Path of Exile

I'll have to test out Inpulsa with the build, I haven't used it since the latest round of nerfs it received, so I'm probably downplaying the impact of its pops.

Stat cap might be an issue, definitely. Why do you think the neck won't exist? The only required affixes are the stats and life, the other two are "fluff". I just like to fill out my rares with 4 T2 affixes, I find that generally is a good compromise as to what should be reasonable.

I really dislike Timeless Jewels. Empyrian said it's basically like synthesizing last league and I'd have to agree. Way too much bullshit and spreadsheets. Even the official tools can't compensate for it, so you have fucked up build guides confusing players.

You can get an elder Artifice for ~1 ex currently. Mark of the Shaper is 5-15c. For the amount of damage that combination provides, the upfront cost may be expensive to some players, but the benefit/cost is quite good regardless.

I forgot to consider +1 curse and ass mark. I was planning on just putting power charge on crit on my arc but that's a good alternative, thanks. Might still need to do that for power charges on single target, but the curse itself for damage might still be worth it.

How are you calculating damage? I'm taking ball lightning damage per hit * 10 * procs/s, so around 5.5M? 10 hits per ball might be too ideal.

I noticed you have the target full shocked in PoB. How are you achieving that?

Xevy said:

Most lightning skills have a % chance to shock, then my chance to shock is modified heavily by the tree. The amount of skills going out it's constantly going to be shocked. Not for full duration, but it still gets shocked nonstop. That's why I don't use Elemental Focus in any of my abilities.

Ball lightning is unfortunately only going to hit like 4-5 times unless you supe up AE size.

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Right, but your skill aren't hitting nearly hard enough to get a full 50% shock effectiveness on Shaper targets.


I know it's old, but it's only the source I could find that showed at least *some* math regarding Ball Lightning and hits/cast. The last major change they made the skill postdates this spreadsheet, but those should be effectively neutral.

Xevy said:

Here's me vs Shaper. I had to fucking fight Rigwald so I ate a death there and then ate a death to... something. Otherwise not that hard. Definitely would need Mathil levels of ability to do Uber Elder. I also plow through a T15 map and you can watch Legion do basically nothing to me.

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Thanks for the gameplay demonstration.

The clear looked ok, not great. A regular cyclone build would do much better. I think the issue is that your triggering ability is so small that you're killing targets with arc and shock nova before they can be hit with cyclone. So you end up with these kind of dead zone of inconsistent spell procs.

I wonder if switching to something like Spectral Throw would be better.

My point about regular cyclone is that it doesn't need to be hitting stuff in a small range to kill stuff in a large range. Inpulsa's might cover that in larger packs, but I did notice some areas where you backtracked for a straggler where a 60-range Cyclone would have killed it first pass.

I'm not actually sure you're supposed to use the attack part of mjolner as anything but a trigger. And in lightning strike's case, that seems like a poor trigger.