[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 bought a 20/20 Increased AoE gem, and well, it beats a 20/20 LMP for sure. A lot of people are saying BL is bad. I'm determined to show it's not bad, in the sense that it would be total trash. This change is the first step. It's not as good as Arc, but it's definitely not bad.

Gem setup is now as follows:
BL - Echo - Lightning Penetration - Faster Casting - Inc. AoE

For a 6L I'd probably add Added Lightning Damage (slower proj. makes BL too slow).

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hatoblue wrote:

Direct quote from ZiggyD: "lightning strikes once every 200 ms and each target cannot be hit by a lightning strike more often than this." To me that means that multiple balls cannot strike the same target more often than 200 ms, but will have to test it once the patch hits.

@Relidar here's my planned tree: http://poeurl.com/ySZqJOG . Still WIP, if projectile damage works with it I can grab ballistic mastery and maybe point blank.

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Maxwells wrote:

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hatoblue wrote:

Direct quote from ZiggyD: "lightning strikes once every 200 ms and each target cannot be hit by a lightning strike more often than this." To me that means that multiple balls cannot strike the same target more often than 200 ms, but will have to test it once the patch hits.

@Relidar here's my planned tree: http://poeurl.com/ySZqJOG . Still WIP, if projectile damage works with it I can grab ballistic mastery and maybe point blank.

To break it down. Every cast can't hit the same target more than once every 200 ms. First GMP BL cast is considered as X and the second one is considered Y. This would mean that cast X can't hit mob A more than once every 200 ms. But if cast Y is close to cast X, they could simultaneously hit mob A twice, ignoring the 200 ms cool down. This is because cast X and Y is two separate casts.

TL;DR One cast of several balls won't hit the same target more than once every 200 ms, even if the balls ''shotguns'' the target. However, an Echo'd BL can. That's because it's TWO casts with one ball each, not ONE cast with 5 balls.

Hope this clear some questions.

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Mahesys wrote:

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ComradeSerge wrote:

I bought a 20/20 Increased AoE gem, and well, it beats a 20/20 LMP for sure. A lot of people are saying BL is bad. I'm determined to show it's not bad, in the sense that it would be total trash. This change is the first step. It's not as good as Arc, but it's definitely not bad.

Gem setup is now as follows:
BL - Echo - Lightning Penetration - Faster Casting - Inc. AoE

For a 6L I'd probably add Added Lightning Damage (slower proj. makes BL too slow).

I'd really drop that faster casting for a knockback. Not only survivability will be boosted a crapload but your tagets will be hit even more times. a 20/20 knockback will grant 54% chance to knockback which is huge and can provide a single ball lightining 3-4 extra hits which are more valuable than extra cast speed imo.

I use this setup atm:

BL - knockback - spell echo - added lightning dmg - lightning pen

And it works so great. Enemies can't even reach me and paired with projectile weakness bosses can't touch me at all