For the amulet, if you have a magic amulet with cast speed and spell damage, using a greater essence for caster will guarantee a + level on all spells skills. Do note that it can roll from +1 to +3 levels.
Thanks for taking the time to explain your build. My sorc is L86 and only puts out 9K damage with spark. Hopefully taking ideas from your build improves that.
Try throwing unleash and wildshards into your ball lighting for some fun. Love the spreadsheet calculations. When I anointed my everlasting gaze I was very sad to not see a dps increase.
The everlasting gaze almost kept eldritch battery from being added into EA. It was providing infinite mana. The current version is intended but I think ES is just too strong right now, if any changes are made it will probably be reducing ES overall on gear or the tree. You should put quality on your Sigil of Power staff it makes the circle bigger. Was thinking of swapping into the lucky damage, but currently crit based as I want an amulet that I feel is worth anointing with that much currency. There was a video show casing that corruptions worked but did not show up on tooltip. They used spark and casted it once with two gems at same projectile breakpoint one with -1 corruption on it and one with no corruption on it at the same level. The one with -1 corruption on it shot 1 less projectile even though the tool tip in game said they shot the same number of projectiles. So this means you might be doing less damage than you think with the -1s around.
Thanks for the tip on quality, good to know. As for the corruption I did see a thread saying damage was tested with -1 / +1 and no difference was found, if what you say is true this is a big deal.
I did level a Gemling to 93 before rerolling Stormweaver, there is a lot of great arguments to be made for Gemling. +1 all gem levels, +14% free gem quality, and most importantly an extra 2 mana per point of int makes it a really strong late game option. Personally I wouldn't be surprised if gemling had a higher top end potential with high levels of gear investment. Part of going merc involves a lot of travel nodes, which means a lot of jewel sockets and int from travel. If you can get a lot of really powerful jewels, and some % mana scaling (like dream fragments) to go with the huge flat mana that gemling gets you could get 15K+ mana late game which makes you basically unkillable and also do insane DPS. It's also possible to get full damage taken from mana before life without going MoM using jewels. iirc Onemanaleft is currently theory crafting something like this, excited to see how that turns out.
Hey Frozen, would a "Pierce shot" annoint be a 50% damage increase with spark? since the 7 of the 14 projectiles can bounce and hit a boss a second time. Also, would this annoint be better than using "Heavy ammunition" and a "pierce" support gem?
pierce doesnt work well with chain which we get for free. For bossing, maybe, I didnt really dig into it much, previously I ran the snake ring for free fork which seemed good, eventually damage is high enough that it doesnt matter
I don't know if im blind... but did you cover the jewels you are using? Would love a quick run down on what stats you're looking for on jewels if not. Switched to this build and its AMAZING. Thank you.
Honestly I haven't really invested into jewels much yet, currency has all went to gear, but I believe you can get a +spark level jewel, adorned can be good, and maybe the "allocates nodes within radius" one if you can find a good spot. For stats, cast speed, movement speed, mana regen, shock or ailment magnitude, etc. will be good
hey great video, just wanted to ask the reasoning behind taking stormcharged i think it would skew the lucky calculation but im not really sure? also since your taking shock twice i would think power conduction would just be a auto include to get the magnitude up.
also i dont mean this to come off as rude, i do appriciate the video. using wild storm just got me to 70k tool tip with about 116k estimated with lightning rod, so thank you.
Even if you crit with base multi it still does more damage than a non-crit lucky on average so it isn't a DPS loss, the main advantage is the 40% ele damage from recent crit being a big increase for 1 node. The problem, which I forgot at the time, is that this doesn't work when controlled destruction is socketed in spark as we can't crit, so don't use this node with controlled destruction like I did in the video lol
@ yeah I would guess Persistence slotted over Controlled Destruction solves that. Also about the magnitude ( power conduction ) did you just not find it worth the points?
Shock duration and shock chance doesn't do much, since I apply to bosses with shocked ground anyway, so it's just 25% magnitude for 3 points, so 8.33 per point. It's okay, but we already have a lot, didn't seem worth. I didn't actually do the math though, maybe it is worth
Depends what you need, but you can get cast speed, mana regen, movement speed, shock magnitude, ailment magnitude, proj speed, damage taken from mana before life (only if you plan on dropping MoM and have an adorned). But the strong options are probably uniques, like prism of belief, adorned, etc.
dont need to change much, just get spirit on the neck + corrupted helm or darkness jewel etc. I currently run temporalis and have a 1K es chest as a swap for bossing not that its needed
@@FrozenSentinel How did you get the 210 spirit for blink and Archmage + Clarity? I don't see any on your gear except the chestpiece on mobalytics. Am I missing something here ? BTW you seem to have a very strong affinity for manastacking if I may add ^^
Awesome video but I think you're sleeping on weapon swap blink. Running blink on your main is actually suboptimal not only because of the unnecessary 60 spirit cost, but you lose the ability to dodge roll when blink is on CD. I dunno if you were trying to use the weapon swap key before, but all you need to do is have sigil/your curses on your second hand and get used to instantly animation canceling your curse startup into blink. It's extremely fluid once you get used to it. I'd do it even if it didn't save spirit because not having dodge roll feels bad to me.
