Apologies for no stream today, took a bit too long putting this video together & will be out for the weekend with family celebration. I will continue to update written guide & planner. If anything major is changed with the character like for example Nerfs/Buffs/Bug Fixes I will try to make update videos ASAP to address changes.
Thanks for the guides. I would love to hear your thoughts on is the Chaos Resistance. How important compared to elemental resists and what you were running throughout your build.
I've been inspired by your build and used it as the base for mine, but I am struggling with a problem. I am at about 125k dps on spark, 5.4k es, 5.1k mana and I incorporated Cast on Shock with a 49 spirit armor and a corrupted helm. Can you help us with the option of incorporating CoS on an ES build? Will it not add to the power of the build? I see you only use CoS on full DPS and I would not want to go that far. The build I am using now has some issues. It is a critical build (which I don't really like as I intend to go Lightning Rod later), and CoS is very inconsistent. Sometimes I one shot a map boss, sometime CoS triggers 4-5 times before the boss dies, due to lightning big damage range. Probably my passive tree is not optimized or my support gems aren't. For those of us who went this way, your help with chiseling the build will be greatly appreciated. Another issue I have is that when CoS rapidly processes 4-5 times my mana instantly goes down. :) Another question I had was about Dream Fragments. I know it is very expensive, but would it not take the build to another lvl?
Great stuff all around! One slight mistake (possibly?) is using the critical bonus damage weight (which is for physical attacks i believe, but this probably includes elemental storm anyway), instead of the critical spell damage bonus weight option from the trade site. Might wanna check that out, its easy to confuse.
@@kobarsos82 which weighted sum search so i can double check? there is technically a weird crit bonus mod that is special to some attack based weapons and I could have accidentally put that in. If i am using the correct mod -> Crit bonus damage is generic, would apply to both attacks or spells alike, where as crit bonus damage for spells, is just a more narrow focus mod that would only apply to spells. Regardless both stats would apply to spells.
@@K8thn76 Chaos res initially before you are chaos inoculation will help you die less to chaos but the end goal of character is always to swap to CI, somewhere in the 70-80 lvl range, can be done sooner with gear. Chaos inoculation makes you immune to chaos damage regardless of resistance thus making the resistance unnecessary to invest into
The pre-prepped search is a GAME CHANGER! Thanks a ton - makes it a lot easier for those who are newer and get overwhelmbed by the trading side of things.
This is probably the BEST and most explained out guide I've ever seen for any game -- ever. Besides the fact that you took the time to create all of the item search filters and the written version of the guide, it was extremely valuable the way you explained in this one things like your reasoning behind the ascendancy choices, early game vs late game, etc. ALSO -- I'm new to POE and while I was doing the weapon swapping like you had suggested for Teleport, I had no idea what the green/red pathing meant on the skill tree until now. HUGE thank you for all the effort you put into this Sir!
@@Gopstop222 at least you have a goal to work towards, no? the build still functions on a lower budget, its just not gonna be as smooth and as high dps
@@user-xy4fs6yu8f If you look at his build's passive tree you'll notice some of the lines are green and red. So when you're inside the Passive Skills Menu for the class, if you click Weapon Set I on the very top right corner, it will then say in the middle of the screen "allocating points for Weapon Set I." You'll then select the correlating red skills and these will only be active when you have your Weapon Set 1 Equipped. If you click the Weapon Set II button on the top right, these points will only be active during weapon set 2 when you swap to the staff. It just makes it so you aren't wasting points on the curses -- I went through until the endgame making this mistake.
Dude. Between the weighted searches, the full explanation of every aspect, and the multiple (explained) skill trees, this is easily the single best written build guide I've seen in either POE1 or POE2. Amazing work.
you truly are amazing, you've made everything so simple and explained all the details exactly to allow a novice like me to understand em. ive seen so many people play spark but none have been as comprehensive as you.
The detail and accessibility of this build is so far beyond anything I've seen so far. I appreciate the budget builds as I don't buy gear. And the explanations will help me with gear choices. I never sub to these things but the effort you put into it just made me change my mind. Now hopefully it's worth it.
Dude I've been playing POE1 since beta and I never knew about weighted searches. Incredibly informing, I learned a ton not even doing the build. Thanks dude
Thank you so much for your guide and all the details. It helped me go through 3rd ascendancy + tiers 5 map SO EASILY. I was stuck from another build which didn't explained much, prioritized spell damage which didn't do much at the time. Buying some cast speed changed EVERYTHING + the tip to change weapons set to get Sigil + blink is insanely helpful in trials during the trap rooms. Really : THANKS A LOT. I finally feel powerful in end game. I was struggling with special maps (delirium, breachs,...) now I can handle a delirium PLUS breach at the same time and melt everything, even though I'm missing some uniques. I'm having fun again thanks to you
Learned about Weighted Sums, auto weapon swaps, playstyles, and other extremely useful information I did not expect. Legit 10/10 video, I'm downloading this video because of how useful it is lmao.
