[3.3] 7k HP warping Sire of Shards Storm burst/CwC/Ball lightning Elementalist

I'm a long time player and always followed guides for my characters, but recently I've been wanting to try and create my own build and have it be something interesting.

I had seen a video of a frost Sire of Shards build and I thought this unique looked so cool and wanted to create something with it. I've come up with this idea of using Storm burst together with Cast while channeling to cast Lightning warp to keep moving while killing stuff all around me by only holding one button.

I tried a lot a spells in a Tabula to see what could work nicely and I found that ball lightning would be the best as it had a lot of similarities with Storm burst. Both have the tags Spell, AoE, Projectile and Lightning damage. AoE damage doesn't do much at all though because it only affects Storm Burst's explosions. AoE area applies to Lighting Ball's range though which can help a lot with clear.

I figured I didn't need any attack or cast speed with this setup which would make it possible to spend all my resources on damage and life.

I started looking for all the life nodes first and at first made a version using both kaom’s chest and boots, and tried taking as much life regen as possible but then I figured with the 0.5% elemental leech it would make this life regen not that useful. Ended up looking for another pair of boots and found Windshriek which sounded pretty nice, letting me have a 2nd curse (also curse area) as well as some damage and movement speed, and also another 4link for this new curse.

I tried projectile weakness and conductivity and like the knockback on projectile weakness so I kept it. I tried going for warlord’s mark to get some endurance charges for my immortal calls, as well as more leech. This current setup doesn’t look too effective so I’m looking for help particularly on those utility links.

PoB showed over 7k life with these setups which sounded good to me. I started looking at damage sources after that and found the malachai’s awakening helmet that had a lot of flat damage and spell damage along with some resists which sounded perfect. I wanted to use an essence worm with wrath so no life would be reserved. I went with gloves with slower projectile for projectile damage, amulet and ring with elemental damage and then took a belt with resists that would ensure equal total elemental resists for maximum wise oak use. I went with jewels that had %life, spell damage while wielding staves and either spell damage or projectile damage. I wasn’t going to get any crit because items didn’t allow it so I took Elemental overload since even with 5% crit, the amount of projectiles and hits was going to be enormous and would crit a lot anyways.

For the links, I had 4 slots taken up by the skills and the CWC which left me with 2 slots to improve the gameplay and make it smooth. Since I wanted to warp around, Reduced duration was pretty much necessary. For the last link, I chose GMP because the extra projectile would ensure the whole screen would be covered. I then tried to toy around and find the best single target setup with these green, red and blue socket that remained when I socketed only Storm Burst / Cast while Channeling / Lightning Ball. Slower projectile was a great addition with the synergy with Ball Lightning, Controlled Destruction as well since we went with 0% crit anyway. Empower lvl 4 was a great link as well since it supported both spells.

I chose to kill all the bandits even tough at first I saved Oak for the life regen. At some point I had a setup with about 7.5k life and almost 800 life regen per second I believe, but decided to switch it all because I wasn’t sure this much life regen would make a difference anyway. (I also had a stone/fire golem duo and the golem ascendancy point instead of the pendulum one).

For the Pantheon, I went with Solaris for survivability and the no extra crit damage paired with the Light enchantment on gloves which creates consecrated ground for 5 second when taking a critical strike. Then I went with Shakari but I’m not too sure about that one.

Finally, I’ve been looking at Loreweave a lot because even though I lose 1.5k life (dropping me at around 6k life), it gives the 80 max res roll, damage, and also another 6L. I don’t know what I could use that 6L for though apart from an actual single target but I would need advice on what could work considering I have no cast speed.

This is probably never going to be a boss killer anyway so it might not be that big of a deal to look for a single target 6L.

Edit: haven't re-read all I wrote but I changed a few things as this was the original build I had in mind that completely revolved around the lightning warp being part of the 6L, but without a single target weapon swap it felt a bit tedious to kill rares and bosses so I just went with a self cast lightning warp and 2 additional support gems for my 6L instead. It is still really pleasant to play.

