[3.4] Teleports Behind You - Poet's Pen Lightning Warp & Arc, MF / Facetank t16 / Shaper / U. Elder

While we wait for YT to answer the other questions, I want to share a very small but impactful modification I made after my last post that seems to have a bit of "best of both worlds" feel.

I only switched two things: wrath is out, Herald of Thunder is back, but still socketed in essence worm. And i went back to mastermind of discord.

I kept the conductivity/cwdt/coh/shock nova setup, and essence worm because even though the herald mana reservation with mastermind of discord is like 19%, that's all eHP because of MoM. So the more the better.

Herald+discord just seems like more damage. I haven't had life sustain issues yet but only ran a few maps with it.

I've quickly try this one but why does my Lightning Warp takes 4-5 seconds before I can use it again? I can't seem to mimic the video where the warp is being spammed. Thanks!

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kr1pk wrote:

I've quickly try this one but why does my Lightning Warp takes 4-5 seconds before I can use it again? I can't seem to mimic the video where the warp is being spammed. Thanks!

Looking at your gear, you aren't following the guide. You need two (or really 4 for boss swap) poet's pens. Here's my set up, the first two are for mapping and include arc and lightning warp. When you fire barrage (on my chest, linked below as well), lightning warp and arc will fire automatically.

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kr1pk wrote:

I've quickly try this one but why does my Lightning Warp takes 4-5 seconds before I can use it again? I can't seem to mimic the video where the warp is being spammed. Thanks!

I'm not sure how you setup the gems in the Pens but you need the support gems for it to be fast: Lightning Warp, Swift Affliction, Lesser Duration.

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Petfo0d wrote:

Why exactly did the indigon variation feel unbalanced? How much different is the survivability? Also, wont the elemental penetration corruption on the pens be better than the base spell damage?
Also how big a DPS increase are Atziris promise and Vinktars? Wont a Wise oak be better?

I've tried many of the corrupted Pen's but always seem to come back to the spell damage ones. Others have mentioned the same thing but use whatever works for you and your char.

For the flasks, run whatever suits your play style and character stats. This build is so well balanced that I really don't use them much other than to counter things such as bleeding, chaos damage and also for increased movement speed. To each their own...

As for Indigon, give it a try. You need to change things up a bit to get mana gained on hit in order to sustain your mana.

@DaRupp and YT_HB

Appreciate the quick answer, my bad for not really getting all the gems. Been playing now for 1 week after having an account for years :D Thanks!

Any suggestions what changes I can make to my Helmet Gem-Links since i already get Power Charges from Power Siphon?.

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broncean wrote:

Any suggestions what changes I can make to my Helmet Gem-Links since i already get Power Charges from Power Siphon?.

I would assume just increased crit or Lightning pen.

how is power siphon? I was thinking of using it, but the lgoh from barrage seems better. Though now that I'm using paragon it might be worth dropping it since I wont need the lgoh as much.

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Ndog921 wrote:

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broncean wrote:

Any suggestions what changes I can make to my Helmet Gem-Links since i already get Power Charges from Power Siphon?.

I would assume just increased crit or Lightning pen.

how is power siphon? I was thinking of using it, but the lgoh from barrage seems better. Though now that I'm using paragon it might be worth dropping it since I wont need the lgoh as much.

PS is a much better choice in my opinion since you can still use LGOH with it. It has 8 projectiles at max level so also no need for GMP. Since it also has built in Culling you can also drop Culling Strike. It has the same APS as Barrage and you get a near 100% up-time of power charges so you can drop Orb of Storms setup for something more defensive like a Herald + Arctic Armor + Enlighten 4. Right now I'm using PS -> Blind -> Faster Attacks -> Addition Accuracy -> LGOH.

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Akanaro wrote:

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Ndog921 wrote:

I would assume just increased crit or Lightning pen.

how is power siphon? I was thinking of using it, but the lgoh from barrage seems better. Though now that I'm using paragon it might be worth dropping it since I wont need the lgoh as much.

PS is a much better choice in my opinion since you can still use LGOH with it. It has 8 projectiles at max level so also no need for GMP. Since it also has built in Culling you can also drop Culling Strike. It has the same APS as Barrage and you get a near 100% up-time of power charges so you can drop Orb of Storms setup for something more defensive like a Herald + Arctic Armor + Enlighten 4. Right now I'm using PS -> Blind -> Faster Attacks -> Addition Accuracy -> LGOH.

I guess that makes sense. I might give it a try, but I would have to recolor my inpulsa and idt I really want to bother with that atm.