This showcase with T16 maps you shows us is with your end game gear. The gear is insane and that build may be worth about 200-250 Divine or even more. That special unique jewel, the belt, the 911 ES Robe and Helmet, the shield etc. I really appriciate the build guide and time you invest in it, but for 99% of the people undoable
you can do all of the end game bosses with the mid-game setup. He goes over all of the possible builds depending on budget. Even the cheap budget build is going to do more damage and survivability than most other builds.
Wow I didn't know about this weighted search function... adding these weighted searches makes a new players life so much easier... its much less stressful and time consuming looking at all the items, thank you.
Bro, I'm watching around minute 8, the insane amount of useful information that you give is AMAZING, and you still haven't said a single word about the build. I will follow you to death NICE WOORK!
Loving this build & guide! I'm a fairly new player, I tried PoE 1 for about 60 hours but got stuck with my build and gave up. In PoE 2 I have been following this guide and it's a game changer for real. I'm sparking through areas and bosses having lots of fun. Thanks!
The work you put into the guide is beyond anyone elses. I really appreciate and thanks a lot for taking time out of your day to make this guide so detailed and readable. 😊
thanks a lot for the build guide, i been struggling whole season following others and the build was never up to par, first time stumbled accrss your build, the weighted sums made it so easy to get the equipment, spend 1div and 30 exalts, and I am basically running thru tier 13
Just want to say holy shit the loot section part of your guide should be the absolute gold standard od any POE guide. As a new player it takes the headache away whipe still learning what to look out for
Lance, your build has helped me greatly. Ive tried both Cast on Shock and the Double shock build and for me, i choose the double shock build because it offers alot more survivability & the damage is still great. Thanks alot!
Loving the build taking a bit to get to where you are but trying to self craft it all. Found a good spot for the 7 other weapon swap passives. The aoe tree on the left side of the tree. Makes sigil and curse area gain like 60% aoe
ur build has been a blast to play yesterday i got rly lucky and dropped an mahuxotl with 649 effect on soul cores and 534 armor and evasion dropped vaal orb on it and got three slots and then made the switch from elemental storm to double shock it just feels so good to play good stuff !
I want too add that, at lower budget you can have a sceptre with high mana/spirit in off hand. It enables you to run COS Lightning Conduit and blink in main hand and soul offering for burst damage boost. This is a nice option if you are on a
R u sure about it ? I did try this with a unique sceptre which granted me a total of 300 spirit ,however in the skill tree when u try to allocate the cos on the wand it still showes 140 spirit and when I switch to weapon 2 it says 300 , it does allocate but it will trigger only on ur weapon set 2 since weapon set 2 is combined in total spirit ,which deals no damage as its only job is for mana and spirit and spark is allocated to weapon 1 . Someone needs to check if this method worlds because I have tried
Great stuff, Cap! Have been following your progress ever since day 3, then we got hit with the cast on nerfs and your vid on the same day made me jump on it. Just a question: is it worth jumping into the magic find hype train or would you say the focus would be still having a functional character prioritizing the other stats instead? Thanks a bunch in advance! 🎉
Magic find is really strong for min-maxing returns on mapping. Ultimately the character has enough overkill power that you can sacrifice character power for rarity and still one shot the screen. I would recommend doing as much as you can afford to get away with and still feel comfortable mapping. Mahuxotl shield with 3 rarity runes will take you straight to 200 rarity at the cost of about 1500-2k mana. And as for the best place to do this is getting rarity on suffixes of Helm/boots/gloves(prefixes have higher value on these slots generally) then rarity on rings(prefixes ideally, but double works well too). Up to you, rarity is strong but just a matter of cost to get appropriate gearing with rarity on top(pricey)
Oh comment 666. How fitting... I just tried to figure out the starter of your build and was searching for shields using your weighted search function; from maxroll gear. I could not figure out why the weighted total number was wrong. It took a little while to realize that the '#% increased block chance' is not added with the other weight options. Doing the 'sum times weight' and disregarding this stat made it make sense =) Might help someone that (ofc) checked the shield link as the first item with weighted stats on the trade site. Thanks for your guide!
This is by far the best and most thorough build guide I have ever seen, and I appreciate it more than you even know, especially for including all of the leveling information, thank you!
love the guide and love the help with the trade searches and i have a question "probably stupid one" why do we take recharge speed on energy shields while we remove them with the battery talent
this is great, blew throught the story fast. now im having serious sustain issues on early maps. buying gear currently but i think a few more levels could help too
Great video. Any tips for how to get shocks to proc more often? I have had a hard time finding articles related to how shocks work in poe2. Are they tied to crits? Shock chance doesn't seem to be doing that much.
Shocks are tied to how much damage you deal & the enemies ailment threshold. Best thing you can do to shock more consistently is just simply upgrading your gear thus upgrading your damage. Alternatively "increased chance to shock" stats can be used as a pseudo solution where the game rolls your shock chance at a higher chance like pseudo increasing your damage without actually doing so. Ultimately I personally would just recommend keep upgrading gear & gem levels and the shocks will follow with it.
