[3.20]⚡ZaPwner's Crackling Lance Occultist⚡48M Pinacle Boss DPS

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sl4ker wrote:

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ravensoul wrote:

The question is how much you can further scale from this point in terms of damage?

so in theory at least in PoB 9-10M seem reachable with very good survivability. The issue with a huge chunk of that dps is with awakened controlled destruction and elemental overload ... which do not work well together in practice. You can go 15-20 seconds without a single crit (6casts/s + 5% crit chance) if you have to move from time to time, which makes 40% more dmg of elemental overload not applicable in most fights (as can be seen in @qwerty22121998's Video showing the Maven fight, where elemental overload is rarely active). My personal experience is that for real bossfight dps arcane surge is actually more effective, even though it has lower theoretical dps in PoB.

I really like the modified build right now, as dying is a challenge and dps is enough to ignore most boss mechanics. My gear is still far from perfect and too much focused on survivability due to aiming for lvl 100 at the moment, but PoB still shows around 6-7M Sirus boss dps (https://poe.ninja/pob/33U).

recorded some videos of different fights how this looks like in reality:

Maven's Invitation: The Twisted
https://youtu.be/D77pYcWDPi0

Elder
https://youtu.be/jMfmWgKdWV4

Uber Atziri (with reflect immunity jewel switch)
https://youtu.be/xulOOnpKssA

Maven
https://youtu.be/mOKW1ebdE_g

The Feared and Uber Elder might follow soon, forgot to record the last few (all deathless).


All in all, I am happy I tried this build, even though it was modified quite a bit after lvl 90 to have better survivability, Crackling Lance Occultist is a lot of fun!

Later edit:
Did some more sims with the new forbidden flame + flesh, and reaching 11+M dps is not an issue, even without awakened controlled destruction and without sacrificing survivability (you can still facetank & melt almost all content). Changed my setup to this and the increased shock effect from Shaper of Storms is a noticeable increase in boss dps https://poe.ninja/pob/3eP:-)

I also dropped Herald of Thunder for Anomalous Tempest Shield, which on 20% quality + ashes of Stars +30% quality chains 6 times on block... which is an immense help with map clear speed. This also allowed to rearrange some skill points due to the awesome spell block the skill offers.

Even later edit:
Some more variations and item upgrades later, pob at least seems to show 20m dps with sizeable tankiness: https://poe.ninja/pob/4zy

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Suhuy wrote:

I'm testing this build (a slight variation) as a starter for 3.18

Leveling was awful thanks to Archnemesis mods everywhere, but I guess that's to be expected. Things got better with unleash arc, but real improvement was to transition earlier to crackling lance (I did it at level 81).

This league, required items are cheap. Total spent for me is 36 chaos (day 3):

- 1c : mark of submission
- 3c: divine vessel (for freeze immunity pantheon. I run shakari for poison too)
- 12c: prism guardian
- 20c: 5L Ivory Tower

As I'm starved with Chromatic orbs, I run crackling lance in BBBBR setup (intensify, concentrated effect, faster casting, inspiration). I don't use spell echo for now to prevent being stuck in place.

By the way, a Lori's lantern in other ring slot is an awesome beginning option (as we are always on low life, we get chaos resist, movement speed, and survivability thanks to anything hitting you being unlucky -> about 30% less damage taken).

The build feels tanky enough for now (mid yellow tier), with very basic gear (I still have some trash from acts because loot drops have been heavily nerfed).

I run Wrath + Discipline + Determination (armor helps a lot to prevent shield to be grinded by numerous small hits).

I run arrogance with clarity to help with mana and reserve the optimal quantity of life for maximum ES. Thanks to mana regen + leach, I can ignore chaos DoT for now.

I use a void sphere on trigger wand for defense, and I consider using an orb of storm + knockback + added lightning damage + controlled destruction setup for Point-Blank AoE.

So far, I like this build, so thank you for sharing it.

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Hiilimies wrote:

Hello and thanks for the guide!
Im just wondering why is your skill gems so different in PoB than in the guide?
And what i should use, pob skill gems or guide skill gems?

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mojo5110 wrote:

I'm really struggling this league.
Getting randomly one shot.

T1 Map one shot
Eg https://youtu.be/TrILoHmo3KU?t=38

This is in a tier 1 map. As I was tired of dying in yellow maps.
Not sure if its a bug with expedition.

According to PoB I got an effective hit pool of 54k without any pots.

I got 83k with pots.

Here is my pob. Need a 6l and maybe more chaos resistance. Need the op shields but getting my money up and trying to get my map completion up.

https://pastebin.com/b19MWSPE

Any tips?

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wotad wrote:

Hope to see nice build update for 3.19 with this skill.