Energy Blade thoughts

You can use the timeless keystone "Corrupted soul" for more ES and more damage as we dont rely on ES for damage mitigation but for a damage buff

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Sadaukar wrote:

U can get ~50% increased ES pretty easy and should be able to get around 1000ES without too much investment.

That'll be 52-1040 flat added damage, which is just nuts for ele attack builds. (more than double of what added lightning support gives)

Unfortunately thats not how it works.
The skill will remove 80% of your ES and scale the dmg off the remaining ES, not the total max ES and not the removed ES.

If you had 10k ES, you´d scale off the remaining 2k ES.
Thats 102 - 2040 dmg.
Pretty good but you will have to sacrifice 8k ES to get there and thats not insignificant.

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Orbaal wrote:

Pretty good but you will have to sacrifice 8k ES to get there and thats not insignificant.

And thats why i want to use mask of stitched demon and stack int

i wont feel the loss of that 8k ES on survivability

...if i can get the buff before using mask.

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Orbaal wrote:

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Sadaukar wrote:

U can get ~50% increased ES pretty easy and should be able to get around 1000ES without too much investment.

That'll be 52-1040 flat added damage, which is just nuts for ele attack builds. (more than double of what added lightning support gives)

Unfortunately thats not how it works.
The skill will remove 80% of your ES and scale the dmg off the remaining ES, not the total max ES and not the removed ES.

If you had 10k ES, you´d scale off the remaining 2k ES.
Thats 102 - 2040 dmg.
Pretty good but you will have to sacrifice 8k ES to get there and thats not insignificant.

yeah I figured, so it might not be as useful to slap on for usual hybrid builds. It's more a skill u really need to build around with Int stacking ect.

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Energy Blade: Grants a buff which significantly lowers your maximum Energy Shield to transform your equipped weapons into Swords formed from that energy. Casting the spell again removes the buff. Requires a Non-Bow weapon.

As it is worded, it seems the damage buff comes from the part of ES which is removed. But i can be wrong

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moumout wrote:

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Energy Blade: Grants a buff which significantly lowers your maximum Energy Shield to transform your equipped weapons into Swords formed from that energy. Casting the spell again removes the buff. Requires a Non-Bow weapon.

As it is worded, it seems the damage buff comes from the part of ES which is removed. But i can be wrong

Ye its pretty dificult to understand how it really works, i just assume it would not be like that cause would be too strong

"formed from that energy" with taht wording we cant say what energy it is formed from.

You start competing with 20 chaos rare weapons at 4000 ES which already requires a lot of investment on top of which you have to invest in damage nodes appropriate for your skill or spell as well.

Unless you find a way to play with 1000 ES, you have to get 5000+ life as well.

Going Battlemage also won't help because even 10K ES ends up being worse than a +3 spell levels, spell damage, crit, cast speed, block staff.

Unless someone manages to wizard a borken amount of ES at 30K+ it'll never be a part of a top tier build.

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Kiss_Me_Quick wrote:

You start competing with 20 chaos rare weapons at 4000 ES which already requires a lot of investment on top of which you have to invest in damage nodes appropriate for your skill or spell as well.

Unless you find a way to play with 1000 ES, you have to get 5000+ life as well.

Going Battlemage also won't help because even 10K ES ends up being worse than a +3 spell levels, spell damage, crit, cast speed, block staff.

Unless someone manages to wizard a borken amount of ES at 30K+ it'll never be a part of a top tier build.

Its for sure not the best build, not a starter, or cheap, but i want to make it work. =)

Intelligence stacking with: HoWA + shaper gloves + mask of demon = flat life, flat lightning damage, % inc ES, flat accuracy for each point in intelligence

if i go jugger, i can stack accuracy too and get % attack speed, and another source of flat lightning damage from windbreak boots, also %inc damage from other sources like divergent accuracy gem.

on gear you look for flat ES, int, and %inc acc if going jugger

another great option is trickster, cause shaper gloves also gives high % inc evasion, and 0 mana cost cyclone

*also use supercharged on cluster jewel, and corrupted soul like Moumout mentioned, and other sources of % maximum life added as extra maximum ES

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HoockBr wrote:

Its for sure not the best build, not a starter, or cheap, but i want to make it work. =)

It will work but it'll be just an gem slot MTX for your skill or spell - it doesn't transform your gameplay.

I am pretty sure that the numbers are so conservative because they're afraid that someone eventually will find a 30K ES stacking method somehow in the next 5 years and if it gets popular then there's another league trivialize by an overlooked interaction.

For me it only looks interesting if the damage/aps/crit scales with sword passive nodes.

If not only general damage/crit/aps and accuracy mayb be a thing to scale it.