5.2M DPS Endgame archmage spark stormweaver mana neutral 0.1.1

Thought I'd post my alternative endgame spark sorc build before the nerfs hit for 0.2 just for the curious. It will be nowhere near as good next season, but the mana neutral aspect might make it still workable. This build relies on mana/skill reduction to allow significant support in the spark skills.

POB: https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/ya3qa0it

Mahu is being nerfed so a mana boosting sceptre or focus will probably be a valid alternative, but this will not be an OP build in 0.2 unless something drastic is found, like a new unique.

Feature videos:
T17 delirious breach T4 boss Decay map lv98

https://youtu.be/cCZtRTNKs9k

Best enjoyed played back at 2x speed. You may want to skip a minute in the middle during the splinter walk of shame.


T4 Twisted Domain/Xesht:
https://youtu.be/_z2YtY8irzM

I tried respeccing this build in standard league for 0.2 as best as I could, and it's laughably bad, doing only a tiny fraction of the damage, and having a lot less mana, despite using an ingenuity and mahu with legacy affixes that no longer exist. Doing a T16 map is hard work, anything over that or with delirium is a struggle, and any pinnacle bosses over T0 are a stretch. Not only is this build no longer OP, it's pretty much unplayable at high level endgame considering all the gear and level it is. A quick look at everything else in 0.2 shows the same trend towards endgame being the same. Will be interesting to see if any meta build breaks out that everyone eventually has no choice but to play for endgame.

To be honest, I'm almost pleased to hear that it isn't just me and that the changes for 0.2 have made the spark sorceress an unplayable build.

So good to know I am sane !! but at the same time what are GGG doing to make a standard build unplayable from one league to the next, that was never the aim of the game or the aim of new seasons

I've struggled to lvl 85 trying to struggle through un juoced T13 -T14 maps and get one shotted by blue mobs and fins over 2,000 mana drop to empty if I do more than two clicks of spark from within a mana tempest.

What's happened to the fun?

This is bloody torture !!

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Pepasc#6193 wrote:

To be honest, I'm almost pleased to hear that it isn't just me and that the changes for 0.2 have made the spark sorceress an unplayable build.

So good to know I am sane !! but at the same time what are GGG doing to make a standard build unplayable from one league to the next, that was never the aim of the game or the aim of new seasons

I've struggled to lvl 85 trying to struggle through un juoced T13 -T14 maps and get one shotted by blue mobs and fins over 2,000 mana drop to empty if I do more than two clicks of spark from within a mana tempest.

What's happened to the fun?

This is bloody torture !!

Hard agree there. I also agree spark needed to be nerfed, but I disagree nerfing an OP skill to the point it's unusable is correct. It's not even just weak, it's actually useless now. Most stormweaver skills are useless in fact thanks to nerfing mana, archmage, and EB simultaneously. It's the least popular ascendancy by far, and there is zero reason to even use EB now it was nerfed so hard.

I'm playing Spark build and it turns fun again, after I upgraded quality of my Gems (Orb of Storms, Mana Tempest and Spark). Now I'm blasting packs of mob with Orb of Storms+Mana Tempest+2 click of Sparks. No Archmage - because it just drains mana too quickly. To sustain mana I'm using Mana Remnants - and if you have decent % of critical hit chance, you can grab those orbs on boss as well. To fix DPS output I'm using Cast On Shock with Arc+Unleash+Impetus.

My character is inspired by the
https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/745fb9b8-9460-4870-bb21-fad62eaeaedf/builds/423e1fd0-e63a-4531-98b3-a5234d8c4816 but i don't have budget 100 divs :D

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Cieslix1#7765 wrote:

I'm playing Spark build and it turns fun again, after I upgraded quality of my Gems (Orb of Storms, Mana Tempest and Spark). Now I'm blasting packs of mob with Orb of Storms+Mana Tempest+2 click of Sparks. No Archmage - because it just drains mana too quickly. To sustain mana I'm using Mana Remnants - and if you have decent % of critical hit chance, you can grab those orbs on boss as well. To fix DPS output I'm using Cast On Shock with Arc+Unleash+Impetus.

My character is inspired by the
https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/745fb9b8-9460-4870-bb21-fad62eaeaedf/builds/423e1fd0-e63a-4531-98b3-a5234d8c4816 but i don't have budget 100 divs :D

Sounds good.