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

If you dont want to use CI u should try this templar build,a lot easier to level up and a lot of life/armor/mana end game,with eldritch battery u can run an insane amount of auras:

You can still culling strike with power siphon for the charges if you really wanted but would seem like too much effort to me

Quick question as i'm still not familiar on how to calculate DPS and Crit..

I was using this wand


and then bought this wand for 2 Ex, thinking it'd up my DPS.


Insteadn, my DPS went down 25ish.. is there something i'm missing here ? :( Really bummed out right now

Should i switch out Lightning Penetration on my 5L and replace it with a Increase Crit Dmg ? Would that help ? I read a few pages back someone says LP is better on a 5L than Increaes crit dmg... but with the crit dmg gem, i go up 129 DPS

I'm at 386% Spell Crit multiplier with Increase crit dmg , if that helps

Question:

Let's say you had 2 shields and 5k ES buffed at level 70 having just reached A3 merciless.

Shield #1:
~160 base energy shield and 15% spell damage

Shield #2:
~70 base energy shield, 5% spell damage, +2 lightning skills, 15-35% triple resists

Assume that your resists are 80-82% resist all without shield #2 but having the resists might allow you to switch a ring or belt in the future.

Which shield is going to yield the best combination of survivability and DPS?

Answering my own question. The +bonus to element only applies if the gem itself (in this case spark) is in the same item that has the bonus. I thought it may have worked globally but didn't show the bonus damage.

In other words shield #2 seems like it's not very good now.

How do you guys deal with puncture?

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NemoSushi wrote:

Should i switch out Lightning Penetration on my 5L and replace it with a Increase Crit Dmg ? Would that help ? I read a few pages back someone says LP is better on a 5L than Increaes crit dmg... but with the crit dmg gem, i go up 129 DPS

I'm at 386% Spell Crit multiplier with Increase crit dmg , if that helps

As explained before by Dominion, Lightning Penetration is by far the best 5link gem and the dps-increase you get from it varies from 20-100%. This will not show in your tooltip dps.

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antelopesalad wrote:

Question:

Let's say you had 2 shields and 5k ES buffed at level 70 having just reached A3 merciless.

Shield #1:
~160 base energy shield and 15% spell damage

Shield #2:
~70 base energy shield, 5% spell damage, +2 lightning skills, 15-35% triple resists

Assume that your resists are 80-82% resist all without shield #2 but having the resists might allow you to switch a ring or belt in the future.

Which shield is going to yield the best combination of survivability and DPS?

I'd say use the 160ES shield. If you are just starting maps and you have full resists without shield 2 just go for as much ES as possible. You will find upgrades for both of them in maps, or you can buy better ones from the forums here.

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Arkius wrote:

How do you guys deal with puncture?

Make sure you know what mobs an apply puncture and try to have a granite up at all times when they are on the screen. Afraid there isn't a better way to deal with them.

I hope I helped a bit with answering some questions.

I don't like Lightning Pen as a 5th link because it just costs too much mana, especially when the totems die so easily. I have loads of mana regen and I took the nodes for extra mana. 991 Mana -> 300 mana after auras. 90 Mregen. With lightning pen totems are 150 mana, without 100. For now I've just stopped using it, because I can just as easily use a 2nd curse if I need to (Elemental Weakness + Conductivity); is there a point where totems stop dying so fast? Or a mregen threshold where I don't constantly hit 0 mana?

My gear. Lvl 70

I'm wondering where do u gear armor from in this build? how much do you currently have

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BigMacAttack wrote:

I'm wondering where do u gear armor from in this build? how much do you currently have

Dominion has like 200 armor on gear. However, with CI and inner force you can constantly spam granite flasks of iron skin, giving more than enough armor.