For blink what you can also do is put it on your second weapon set as mentioned, and then switch to that weapon set, press and hold spacebar and then continue playing as normal. You'll teleport each time the cooldown is up despite using your first weapon set, and there is no switching so the teleport is instant. It can be a bit tricky to control, but casting something will interrupt the blink from happening until you stop casting which helps a lot. Have fun while it lasts🤣
First of all, great guide, thanks for putting in the effort! I`d love a written explaination in the guide, or a vid where you go more in depth on the process of creating this weighted sum search, I`d love to create them on my own, but I don´t quite understand how you choose the values for each attribute.
@CaptainLance9 Wanted to say thanks for posting the spark build on Maxroll. Been doing quite well with it. I was curious if you have looked at using a Malice Scepter for your offhand. I am testing that currently and it allows me to run cast on shock set up loke your guide suggests but also has enough extra spirit for cast on crit with comet as well as grim feast. Malice helps ensure crits when you packs rush you also. I feel very durable and can melt bosses at the same time.
I have a question, if you convert all your es to mana, then wouldn't es recharge rate nodes not work? You've turned stat a into stat b therfore things that would affect stat a can't and won't....
I'm trying to determine what the differences are between the double shock end game and the cast on shock end game spell setups and which I should use for when.
Love the build, super cool, but do you think I could make some changes to consistently breeze through Trial of Chaos lvl80s? The stupid bird is a complete dice roll, even with all the damage I have, the rest of the trial is super easy...
Man your build skyrocketed me! Like a moron I followed the *NOT RECOMMENDED dps build* but once this PoE-noob figured it out and got a shield boy oh boy what wreckage and fun he had 😊
After playing this from 53 onward, I can say that going full dps for a while was great for me. I had max res and 7k damage and it was ok in mid tier maps but I couldn’t put dps the rares and bosses. I swapped to full dps with 28k and 30 res everywhere and although I was getting one shot every 4-5 maps, I was still leveling up and making currency faster then before. I’m mixed now with almost called res and it’s a nice sweet spot
Been working on this build for a while now -- very good guide and very great play so far. My only gripe is that the dudes got about 200k more dps than me and I am just having trouble figuring out how or why. Like I get the one gear piece can make a difference, but clearly the video shows one thing and the guide shows another. Followed the guide to a tee and im at about 48k dps on spark. I understand his video is showing the "dps" setup, and not the other -- but I still feel like that alone (skill point setup I mean) wouldn't make a 200,000 damage difference. I also have my spark gem level at 19 base and sitting at level 24 currently but even where it's at now I find it hard to sustain mana (on bosses only -- btw my total ES is about 4400 and mana is about 5400)....and if I can't kill the boss in like 3 seconds I'm just cooked. It would be really helpful if he either updated the guide with his exact gear to see what kind of "chunks" I am missing or slowly panned/scrolled over his gear so that I can maybe see one of those "aha" moments where I might be really missing out on something. Otherwise I'm just basically blowing through any divines I find testing with a different ring here and there and it's just not cutting it for me :( Any help or guidance at all would be appreciated whether its another commenter or Cap
Very nice guide , i have been playing this and following along, really fun going threw all the different variations of the build. It would be nice if you would show your states for the Endgame build. I would love to see how much crit chance you have and how much dmg Lightning Conduit has . Also maybe show your endgame gear , i really wanted to see your amulet but could not find it. i think you showed it it some where in one of your videos, but maybe you link it on the maxroll -guide.
Great guide my guy, as always! One question though: In the written guide, you've assigned Branching Bolts to Weapon Set 2 (Lvl93MahuOrFocusSetup). Is that a mistake or am I missing something? Can anyone explain? Thanks in advance!
its an error with how the tree is coded to display, it was meant to showcase the last couple passives I edited for the trees but they made it bright green which makes it confusing with the weapon set 2 passive being green as well, you can probably notice those passives are a much brighter green and not the same. Its something that hopefully will be corrected soon
@@CaptainLance9 Thanks for the reply. Maybe someone else is just as confused as me when I saw it, so that is certainly helpful to know! Have a good one!
@@MrSkme its in the guide near the bottom one of the blue drop downs he lists arcane blossom, frazzled, adverse growth, lay siege, wild storm or lightning rod but personally im going to use siphon because my mana regen cant keep up lol
You must add warning! After eldritch battery converts your energy shield to mana then all your future % to maximum energy shield does not count anymore towards to max mana. So do this later in endgame. ( Even if you unlearn the skill and relearn can't fix it)
so my build is bricked if I learned eldritch battery in act 5 as the planner recommended? I don't think so. Because when I've learned EB, my ES disappeared but my mana pool only increased with the amount from my gear, not the increases from the tree. I think the trees are wrong and the gear for endgame doesn't support all the spirit required by the gems
wtf, will they fix it? so i saw guys with 6-10k mana, but i have 3600 with battery, does it mean that they get eldritch later after getting good items?
