[2.3] Elementalist ignite based Incinerate, INSANE burst dps with Scolds+VMS - way over 1M

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B_Boy_Crumps wrote:

For the time being while I save for a consuming dark; should I stick with a spell damage rolled dagger for whirling blades, or what would be the second best option for a weapon in your opinion?

Ummm I don't know honestly, never thought about that :)

Wand could be an option. Something with combination of spell damage, casting speed, added fire damage to spells, projectile speed. Depends on your budget, although I think that good wand with these stats would be more expensive than Consuming Dark.

BTW I recommend trying Lightning Warp + Less Duration + Rapid Decay. I'm using it now and its best. 20/20 gems except Rapid Decay are requirement to surpass Whirling Blades.

Made some overall upgrades. Changed logo, added jewels, flasks and ascendancy points etc.

I just finished a T14 rotation with this guy. A very well made build. The direct burst damage is hilarious. We played multiple palaces, he nuked domi's first form and I the second with my Masterpiece build. That was fun :D

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Diphal wrote:

Please note that this is NOT a guide and this build is not even close to be based on low budget.

Wait..

You serious? Because I checked the prices for some items and It didn't even scratched the 2 exalts threshold. Maybe because Perandus is a league where everything is cheap cause it's buyable, but your build doesn't seems that expensive.

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zer0code wrote:

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Diphal wrote:

Please note that this is NOT a guide and this build is not even close to be based on low budget.

Wait..

You serious? Because I checked the prices for some items and It didn't even scratched the 2 exalts threshold. Maybe because Perandus is a league where everything is cheap cause it's buyable, but your build doesn't seems that expensive.

Oookay, like... if you don't find this build that expensive isn't it positive thing? :)

I have no clue what prices are in Perandus but I'm pretty sure you would have to pay few exalts in order to get this working while not being under resist cap and having low ES pool. Taming itself is like 20 ex on standard therefore I can't call it being based on budget, right?

Hey man, thanks again for the build idea. Been running with it for a while now, but made some changes thought I'd show you. Decided to try and go low-life as I got myself a 5L shavs. Running (or will be in 2 levels) Discipline - Clarity - Herald of Ice on life as well as PoE - AA - Anger on mana. Gems aren't anywhere near perfect yet, but here's my setup anyways:

Gear:



Skill tree: (Planned)



Using Orb of storms for proccing elemental overload (it's very consistent). And replaced Assassin's mark with warlords mark allows me to drop mana leech on my incinerate (freeing up one more slot) and have no mana issues, also gives me an extra 2% life leech and constant endurance charges :).

ES is pretty low at the moment (5.5k) but it's only due to being in softcore I decided to opt for damage nodes in lieu of my ES nodes on the tree for now... haha (tree shown is quite a few points ahead as I'm only lvl 71 atm)

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B_Boy_Crumps wrote:

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Hmm, low life version seems interesting. Whats ur tooltip dps on Incinerate and VMS?

I know Orb of STorm is an option but I don't like being forced to precast stuff. Also I don't know what I would replace - Vaal Haste seems as only option but its so good for bursting bosses.

Saw that you went with a warped timepiece instead of Chayula? Any reason for that? How do we deal with stun avoidance?

Im keen to start this build and will probably start shopping for items tonight!

Thanks.

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eugenez wrote:

Saw that you went with a warped timepiece instead of Chayula? Any reason for that? How do we deal with stun avoidance?

Damn that was quick :) Reason is I did hit level 100 yesterday and thus I don't mind dying occasionally.

I covered Warped Timepiece in luxury upgrades section. Another reason why I waited for level 100 was because I wasn't able to proc +1 curse on it and therefore I would have to drop 1 curse. With level 100 I don't mind losing some tankiness - I got rid of Enfeeble and replaced it with Increased Area of Effect.

Also I dropped Arctic Armour and replaced it with Empower lvl 4.

Results are fine. Best case scenario would be Warped Timepiece with +1 curse and Skyforth's boots.

If you are still leveling and can't afford Skyforth's I recommend you to stick with Chayula.

EDIT: What I recommend you is to drop Life Leech from VMS and replace it with Controlled Destruction. Vinktar with Hungry Abyss is more than needed to cover leech during VMS. And tooltip dmg on VMS went from 40k to 58k. I would do this earlier but I just missed this option.