Path of Exile

Anytime I start messing with lightning spells and trickster/assassin, I end up settling on either CI or LL being the only viable options.

I just said fuck it, and put in life leech support for my VD spellslinger.

Caliane said:

I just said fuck it, and put in life leech support for my VD spellslinger.

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Blood rage and the shadow life/life steal node has been enough for me. But I went assassin for my slinger.

Pure spell damage has been the way for me so far.

I got a large cluster with 10% spell damage on all the minors, Burden Projection and Essence Rush. Combined with blood rage and the pure spell hybrid kinetic bolt setup, I'm lovin it.

yeah, I went the other way. Witch>templar>maruader.

VD explosion does NOT scale with spell damage though, remember.
General damage, elemental damage is needed to do both the death explosion, and the VD projectile.

Ya I'm doing DD not VD and I have unearth

Trying to boost my crit up a little more naturally to put awakened fire damage in with unearth and remove improved criticals

Crit builds get annoying on HC or maybe just in general

Nothing is worse than trying to roll this hybrid wand that I've ever tried on the topic of annoying. My luck with annuls is impossibly bad.

So I did cast on crit barrage with ball lightning. My spellslingers were a 3L wave of conviction. And a 4L arc.

For life based, I didn’t have enough damage or life sustain for my own laziness. I think if I reworked it (and I might) I would have done a 3L woc slinger, 3L arc slinger, then a 4L ball lightning slinger with a life leech link. To make this work you have to take the reduced reservation nodes by witch/Templar. I was going to anoint the notable that gives dmg per power charge.

I was running assassin obviously.

Now, I think VD is overall a better spell to build on, but I’ve done a lot of VD and wanted to try ball lightning.

Ultimately, I’d still swap to LL and move my tree to ES and then use my life on wrath and zealotry. You still need to pick up reservation nodes for the 3 slingers.

It’s a gem slot hungry build. I think I ended up managing to sneak in arcane surge on. Flame dash and I had to hard cast IC. Assassin mark would be on hit on a ring. Scaled generic and spell crit and some spell dmg. It was fun, but I abandoned. Will come back later.

Nirgon said:

Ya I'm doing DD not VD and I have unearth

Trying to boost my crit up a little more naturally to put awakened fire damage in with unearth and remove improved criticals

Crit builds get annoying on HC or maybe just in general

Nothing is worse than trying to roll this hybrid wand that I've ever tried on the topic of annoying. My luck with annuls is impossibly bad.

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To be clear, DD is the same.
DD deals aoe flat fire spell damage. and then also, explodes the corpse for 6% of the corpses max life, that deals Secondary damage. Secondary damage will scale with aoe damage, damage, fire damage, elemental damage. but NOT spell damage.
Secondary is not effected by spell CRIT either.

Since I'm starting late, anything new and interesting to level with?

Spellslinger is fun. Only seems viable late game with VD.

Archmage heiro is fun so far but I’m finding I overdid my mana cost.

No such thing!

Deathwing said:

How much is overdid?

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Right now two brands and out of mana!

I plan to try that and maybe get some juicy plus mana type nodes.

Caeden said:

Right now two brands and out of mana!

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Hold down brand recall and equip a manaflask.

Patch today, more nerfs to the fog, splinters now spawn at the end.

Speaking as a garbage can the fog seemed alright where it was?

Kiroy said:

and yet the league mechanic is still complete garbage

it shouldn't go away until I'm done, it shouldn't force me to run linear maps, fuck it's frustrating

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Instead of being a gotta go fast thing I'd rather it was set up so that the longer you kept it going the more dangerous it got until something along the following -