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

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AnoWander wrote:

I see you take Critical Strike Chance nodes in the new build. Is it applied to spell as well because I play as a Witch not Shadow and didn't do any physical attack at all except EK sometime ago, but now I use Ice Spear and other spells. Should I switch back to EK if those nodes are applied to EK?

the crit nodes are applied to spells and the spark totems

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tesken wrote:

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AnoWander wrote:

I see you take Critical Strike Chance nodes in the new build. Is it applied to spell as well because I play as a Witch not Shadow and didn't do any physical attack at all except EK sometime ago, but now I use Ice Spear and other spells. Should I switch back to EK if those nodes are applied to EK?

the crit nodes are applied to spells and the spark totems

Thanks. But if it is so then what about the Spell Critical Chance nodes?

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AnoWander wrote:

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tesken wrote:

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AnoWander wrote:

I see you take Critical Strike Chance nodes in the new build. Is it applied to spell as well because I play as a Witch not Shadow and didn't do any physical attack at all except EK sometime ago, but now I use Ice Spear and other spells. Should I switch back to EK if those nodes are applied to EK?

the crit nodes are applied to spells and the spark totems

Thanks. But if it is so then what about the Spell Critical Chance nodes?

Unless the passive specifically states what it works with - assume it is global.

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Hey guys.

I just respeced from a different build to this. Here is my current gear. I was wondering what I should focus on.

I am only running clarity. What else should I run and what gems are most important to link together. Thanks!

Can anyone offer some direction to me?

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terferi wrote:

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Hey guys.

I just respeced from a different build to this. Here is my current gear. I was wondering what I should focus on.

I am only running clarity. What else should I run and what gems are most important to link together. Thanks!

Can anyone offer some direction to me?

Let me offer my limited experience with a similar CI spork build.

Let's assume your gear is fixed. Depending on the resists, you should consider purity/discipline for an extra aura. I'd try to either 4L the gloves for conductivity + 2 auras + reduced mana, or just slap the conductivity into whatever unlinked blue.

Lighting penetration works really well with spork, if you're feeling lucky, try to recolor your chest and remove IIQ gem.

For distraction, I usually run skeletons + minion life, and manually cast them. It's kinda tedious, but it works. Your wand with BB sockets would work nicely.

I see you have item quantity. A cheesy thing I like to do with a 4L like your helm:



Even though you don't deal damage yourself, you will cull monsters for extra IIR/IIQ.

Hope I could help :)

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terferi wrote:

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Hey guys.

I just respeced from a different build to this. Here is my current gear. I was wondering what I should focus on.

I am only running clarity. What else should I run and what gems are most important to link together. Thanks!

Can anyone offer some direction to me?

It is hard to say based on a quick shot of your gear. From my experience the first thing you need to do is max sure you max your resists and based on the gear shown start investing in some higher es pieces.

For auras you should be running clarity, purity, and discipline. If you are not converted to CI yet you will need to have discipline ready for that step as the added es will be very important.

In my builds I usually stick to a kite shield with high resist and some es to keep my resistances maxed out until I can get to the shield passives that add +10% resist (assuming you will take these). At this point it allows me to switch to a higher es/spell damage shield and still get a 20% resist buff from my shield almost replacing the kite shield's base 24% bonus.

If you have more specific questions or details of the problems you are having it would make it easier to help you further.

#1) activate purity, discipline
#2) improve your ES gear
#3) keep your resistance maxed
#4) once 1-3 are done focus on spell damage and crit while maintaining the above.

Dominion thanks for update

i see at the start of update ci build and then you update again in onslaught low life build, can you add the hardcore version and keep both version in the topic? is perfect if you add too the both version of CI and low life ^^

can anyone explain the power charges? from what I see there's nothing generating them?

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TiznaraN wrote:

can anyone explain the power charges? from what I see there's nothing generating them?

u use ice spear (lvl1) linked with GMP/LMP + Power Charge on Crit

your fourth link can be either faster casting or increased critical strikes.

Thanks for the suggestions. I don't have enough mana to run all three auras so purity is out. My resistances have gone up a little as well with some new gear. I was on Poe.xyz and I see lots of higher es armor. I might have to settle for four slot chest piece. I was only doing freezing pulse because it was recommended. Once i get both totems I guess I will use the culling strike/arc or bear traps or the ice shot projectiles.

Thanks for the tips. I will let you know how it turns out. Thanks again