[IN DEPTH] 2.2 Crit LA/Blastrain Voltaxic - Hardcore/SC Viable

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skieZ wrote:

First: nice guide.
Well put together.

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I play Talisman myself atm. and came back to PoE after a few month of being burned out of it.
Leveled a arc witch first but casters suck bad atm. so I decided to try a char that'll safely sail me to 90.
Playing SC and decided to go Voltaxic.

Okay now my gear atm. :

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Got unlucky with the 5 links (both costed me around 400fuse in the end -.-)
Anyways, I think the most important part about the gemslots is WED.
I'd never take Innervate over WED in a 5L.
The buff is nice, but aside from that its not really good, the chance to shock is okay, but enemys are almost always permashocked, so it makes no real difference.
For a 6L I'd consider Innervate;Poison;Inc. crit or maybe something different.

Second: I think powercharges in the tree are waste of points.
The low basecrit of voltaxic makes crit alot less desirable, so I'd always only take the super efficient crit clusters.
Plus they are annoying to sustain, even with a dual herald setup I sometimes run out of charges.
The best way to scale your damage is WED; Flat Lightning (or Ele generally) and Frenzycharges.
Sadly I'm on phone so I can't type everything I want right now.
Basically: Only get efficient crit nodes, get WED and Light. Ele and AS.
I'll post my tree and answer a bit more detailed tomorrow, as I used around 40 regrets so far to test different pathings and nodes.

Tree: http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwIA2sGHduOfwzqE2UQNyPAWv49gbycj05pqveY-z-0_N9TUI3Tteu8FLdNvLlNbrw-rGYqNv7e2jX7qYnXLlwY2PTnUoJ8x-nb3R35lTb02TP_uDqOKYeImlVVL73oNjQHRWhrDMxmO7YMAXm1sTio6QiSLIXaGzsEzMHyly52qYqxsjFWFTZKNfSP2jDa1SH11u-P-umJaJJ2v68Ubm42MC-ywuXzEoiT951T_3n8rXfIILpu1hMW-p_ba-wkaj-ZYkx-J4EkTS3gwcd2oQzFwUonTKgtRR_zF034AAAAA

Keep in mind that this tree is fit for my gear atm. (explains certain nodes for example the crit/acc. cluster) and its a tree made for softcore.
I jave 4,9k HP atm. and with better gear it'll go easly over 5-5.3k (which is enough tbh).
DPS is @15.2k atm. (3p and 7f charges) and alot of room to improve, since the gear isn't super opieop and gems are not qualed/leveld/21ed.
This is 5he most fun char I played so far and I love it.
I'll be back later when I'm on my PC to explain a few tree decisions and so on.

cheers o/

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xDeathlok wrote:

ty for the guide, just fyi your defenses screenshot was cut in an odd way and doesn't show anything of value.

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Liquor wrote:

I planned out a build at the beginning of the league for a LA character, it looks similar to yours except I started as a shadow, just because I like shadows. I only recently started leveling the character for this.

https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwYAsNii2VHZsJL_kxa_D6smlW1sYeI2Ped07LBVS52qVYXo1owLjDZsjKXLmyYFtbl8idNirDIBjb9wUrIZUUfUIyoLz3o-z-dUMHwwcWHrveYk_cjcjX1_K92oelP_3sFJI_Y51NaKS3j-HU2So4pv8nb3OkLuDqCfMfrvevzF034NjQBefXVbr4d2GY7-uk4qIXZnoOOf7YO740z_I9OGzkp9CC7EokMxbyfBM5uN2sGNfsMzmmrgn3TtzZhaGgVmBS3qYnrvdcu-p2VNvTZHfoTZAdx346lueWjBBF8_FCDvDlBH

I don't take the hired killer cluster or the true strike cluster. I also opt to take phase acrobatics and arrow dancing. But those can be dropped with preference. For 114 points I have 185% life and 136% evasion.

Though from what you've said about the static strike jewel I'll probably take a second look at the build to incorporate 2 of them just as you did. Thanks for the guide, glad to see someone achieve good performance from their build.

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tokyotapes wrote:

Playing a very, very similar build in Talisman SC. One piece of gear I HIGHLY recommend for upper tier maps is Taste Of Hate. It's expensive because it's worth it. For those unaware, Taste of Hate is a flask that converts 30% of phys damage to cold greatly mitigating the damage taken.

My gear @ 90:

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Tree @ 90:

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https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwIAAF4B0QHcBS0ILg2ND6sWvxmKGY4hdiP2JIsk_SaVKgswcTB8Mfo1kjY9OdQ6QjrhPs9DMUd-Sn1LeEz_TZJN404qUUdVS1WFWhpbr13yX7Bh4mKsZU1sjG1sbztvnm_ycFJ07XXLdvd343gNeu99dX8rgwmExYTZhs6HdonTjDaNfY1-jb-QCpcGm42btZ2qoJ-jiqXLplepbq_rtfK74702vea-p8AawTPBScMzwzrEosjcykrNmNN-1CPYvdrB3ajjn-dU6mLtg-4O73ryRfzF_gr-Hf6P_rr_3g==?accountName=tokyotapes&characterName=MyPearlNecklace

Thanks for the guide, I hope others try Voltaxic in 2.1, I'm having so much fun with it.

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Thisisnotsully wrote:

Thanks for the input man. How's the damage on frenzy? I personally prefer the mechanics of blast rain but Frenzy is obviously tried and true. I can definitely see taste of hate being perfect, but it's out of my price range for now.

Im also planning on switching to added lighting over Innervate for higher tier mapping, but I enjoy the movement speed buff from Onslaught for now. A 20/20 lightning damage will net more dps for sure.