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

Could Power Siphon be worth using as main attack?

Easy power charges and free culling?

So this is probably my favorite build of all time. I played it last league and am doing it again this league. I don't have Berek's Grip or the amulet, though.

1) Does using Berek's Grip make a massive difference with the build? I'm already doing OK with what life leech/recovery I already have, and mostly die to insta-gibs at this point, but I still do occasionally die from running out of health potions >.< Am I correct in assuming that the main reason for this ring is the life leech from shocked enemies?

2) Is Choir of the Storm there just for the damage? It doesn't seem to provide any defense so I assume it's just a DPS multiplier for this build.

Is here any options to handle bosses without second poetpen setup and/or shiny 21/20 gems? I mean, most of them are ezpz but it takes too much time, and i really dont wanna skip them like some gay deadeye wanderer.

A couple questions...

1. Why does Soul of Tukohama pantheon reset when I'm lightning warping around. I've been looking, and it's supposed to still count as "stationary". Does poet's pen mess this up somehow, or did they change it?


2. I got a poet's pen with % to gain power charge on crit. This is universal, right? I don't have to get a crit with the pen itself, or with only the gems socketed in it? (I know it's probably a stupid question, but I'd like to double check) :)


3. I have lightning warp, less duration, and swift affliction, all near lvl 20, but I still feel slow. Very often I'll try to warp and it's not ready yet and I just shoot barrage with no warp. any advice?


Love the build so far!! Thanks guys!

Additional accuracy is better than LMP if you don't need the attack speed. With my level 93 guy, 20/20 additional accuracy brings my barrage hit up from 58% to 84%. 84% of 8 projectiles is 6.72, whreas 58% of 10 projectiles is 5.8. That means that the accuracy, on average, involves about one more projectile hitting than LMP would.

I suggest the following links if you can get a power charge on crit pen.

FlameDash/FastCast/ArcSur/IncDur
Frenzy/HoT/CoH/AssMark
CWDT/ImmC/IncDur/BloodRage

If you can't get such a pen, probably swap flame dash and faster casting back to orb of storms and PCoC.

For my main link, I use Barrage/FastAtt/GMP/LGoH/Accuracy. Link six would probably be LMP, if you have a six link.

If you are 5L like I am, the last socket can either be portal or an ice golem. The golem adds another 3% chance to hit, from 84% to 87, and around 2% damage. Personally I just use portal, since I find recasting a golem annoying.

With blood rage keeping frenzy charges up during mapping is easy, so barrage is your main attack skill 99% of the time. You only use frenzy for regaining/keeping charges on bosses. For things sub guardian, it isn't even necessary.

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Kurnis wrote:

3. I have lightning warp, less duration, and swift affliction, all near lvl 20, but I still feel slow. Very often I'll try to warp and it's not ready yet and I just shoot barrage with no warp. any advice?

Yeah, the power charge on crit is universal. Very useful. I have it on my ball lightning pen, and it makes keeping up power charges on bosses a breeze. No more orb of storms PCoC.

For your lightning warp, it sounds like you might be skipping activations? Poet's pens have a default internal cooldown of 250 ms. Your theoretical maximum attack speed is 4.0. Faster than that, and you'll skip casts due to getting out of sync with the pen's timer. Due to latency though, you need to be a bit slower than that. In practice, I find that around 3.8 is where you want to be when you are all frenzy charged and blood raged up.

Great build. Enjoying it more than my pens build last league. Much more durable.

I made some tweaks but was certainly inspired by this build. For ascendancy I took elemental leech and buffed golems. They seem to live ok when leveled and immune to elemental damage. The leech let’s me use Essence Worm with Wrath and still do MOM with 100% unreserved mana. No amulet yet, and since POB shows a modest gain with it I’m not sure it’s needed.

Using frenzy in the gloves with GMP, curse on hit, enfeeble. Also power siphon with LGOH, cast on crit, and whatever. Right now it’s ball lightning for more mana return. I haven’t played enough to get guardians yet but I’m curious if this pairing will be competitive with barrage. For mapping stuff dies so fast I don’t worry about frenzy, and cold snap tied to cwdt helps with passive frenzy generation.

Feels ideally suited to incursions.

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H_Espenhein wrote:

Could Power Siphon be worth using as main attack?

Easy power charges and free culling?

Yes some guy posted in here that he is using Blood rage + Frenzy + Warlod Mark.

I tested that and yes is awesome, almost always at full charges.

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jedy567 wrote:

So this is probably my favorite build of all time. I played it last league and am doing it again this league. I don't have Berek's Grip or the amulet, though.

1) Does using Berek's Grip make a massive difference with the build? I'm already doing OK with what life leech/recovery I already have, and mostly die to insta-gibs at this point, but I still do occasionally die from running out of health potions >.< Am I correct in assuming that the main reason for this ring is the life leech from shocked enemies?

2) Is Choir of the Storm there just for the damage? It doesn't seem to provide any defense so I assume it's just a DPS multiplier for this build.

Yes Berek's is there only to provide leech, and if you feel ok without it you can skip it you can also try a cheap amulet with light damage leeched as life, so you can test if leech is going to help you.

Choir yes its only for dps, and what most of the people dont see, its that lightning bolt dealts +50k dps (80k for me). So this give us like 50k dps from pure affixes + 50k dps from lightning bolt.

you only have 4.9k of life in PoB :c

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Hennri wrote:

you only have 4.9k of life in PoB :c

MoM - Read the build mechanics.