I swapped the gloves to end up around 30% but mainly just having a giant mana pool and huge regen with a bit of a life buffer. There arent really many sources of big chaos damage hits, and DoTs we can handle with our high regen.
nice guide. im stalling on swaping out from the regular spark build cause i have a gut feeling there is going to be some changes coming in the new few days/weeks. The last thing i want to happen is, i use up all my resources swaping and then a critical component of that build got hit.
I'm also waiting to try a variant of this. PoB will also be out soon, so that will help give the analytical "go-ahead" at least. Just got pigeon-holed into a crit setup from a lucky wand drop but I think the non-crit lucky has more potential
Maybe, but CoS needs a bunch more spirit which ends up being hard to fit in with blink. You can do wep swap blink but I find that feels clunky and not enjoyable. You can fit in lightning conduit though since we have a lot of shock magnitude
Im curious, is there another use for excess spirit? I find myself being pretty comfortable with blink running on the 2nd weapon set and im wondering whether its even worth going for the extra spirit
If you're running a build with energy shield, either because you have gear that gives you ES after the EB conversion, or because you don't take EB, then grim feast is really amazing. It overfills so it's a free 2x ES for 30 spirit.
It might be useful early but since it gives you a flat amount of mana it doesn't really scale well with our huge pool. You might be able to do some cheese by pre-overflowing yourself before a boss fight by critting your own ice wall or something (not sure if this works, it did work for blood mage with the blood orbs), but probably not worth the effort and spirit cost anyway.
The nodes behind it are generic, it still averages out to decent cast speed with the dead node. if you have a lot on gear already there are probably better nodes to choose
Honestly spark. I leveled with spark + firewall, and used unleash arc for a bit of added single target. I used the EB unique helmet for a while to get some extra mana, got the arcane surge ascend ASAP, and then it was pretty smooth sailing from there. Spec archmage soon as you have it unlocked, it's worth it even if the mana sustain isn't perfect.
I modify 1 oor 2 things and your build feel great, skeletal cleric and blink weapon set 2, archmage cast on shock weapon set 1. annihilate everything in no time. I ditched flame wall ball lightning and lightning warp.
I'm curious how bow and quiver compares. I believe it's superior. right now with midlevel gear, (about 3div in price) my dps on spark says 32k but i have 500% pierce, which means i hit 6 times. so my damage is really upwords of 180k... that said, This is base spark, no cast on shock stuff, so i need to dive deep into which one is better. I will say trial master still takes a bit to kill with his 12m health. so i'm not sure what would be best. I don't have 60 spirit yet. i'll get there.
32k to 180k assumes every proj hits the max times which almost never will happen, but with the proj speed bonus it will still be decent. I havent confirmed myself but Ive heard some saying there is a max number of hits per cast or projectile or per time or something so more hit damage or cast likely wins over pierces. not sure on the math. Though with me 120k or so tooltip I kill trialmaster in seconds so you definitely arent getting full value from the pierces. Also you really need adorned + magic quiver effect nodes for that build In any case yes I do think bow quiver can be better potentially, check my latest upload. i tested it with an autobomber temporalis setup running 260 spirit.
Can someone please explain this to me? My amulet is allocated with Heavy Ammunition. Passive also lights up but it says unallocated. Same like in this video with Lightnig Rod. What does that mean now? How do I activate it?
Hy, i have a question, i have the build allmost 1 to 1 only armor and shield have 2 rune slots. i recreated it on my monk and my spark is at 40k dmg only, is the big dmg spike only cause of stormweaver class ? Im leveling her from time to time but im not getting close to the 110k you have there
with the crit version you can do crit stuff, for us cast speed, mana regen, mana on kill, etc etc. Unique jewels probably have more value but some top options are very expensive.
You can allocate any skill with distilled emotions from delirium events If you right click a distilled emotion in your inventory, a crafting window will pop up How do you know which emotions to instill on your amulet? Go to your skill tree, search for the skill and press alt when hovering over it. The three emotions needed will be shown in order (The order is important!)
@BuriedDutchman those is great Information thank you so much!!! I have one more question to clear up if you don't mind. How do I get the distilled isolation for this build? I played quite a few delirium T-13's and all I keep getting are distilled greed and pain. Is it pure chance or am I going about this the wrong way?
charm swap for certains things otherwise you can use the jewels that give threshold if not hit recently, with your base life plus that you can get pretty high threshold early on but it feels like a waste of a jewel slot late game. for the most part you just kill stuff off screen and stay at range.
Gemling ascendancy? Yes you can. I played this with Gemling first and leveled it to 93 to test it out, it's solid. You get a lot more flat mana which scales really well with gear investment. IMO Stormweaver will probably outperform gemling unless you have a crazy amount of currency to sink into the build. Talking dream fragments, insane jewels, etc.
with the crit version you can do that stuff, otherwise cast speed, mana regen, mana on kill, etc etc. Unique jewels probably have more value but some top options are very expensive.
Since we don't have ES we lack threshold for stun / freeze which becomes even more annoying with only 1 HP. We also do get a bit more buffer with our life pool after mana. CI is probably the optimal play for min-maxing once you have dream fragments for freeze, and using a stun charm to help with stun, and a significant mana pool to buffer big hits.
