[3.9] Storm Brand - Fast Mapper

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LordPhabby wrote:

Firstly Thank you,

a build that I sort of can follow as a casual player that doesn't require high end gear that I cannot afford.

I have been able to reset all passives so this is great as my build wasn't working past T2 maps hahahah

Questions - I see in the tree no gems are required is this still the case?

And pushing my noob luck and understanding, the Cast when dmg taken level 1 . we don't level this gem at all?

I have a Tabula , so will use this, to get the effects should craft it to similar states where I can?

Again cheers for an interesting build

Phabby

I keep CwdT at level 1 so I don't have to think about anything. Porcupines will instant procc it and if anything happens it's up and your golem back. You can level it up of course but there is not much of a benefit and we're not that tanky.

I was on a Tabula even on T15 maps. Definitely possible if you know what you're doing but switching to a a proper armor is always better. Even a 5L Armor is better than a Tabula. You'll lose out on some damage but unless you're going to do big bosses that doesn't matter, so maybe think about getting at least a 5L Lore with 80% Max Res.

About crafting... I suggest having crit/shatter on your ring and the Arcane Surge on the weapon is totally not needed if you're doing brand recalls (flame dashes on old setup) properly. You can use anything that gives you more damage. Flat Lightning, %Lightning or even eledamage as chaos damage. But you might wanna try those mods via PoB first if they help or not.

edit: About jewels. If you have great jewels you can shoot for a jewel slot. But I couldn't find any good ones yet and I am way too broke to get good ones.

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AkumaNoTsubasa wrote:

The AVERAGE damage is 39k so it does higher and lower hits...

This means that 50% of the time, you're going to get a 1% damage increase or more. Sometimes you'll even get a few more %, which is still not very impactful.

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AkumaNoTsubasa wrote:

edit: The 1 Million DPS is not misleading. I would even claim to say it's ~1.4 million with everything popped up including Vaal Storm Call. Even if you just think about lower shocking values.

Using the "Is enemy shocked?" checkbox in Path of Building is always misleading, unless you're an elementalist with 150% shock effectiveness. If you uncheck that, and use the numbers from there with the comment that for most enemies you're getting a decent shock, I'd have no complaints.

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Lilyliciously wrote:

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AkumaNoTsubasa wrote:

The AVERAGE damage is 39k so it does higher and lower hits...

This means that 50% of the time, you're going to get a 1% damage increase or more. Sometimes you'll even get a few more %, which is still not very impactful.

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AkumaNoTsubasa wrote:

edit: The 1 Million DPS is not misleading. I would even claim to say it's ~1.4 million with everything popped up including Vaal Storm Call. Even if you just think about lower shocking values.

Using the "Is enemy shocked?" checkbox in Path of Building is always misleading, unless you're an elementalist with 150% shock effectiveness. If you uncheck that, and use the numbers from there with the comment that for most enemies you're getting a decent shock, I'd have no complaints.

I understand your corepoint, but your point of view is only shaper and there is nothing I can do to verify your statement. As I am not farming him or Elder Guardians I can not actively follow and verify that.

In normal maps everything is shocked. As Storm Brand hits fast, even a small shock is applied once we get the bonus damage which helps very in maintaining the shock. Also if we hit 94 (or earlier if you opt into Celestial Punishment earlier) we get an increase to shock wich reduces (at least that's what Wiki tells us) the threshold needed to shock. On top of all of that we have the Choir of the Storm that hits twice a second as we crit a LOT and always take full advantage of the Lightning Bolt that hits with 43k on a non-shocked enemy, so even Shaper (the only thing you are keeping being stuck to) gets shocked, no matter what and when we hit while he is shocked we get the damage bonus from shock on top of that and with that we raise the shock over time.

We hit almost 5 times PER BRAND a second. With, what you said, a chance of 50% to be over the damage threshold for the shaper (and yet again this guide is not meant to be a shaper farm guide which makes your fighting so stressfull and in the end useless). So we have aprox. 5 hits per seconds that create shocks on the shaper. Since we do more damage on the shaper with that our damage will more often procc shocks on top. So we are stuck to higher damage numbers from small shocks and even if we would only stick to 10% (which I doubt BUT I know we won't raise to 50%) we're on a constant avg hit of 43.400 (rounded up) damage and with your words and numbers we would perma shock shaper from that point onwards. Not just with the brand but also with our Lightning Bolt. No idea though with Vaal Storm Call, if the shocks are big enough to make that one create shocks too.

