS per ball, but it gives you better AoE clear, which is the entire point of using LMP anyway (for skills that cannot shotgun).

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Ball_Lightning

Just 9-170 damage at level 20 and 0.8 seconds cast time

LOL had wet dreams of this skill and I knew it was going to be garbage

Your clear speed in the docks seems abysmal in certain places, and that is just in the docks and with a 6 link, pen gem and elemental weakness on top and 2x doryani and rathpith. Higher gem levels do not seem to be very impactful as other skills judging from the progression.

And of course [Removed by Support] the terrible 4% base crit that plagues every lightning skill.

Another flush down the toilet lightning skill FTW! hurrah!

What a joke this game is where you cannot compete at endgame if you dont RMT a 1000 exalts and make a low life or crit acuity build or take advantage of OP shit like mjolner or snapshotting. And then ROS is supposed to be shit, the game that hands you the items you need on a silver platter and skills actually do damage. Pffff ....

Bl with knockback desyncs a lot, but is great for survivability. In comparison with arc, clear faster most of the time, but it takes too long to kill golems or any mobs with suuuuuper high light res.
I think it would be better to replace empower with faster cast but my armor doesn't allow that
Currently using divinarius for that sweet 10% aoe.
My planned passive =