Honestly it's really hard for me to have perspective on what is considered "expensive". I am a PoE "casual" and most of my more experienced friends are rocking gear sets worth hundreds of divines, I see a lot of streamers refer to "only" having 50 divs as "poor". This obviously isn't budget, but I really didn't think it was "expensive" either, perhaps I was wrong on that lol.
Less expensive than other builds for sure Bu I think a lot of players don't have more than 10 div's Offering alternatives for expensive gear and showing how it affects the build (for example run t18s with it) would be a good addition to the build guides I'm missing that on most other build guides, and I saw you already suggest some alternatives for other gear pieces, so props!
@BuriedDutchman, tbh I didn't expect this video to get more than a few hundred views so I didn't put much effort in, but in hindsight yeah I could have showed the progression. It does perform well with budget though
Honestly I don't know, non-crit vs crit with lightning depends on how much investment you need to get a comparable damage boost from crit. If you can get more than 50% extra damage with little investment crit is probably better
Tbh I am not sure, it could be lack of cast speed, missing 6L, missing increased damage, missing gem levels / quality, etc. Can't really say without seeing the character
I have ~1600 mana regen per second my spark costs 310 mana. More mana gives a lot more regen as it scales your arcane surge, which multiples mana regen. Getting mana regen on gear and passives also goes a long way, and reduced mana cost nodes if you struggle with sustain.
You can target farm the belt, chest, and shield and craft mid tier everything else. Honestly can probably make a budget version for only like 10 div max, including the 5 for the amulet enchantment
You can level with spark and grab archmage soon as you are high enough level. I was doing T15 maps around level 70 with some gear acquired ahead of time.
Because of your extreme mana bar protecting your HP, would chaos inoculation not be preferable? Yeah you would lose 1600 HP but you would become immune to one of the most common damage sources in the game.
It's an option, yea. My biggest concern was thresholds with 1HP. The ES versions are able to get stun / freeze threshold based off max ES with passives / anoints but for us going pure mana it's pretty rough. Having 1500 ish life helps a lot to mitigate some of the smaller hits. If you had Dream Fragments (which negates freeze) and an anti stun charm, you could probably go CI, yeah. Or maybe a +2 charm belt, but I don't see that being worth dropping ingenuity. We do also get a little bit more buffer from the life itself, which is a nice added EHP against oneshots. I'd say if you are really min-maxing this setup though CI is probably the play.
@@FrozenSentinelI switched from the Everlasting build to this one, as I felt I had hit a ceiling which would need a lot of investment. I'm still CI with ~4.2k mana. One shots, random map geometry are definitely the Achilles heel, but I find my current setup a lot more fun. Clear speed has increased greatly. I have a 1div invictus and spent around 100 ex to swap out the rest of the gear, still need better gear, but this was all I could afford. Did Xhest T1 and T2 yesterday, took some time, but I was able to tank a few of his hits. Thanks for this build, gave me a way forward when I thought I'd have to spend days grinding mindlessly in hopes of currency. Casual gamers are struggling quite a bit with the current economy
no I forgot. Cast speed, mana regen, mana on kill, etc etc. Unique jewels probably have more value but some top options are very expensive like +3 spark or notable / small passive boosting ones, maybe a good xesht jewel or darkness jewel. Widowhail plus quiver with adorned / quiver nodes seems solid too but its a pretty different setup
How is gaze getting nerfed .... wldrixh takes shield makes it mana gaze gives mana as extra shield it's converted after the fact . Works exactly how it says .
Not much, just felt it made it slightly more reliable if one ball hits terrain or something or if you want to target them in sequence as they travel further. Totally not needed
Close, belt was 20, chest was 16, shield was 20, neck was 5, anoint 9, boots dropped and slammed, gloves 1 div, rings 4 div each, helm 3 div, wand 8 div, spark gem 2 div. Jewels all dropped or bought for less than 1 div. So about 92 divs for my current gear. That said I did discuss alternatives, and you can play spark completely fine without these uniques. Speed clearing T15 doesn't need much gear, but you will need investment to kill pinnacles in seconds.
@ Xdd cope if you’re good at the game you’ll be able to easily make that currency you can’t look at people who are actually good at the game and complain that they make content and iterations of builds you can’t afford that sounds like a personal problem not the creators problem
Mana multiplies damage from multiple angles, Arcane Surge scaling cast speed, mana scaling "increased" damage, Archmage scaling "damage added as lightning" etc. that's less than half the mana seen in this video. You really want some source of % max mana, and some good rings with 200+ mana, and ideally an ES chest with 700+ ES converted to mana with Eldritch Battery etc
For the amulet, if you have a magic amulet with cast speed and spell damage, using a greater essence for caster will guarantee a + level on all spells skills. Do note that it can roll from +1 to +3 levels.
Thanks for the tip!
its very nice to see a non "cast on x" build, glad to see you in POE2. Loved your LE content.
Thanks for taking the time to explain your build. My sorc is L86 and only puts out 9K damage with spark. Hopefully taking ideas from your build improves that.
was waiting for the spreadsheet magic. keep on delivering my man, its a joy
Just a lil spreadsheet, but had to work one in there :D
@@FrozenSentinel friend of mine is feeding chatgpt for theory crafting by screenshotting nodes lmao FiveHead or super lazy idk lol
I can't imagine that would produce good results lol
Glad to see u here in poe2🥳👍🏻 and happy new year 🎉
Happy new year!