Mr Lance !! Great guidee, keep it up im following you since 2015... Btw how you have 0 Es? I have EB also but i still have 3k es and 4k mana... Dunno what im doing wrong
Informative guide! I enjoyed watching through it. One question: how do you have white nighfall armor set? It seems to be selling only in purple color scheme and I like white lile the on showed in a vid a lot better! How do I get my hands on a white color scheme for a nighfall armor bundle? :)
Thanks for the guide Capitan, is really helped me to start pushing in my maps but there is one thing I can't figure out. Where do you get your extra 60 Spirit from to run cast on shock since none of the gear you listed or the weighted sum options you provided us with have it?? Still really enjoying the build so far.
@CaptainLance9 What am I missing? I'm at the point where I've switched to having EB/MoM with the Early Maps passive tree, but in doing so, none of the +%ES nodes do anything. For example, selecting Heavy Buffer (40% inc max ES) doesn't do anything to my mana pool or Spark DPS tooltip. Same thing if I select Patient Barrier - no changes. I feel like I missed a critical part of the puzzle but can't sort it out!
Hey lance, Thank you for the video and build. I wear temporalis and want to use blink on my main build, so I had to get spirit from my necklace +50 and corrupted helm +20 spirit. The mana tree I use is also so different so that I have 10k mana thanks to dream fragment, 12% mana from necklace and mahox. I have 700+ int and 350k spark dps. 2k+ mana regen (Life regen as well) I do not die in almost all situations. Btw I completely disabled crit ability with considered casting and do not go to these nods. I started and went with your build for long time, but then I swapped to this, I feel it is better but way more expensive for sure.
Great experience playing this build. How do you deal with the stuns as CI, MoM and Eldritch Battery? I tried annointing an additional charm slot to run a stone and freeze charm, but that doesn't work. I'm now playing with the unique amulet, no EB, 2.8k ES and 4,5k Mana and Icebreaker annoint. Damage went down from 45k to 25k if I remember correctly.. because of the passive tree changes for inc max ES.
![[PATH OF EXILE 2] - 144x STELLAR AMULET vs CHANCE ORBS - GO BIG OR GO HOME!](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/t0vvbjtCKe8/mqdefault.jpg)
Apologies for no stream today, took a bit too long putting this video together & will be out for the weekend with family celebration. I will continue to update written guide & planner. If anything major is changed with the character like for example Nerfs/Buffs/Bug Fixes I will try to make update videos ASAP to address changes.
Thanks for the guides. I would love to hear your thoughts on is the Chaos Resistance. How important compared to elemental resists and what you were running throughout your build.
I've been inspired by your build and used it as the base for mine, but I am struggling with a problem. I am at about 125k dps on spark, 5.4k es, 5.1k mana and I incorporated Cast on Shock with a 49 spirit armor and a corrupted helm. Can you help us with the option of incorporating CoS on an ES build? Will it not add to the power of the build? I see you only use CoS on full DPS and I would not want to go that far.
The build I am using now has some issues. It is a critical build (which I don't really like as I intend to go Lightning Rod later), and CoS is very inconsistent. Sometimes I one shot a map boss, sometime CoS triggers 4-5 times before the boss dies, due to lightning big damage range. Probably my passive tree is not optimized or my support gems aren't. For those of us who went this way, your help with chiseling the build will be greatly appreciated. Another issue I have is that when CoS rapidly processes 4-5 times my mana instantly goes down. :)
Another question I had was about Dream Fragments. I know it is very expensive, but would it not take the build to another lvl?
Great stuff all around! One slight mistake (possibly?) is using the critical bonus damage weight (which is for physical attacks i believe, but this probably includes elemental storm anyway), instead of the critical spell damage bonus weight option from the trade site. Might wanna check that out, its easy to confuse.
@@kobarsos82 which weighted sum search so i can double check? there is technically a weird crit bonus mod that is special to some attack based weapons and I could have accidentally put that in. If i am using the correct mod -> Crit bonus damage is generic, would apply to both attacks or spells alike, where as crit bonus damage for spells, is just a more narrow focus mod that would only apply to spells. Regardless both stats would apply to spells.
@@K8thn76 Chaos res initially before you are chaos inoculation will help you die less to chaos but the end goal of character is always to swap to CI, somewhere in the 70-80 lvl range, can be done sooner with gear. Chaos inoculation makes you immune to chaos damage regardless of resistance thus making the resistance unnecessary to invest into
The pre-prepped search is a GAME CHANGER!
Thanks a ton - makes it a lot easier for those who are newer and get overwhelmbed by the trading side of things.
Glad its appreciated, definitely spent quite a bit of time with those to make it straight forward for gear upgrades.
@@CaptainLance9 Thank you :D. This is why I love the PoE community
like it matters not a single viewer can afford his build anyway
@@Gopstop222do you know any build that is affordable?
