[3.4] Teleports Behind You - Poet's Pen Lightning Warp & Arc, MF / Facetank t16 / Shaper / U. Elder

I have so many questions..

First of all, what do I use for single target? I see that barrage is used as the gem as single target..?

Why is barrage at level 1?

Why do we need 4 poet pens?

I have just started this build so new to it but I'll try to answer the above two questions to the best of my understanding.

@Voffron

Inpulsa will be your mapping chest. That's where the Inpulsa explosions will really help clearspeed. You would consider swapping to Loreweave or Kaom's when bossing if you felt too squishy - only likely needed for T16 guardians, red elder...etc.

@Godaphex

The barrage is just used as a way to proc the cast of the spells in our poets pens. It's damage is totally irrelevant and so having a high leveled one is fairly useless and may raise the dexterity requirements of the build. Barrage is good when combined with GMP and life gain on hit to help sustain vs some bosses.

You don't strictly need 4 poet's pens, you can get away with 3.

One poet's pen has our arc setup. One has our lightning warp setup. The last one has our ball lightning setup. For bossing you would switch out the lightning warp for ball lightning.

However 4 is recommended. You then have two arc setups. One that is paired with lightning warp which you use for mapping. Then the other is paired with your ball lightning. Now you can just use weapon swap to swap between your boss killing setup and your mapping setup without having to swap pens in and out. It's more a quality of life thing than anything.


I'm only lvl 40 ish atm with it so I haven't gotten to equip any of the actual gear yet for it (other than the poet's pens). Still, it's destroying the story mode content so far and just about to hopefully kill act 5 Kitava.

Skilltree shows up incorrectly, or is it just me?

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L0YD wrote:

Skilltree shows up incorrectly, or is it just me?

Not just you. Doesn't work for me either. The PoB pastebin works fine however so I suggest you use that instead.

Fix your written guide man.

The poets pan are definitely flashy and easy to use. I don't understand why you haven't though of implementing EE. I've had long headaches many days to work out EE. With those two beautiful wands, it will be a piece of cake to utilize EE.

I'm trying to create an EE build where I'll use Kitava's thrist. The build is still in theory stage. Kitava helmet seems a joke when compared to this wand :(. Even more absurd that you get to wield to of them. I'm not sure whether it will be worth my while. Two spells one with 6-link and another with 4-link under the effect EE and RF.

Hopefully, I'll achieve something flashy and useful. Fingers crossed :/.

Can the MF version of this build easily run T15+ or will I run into problems? I've never done a Poet's Pen build so I was looking for some insight.

Also is their any way to fit in herald of ice or do you lose out on too much?

Yeah, fix the guide, update the skilltree and also PoB if necessary. So many wrong stuff going on. For example, why is Ball Lightning level 1...

I'm on SSF with two Pens and still without an Impulsa. Would you still recommend Elementalist or is in this case Mathil's Inquisitor a better choice? He did even mentions this point is his video guide.

Started leveling yesterday with 4 poet's, now lvl 70 and no problem with doing t9-10 maps, of course I'm playing with inpulsa and others required uniques. For me it's very fun and enjoyable one-click build but kinda squishy atm.