Pros

-Uses cool items like Sire of Shards, Malachai's awakening and Windshriek
-360° clear
-Blood magic = no mana problems
-Pretty tanky witch (high life, lots of life leech, life on spell hit, sulphur/word of light consacrated ground = almost unkillable unless against a boss in which case it's still tanky but you won't recover as much life)
-Double curse
-Can do all map mods
-Can kill shaper
-Uber elder should be doable if you are experienced (I am not)
-Doesn't require Inpulsa's, though I guess you could use it but I personally am getting tired of this chest



Cons

-Not recommended as a league starter
-Requires two 6L if you want clear speed and single target damage
-Can't play on a toaster

old

T15 Reef https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzEMArZC6dM&feature=youtu.be&t=7s
T16 Forge of the phoenix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiMyDgzlXrc (monster life + boss life + endurance charges)
T16 Lich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5jONkP_YZU&feature=youtu.be
T16 Purifier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88q4YoDzymI
T16 Constrictor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYVgQ7tBkHI
Shaper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojmeSwNHYoM
Uber Elder FAIL (first attempt) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G43hyj6D3g

This was the third time I faced Uber Elder, the 2 other fights being on an RF Juggernaut. I still need to learn the fight and the mechanics (you can see that I try to damage the Elder in the first few seconds, this shows how much I know the fight). I feel like the fight should be doable if you are experienced. I also lack boots enchant which could help a bit, and I should probably use kaom's root and a sapphire flask.

Path of Building

https://pastebin.com/jxCMAusZ (my character, updated 11/08)

lvl 94 Skill tree (updated 11/08)

https://www.pathofexile.com/fullscreen-passive-skill-tree/3.3.2/AAAABAMCAQQHBLMI9AthDlwQWBEPES0TNRZvF6QaOBpsG_Ec3B8YH8ci9CSqJpUnLyt4LJwtfS2LNZI26TpYOtg64TsNPC1Eq0V-RZ1GUkbXTLNN41BCUftTNVNSVEdVS1WuVcZWSFnzYeJmVGjyakNq-mt6bAttGXGFcg92EXyDfq9-x4IQgpuDX4PMg9uFe4w2jRmPGo9Gj6aQVZMnl5WX9Jo7muCdrqEvogCmV6a-pwivbLFCtYW3PrzqvorAZsG0xq7Iv8y3zRbQH9QH1XXVptgk2L3ZX9q52t3cjd2M37DgEuFz42rkIuWL6-7sOO0871Dv6_Af8kX8TP4K_o8=


Still toying around with the tree, currently trying the avoid interruption from stuns just above the Witch start.

Ascendancy

Paragon of Calamity: Leech is super important for us, reduced elemental damage is great, and no reflect is simply too good.

Shaper of Desolation + Beacon of Ruin: Spread ailments instantly to the whole screen, shock increases damage taken by 20% minimum (great because we do lots of little damage which wouldn't shock for much otherwise).

Pendulum of Destruction VS Liege: Liege ends up being better if you can have 2 sockets for golems. It's 40% increased damage + 30% if you use a lvl 20 fire golem which equates to having the Pendulum damage bonus permanently. If you want to use other links than golems, just go Pendulum.

Pantheon

I chose Solaris and Shakari but I'm open to suggestions on this.

Current gear


Core items


Body armour


Boots


Rings, amulet, belt


Gloves


Jewels


Flasks

Staves: G-R-B-B-B-B
Sire of shards: Greater Multiple Projectile - Reduced duration - Storm burst - Cast while channeling - Ball lightning - Lightning warp
Agnerod West: Slower projectile - Empower - Storm burst - Cast while channeling - Ball lightning - Controlled Destruction

1st 4L: B-B-R-B
Flame dash - Faster casting - Fire golem - Lightning golem

2nd 4L: R-R-R-R
CWDT (lvl 1) - Immortal call (lvl 3) - Increased duration - Warlord'd mark

3rd 4L: R-G-B-B
CWDT (lvl 3) - Projectile weakness (lvl 7) - Ball lightning (lvl 6) - Culling strike

Curses
We get two curses with the current items. I went with Projectile Weakness (G) for the extra project damage taken and the knockback. The second one I chose Warlord's mark (R) for the endurance charges on kill and the extra 2% life leech. The endurance charges are a pretty nice addition to the immortal call setup. You could go for Conductivity (B) but I feel like the extra leech is pretty nice when doing single target, and extra damage isn't particularly needed when mapping.

Edit: Currently trying a new pair of gloves that seems to work wonders:


Culling strike is a nice addition, blind is nice, slower proj on the ball lightning means more chance for one ball to finish off enemies since it's gonna hit them more times than without slower proj, and I'm trying the avoid interrupt with the extra 55% from the nodes above the witch start. This gives 80%+ chance to avoid interruption from stuns while casting, I can't tell how much it helps but it feels like it does.
Lvl 6 ball lightning does good enough damage (can kill packs in T12). It helps when you get stunned and can't leech from self-cast. The ball has more chance to blind, will knockback enemies thanks to proj weakness, leech, and finish off the enemies with 10% or less of their life thanks to culling strike.