Dominion's Hardcore Dual-Spark CI Witch - UPDATED for 1.0.1

I was wondering, since you use CI do you also run Blood Rage? And if one decides to do so would it be a good idea to grab the extra frenzy charge from Merciless Bandits Quest?

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Fireknight wrote:

@Hopkins - Fantastic insight, I'll give you my thoughts. The ES nodes in the shadow tree may be marginally more ES per point, but I utilize the armor% for my granite flasks, whereas I have no benefit to the evasion and minimal benefit from cooldown reduction.

Ah, I hadn't accounted for those bonuses affecting granite flasks. I was working under the assumption that the bonus armor provided a similarly insignificant benefit to the bonus evasion.

There still seems to be some merit in a build that goes to the shadow starting area, but going for the 2nd nullification node would definitely be something I'd reconsider even with the other investment in that area.

Does quality level of spark really matter all that much? All it does is increase projectile speed.

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Undisputed565 wrote:

Does quality level of spark really matter all that much? All it does is increase projectile speed.

i just asked that in the previous page, and he said yes it's important

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1235 wrote:

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Undisputed565 wrote:

Does quality level of spark really matter all that much? All it does is increase projectile speed.

i just asked that in the previous page, and he said yes it's important

Perhaps I should elaborate more. Spark's duration is static. By increasing projectile speed, the area covered increases, which means the sparks are more likely to hit a mob.



@Shiftbricks - Unfortunately, blood rage does not work with totems.

I normally play remote mine arcing totems sc.

But, here is me playing with a 5L spark+fork+fcr+pen+spelltotem I just whipped together. I have close to 90% fcr, and will ultimately succeed with around 150FCR in the end.

Soloing indoor Sewer map and outside Tropical Island map
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X0L7j1HTNs

I haven't been playing much lately, but I'm actually in the process of making a hybrid arc and spark build. Arcing remote mine totems for outdoors, and Sparking totems indoors.

Arc is good because it significantly stuns with bursts damage instantly shocking mobs doing more dps potentially outside, since sparks will get lost or caught up on doodads like the cemetery map(frustrating to me).

hello Dominion got some questions :)

1.what would be good quality on spark to get ?

2.when i lvl to my 1st totem i just use freezing pulse or allso spark?

3.what is most important on gear what i have to look energy shield and all resist or armor energy shield and all resist?

4. i need wand whit high spellpower?

5.is ur build good for solo maps and stuff .

hou gear dependent is ur build when i am leveling up and to get mapping ready?

atm lvl 21 seems pretty hard to survive hope things go better after totem :) died at lvl 29 trying again ):



hope u can answer:)

How can one deal with elemental reflect with this spec? I'm around lvl 55 with all resistances at 77. Just encountered a rare mob with this affix without checking and placed both totems .. I really panicked and barely survived using all my potions. Are there any tipps for this? Or was this simply a bug? As I understand the reflect should not affect me right?

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DON7PANIC wrote:

How can one deal with elemental reflect with this spec? I'm around lvl 55 with all resistances at 77. Just encountered a rare mob with this affix without checking and placed both totems .. I really panicked and barely survived using all my potions. Are there any tipps for this? Or was this simply a bug? As I understand the reflect should not affect me right?

Elemental reflect goes towards the totems, not you.

I have a Ice Spear witch but I was thinking giving this version a go. I have couple questions though.


- If you were reduced to 4 linked slots for your main skill what takes priority Lightning Penetration or Faster Casting?


- How important is quality in Culling Strike / Lightning Penetration gems?

Thanks a lot!