(Stormweaver) Max projectiles cold converted fireballs. Cheap, easy, powerful, FUN! (T16+ ready)

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tackle70#1293 wrote:

I just did some initial testing on my build since I'm fairly well specced into shock (65% shocks with overcharge support). If there's a way to make lightning conduit better than comet, I failed to find it within a couple attempts - best I could do was 3-5M DPS bursts against level 4 breachlord with lightning conduit compared to 5-10M DPS bursts with my comet setup.

My guess is that you'd have to also spec into some way to retain the shocks (e.g. Endless Circuit)

Thanks! I'm not specced into magnitude so it'd be a whole rework to test that. I appreciate you giving it a go.

Ehi Guys, I have changed snakepit with breach ring to sostain ingenuity. Which passive based on Maximum Mana can I use instead of split shot?

Thank you!

There are a few options. You could get the slightly pricey node to the left and south of our tree (forget the name). You can also always allocate one of the mana ones from our tree that you already have. This is a bit cheaper and will save four-ish passive points that you can use somewhere else. There are a couple options for this including the mana node right above our start point that we usually dip back down for. This is what Inhad before split shot. Grats on getting an ingenuity!

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mdemola#1863 wrote:

Ehi Guys, I have changed snakepit with breach ring to sostain ingenuity. Which passive based on Maximum Mana can I use instead of split shot?

Thank you!

If I didn't have Icebreaker to prevent freeze deaths, I would probably go for Conservative Casting if I wanted a mana node - 20% increased mana regen rate, 8% reduced mana cost of skills.

Does EB converts only base ES to mana?
Somehow my 5.6k ES becomes only like 1.5k of mana.
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Ah, i see it indeed does. Whelp.
So i'll need items with flat ES only, right?

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lepidoctora#2438 wrote:

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mdemola#1863 wrote:

Ehi Guys, I have changed snakepit with breach ring to sostain ingenuity. Which passive based on Maximum Mana can I use instead of split shot?

Thank you!

If I didn't have Icebreaker to prevent freeze deaths, I would probably go for Conservative Casting if I wanted a mana node - 20% increased mana regen rate, 8% reduced mana cost of skills.

I personally took Hunter's Charm and put in a thawing charm. I never get frozen in maps now but breach t4 can still freeze me if im careless. Whats your experience with Icebreaker?

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KarmaElemental#1007 wrote:

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lepidoctora#2438 wrote:

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mdemola#1863 wrote:

Ehi Guys, I have changed snakepit with breach ring to sostain ingenuity. Which passive based on Maximum Mana can I use instead of split shot?

Thank you!

If I didn't have Icebreaker to prevent freeze deaths, I would probably go for Conservative Casting if I wanted a mana node - 20% increased mana regen rate, 8% reduced mana cost of skills.

I personally took Hunter's Charm and put in a thawing charm. I never get frozen in maps now but breach t4 can still freeze me if im careless. Whats your experience with Icebreaker?

I have now taken Eldritch Will via normal pathing on the skill tree to reduce Stun (and get more max mana), and I take Icebreaker via anoint and use a thawing charm as well. With this combo, I do not get frozen even in breach T4, and I do not get stunlocked. I am not a "good" player, I've got pretty low reaction times, so you could consider me careless by default. So having a very high freeze threshold + immunity when I would have been frozen anyway has been great!

What do you use for your second charm with Hunter's Talisman anoint?

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Hommit#3712 wrote:

Does EB converts only base ES to mana?
Somehow my 5.6k ES becomes only like 1.5k of mana.
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Ah, i see it indeed does. Whelp.
So i'll need items with flat ES only, right?

Flat ES, flat mana, and/or int, because 1 int = 2 mana. Basically you can look at any piece of gear and sum up the flat ES, flat mana, and 2x int to roughly figure out how much base mana you will get before any bonuses to % max mana.

Ding'd 97 and think I'm going to call it quits on the endgame grind... 96-97 was pretty brutal in terms of time commitment and I need a break before thinking about going further.

Going to experiment with a pure DPS variant with 7.2k mana and no ES. Suspect it will be better for boss killing but worse for mapping, particularly because it's nearly impossible to fit much IIR onto the gear if going for 7k+ mana.

My shock focused variant feels super safe to map on; my only deaths going 96-97 were entirely my fault. Only content I tried that it couldn't do was Simulacrum - didn't have enough DPS/cast speed to make it all the way. Also I suck.

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lepidoctora#2438 wrote:

I have now taken Eldritch Will via normal pathing on the skill tree to reduce Stun (and get more max mana), and I take Icebreaker via anoint and use a thawing charm as well. With this combo, I do not get frozen even in breach T4, and I do not get stunlocked. I am not a "good" player, I've got pretty low reaction times, so you could consider me careless by default. So having a very high freeze threshold + immunity when I would have been frozen anyway has been great!

What do you use for your second charm with Hunter's Talisman anoint?

I use stone charm by default. I took it off once and immediately got stunned to death by the first pack of white mobs in a map. It stays on forever now.

I have now done t4 breach and ritual with my cold/shock variant of this build. Most of my damage comes from archmage now with shock support and exposure, but cold helps a ton with maps and bosses because of freeze. I am able to burst down pinnacles within the freeze window with ease. most normal mobs never touch me cause of freeze as well. Still have yet to do more than t0 simulacrum though. That content is just so overtuned i don't really know how to solve it.