2.3 Fakener (budget fake Mjölner) build - Trickster Version

Really you help me a lot of, because...i needed it VAAL PACT :-)
Thank you!

So I hit level 82 and I figured I would give me thoughts on the build and my personal fixes?

My Gear:



My Tree:




The clear is fantastic, obviously. But I found that the survive-ability was somewhat lacking. As well as the single target damage.

I gave up on Elemental Equilibrium as I felt it was completely non-necessity. I have done many full Lightning Resist 73+ maps and never had a huge problem, maybe a slight slow down but definitely not enough to warrant spending 5 skill points on close to nothing.

I swapped out saffell's for Deresso's Courage, I felt spell damage was far less of a problem than physical. I was often getting 2 shot by melee mobs, swapping for a 32 block shield with some resistances was a nice fix to the problem. I also went ahead and grabbed Phase Acrobatics as well as the extra dodge nodes. Grabbing vaal pact so the lightning leech could sustain me helped a lot as well, especially since it was only 2 nodes away. I'm having far less problems now, went from dying 1 or 2 times a map to hardly ever.

Discharge has a particular problem with single targets since you don't have a lot of mobs to build charges off of. To counter this problem I linked in flame surge in voll's protector and added fire damage to my dagger, now, every time I crit enemies are ignited and take 50% more damage from flame surge and are often shocked, increasing it by and additional 50%. I've noticed a significant difference on bosses.

Ok, I've been trialling this during the past day, clear-speed seems fine with low-level gems in a 4-link, for lvl69 zones as a lvl72 char. But I fear I have encounted a problem w.r.t. accuracy. Edit: 2 problems, forgot the life one.

My setup atm. The chest is unlinked as I'm debating using Vorici for the 6s, and self-linking it in hopes of running into a 6link before a 5. The Vaal skills in the gloves are just whatever I was testing.

I have an ~80% chance to hit, ~60% chance to crit, I suspect it's because of the ~700 accuracy. Is there any way to easily/cheaply improve this, or do I need the seemingly GG gear Mathil has with 250+ accuracy on all jewellery, and gloves?
Edit: upgraded a little, now >1k accuracy, 83% hit, 62% crit without charges.
Is it reasonable to buy non-diamond rings and master-craft on the weaker crit chance roll? Or not worth the tradeoff?

And is that weapon viable for end-game, if I craft it for this build, with leech/spell damage?



P.S.: Also I'm ~3.4k life atm, and didn't think the gear was that bad w.r.t. this stat (except the jewellery I'm looking at upgrading). Is this just from being lvl72 and 140% from the tree, or have I missed something? I can get another 25% max life directly, but I don't think that'll get me to ~4.5k. :-s

Update: Merc Dominus downed first time with my lvl14 4-link, once I finally got all my Surgeon's flasks sorted. Surgeon's life & resist flasks OP.
Chaos flask of adrenaline better than a Quicksilver? Or is it just my lack of a 5link for lightning pen causing naff all leech vs unique single targets?

Hey, interesting build you got there. I've never played CoC so i got a possibly dumb question, would romira work instead of volls? I'm not sure whether once you crit the romira eats the charges before or after the discharge? Or would it be useless since you have high crit chance and wouldnt get enough charges?

Cheers

Tried it with the gear I had laying around in standard. Clearly lacking accuracy and obv a 6L :p
Pretty fun though you need to get used to the desync prone skill.
Only 1% leech makes it kinda squishy but I didn't have anything better.

Anyone tried using firestorm instead of ice nova?
Also any thoughts on the new herald of storm gem with this build?

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countothreeandie wrote:

Also any thoughts on the new herald of storm gem with this build?

It will kill EE. Probably not a good idea.

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PepprmintButler wrote:

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countothreeandie wrote:

Also any thoughts on the new herald of storm gem with this build?

It will kill EE. Probably not a good idea.

I wonder if the lightning can generate power charges. I know it can't shock but if it can crit then it's like a passive power charge generator. I'll definitely be playing with it on this build, although I don't know how I can afford the reduced mana atm. I'll also need to take off EE.

Hello everyone!

I always wanted to play a Discharge Build, but i never had the currency to afford the mandatory items.
So my question is: What budget will i need to make this build somewhat viable?

Thanks a lot Mathil for this spec! Looks like tons of fun ;)

Herald od thunder looks ok for your build:) what do you think mathil?