12-Link or even more with Energy Blade!?
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Hello exiles,
Yesterday I had an idea about the new skill gem "Energy Blade". The gem has two tags "Spell" and "Lightning" and it's not a spell we perma cast, it's a buff we activate. While active "Energy Blade" changes our weapon to an energy blade. My idea was to use a main skill using our weapon (now energy blade). For example we take "Spectral Helix". Sadly we don't know for shure wich support gems work on "Energy Blade", but lets assume "Spell/Lightning" gems are working to increase the buff. The setup would look like: Chest "Energy Blade" + 5 support gems 2H Weapon "Spectral Helix" + 5 Support gems Cause of the nature of a buff and the usage of helix we end up with: "Spectral Helix/Energy Blade" + 10 support gems Now we have a 12-Link setup, but that's not the end. Imagine we craft "Socketed Skills/Gems..." whatever on the weapon to support "Spectral Helix" even more. That opens a lot of space we can work with. Any ideas for support gems and what ascendancy would be the best? Was thinking about a "Scion" (Elementalist/Inquisitor) stacking Life and ES. Stay sane! [Removed by Support] Last bumped on Oct 22, 2021, 2:47:11 PM
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Energy Blade doesnt need supports.
Think of it as an aura which reserves 80% of your ES instead of mana and replaces your weapon with an energy blade. |
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"empower and/or enhance could be useful maybe, depending on what the scaling on this thing is |
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True, I still think a 3l will suffice easily :)
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" I know, it doesn't NEED support, but you can (probaly). We only don't know what gems can support the skill, but we did something similar with "Corrupting Fever" last leagues. We used a Main Dmg Skill as a normal 6-Link and added the Fever as a seperate 6-Link to create a "12-Link". [Removed by Support]
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"im 101% sure this is not how it works. dmg supports only support skills that deal dmg. in the case of corrupting fever, the buff itself is the dmg dealer, and you can clearly see on the gem it reads "deals x-y phys dmg per second". the energy blades buff does not deal any dmg at all, instead its more similar to your wrath aura or whatever, with the new thing being it literally transforms your weapon into a different item. there is no way in hell you can scale the buff itself with dmg supports linked to the energy blades gem itself, thats just not how the game works. the only supports i can think of that would benefit it is things like enhance and empower to scale the buff and its quality stat a tiny bit |
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" Thought first it's more like "Plague Bearer" or RF, being active but does not hit on its own. You think we can't support "Energy Blade" with other gems besides enhance/empower? Cause while active we can legit auto-attack with the Blade itself, we don't need a seperate attack skill or spell to use it. [Removed by Support]
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" the buff creates the blade. the attack you use, and even auto attack is completely separate from the skill summoning the blade. auto attack in this case would just be an unsupportable 1 link skill (or 0 link if you like, but you can consider it a "skill" that every character inherently has that just exists and cannot be supported). just like you can auto attack with wrath aura turned on, there is no real difference here |
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" What they are saying is that no part of the skill actually has a direct synergy with supports (most of them). The 80 less Maximum ES is a fixed amount. No calculation on any support will ever change that number, because it's not counted as a reservation, and it's not some scaling damage, etc. The Conversion ES to damage is also not really something supportable by damage supports or conversion supports. It'd slightly affect the additional damage (the 2/40 part) but not enough to be worth the cost. The only possible supports I see are conversion of damage types, and no GEMS explicitly convert lightning damage to something else. Added damage or other damage sources would need to be on the attack/skill that Energy Blade is attaching to, not to Energy Blade. No mana Supports would work. Enlighten wouldn't work. Empower would work, but that'd probably make it a shield build (Bitterbind point or a gimped use of the new shield that shares supports with the main hand (empower wouldn't share as it's an Exceptional Gem) Spell damage Supports would only affect the flat damage, which wouldn't be worth the support. The best ways to support Energy blade is by simply having a LOT of ES, and by having passive increases to lightning damage and spell damage, not by supporting the gem. Last edited by rekikyo#7718 on Oct 19, 2021, 12:00:22 PM
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" There's an issue with this skill... ES itself. You forgot to mention something. Low Life. You CAN run this as a Low life build and get 30% more spell DMG and run Ele Overload. Look at my pathing on PoB, its extremely hard to take lightning Damage with this skill because it takes away from actually Boosting it in a Defensive way. Check out how I pathed it. I chose to use Staffs and with Masteries you can have TONS of ES Just from taking Defensive Nodes and Staff nodes. https://pastebin.com/P6ZeHCrh |
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