But I hope we can close the Shaper Case now. As said the Shaper was downed with this build and was only a side note and this guide is about the full game, not about being a pure boss runner where your information would be fully applicable. Also my jewel for the stygian vise is crap. exchange that with a proper one and add a better Sambar Scepter and we're instantly permanently over 40k even for your shaper case.

kind regards,
Akuma

I'd still adjust PoB to not use the shocked checkbox, and update the damage numbers accordingly. In my view, it's always better to undershoot and speculate on how much higher reality is, than to overshoot and mislead people.

Hey I just build and got my char to 70 (no lab yet) but I have worry about LIFE at this point, even to the point of reallocating nodes from DPS.LIFE, can you give me some pointers/gear cheack?? MANY THANKS, very fun speedy build :-)

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Hello!

Thank you so much. It's my first time when I go so far with someone's build and it's your build.

1) I am not quite sure about convention of creating gem link guide. In gem setup section if something is last it's always... last, right? If I don't have 6th I should skip last and just focus from left to right? It's important because I am now 82lvl and playing with lightning penetration and without faster casting. Should I change it to faster casting at 82lvl? Can't check results now as I am not in home.

2) Any better movement skill than flame dash? I am playing only with my friend (and he plays only with me) and he got Whirling Blades. It's kinda annoying because he kills monster slower than me, but he gets to them faster so he kill them anyway, so we just split on maps.

3) Should I use tabula rasa on 82lvl instead of rare armor? Loreweave 6l all blue is 3ex now... This one I was using:


and now I am using this one because I want to have herald of thunder before I can get 6link armor.


Best regards.

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oskarkxyz wrote:

Hello!

Thank you so much. It's my first time when I go so far with someone's build and it's your build.

1) I am not quite sure about convention of creating gem link guide. In gem setup section if something is last it's always... last, right? If I don't have 6th I should skip last and just focus from left to right? It's important because I am now 82lvl and playing with lightning penetration and without faster casting. Should I change it to faster casting at 82lvl? Can't check results now as I am not in home.

2) Any better movement skill than flame dash? I am playing only with my friend (and he plays only with me) and he got Whirling Blades. It's kinda annoying because he kills monster slower than me, but he gets to them faster so he kill them anyway, so we just split on maps.

3) Should I use tabula rasa on 82lvl instead of rare armor? Loreweave 6l all blue is 3ex now... This one I was using:

Spoiler

and now I am using this one because I want to have herald of thunder before I can get 6link armor.

Spoiler

Best regards.

I would rather take the faster casting then lightning pen, because the damage is enough for mapping and casting your brands faster is much more important.

You could opt in into a dagger instead of a sambar scepter but it would be more expensive. Alternatively you can go for leap slam + faster attacks but Flame Dash is just the fastest to save your butt out of bad stuff. If you want to be faster rather go for movement speed on boots + quicksilver flask + cinderswallow urn. That's more speed then you will ever need.

About the chest: I rather would go for a 5L Loreweave if you can't afford a 6L one. Yes it has less life but the extra crit and max resists are just too good to be ignored.

And for the herald. If you have to use a herald make it herald of ice for the chain killing. But the wrath in an essence worm is enough extra dps.

Another question - I can't cast decoy totem because I took "runebinder"... why and how you use decoy totem with runebinder?

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oskarkxyz wrote:

Another question - I can't cast decoy totem because I took "runebinder"... why and how you use decoy totem with runebinder?

Because you need to read the gem setups and what they do exactly.
We use it with Multiple Totems.
Core max Totems: 1
Rune Binder: -1
Remaining max Totems: 0
Multiple Totems: +2
Final max Totems: 2

If you cast them fast enough you can have 2 for a short duration which makes the enemy switch around a bit and give you lots of time to evade.

Hey, i have a lvl 85 elementalist storm brand but i'm going to test out other classes/ascendencies to see if i can get more damage than i have now even though i still have to min/max this char.

Something i have noticed is that a lot of people have added cold damage to spells on gear or use the gem and due to this have hypothermia as part of the 5L or 6L, any reason why you didn't?