[3.13] Divine Ire Igniter Elementalist | 30 Million Damage Pure Lightning Ignites

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PoitelMarto wrote:

1)Nearly none of your gear has T1 life roll, I think it should be your top priority and should be absolutely easy to get with your budget. If doing so, you could replace your Lioneye shield with a rare with much better mods and keep the same life pool.
2)Another way to increase your damage for cheap is crafting your gloves with "25% physical damage converted to lightning", and find boots with "1 to 160 lightning damage if you haven't killed recently". Just adding these two mods offer a 10% more damage to our build for a ridiculously low cost. With a bit more investment, you can add "ignite deal damage faster" on your boots for yet another damage buff.

something like this would boost your hp, offer better resists than your actual boots (so more space for other mods elsewhere), and give about 7% more total damage and 12% more dps.
3)As it has been said several times in this thread, spell damage offers no boost to ignite damage, so your wand implicit is useless. A basic Void sceptre with +1 to phys/lightning/spell skills and another damage mod with a "+20% fire DoT multiplier" craft would do better, and that costs less than an exalt.
4) Cinderswallow Urn offers a huge damage boost and supreme QoL for mapping. Not great when bossing though as it has high charge cost but still worth it a dozen times.
5) A bit more niche and costly: all your medium clusters should have 5 passives at most, and you need your top large cluster to be as good as your left one (8 passives, 3 notables, preferably vengeful commander or prismatic heart over Sadist in this build). With the freed passive points you can pick more life small passives and unlock your last two jewel slots for more life and/or chaos res and/or damage.
There are probably other ways to buff up your character even more, but this should help for minimal cost.

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PoitelMarto wrote:

As for the boot mod, it never takes effect while mapping, but this is hardly when you need additionnal damage; however, it does help a lot when bossing, where DPS matters most. Even in Maven's invitations, you can ignite several bosses before one dies, so you still benefit from the enchant, although not as much as you do against lone bosses. I'm actually surprised noone ever mentioned it in the thread, as the damage output is superior to any helmet enchant, afaik, and much easier to farm/cheaper to buy.

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PoitelMarto wrote:

Indeed, I hadn't noticed you were playing in Standard League; it will be harder to upgrade all your gear with 30ex.

As for the boot mod, it never takes effect while mapping, but this is hardly when you need additionnal damage; however, it does help a lot when bossing, where DPS matters most. Even in Maven's invitations, you can ignite several bosses before one dies, so you still benefit from the enchant, although not as much as you do against lone bosses. I'm actually surprised noone ever mentioned it in the thread, as the damage output is superior to any helmet enchant, afaik, and much easier to farm/cheaper to buy.

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Trikzter wrote:

In my case, from what I can see, the enchant would only increase my dps by 300k (from 12.7M to 13.0M), so that's not a whole lot to be frank.

This is because: 1) the damage spread is huge (from 1 to 160), so not reliable at all, 2) DI has very low effectiveness of added damage (30%), so additional 80 lightning damage on average is of almost no consequence; 3) this enchant grants lightning damage, i.e. a type which as opposed to physical damage is usually - and in this build especially (save for some shaped Call of the Brotherhood and Eternity Shroud shenanigans) - not converted further, with the exception of Atziri's Promise, so it's really not that great.

Especially considering some other enchants grant much needed utility (like cast or movement speed) or extra defense (regen or dodge), so this does not seem as appealing as you make it out to be imo. It could be worthwhile only when you're starting out, that is when 300k damage upgrade is a huge deal. Other than that, I don't see much merit in using it over some other alternatives.

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PoitelMarto wrote:

Well your point is absolutely right for min-maxed characters like you are/tend to be, but for characters with 3M dps like the one I originally commented, it is a flat 10% more damage. It doesn't scale much with top-tier gear, as it adds as much damage to a lvl 20 DI as to a lvl 28, but again, that's not when you struggle with bossing. I only played DI ignite in acting/early mapping so I may be wrong, but for what I can tell, it's a cheap upgrade that helps during early endgame, before having gear like +2 sceptre with other good mods or so. Later on, you can switch to boots with movespeed enchant, or regen like yours, which clearly are better endgame options for this build.