FROZENNN!!!! Been a while since your glorious Last Epoch CoF test videos, good to see you on POE2 :D
great video! my int stacking spark stormweaver was inspired by this build. thanks for explaining the lightning rod interaction
Thank you Sir! Very helpful tutoraial and excellent explanation of how this build works.
Try throwing unleash and wildshards into your ball lighting for some fun. Love the spreadsheet calculations. When I anointed my everlasting gaze I was very sad to not see a dps increase.
The everlasting gaze almost kept eldritch battery from being added into EA. It was providing infinite mana. The current version is intended but I think ES is just too strong right now, if any changes are made it will probably be reducing ES overall on gear or the tree.
You should put quality on your Sigil of Power staff it makes the circle bigger.
Was thinking of swapping into the lucky damage, but currently crit based as I want an amulet that I feel is worth anointing with that much currency.
There was a video show casing that corruptions worked but did not show up on tooltip. They used spark and casted it once with two gems at same projectile breakpoint one with -1 corruption on it and one with no corruption on it at the same level. The one with -1 corruption on it shot 1 less projectile even though the tool tip in game said they shot the same number of projectiles. So this means you might be doing less damage than you think with the -1s around.
Thanks for the tip on quality, good to know.
As for the corruption I did see a thread saying damage was tested with -1 / +1 and no difference was found, if what you say is true this is a big deal.
@@FrozenSentinel Looks like there was an update anyways now the +1 corruption shows up in the DPS tooltip.
So what do u think about Merc going this
I did level a Gemling to 93 before rerolling Stormweaver, there is a lot of great arguments to be made for Gemling. +1 all gem levels, +14% free gem quality, and most importantly an extra 2 mana per point of int makes it a really strong late game option. Personally I wouldn't be surprised if gemling had a higher top end potential with high levels of gear investment.
Part of going merc involves a lot of travel nodes, which means a lot of jewel sockets and int from travel. If you can get a lot of really powerful jewels, and some % mana scaling (like dream fragments) to go with the huge flat mana that gemling gets you could get 15K+ mana late game which makes you basically unkillable and also do insane DPS. It's also possible to get full damage taken from mana before life without going MoM using jewels.
iirc Onemanaleft is currently theory crafting something like this, excited to see how that turns out.
Hey Frozen, would a "Pierce shot" annoint be a 50% damage increase with spark? since the 7 of the 14 projectiles can bounce and hit a boss a second time.
Also, would this annoint be better than using "Heavy ammunition" and a "pierce" support gem?
pierce doesnt work well with chain which we get for free. For bossing, maybe, I didnt really dig into it much, previously I ran the snake ring for free fork which seemed good, eventually damage is high enough that it doesnt matter
If The "Dream Fragment" Ring wouldn't be so expensive, its a good option vs Freeze.
I don't know if im blind... but did you cover the jewels you are using? Would love a quick run down on what stats you're looking for on jewels if not.
Switched to this build and its AMAZING. Thank you.
Honestly I haven't really invested into jewels much yet, currency has all went to gear, but I believe you can get a +spark level jewel, adorned can be good, and maybe the "allocates nodes within radius" one if you can find a good spot.
For stats, cast speed, movement speed, mana regen, shock or ailment magnitude, etc. will be good
@@FrozenSentinel Appreciate it man
hey great video, just wanted to ask the reasoning behind taking stormcharged i think it would skew the lucky calculation but im not really sure? also since your taking shock twice i would think power conduction would just be a auto include to get the magnitude up.
also i dont mean this to come off as rude, i do appriciate the video. using wild storm just got me to 70k tool tip with about 116k estimated with lightning rod, so thank you.
Even if you crit with base multi it still does more damage than a non-crit lucky on average so it isn't a DPS loss, the main advantage is the 40% ele damage from recent crit being a big increase for 1 node.
The problem, which I forgot at the time, is that this doesn't work when controlled destruction is socketed in spark as we can't crit, so don't use this node with controlled destruction like I did in the video lol
@ yeah I would guess Persistence slotted over Controlled Destruction solves that. Also about the magnitude ( power conduction ) did you just not find it worth the points?
Shock duration and shock chance doesn't do much, since I apply to bosses with shocked ground anyway, so it's just 25% magnitude for 3 points, so 8.33 per point. It's okay, but we already have a lot, didn't seem worth. I didn't actually do the math though, maybe it is worth
what stats do you prio for jewels?
Depends what you need, but you can get cast speed, mana regen, movement speed, shock magnitude, ailment magnitude, proj speed, damage taken from mana before life (only if you plan on dropping MoM and have an adorned).
But the strong options are probably uniques, like prism of belief, adorned, etc.
hey great vid, how would u alter the build if incorporating temporalis?
dont need to change much, just get spirit on the neck + corrupted helm or darkness jewel etc. I currently run temporalis and have a 1K es chest as a swap for bossing not that its needed
Nice video! One thing im wondering is why do you have stormcharged allocated if you cant crit?
It's a mistake, I forgot I socketed controlled destruction when I got 6L
@@FrozenSentinel Ahh gotcha! Thank you for the reply!
hi, how do you get 51 STR & 51 DEX to wear the chest? Morior Invictus
Attributes on gear and/or the attribute travel nodes in the tree, just swap them from int to dex/str
I add int to my boots and dex to my glove and the remaining i got from passive tree. Just put the mininum of atr then the rest to int for more mana
Sick video, very well explained!
