[3.10] Bashtart's SPARK INQUISITOR * farming like a god! :)

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Exiledangel wrote:

Alright I changed it so you can view now, I still have my passives on dual totem so I could keep progressing, so let me know what passives I really need to drop and pick up if you can.

Have you tested spark while having dual totems?

Ancestral Bond: "Can have up to 1 additional Totem summoned at a time. You can't deal Damage with your Skills yourself."

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bashtart wrote:

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Exiledangel wrote:

Alright I changed it so you can view now, I still have my passives on dual totem so I could keep progressing, so let me know what passives I really need to drop and pick up if you can.

Have you tested spark while having dual totems?

Ancestral Bond: "Can have up to 1 additional Totem summoned at a time. You can't deal Damage with your Skills yourself."

Lmao I forgot to unspec ancestral bond, my god *facepalm* Thanks, killing everything super speed now.

Just wondering, whats the reason for speccing out of the crit chance nodes above Occultists Dominion?

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Exiledangel wrote:

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bashtart wrote:

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Exiledangel wrote:

Alright I changed it so you can view now, I still have my passives on dual totem so I could keep progressing, so let me know what passives I really need to drop and pick up if you can.

Have you tested spark while having dual totems?

Ancestral Bond: "Can have up to 1 additional Totem summoned at a time. You can't deal Damage with your Skills yourself."

Lmao I forgot to unspec ancestral bond, my god *facepalm* Thanks, killing everything super speed now.

Just wondering, whats the reason for speccing out of the crit chance nodes above Occultists Dominion?

Oh we dont... just had some problems with broken skilltree's and forgot it while fixing I guess... I fixed it now..

Yo cheking in again:)

so i have succesfully respeced into spark with preddy modest gear (even vinktar is quite cheap this patch) not counting the bisco's (wich doesnt rly give any stats so its like an empty slot) i think my gear is about 1ex for evrything and then another 30-40c for vinktar. (can get for probs half the price if ur okay with worse rolls)

as for the performance honestly cant complain for being on a 5link but its deffinitly not amazing (yet) definitly a work in progress. i need alot more attack speed for my shield charge i also think the dmg is abit lacking (especially if i wud roll extra monster life or enfeeble). survivebility seems pretty good so far atleast i had a essence mob with ele reflect and with vinktars up it was fine. il include a clip of a strand run in the bottom of my post not the best of runs and bit laggy at start but just a realistic demo and i also go over my gear/stats quickly ingame.

with the upgrades i can still get (that i could think off)
Dying sun
+3 spark helm/or spark dmg/speed (leaning more towards +3 sparks)
6link
an amulet (choir of the storm for example) but runing bisco for now cuz map sustain is hard this league
opal rings
a GG dagger (one day)
20% quality gems

thats kinda the upgrades im thinking of atm please do tell if anything else u know.

Video of a bad strand run right after respecing:
https://streamable.com/0dt2d

also tested it with 1 jewel while writing this:
https://streamable.com/3qpdn

Not sure wich i like more tbh i thought the jewel was gna be alot worse pros and cons that i think off.

cons:
1. usually (atleast with good gear) u shud be killing stuff way ahead of u and offscreen so having sparks shoot behind u is gna be a waste of sparks.
2. can get another jewel with 3-4 dmg mods or even life/mana
3. less duration (not that ur gna be killing bosses but still)
4. to rly shine u have to play like ur playing EK and dive in the middle of the pack but obv thats more risk ur putting urself into.

pros:
1. good for harbinger packs/strongboxes cuz ur gna be standing in the middle anyway.
2. cheap jewel and +2 spark proj is quite nice + u hardly feel the duration for clearing

theres prob alot more pros/Cons but thats just my thought process and with that being said i dont think il be using the jewel too often atleast for now.

Also note about boss killing. The only test ive done was a shaped beach t7 transmuted only and i ran out of flasks fighting the boss and had to portal(wich has walls to bounce sparks off aswell) i was planning on skipping map bosses anyway (hopefully stil able to sustain) but if i can free up some sockets i might try run a 4link vaal spark or other vaal skill for harder encounters.

Honestly rambling alot but i think i covered my main points note that ive only ran about 4-5 maps with this build so far so obviously il run into alot more tricky situations with different map mods (like desecreated ground with negative chaos res and vaal pact i miss ci :s)

Edit: my path of building code https://pastebin.com/SxVHQLDM (hopefully it works now did a fresh import)

Hello.

First of all, thanks for the guide. This is my first vaal build ever.

I'm playing harbinger(first character), and for now i level with flame totem, as i just realized you are saying that flame blast with spell totem support is better.

I tried using sparks with spell totem(with shitty gems though), and i could only get ~3K damage. When changing to a higher level vaal spark gem I only get ~1K damage. Can I ask why my damage is dropping using a vaal spark gem instead?

Another rookie question coming up; how am I supposed to charge my vaal sparks to keep spamming it?

I do realize my gear is very bad atm for this build, and ofc the right gear will help a lot, i just feel like there hella way to go, before this gets better?

Thank you very much in advance =)

another update after playing for abit with it:) so 1 change ive made is got some insanity gloves for literally 1 chaos

http://i.imgur.com/AqYoZXD.jpg

trying to get even more attackspeed/movespeed for shield charge tbh also the dmg isnt as bad as ive previously stated it can get better tho (wich it will after 6link,enchant etc)

heres a shaped mesa+strand i did right before going off for bed i guess to show my updated shieldcharge
https://streamable.com/ql5ka

yes i did go back for that envy ess and corrupted it but it became shrieking :(
as u can see even withouth winds of change im still killing evrything so fast.

ps: loving MoM alot the mana regen i got is insane i can spam spark all day long and alot more survivebility and even in no regen maps with curses its ez to sustain.

also reflect seems literally no problem at all seeing how sparks initial hits are usually spreadout and not a big burst (having bad single target helps) and just the ash and storm cluster+ascendancy + vinktar + warlord mark like dont think reflect will ever be a problem.

