Scorching Ray Skill Gem Mechanics

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There's a total of 10 support gems that work with Scorching Ray -

Controlled Destruction, Elemental Focus, Faster Casting, Iron Will, Rapid Decay, Less Duration, Increased Burning Damage, Spell Totem, Empower, Enhance (no idea what the quality bonus is).

Likely the best setup will be -

Scorching Ray + Controlled Destruction + Elemental Focus + Faster Casting + Rapid Decay + Empower (if you've got the money)/Increased Burning Damage (cheaper option)/Spell Totem (if you want to go totems). Enhance and Less Duration would likely lose out to any of those three.

Club it with Doon Cuebiyari sceptre and Repentance gloves to get a free uber-Iron Will (Repentance adds free Iron Will + Doon gives its own Iron Will-like effect which can stack on top of that). Note that you'll need a lot of intelligence to wear both of those.

Play a Chieftain (Ngamahu + Ramako + Tawhoa + whatever) Righteous Fire character to add even more damage. Why Chieftain? Cos a bit of extra fire damage plus a ton of extra regen plus endurance charge generation, which is what keeps you alive (and supports Righteous Fire) since this can't leech. Also, extra strength to make your in-built Iron Will even better.

Add in Elemental Equilibrium and Elemental Overload via Orb of Storms or some other skill for even more damage. That leaves the only thing missing being Pain Attunement, which is also technically possible if you've got the money to make a low-life RF character but likely not worth the trouble at this point (you'd have got way more than enough damage already by now).

One additional thing to note is that not only is this skill immune to reflect (so was old Incinerate since the reflected damage was laughable), it's also immune to lightning thorns (which often insta-killed old Incinerate builds) since channeled skills count as just one cast.

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AdFinitum wrote:

- Anyone got an idea if Elementalist Shaper of Desolation and Beacon of Ruin would work with Scorching Ray ?

- Will Scorching Ray have any kind of initial hit ( e.g. even Essence Drain has one ) to possibly apply Elemental Equilibrium with added Lightning / Cold damage ?

My personal guess is that "Shaper of Desolation" and EE wont work since there is no hit, based on the wording "Beacon of Ruin" should actually work but wont be too useful without any AoE increases.