Thank you :)
what kind of end game jewels should i look for?
cast speed, mana on kill, mana regen, uniques (darkness, megalomaniac, node boosting ones, + spark levels, etc.)
Passive tree on mobalitycs doesnt work anymore...
Could you please update this?
Im out of country for the next couple days will update when I can
Amazing Build and Guide, thanks !
call me new but how do you get the other skill if it way down there? what do you mean by anoite
That is a very vague question. Which skill are you referring to? Down where...?
You use the delirium mechanic, use distilled emotions to add the passive to your amulet
Any reason for not having blink on the off hand to reduce the spirit requirement on the build?
You can, I just found it clunky and annoying
@@FrozenSentinel How did you get the 210 spirit for blink and Archmage + Clarity? I don't see any on your gear except the chestpiece on mobalytics. Am I missing something here ? BTW you seem to have a very strong affinity for manastacking if I may add ^^
@@Clipsfromthabong corrupted helmets add 35~ and 65~ from amulet, no idea how he got the extra 10 tho im getting them from ventors gamble
@@Clipsfromthabong blink is only 60 spirit
Awesome video but I think you're sleeping on weapon swap blink. Running blink on your main is actually suboptimal not only because of the unnecessary 60 spirit cost, but you lose the ability to dodge roll when blink is on CD.
I dunno if you were trying to use the weapon swap key before, but all you need to do is have sigil/your curses on your second hand and get used to instantly animation canceling your curse startup into blink. It's extremely fluid once you get used to it. I'd do it even if it didn't save spirit because not having dodge roll feels bad to me.
I tried it and wasn't a fan, if you like that makes gearing easier
I never felt the need for dodge roll once I tried Blink with the lower CD and two charges supports.
hi man crazy build ! was just wondering how you survive with just 10% chaos ress ?
same question
I swapped the gloves to end up around 30% but mainly just having a giant mana pool and huge regen with a bit of a life buffer.
There arent really many sources of big chaos damage hits, and DoTs we can handle with our high regen.
nice guide. im stalling on swaping out from the regular spark build cause i have a gut feeling there is going to be some changes coming in the new few days/weeks. The last thing i want to happen is, i use up all my resources swaping and then a critical component of that build got hit.
agreed, seems likely
I'm also waiting to try a variant of this. PoB will also be out soon, so that will help give the analytical "go-ahead" at least. Just got pigeon-holed into a crit setup from a lucky wand drop but I think the non-crit lucky has more potential
@@brettdaniels22 PoB? whats that\
Sups ， good insight on this build but what's the defensive layer on this?
Killing stuff before it hits you and having a huge mana pool with MoM with potentially thousands of regen per second
Would your tree benefit lightning conduit setup with CoS? Sorry if you mentioned it, may have missed it, great video though!
Maybe, but CoS needs a bunch more spirit which ends up being hard to fit in with blink. You can do wep swap blink but I find that feels clunky and not enjoyable. You can fit in lightning conduit though since we have a lot of shock magnitude
@@FrozenSentinel cast on crit would be the way to go
@Gamma_Labs, yea that's 100 spirit though, harder to fit
Which runes or soul cores did you put into the chest and shield?
%ES for high ES pieces or %mana / %rarity otherwise
@FrozenSentinel ty
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Im curious, is there another use for excess spirit? I find myself being pretty comfortable with blink running on the 2nd weapon set and im wondering whether its even worth going for the extra spirit
Cast on Shock is probably the thing most use instead of blink so that might be the play
If you're running a build with energy shield, either because you have gear that gives you ES after the EB conversion, or because you don't take EB, then grim feast is really amazing. It overfills so it's a free 2x ES for 30 spirit.
@@FrozenSentinel bet, thanks. your video was really well put together :)
Great Build!
It might be useful early but since it gives you a flat amount of mana it doesn't really scale well with our huge pool.
You might be able to do some cheese by pre-overflowing yourself before a boss fight by critting your own ice wall or something (not sure if this works, it did work for blood mage with the blood orbs), but probably not worth the effort and spirit cost anyway.
Mana remnants has a CD, it's fairly useless when you have anything larger than a 2k mana pool.
projectile skill or spell skills work for spark on amulet?
Yes
Why did you take cast speed from holding a melee weapon, is a wand a melee weapon?
The nodes behind it are generic, it still averages out to decent cast speed with the dead node. if you have a lot on gear already there are probably better nodes to choose
What's the benefit of Ball Lightning + Lightning Warp vs Orb of Storms with the Lightning Warp mods?
shocked ground seems to be a more reliable way to apply shocks and exposure vs orb of storms
which leveling build would you recommend that can switch into this build later on?
Honestly spark. I leveled with spark + firewall, and used unleash arc for a bit of added single target. I used the EB unique helmet for a while to get some extra mana, got the arcane surge ascend ASAP, and then it was pretty smooth sailing from there. Spec archmage soon as you have it unlocked, it's worth it even if the mana sustain isn't perfect.