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ArlaX wrote:

Hello.

First of all, thanks for the guide. This is my first vaal build ever.

I'm playing harbinger(first character), and for now i level with flame totem, as i just realized you are saying that flame blast with spell totem support is better.

I tried using sparks with spell totem(with shitty gems though), and i could only get ~3K damage. When changing to a higher level vaal spark gem I only get ~1K damage. Can I ask why my damage is dropping using a vaal spark gem instead?

Another rookie question coming up; how am I supposed to charge my vaal sparks to keep spamming it?

I do realize my gear is very bad atm for this build, and ofc the right gear will help a lot, i just feel like there hella way to go, before this gets better?

Thank you very much in advance =)

Hi there... maybe it is because this is not a vaal spark build. We use normal spark :) Yes you need to reach some level of gear so this build will just decimate your enemies.

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YunoMaining wrote:

another update after playing for abit with it:) so 1 change ive made is got some insanity gloves for literally 1 chaos

http://i.imgur.com/AqYoZXD.jpg

trying to get even more attackspeed/movespeed for shield charge tbh also the dmg isnt as bad as ive previously stated it can get better tho (wich it will after 6link,enchant etc)

heres a shaped mesa+strand i did right before going off for bed i guess to show my updated shieldcharge
https://streamable.com/ql5ka

yes i did go back for that envy ess and corrupted it but it became shrieking :(
as u can see even withouth winds of change im still killing evrything so fast.

ps: loving MoM alot the mana regen i got is insane i can spam spark all day long and alot more survivebility and even in no regen maps with curses its ez to sustain.

also reflect seems literally no problem at all seeing how sparks initial hits are usually spreadout and not a big burst (having bad single target helps) and just the ash and storm cluster+ascendancy + vinktar + warlord mark like dont think reflect will ever be a problem.

Hey Yuno thanks for sharing your experience... its seems to run already pretty good. What do you think about life-based instead of ES? Why you don't use doryani's catalyst? (Oh i just saw the price on poe trade😉)

For bossfights I would try out slower projectiles support gem. Also I would recommend running Herald of Thunder as well... it should still be plenty of mana. When you find some new uniques or gem worth using in 3.0 let us know.

Hey bashtart, why do you use faster projectiles? just wondering :)

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YunoMaining wrote:

another update after playing for abit with it:) so 1 change ive made is got some insanity gloves for literally 1 chaos

http://i.imgur.com/AqYoZXD.jpg

trying to get even more attackspeed/movespeed for shield charge tbh also the dmg isnt as bad as ive previously stated it can get better tho (wich it will after 6link,enchant etc)

heres a shaped mesa+strand i did right before going off for bed i guess to show my updated shieldcharge
https://streamable.com/ql5ka

yes i did go back for that envy ess and corrupted it but it became shrieking :(
as u can see even withouth winds of change im still killing evrything so fast.

ps: loving MoM alot the mana regen i got is insane i can spam spark all day long and alot more survivebility and even in no regen maps with curses its ez to sustain.

also reflect seems literally no problem at all seeing how sparks initial hits are usually spreadout and not a big burst (having bad single target helps) and just the ash and storm cluster+ascendancy + vinktar + warlord mark like dont think reflect will ever be a problem.

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Hey Yuno thanks for sharing your experience... its seems to run already pretty good. What do you think about life-based instead of ES? Why you don't use doryani's catalyst? (Oh i just saw the price on poe trade😉)

For bossfights I would try out slower projectiles support gem. Also I would recommend running Herald of Thunder as well... it should still be plenty of mana. When you find some new uniques or gem worth using in 3.0 let us know.

yo uhm life based doesnt seem too bad especially with MoM tho having 4.5k life i still dont feel as safe as 9k es + its rly annoying like desecreated ground(zombies actually hurt now), lab traps etc cuz u cant regen life whereass u could recharge ES thats prob my biggest dislike.

also tbh i always disliked doryani's since i always disliked losing soo much crit chance and attack speed..tho i just realised doryanis actually also got attackspeed and its quite good dmg and seeing how i got high crit chance alrdy i might invest in 1 and try it out. and yeah i might use a herald of thunder i just didnt wanna reserve anything else for MoM since id go from 1.6k to 1k mana also for bosses honestly even with slower proj and my currenct gear it seems way too risky especially since i dont wanna die with xp and mesa/Strand are phys bosses and yh i got no phys metigation so vinktar will go down and il just get 1hit, but once i lvl i might try it and get like a choir switch also for the bosses. (tho tbh if im able to sustain maps i was planing to skip bosses anyway)

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LordFluffy1234 wrote:

Hey bashtart, why do you use faster projectiles? just wondering :)

Hm "fp" is just good overall but mainly playing feels just smoother and it increases the clearing speed.


@Yuno: trust me and go for catalyst, you will see it feels a bit like flying when you switch because of additional cast&attack speed. Also damage is great because ele dmg effects our heralds. 0,2% leech sound like nothing but it will help you survivability a lot. Damage wise you should be good but if you dont believe me ... just test it in path of building first.