[3.6][Uber Elder down] ELECTRIC SUN. Orb of Storms + Spark. Hybrid. Auto-Selfheal. 2M shaper DPS.

Main damage comes from Orb of Storms. When standing in OoS range and casting Lightning Spells, you will trigger additional strikes from OoS. Spark is strong, but not the highest damage portion as you can see here:


I’ve made a calculator for this. If anyone is interested in it, just post here and I will share it. Mainly it’s

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<Average OoS Hit> * <OoS Cast Speed> + <Average OoS Hit + Average Spark Hit> * <Spark Cast Speed>

As you can see Cast Speed a very important variable here. You gain Cast Speed a lot with this build thanks to Necromancer’s “2% increased Attack and Cast Speed for each corpse consumed Recently”. As enemies hit you, you will trigger CWDT+Spirit Offering and CWDT+Unearth+GMP+LMP. This will recover a lot of ES for you (right now it’s ~1400 ES for me) and additionally give you a minimum of 14% Cast Speed per trigger!! Because Unearth shoots 7 corpses.

-> This means each time you eat 528 damage you get a ~1400 ES heal. That’s huge. You will notice, that small hits can’t kill you anymore. In times of huge clutter (Incursion, Betrayal, etc) you will LOVE this.

Supporting the whole CWDT-idea, we use Scold’s Bridle. However, Scold’s Bridle won’t let you recharge ES. Therefore I use Fenumu’s Boots and the Watcher’s Eye.

For clearing any content I’ve ran 4L-Spark so far with Faster Projectiles (Mana Leech on No-Leech maps; Culling Strike against bosses). Its overpower is similar to KB, which also doesn’t need more than a 4L.

No special routes here. I went left first and then right.

If you have Discipline Watcher’s Eye use Scold’s Bridle.

Otherwise use a nice Level 20 Innervate Rare helmet. That will make you very powerful while mapping.

Rare Vaal Regalia. The new veiled mod scales with your max life% and ES%. A chest like this is same as a 700 ES Regalia, which is much more expensive.
The target is to acquire a 700+ ES chest, tho.

You can sink a lot of money here. I’ve bought this weapon for 10c and bought a service to craft the Trigger-mod on it. The trigger mod is absolutely crucial, because it will serve you with Power&Frenzy Charges and use Wave of Conviction to demolish enemie’s resists.

Next days I will multimod this beauty here to gain around 10% more damage:

Our bread and butter for our hybrid/auto-healing concept. There is no other option.

Fenumu’s is really great because of the ES gain. However, a good pair of Doryani’s are nice, too.

You want rare rings to cap your resists, get STR/Life/ES on them! They’re really cheap.
You need one ring with an open suffix to be able to craft Aspect of the Spider on it.

Astramentis is great for a hybrid build like this. It gives you a lot of stats for your gloves.

Stygian Vise is great but not necessary. If you have some currency to spare go grab one.
I would recommend a lot of resists here! You should rather get a 110%+ res heavy belt instead of a Stygian Wise - to be more flexible with your rings!

Vessel of Vinktar Added Lightning Dmg is just great and so underrated.
In the end we want the new flask “Bottled Faith”, but that’s very expensive (exchange Wise Oak for that).

I've been playing with Tempest Shield for a while. The clear speed was really not comparable to spark - it was horrific. The paper DPS for bosses is higher, but being forced to get close to bosses is a huge downside. I rather like safe-play from distance and from time to time get into the melee distance.
Since Tempest Shield doesn't do any DPS contribution besides triggering OoS, it's not SO much better as one could expect. Spark, with our Skill Duration nodes, is really strong since it hits an enemy at least twice with the new re-arming duration of 0,66 seconds.