@@CaptainLance9 when people ask me what an Alpha is, ill keep a picture of you at the rdy, champion behavior my friend
This is probably the BEST and most explained out guide I've ever seen for any game -- ever. Besides the fact that you took the time to create all of the item search filters and the written version of the guide, it was extremely valuable the way you explained in this one things like your reasoning behind the ascendancy choices, early game vs late game, etc. ALSO -- I'm new to POE and while I was doing the weapon swapping like you had suggested for Teleport, I had no idea what the green/red pathing meant on the skill tree until now. HUGE thank you for all the effort you put into this Sir!
i dont understand what means red path . can you help me?
and not a single viewer can follow his build guide becuz it only cost few mirrors
@@Gopstop222 at least you have a goal to work towards, no? the build still functions on a lower budget, its just not gonna be as smooth and as high dps
@@Gopstop222he has beginner gear to aspiration endgame gear and search filters for items for you ,..
@@user-xy4fs6yu8f If you look at his build's passive tree you'll notice some of the lines are green and red. So when you're inside the Passive Skills Menu for the class, if you click Weapon Set I on the very top right corner, it will then say in the middle of the screen "allocating points for Weapon Set I." You'll then select the correlating red skills and these will only be active when you have your Weapon Set 1 Equipped. If you click the Weapon Set II button on the top right, these points will only be active during weapon set 2 when you swap to the staff. It just makes it so you aren't wasting points on the curses -- I went through until the endgame making this mistake.
Dude. Between the weighted searches, the full explanation of every aspect, and the multiple (explained) skill trees, this is easily the single best written build guide I've seen in either POE1 or POE2. Amazing work.
having a weighted sum search for each item is actually so amazing, i wish this was something every guide would do. amazing work lance 👍
you truly are amazing, you've made everything so simple and explained all the details exactly to allow a novice like me to understand em. ive seen so many people play spark but none have been as comprehensive as you.
I didn't even look at the title, and as soon as I heard the legion music I knew it was a build guide. Always sets the tone for the montage 😅
The detail and accessibility of this build is so far beyond anything I've seen so far. I appreciate the budget builds as I don't buy gear. And the explanations will help me with gear choices. I never sub to these things but the effort you put into it just made me change my mind. Now hopefully it's worth it.
Dude I've been playing POE1 since beta and I never knew about weighted searches. Incredibly informing, I learned a ton not even doing the build. Thanks dude
Thank you so much for your guide and all the details. It helped me go through 3rd ascendancy + tiers 5 map SO EASILY. I was stuck from another build which didn't explained much, prioritized spell damage which didn't do much at the time. Buying some cast speed changed EVERYTHING + the tip to change weapons set to get Sigil + blink is insanely helpful in trials during the trap rooms.
Really : THANKS A LOT. I finally feel powerful in end game. I was struggling with special maps (delirium, breachs,...) now I can handle a delirium PLUS breach at the same time and melt everything, even though I'm missing some uniques. I'm having fun again thanks to you
Bro, I didn't even knew you could weight the stat filter, THANKS A LOT!! I've never seen a guide this good
Learned about Weighted Sums, auto weapon swaps, playstyles, and other extremely useful information I did not expect. Legit 10/10 video, I'm downloading this video because of how useful it is lmao.
Man, I love all the effort that you put in your videos, builds/guides and in the game overall!
The amount of work putting this together is insane. Thank you Lance. Can't wait for 0dps magma barrier guide
Fantastic guide, really well explained and informative. As a new player to the series it’s been great for me learning the game. Kudos
This showcase with T16 maps you shows us is with your end game gear. The gear is insane and that build may be worth about 200-250 Divine or even more. That special unique jewel, the belt, the 911 ES Robe and Helmet, the shield etc. I really appriciate the build guide and time you invest in it, but for 99% of the people undoable
you can do all of the end game bosses with the mid-game setup. He goes over all of the possible builds depending on budget. Even the cheap budget build is going to do more damage and survivability than most other builds.
Hit the trade site
just wanted to say thank you for the pre-done search. it helps a lot!
Appreciate your efforts on the written guide and preset weighted filter searches. Thank you.
Thank you for the guide, this has been a game changer. This is by far the best explained guide and break down of the build!
Wow I didn't know about this weighted search function... adding these weighted searches makes a new players life so much easier... its much less stressful and time consuming looking at all the items, thank you.
Thank you so much for doing a written guide! you have no idea how much I appreciate that
Thanks for taking the time to do all this man. Not many UA-camr out that much effort. Matter fact none do. Thank you
Bro, I'm watching around minute 8, the insane amount of useful information that you give is AMAZING, and you still haven't said a single word about the build.
I will follow you to death
NICE WOORK!
Loving this build & guide! I'm a fairly new player, I tried PoE 1 for about 60 hours but got stuck with my build and gave up. In PoE 2 I have been following this guide and it's a game changer for real. I'm sparking through areas and bosses having lots of fun. Thanks!