I modify 1 oor 2 things and your build feel great, skeletal cleric and blink weapon set 2, archmage cast on shock weapon set 1. annihilate everything in no time. I ditched flame wall ball lightning and lightning warp.
Sounds cool, you do the sacrifice thing for damage boost?
Hey, are there any updates on the build? I like this Lucky Strike build a lot and want to proceed and improve further. Please make a new video)
Ive been away the past 2 weeks so havent had a chance to play, my current version uses temporalis though and spirit which IMO is the play end game.
I'm curious how bow and quiver compares. I believe it's superior. right now with midlevel gear, (about 3div in price) my dps on spark says 32k but i have 500% pierce, which means i hit 6 times. so my damage is really upwords of 180k... that said, This is base spark, no cast on shock stuff, so i need to dive deep into which one is better. I will say trial master still takes a bit to kill with his 12m health. so i'm not sure what would be best. I don't have 60 spirit yet. i'll get there.
32k to 180k assumes every proj hits the max times which almost never will happen, but with the proj speed bonus it will still be decent.
I havent confirmed myself but Ive heard some saying there is a max number of hits per cast or projectile or per time or something so more hit damage or cast likely wins over pierces. not sure on the math.
Though with me 120k or so tooltip I kill trialmaster in seconds so you definitely arent getting full value from the pierces.
Also you really need adorned + magic quiver effect nodes for that build
In any case yes I do think bow quiver can be better potentially, check my latest upload. i tested it with an autobomber temporalis setup running 260 spirit.
hey @frozensentinel how did you scale your mana regen so high?
arcane surge scales mana regen higher per max mana. base mana regen also goes higher. also have some regen on gear
where u get casting speed and mana regeneration from since almost MOST all your gear doesnt hve mana regen and casting speed?
Arcane surge gives both and is scaled by your max mana because of stormweaver
@@FrozenSentinel thanks alot i didnt know that.. sry for quite newbie question im a new player.. i never played poe1
what gems/soul core are you using?
Mostly % mana
Can someone please explain this to me? My amulet is allocated with Heavy Ammunition. Passive also lights up but it says unallocated. Same like in this video with Lightnig Rod. What does that mean now? How do I activate it?
Unallocated just means you didnt use passive points to get the node iirc, anoints do still work.
Hy, i have a question, i have the build allmost 1 to 1 only armor and shield have 2 rune slots. i recreated it on my monk and my spark is at 40k dmg only, is the big dmg spike only cause of stormweaver class ? Im leveling her from time to time but im not getting close to the 110k you have there
Stormweaver gives a massive amount of damage yea, arcane surge scaling alone more than doubles your DPS
@FrozenSentinel kk ty, still the build is so good IT Works on Monk l. Running Tier 18 maps without a problem
Hi, which Jewel that need to focus for this build?
Cast speed, mana regen, mana on kill, etc etc. Unique jewels probably have more value but some top options are very expensive.
yo i have same gear some pieces arent the best or worst roles im curious how you have 7.6k mana and i have 4.6k mana
probably different rolls, big roll ranges on the uniques. The mana rings + ingenuity is big too
@FrozenSentinel i sold all my gear and bought temporalis and rerolled blood mage lmaoo
@@kegen121 :D gotta have our fun before the nerf hammers, I get it
Now imagine if we have volatility support from poe 1
Heya, what type of jewels should I be looking for when I'm not playing ES (like here)
with the crit version you can do crit stuff, for us cast speed, mana regen, mana on kill, etc etc. Unique jewels probably have more value but some top options are very expensive.
Do you think this build gonna get nerfed ?
Probably
Build is going to get nuked, not nerfed.
what jewel option you using sir?
Honestly just some random jewels with shock magnitude, mana regen, cast speed, etc. you can do an adorned setup if you want
hi do you hv suggestion build with maximum just 5div for sum all equipment?
for me, new player in this game.. this build so expensive lol
I would recommend CaptainLance's budget version tbh, it's pretty solid
What are the stats i should look in jewels ?
Cast speed, mana regen, mana on kill, etc etc. Unique jewels probably have more value but some top options are very expensive.
How do you even search for the amulet that allocates lightning rod? I tried looking for it and could not find anything on the trade site anywhere!
You can allocate any skill with distilled emotions from delirium events
If you right click a distilled emotion in your inventory, a crafting window will pop up
How do you know which emotions to instill on your amulet? Go to your skill tree, search for the skill and press alt when hovering over it. The three emotions needed will be shown in order
(The order is important!)
It's not an amulet. Use the "Distilled" drops from Delirium to Instill the node on any amulet. So pick a good amulet :)
@BuriedDutchman those is great Information thank you so much!!! I have one more question to clear up if you don't mind. How do I get the distilled isolation for this build? I played quite a few delirium T-13's and all I keep getting are distilled greed and pain. Is it pure chance or am I going about this the wrong way?
@ginzosquingilly6711
Don't have enough knowledge of delirium unfortunately
I'm definitely planning on running delerium this evening though :D
They aren't equally weighted, it's probably easier to buy them on the exchange
Is it expensive(build price) to do all content with spark ?
It's not expensive to get started, but it is expensive to min-max as it's pretty meta right now.
If i pick lightning rod, will damage increase in numbers on spark?
iirc tooltip doesnt reflect it, but it seems to be a big boost.
