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

I had a lot of trouble levelling with the posted build. After dying a few times around level 50, here is what I came up with:


You start as witch and use frost nova with added lightning. It is so easy to farm with this build. The entire screen just dies. At low levels you don't need HP nodes because frost nova just stuns everything. You do need two fire rings for caverns of wrath and 2 cold rings for merveil, though. Resist is very important.

Around level 50 you swap to dual frost nova totem. The link is frost nova + spell totem + faster casting + added lightning. Don't get static blows until you get dual totem because everything dies in 2 hits and shock stacking wont do much.

You will only need to spend around 23 regrets to swap it to dominions level 70 build. 11 regrets if you get all the refund quests. You would switch to CI a bit later but that doesn't really matter as you can farm Sarn till 75 really easily.

Frost nova is much better than freezing pulse because:
-It can hit the whole screen without LMP and faster projectiles. This frees up gem slots and makes mana a lot easier to manage.
-It also chills the whole screen making it so you take less damage.

This build gets more HP on gear. Getting ES early is super bad because you wont be getting good armor on gear. Damage with ES gear early is very spikey and hard to deal with.

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BChizzzle wrote:

Anyone else here have a LA ranger also? I have a level 70 LA ranger, and a level 70 Shock totem witch. Wanting to quit one, but can't decide which. Anyone with experience can tell which character's better overall for 80+ ?

The spark totem build scales much better late game. The word is Dominion currently has more than 5 times the DPS of anyone else in the game.

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glh5 wrote:

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BChizzzle wrote:

Anyone else here have a LA ranger also? I have a level 70 LA ranger, and a level 70 Shock totem witch. Wanting to quit one, but can't decide which. Anyone with experience can tell which character's better overall for 80+ ?

The spark totem build scales much better late game. The word is Dominion currently has more than 5 times the DPS of anyone else in the game.

You need very nice gear for that, and ofc totem builds can stack up crit/crit damage a lot because they are not afraid of reflect stuff, so you can have like 1000% or so critical multiplier that means even if you usually deal 400damage with spell every crit will deal about 4k and you cast like 3 of those and they fork.... Tho you need really strong gear for that.

Do you think this build would work with Dual Incinerate totems?

Hello, i have similar question. I want to change lighting dmg to cold dmg and use ice spear. It will be good idea, or ur build is only for spark?

Hey hey,Followed your build till the beginning, now i'm level 72.

Isn't you were using a belt that gives +30 dext and said that there was no good es belt anyway so that u was using that unique belt ? Now when I go and see your items, it seems you changed the unique belt for a rare belt with tri resist and strenght. May I ask why ?

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Ecneralc wrote:

Do you think this build would work with Dual Incinerate totems?

Incinerate can't crit, and this build stacks crit. It won't work.

Thoughts on the new Support Gem - Power Charge on Critical? Would it be worth using this instead of Crit Dmg support, which gives you the freedom to respec some of the crit chance nodes for better alternatives? With the bandit quest you could have a constant 200 more crit chance with 4 Power Charges.

Does anyone know if Detonate Dead will still work if you are specced into Duel Totem?

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Mlindegaard wrote:

Thoughts on the new Support Gem - Power Charge on Critical? Would it be worth using this instead of Crit Dmg support, which gives you the freedom to respec some of the crit chance nodes for better alternatives? With the bandit quest you could have a constant 200 more crit chance with 4 Power Charges.

That won't work for dual totems sadly. Totems cannot gain charges (tested with frenzy 30s ago). And since you don't attack yourself, you won't get charges either.

So that's the dilemma right there.