The work you put into the guide is beyond anyone elses. I really appreciate and thanks a lot for taking time out of your day to make this guide so detailed and readable. 😊
Insane guide, first build that has been SO indept and first time i ACTUALLY subbed cuz of the quality of a build :D
thanks a lot for the build guide, i been struggling whole season following others and the build was never up to par, first time stumbled accrss your build, the weighted sums made it so easy to get the equipment, spend 1div and 30 exalts, and I am basically running thru tier 13
Just want to say holy shit the loot section part of your guide should be the absolute gold standard od any POE guide. As a new player it takes the headache away whipe still learning what to look out for
Best build guide and gear advice. You have my sub!
thanks for the weighted sum filters. I was already using them but you showed me what's really possible with them.
Brutal esta guia, la estoy siguendo y me va super bien me encanto como ha quedado la verdad. Felicitaciones
What an excellent video and written guide! Thank you, very nice job!
thank you appreciate the effort and hard work you put behind this for us
Awsome! Thx man! The trading links, amazing!
Great guide, thanks! I am enjoying the build and your guide is a godsend!
Thank you so much for that, the weapon swap blink tip is so amazing!!!!!!!!
great guide, I play spark since december 6th and still learned some stuff here
Lance, your build has helped me greatly. Ive tried both Cast on Shock and the Double shock build and for me, i choose the double shock build because it offers alot more survivability & the damage is still great. Thanks alot!
Still prefer the cast on shock?
Loving the build taking a bit to get to where you are but trying to self craft it all. Found a good spot for the 7 other weapon swap passives. The aoe tree on the left side of the tree. Makes sigil and curse area gain like 60% aoe
ur build has been a blast to play yesterday i got rly lucky and dropped an mahuxotl with 649 effect on soul cores and 534 armor and evasion dropped vaal orb on it and got three slots and then made the switch from elemental storm to double shock it just feels so good to play good stuff !
absolutely love this guide, cannot thank you enough
Best explained build on UA-cam great job 👏
Legend ! You put in crazy work , hats down .
I want too add that, at lower budget you can have a sceptre with high mana/spirit in off hand. It enables you to run COS Lightning Conduit and blink in main hand and soul offering for burst damage boost. This is a nice option if you are on a
that's actually good idea! isn't block change which you miss from shield problem?
R u sure about it ? I did try this with a unique sceptre which granted me a total of 300 spirit ,however in the skill tree when u try to allocate the cos on the wand it still showes 140 spirit and when I switch to weapon 2 it says 300 , it does allocate but it will trigger only on ur weapon set 2 since weapon set 2 is combined in total spirit ,which deals no damage as its only job is for mana and spirit and spark is allocated to weapon 1 . Someone needs to check if this method worlds because I have tried
@@Ps5Usa-p9l I run it on my weapon set 1. So i drop focus/ shield.
Thank you for your videos!! you are helping me so much!
weighted sum trade links in the build guide --- lance is the GOAT
Thanks for all your work you put into this :)
thanks for the guide really fun build. the trade searches are really great
Monster guide. Best Spark guide out there. Well done.
Great stuff, Cap!
Have been following your progress ever since day 3, then we got hit with the cast on nerfs and your vid on the same day made me jump on it.
Just a question: is it worth jumping into the magic find hype train or would you say the focus would be still having a functional character prioritizing the other stats instead?
Thanks a bunch in advance! 🎉
Magic find is really strong for min-maxing returns on mapping. Ultimately the character has enough overkill power that you can sacrifice character power for rarity and still one shot the screen. I would recommend doing as much as you can afford to get away with and still feel comfortable mapping. Mahuxotl shield with 3 rarity runes will take you straight to 200 rarity at the cost of about 1500-2k mana. And as for the best place to do this is getting rarity on suffixes of Helm/boots/gloves(prefixes have higher value on these slots generally) then rarity on rings(prefixes ideally, but double works well too). Up to you, rarity is strong but just a matter of cost to get appropriate gearing with rarity on top(pricey)
i get 230 rarity just from rare gear suffix and prefix (helm/ring), and can still use mah shield with mana%
Can you update the maxroll guide with the end game dps gear not using everlasting. I didnt see it in the build
Oh comment 666. How fitting...
I just tried to figure out the starter of your build and was searching for shields using your weighted search function; from maxroll gear. I could not figure out why the weighted total number was wrong. It took a little while to realize that the '#% increased block chance' is not added with the other weight options. Doing the 'sum times weight' and disregarding this stat made it make sense =) Might help someone that (ofc) checked the shield link as the first item with weighted stats on the trade site.
Thanks for your guide!
This is by far the best and most thorough build guide I have ever seen, and I appreciate it more than you even know, especially for including all of the leveling information, thank you!
And I LOVE written guides for PoE, you’re the best!!