How do you deal with stun threshold?
charm swap for certains things otherwise you can use the jewels that give threshold if not hit recently, with your base life plus that you can get pretty high threshold early on but it feels like a waste of a jewel slot late game.
for the most part you just kill stuff off screen and stay at range.
can i use a gemling leg for this build with some modification? i mean, can it work? Thanks!
Gemling ascendancy? Yes you can. I played this with Gemling first and leveled it to 93 to test it out, it's solid. You get a lot more flat mana which scales really well with gear investment. IMO Stormweaver will probably outperform gemling unless you have a crazy amount of currency to sink into the build. Talking dream fragments, insane jewels, etc.
@@FrozenSentinel Sweet. I'll probably try it out and see how it does. Thanks man!
@@FrozenSentinel Subscribed by the way. Loved the explanation. Ty again.
hii, its me idea or i dont see what good or normal Jewel we can use with that build?
with the crit version you can do that stuff, otherwise cast speed, mana regen, mana on kill, etc etc. Unique jewels probably have more value but some top options are very expensive.
Idk if I missed it in the video, but why no CI?
Since we don't have ES we lack threshold for stun / freeze which becomes even more annoying with only 1 HP. We also do get a bit more buffer with our life pool after mana.
CI is probably the optimal play for min-maxing once you have dream fragments for freeze, and using a stun charm to help with stun, and a significant mana pool to buffer big hits.
@@FrozenSentinel But then u also have to use gear to get capped Chaos res which is abit more restricitve and limiting I feel like
@@Vezuls You definitely don't need cap chaos res, especially since GGG reduced chaos damage, and especially not with such a huge EHP pool
says he doesnt have expensive gear bro is wearing a 5 socket chest piece and has a 3 socket omen shield ya right buddy lol
Honestly it's really hard for me to have perspective on what is considered "expensive". I am a PoE "casual" and most of my more experienced friends are rocking gear sets worth hundreds of divines, I see a lot of streamers refer to "only" having 50 divs as "poor". This obviously isn't budget, but I really didn't think it was "expensive" either, perhaps I was wrong on that lol.
Less expensive than other builds for sure
Bu I think a lot of players don't have more than 10 div's
Offering alternatives for expensive gear and showing how it affects the build (for example run t18s with it) would be a good addition to the build guides
I'm missing that on most other build guides, and I saw you already suggest some alternatives for other gear pieces, so props!
@BuriedDutchman, tbh I didn't expect this video to get more than a few hundred views so I didn't put much effort in, but in hindsight yeah I could have showed the progression. It does perform well with budget though
Compared to the other youtubers... This is pretty inexpensive tbf. But for most new/casual players it's a ot. Just perspective.
@@Vezuls agreed
Does it work well with invoker monk? In ur opinion
Honestly I don't know, non-crit vs crit with lightning depends on how much investment you need to get a comparable damage boost from crit. If you can get more than 50% extra damage with little investment crit is probably better
@FrozenSentinel thanks 🍺
This is absolutely the way to play archmage
Is +70% spell dmg same as +70% lightning dmg on wand when looking at spark dps?
Yea
Hope you will continue with a spark build after the inevitable nerfs
will see! I am interested in something new but may revisit spark
This video gave me new hope was about to ditch this game because i wasn't progressing anymore but i think it will help me
can you help me please i have eveything you have but it says my dps is only 49k and not over 100k dps like you
Most likely lower mana pool which scales basically everything
I have 7.6k mana though
Tbh I am not sure, it could be lack of cast speed, missing 6L, missing increased damage, missing gem levels / quality, etc. Can't really say without seeing the character
How do you sustain your mana like this on boss kill?
did u see his rings..
I have ~1600 mana regen per second my spark costs 310 mana. More mana gives a lot more regen as it scales your arcane surge, which multiples mana regen. Getting mana regen on gear and passives also goes a long way, and reduced mana cost nodes if you struggle with sustain.
Yep the rings were 3-4 div each iirc. Breach is strong
which loot filter is this?
The CDR strict loot filter
what give you lucky hit talent??
lightning rod anoint on amulet
@@FrozenSentinel oh ty
without cast on shock dmg is ok, but no reason to avoid cos conduit, coz its insane dmg boost
Yup, I agree. You'll probably want to lean a bit heavier into shock magnitude then
I mean your gear is crazy, the neck inchant, body armor, belt... thats like close to 60-80 divines build
You can target farm the belt, chest, and shield and craft mid tier everything else. Honestly can probably make a budget version for only like 10 div max, including the 5 for the amulet enchantment
Spark is strong enough that yea you just need to get items with mana and some resists and youll do fine in high tier maps.
you are not chaos inoculation?
Correct
hmm i wonder how to adapt this to a full lighten warp build, find the playstyle more exciting
You can, just grab some AoE nodes and do Ball Lightning + Lightning Warp spam
how do u make so muchgold?
Literally playing the game. A lot of us are over 300 hours.
I got a lot from vendoring lower tier maps, some rares sell for 8k or so. Dont bother anymore
why we need 21lvl archmage? It is only 5.05 vs 5.0.
It goes from 6% damage added as lightning per 100 mana to 7%, pretty big difference.
