ELE LIGHTNING STRIKE - ALL T16s, Shaper, Uber Atziri, HOGM, Chayula, Elder

Seems impossible to get 50% crit. I am at 37% crit atm and i can only get crit on 1 ring and my neck. Rest of the gear cannot roll crit. How would I push my crit up to 50 without ratsnest etc?

Why daggers at all? I really don't get it at all, claw nodes are probably as good as or perhaps better than knife ones (although you can't really replace 'From the Shadows' unless you spend 1 extra point).

I'm considering trying the build using claws. Perhaps using Touch of Anguish for free chain? Or even a The Wasp Nest for a budget?

Side question: Does the tree change when you are using manly phys weapons? Most of it gets converted

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toddliestew wrote:

Seems impossible to get 50% crit. I am at 37% crit atm and i can only get crit on 1 ring and my neck. Rest of the gear cannot roll crit. How would I push my crit up to 50 without ratsnest etc?

Hi buddy you need some crit rolls on jewellry like rings/ammy etc. and/or a weapon with 8%+ crit if you can, I'm at about 47% or so with my gear without Rat's nest. If you feel your crits are good with diamond flask then you don't need to really push for more crit chance vs upgrading for more HP for example

For those struggling a little with single target DPS, I swapped to Herald of Ice, Ice Golem and added Critical Strike Chance to blue slot and it made a significant difference, feels good and will work until I can get some more upgrades.

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Absolutista wrote:

Why daggers at all? I really don't get it at all, claw nodes are probably as good as or perhaps better than knife ones (although you can't really replace 'From the Shadows' unless you spend 1 extra point).

I'm considering trying the build using claws. Perhaps using Touch of Anguish for free chain? Or even a The Wasp Nest for a budget?

Side question: Does the tree change when you are using manly phys weapons? Most of it gets converted

Hi bud, it depends what kind of dagger vs claw you can get but in general daggers are better and give more power because of the implicit and higher crit chance and crit multi from tree than claws.

If you really want life gain on hit then claws are better, after changes to leech and Vaal Pact if you want good leech you need to focus more on increasing max leech rate.

Yes if you want to go phys, but don't want to do pure phys and change the tree and gear, you can do hybrid and use a phys claw and still stack elemental damage so the tree and gear won't change. I would recommend you test it out on PoB or go to poe.ninja and search filter Vaal Lightning Strike for Wasp Nest to get some ideas for how to build.

Craft WeD or Crit multi. According to PoB, crit multi give more damage. Thoughts on what i should do?

Hi im still kinds new ot this but can anyone tell me if i can use a 2h sword version of this? what nodes would i need to move around

Ok let me reword what i said is there anyway i can rebuild this kinda to make it usable with a 2 handed sword? im still new so ill need a little help on the tree but i watched a youtube video of some dude named pohx kappa and he played a LS build and used a 2h sword playing a ranger if anyone could help with reworking the tree i would be very grateful

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toddliestew wrote:

Craft WeD or Crit multi. According to PoB, crit multi give more damage. Thoughts on what i should do?

Hi bud, go for crit multi since it is giving you more DPS

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drpooterhole wrote:

Ok let me reword what i said is there anyway i can rebuild this kinda to make it usable with a 2 handed sword? im still new so ill need a little help on the tree but i watched a youtube video of some dude named pohx kappa and he played a LS build and used a 2h sword playing a ranger if anyone could help with reworking the tree i would be very grateful

Yes you can make 2h sword version, keep in mind this build is scaling flat ele damage not phys, so you need a 2H sword with flat ele damage. But overall DPS will be lower than going 1H mainly because you will sacrifice off-hand (i.e. Lycosidae) for 2H. But on the other hand you can use Kaom's chest to get nice and beefy - so you should have more HP than the 1H build.

To build ele 2H on this build just take off any dagger or 1H nodes and put them into sword or 2H nodes - focusing more on the nodes that give APS or crit, and not the ones that give phys damage.

Another option I've actually been working on is to scale strength to get fire damage usign 2H sword with Shaper's mod (Adds (2–3) to (4–5) Fire Damage to Attacks with this Weapon per 10 Strength), and good APS and crit chance, then just stack as much strength, crit, aps and life on tree as you can. Should be able to get 500+ str not too hard and there are str builds that reach 1k str. Combined with Kaom's this will give you A TON of HP, and your damage should be good thank's to the Shaper mod. Plus combined with ranged gameplay on LS - that would be a very strong build. Auras will be Anger and Herald of Ice / Thunder. Gem links will be same but instead of Added Lightning or Light Pen you can put another damage gem like ICD/ICC and use Fire Pen. Obviously Marauder/Scion would be best for a fire build to get Chieftain bonuses from Ash - which is basically "shock" for fire damage to get 20% more damage. But Ranger can still work decently particularly with the frenzy charges.