Holy shit man! You are the Poe2 MVmfP! These other dudes need to take notes and learn from you! Ggs dude ❤
Which against the darkness jewel do you use? It does not seem to be covered anywhere..
love the guide and love the help with the trade searches and i have a question "probably stupid one" why do we take recharge speed on energy shields while we remove them with the battery talent
I want to know this too. Also % ENergy shield doesn't effect anything visually either.
Cause you get es again when you Take the unique Amulett
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this is great, blew throught the story fast. now im having serious sustain issues on early maps. buying gear currently but i think a few more levels could help too
I get hit and poof "no mana" lol
@@SuperbExistencejewels with 2% mana on kill are NICE
Great video. Any tips for how to get shocks to proc more often? I have had a hard time finding articles related to how shocks work in poe2. Are they tied to crits? Shock chance doesn't seem to be doing that much.
Shocks are tied to how much damage you deal & the enemies ailment threshold. Best thing you can do to shock more consistently is just simply upgrading your gear thus upgrading your damage. Alternatively "increased chance to shock" stats can be used as a pseudo solution where the game rolls your shock chance at a higher chance like pseudo increasing your damage without actually doing so. Ultimately I personally would just recommend keep upgrading gear & gem levels and the shocks will follow with it.
For blink what you can also do is put it on your second weapon set as mentioned, and then switch to that weapon set, press and hold spacebar and then continue playing as normal. You'll teleport each time the cooldown is up despite using your first weapon set, and there is no switching so the teleport is instant. It can be a bit tricky to control, but casting something will interrupt the blink from happening until you stop casting which helps a lot. Have fun while it lasts🤣
Thanks bro very much. But I dont see your exact gear and passive tree for CoS version. Can you show that
you saved my build bro thank you :')
Great video and guideline bro Thanks
First of all, great guide, thanks for putting in the effort! I`d love a written explaination in the guide, or a vid where you go more in depth on the process of creating this weighted sum search, I`d love to create them on my own, but I don´t quite understand how you choose the values for each attribute.
hey there, i looked at ur guide, but my energy from the notes is not transfered to mana. can u tell me what am i missing?
This trade thing you did, you are a legend, thank you
Nice Esoro music at the beginning lol. I wish he was still making guides, I miss those days.
Love the trade links, thank you!
Great guide. One of the best
Excellent content as always!
Whats the annoint for the Amulet?
@CaptainLance9 Wanted to say thanks for posting the spark build on Maxroll. Been doing quite well with it. I was curious if you have looked at using a Malice Scepter for your offhand. I am testing that currently and it allows me to run cast on shock set up loke your guide suggests but also has enough extra spirit for cast on crit with comet as well as grim feast. Malice helps ensure crits when you packs rush you also. I feel very durable and can melt bosses at the same time.
I have a question, if you convert all your es to mana, then wouldn't es recharge rate nodes not work? You've turned stat a into stat b therfore things that would affect stat a can't and won't....
I'm trying to determine what the differences are between the double shock end game and the cast on shock end game spell setups and which I should use for when.
Love the build, super cool, but do you think I could make some changes to consistently breeze through Trial of Chaos lvl80s? The stupid bird is a complete dice roll, even with all the damage I have, the rest of the trial is super easy...
i cant beat that..
throw orb move behind the bird dps for 3s with mana tempest and then again swap place.
Man your build skyrocketed me! Like a moron I followed the *NOT RECOMMENDED dps build* but once this PoE-noob figured it out and got a shield boy oh boy what wreckage and fun he had 😊
Hello, I would like to know what you put in the skills as support, as the base build is different from the one you show
After playing this from 53 onward, I can say that going full dps for a while was great for me. I had max res and 7k damage and it was ok in mid tier maps but I couldn’t put dps the rares and bosses. I swapped to full dps with 28k and 30 res everywhere and although I was getting one shot every 4-5 maps, I was still leveling up and making currency faster then before. I’m mixed now with almost called res and it’s a nice sweet spot
passive trees are still all over the place when clicking through the progression
Been working on this build for a while now -- very good guide and very great play so far. My only gripe is that the dudes got about 200k more dps than me and I am just having trouble figuring out how or why. Like I get the one gear piece can make a difference, but clearly the video shows one thing and the guide shows another. Followed the guide to a tee and im at about 48k dps on spark. I understand his video is showing the "dps" setup, and not the other -- but I still feel like that alone (skill point setup I mean) wouldn't make a 200,000 damage difference. I also have my spark gem level at 19 base and sitting at level 24 currently but even where it's at now I find it hard to sustain mana (on bosses only -- btw my total ES is about 4400 and mana is about 5400)....and if I can't kill the boss in like 3 seconds I'm just cooked.