Happy new year 🥳🍺
Happy new year!
we need a budget / levelling version
I will get to it if I have time but for now I'd recommend CaptainLance9's guide budget version
Where is the frost claw build?😅
The Cast on Freeze thing was basically it, but they killed it haha
what level can i start this?
You can level with spark and grab archmage soon as you are high enough level. I was doing T15 maps around level 70 with some gear acquired ahead of time.
Love creative things like this
did you delete this? mobalytics doesnt pull up now
I didnt, Im out of country for the next couple days will update when I can
Because of your extreme mana bar protecting your HP, would chaos inoculation not be preferable? Yeah you would lose 1600 HP but you would become immune to one of the most common damage sources in the game.
It's an option, yea. My biggest concern was thresholds with 1HP. The ES versions are able to get stun / freeze threshold based off max ES with passives / anoints but for us going pure mana it's pretty rough. Having 1500 ish life helps a lot to mitigate some of the smaller hits.
If you had Dream Fragments (which negates freeze) and an anti stun charm, you could probably go CI, yeah. Or maybe a +2 charm belt, but I don't see that being worth dropping ingenuity.
We do also get a little bit more buffer from the life itself, which is a nice added EHP against oneshots.
I'd say if you are really min-maxing this setup though CI is probably the play.
@@FrozenSentinelI switched from the Everlasting build to this one, as I felt I had hit a ceiling which would need a lot of investment. I'm still CI with ~4.2k mana. One shots, random map geometry are definitely the Achilles heel, but I find my current setup a lot more fun. Clear speed has increased greatly. I have a 1div invictus and spent around 100 ex to swap out the rest of the gear, still need better gear, but this was all I could afford. Did Xhest T1 and T2 yesterday, took some time, but I was able to tank a few of his hits.
Thanks for this build, gave me a way forward when I thought I'd have to spend days grinding mindlessly in hopes of currency.
Casual gamers are struggling quite a bit with the current economy
@@prithwirajp Thanks for sharing! Happy to hear the build is working for you :D
did he mention jewels and i missed it?
no I forgot.
Cast speed, mana regen, mana on kill, etc etc. Unique jewels probably have more value but some top options are very expensive like +3 spark or notable / small passive boosting ones, maybe a good xesht jewel or darkness jewel.
Widowhail plus quiver with adorned / quiver nodes seems solid too but its a pretty different setup
Yo, Frozen, long time no see!
still worth it?
Still good yea
How do you get so much mana
A bunch of flat mana on gear + from int + passives, then a bunch of increased mana on gear
ty for the build
How is gaze getting nerfed .... wldrixh takes shield makes it mana gaze gives mana as extra shield it's converted after the fact . Works exactly how it says .
Even if the interaction itself was intended to work that way the numbers are just way too high to be something that doesn't get nerfed in some way.
What is the point of Scattershot for Ball Lightning?
Not much, just felt it made it slightly more reliable if one ball hits terrain or something or if you want to target them in sequence as they travel further. Totally not needed
Your build is atleast 100+ divines.. 99% of the viewers will never reach any near half of your gear bro
It’s really not hard to make 100 divines people make multiple mirrors easily skill issue
Close, belt was 20, chest was 16, shield was 20, neck was 5, anoint 9, boots dropped and slammed, gloves 1 div, rings 4 div each, helm 3 div, wand 8 div, spark gem 2 div. Jewels all dropped or bought for less than 1 div. So about 92 divs for my current gear.
That said I did discuss alternatives, and you can play spark completely fine without these uniques. Speed clearing T15 doesn't need much gear, but you will need investment to kill pinnacles in seconds.
@@Ahmedli-hz6wp this is the dumbest comment ive ever read
@ Xdd cope if you’re good at the game you’ll be able to easily make that currency you can’t look at people who are actually good at the game and complain that they make content and iterations of builds you can’t afford that sounds like a personal problem not the creators problem
Here we go again with noobs complaining instead of trying to find solutions ..
. The annoint is 19 divs itslef BTW
Isolation is currently 4.2 div each, and suffering is 1.4 div so 9.6 total
I also got spirit on amulet so i can run arch, blink and cos/conduit. weaponswap blink aint it.
Agree, I don't like the swap tech
after watching this, i think non-crit is just better. crit version have big numbers on tultip but i think that's not accurate
What is lucky hit?
When spell hit target it rolls damage between 10 and 100 for example. With "luck" it will roll it twice and choose the bigger one.
@@saldex6946 Ah I see, thank you!!!
Insane build
12 Divines for those Distilled
Yea it's pretty rough
bruh to get ur passive on ur necklace is 1150 exalts bruhhhhhh
It's not mandatory, you still do enough damage to melt everything instantly without it, Archmage is just that strong
So i've done this build now but i'm super squishy
How much mana?
@@FrozenSentinel 3600, i think the problem is my spark dps is still only at 15k i can't figure out how you got yours to be so high
should be noted i'm level 90 atm
Mana multiplies damage from multiple angles, Arcane Surge scaling cast speed, mana scaling "increased" damage, Archmage scaling "damage added as lightning" etc. that's less than half the mana seen in this video. You really want some source of % max mana, and some good rings with 200+ mana, and ideally an ES chest with 700+ ES converted to mana with Eldritch Battery etc
@@FrozenSentinel i was looking at your chest piece trying to understand why you took so much ES i was wondering if it did infact convert, thank you!