It would be really helpful if he either updated the guide with his exact gear to see what kind of "chunks" I am missing or slowly panned/scrolled over his gear so that I can maybe see one of those "aha" moments where I might be really missing out on something. Otherwise I'm just basically blowing through any divines I find testing with a different ring here and there and it's just not cutting it for me :(
Any help or guidance at all would be appreciated whether its another commenter or Cap
I am on the same boat as you
yeah the written guide is more confusing than anything especially when trying to match it up to the video.
the build in the video is the absolute end version which is like 300 div in gear if not more lol
sorry if this was mentioned and I missed it: you can force a cast speed roll on rings with caster essences, very easy to make some sick rings this way
Great guide! Thanks a lot
Thank you! You're the man!!
Very nice guide , i have been playing this and following along, really fun going threw all the different variations of the build.
It would be nice if you would show your states for the Endgame build. I would love to see how much crit chance you have and how much dmg Lightning Conduit has .
Also maybe show your endgame gear , i really wanted to see your amulet but could not find it. i think you showed it it some where in one of your videos, but maybe you link it on the maxroll -guide.
Finally a great leveling guide.
Great guide my guy, as always! One question though: In the written guide, you've assigned Branching Bolts to Weapon Set 2 (Lvl93MahuOrFocusSetup). Is that a mistake or am I missing something? Can anyone explain? Thanks in advance!
its an error with how the tree is coded to display, it was meant to showcase the last couple passives I edited for the trees but they made it bright green which makes it confusing with the weapon set 2 passive being green as well, you can probably notice those passives are a much brighter green and not the same. Its something that hopefully will be corrected soon
@@CaptainLance9 Thanks for the reply. Maybe someone else is just as confused as me when I saw it, so that is certainly helpful to know! Have a good one!
what level can i start this?
What do you recommend as the top 3 choices for Anointing the amulet? (I couldn't find the info on this part)
Wondering the same, seems he forgot.
@@MrSkme its in the guide near the bottom one of the blue drop downs he lists arcane blossom, frazzled, adverse growth, lay siege, wild storm or lightning rod but personally im going to use siphon because my mana regen cant keep up lol
man i remember your first video that popped off in delirium league, good times
Hey great guide!!! Just about to hit level 95, just wondered where you'd go with points on your 93 Mahu setup post what you've done already?
You must add warning! After eldritch battery converts your energy shield to mana then all your future % to maximum energy shield does not count anymore towards to max mana. So do this later in endgame. ( Even if you unlearn the skill and relearn can't fix it)
so my build is bricked if I learned eldritch battery in act 5 as the planner recommended? I don't think so. Because when I've learned EB, my ES disappeared but my mana pool only increased with the amount from my gear, not the increases from the tree. I think the trees are wrong and the gear for endgame doesn't support all the spirit required by the gems
What do you mean by "future" % of es. Does it mean what we had at that time would work even after ??
wtf, will they fix it? so i saw guys with 6-10k mana, but i have 3600 with battery, does it mean that they get eldritch later after getting good items?
and what about %increased maximum energy shield, does it will work after battery picking?
no wonder my es stuck at 300 mtfk
Where does these high DPS numbers on spark come from?
Mr Lance !! Great guidee, keep it up im following you since 2015... Btw how you have 0 Es? I have EB also but i still have 3k es and 4k mana... Dunno what im doing wrong
how to deal with mana regen?
Informative guide! I enjoyed watching through it. One question: how do you have white nighfall armor set? It seems to be selling only in purple color scheme and I like white lile the on showed in a vid a lot better! How do I get my hands on a white color scheme for a nighfall armor bundle? :)
Thanks for the guide Capitan, is really helped me to start pushing in my maps but there is one thing I can't figure out.
Where do you get your extra 60 Spirit from to run cast on shock since none of the gear you listed or the weighted sum options you provided us with have it??
Still really enjoying the build so far.
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@CaptainLance9
What am I missing? I'm at the point where I've switched to having EB/MoM with the Early Maps passive tree, but in doing so, none of the +%ES nodes do anything. For example, selecting Heavy Buffer (40% inc max ES) doesn't do anything to my mana pool or Spark DPS tooltip. Same thing if I select Patient Barrier - no changes. I feel like I missed a critical part of the puzzle but can't sort it out!
%es only affects es, flat es affects mana
Thanks for the video, top work
how much % elements resistance you got?
Hey lance, Thank you for the video and build. I wear temporalis and want to use blink on my main build, so I had to get spirit from my necklace +50 and corrupted helm +20 spirit. The mana tree I use is also so different so that I have 10k mana thanks to dream fragment, 12% mana from necklace and mahox. I have 700+ int and 350k spark dps. 2k+ mana regen (Life regen as well) I do not die in almost all situations. Btw I completely disabled crit ability with considered casting and do not go to these nods. I started and went with your build for long time, but then I swapped to this, I feel it is better but way more expensive for sure.
Great experience playing this build. How do you deal with the stuns as CI, MoM and Eldritch Battery? I tried annointing an additional charm slot to run a stone and freeze charm, but that doesn't work. I'm now playing with the unique amulet, no EB, 2.8k ES and 4,5k Mana and Icebreaker annoint. Damage went down from 45k to 25k if I remember correctly.. because of the passive tree changes for inc max ES.