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

Is there a sheaper version of the build ?

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You can't do double arc. Poet's Pen puts a global cooldown on all spells of the same name when it casts any of them.

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Deathwing6 wrote:

You can't do double arc. Poet's Pen puts a global cooldown on all spells of the same name when it casts any of them.

What post are you referring to? I don't recall it being said to use 2 arcs at the same time.

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CuchulainnMC wrote:

Uber elder down....

Spoiler

First try in this league, not the cleanest run and used all 6 portals to kill him because my last uber elder fight was 3 months ago. Only watched my own uber elder kill video from last league to remind myself the fight mechanics.

https://youtu.be/OtxG6qXBlnA (forgot to mute my mic sorry)

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Some personal thoughts on uber elder
-Ball lightning takes too long for travelling to actually hit something, cuz I can't facetank elder/shaper all the time, I have to dodge many things during the fight, especially at phase 3 and 4 (elder start using tentacles slam and his own slam).

-I'll try replace slow proj or other skills next time and see how it goes. This will definitely hurt my mana recovery from mind of the council. But I hope that gives me more dps on this fight

-Soul of ryslatha minor pantheon gives more life flask charges for extra room for errors, like mispositioning and taking DoT on the ground, shaper ball/beam, elder siphon

For those who on a tight budget
-I'd say 2 poets pen, 5L inpulsa and mind of the council is mandatory.

-Leech
You can use a shaper amulet with "% lightning damage leeched as life"
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essence worm ring + watcher eye with vitality life leech

I went with essence worm variant because I started this build with around 2ex, and solved my leech problem for 30-40c. Also can upgrade into a better version if you have more budget

Once I can afford a wrath penetration watcher eye, I replace vitality with wrath on essence worm, respec mastermind of discord and use paragon of calamity instead. "Wrath + lightning pen" gives similar dps compare with "mastermind of discord + herald of thunder". But I can get more unreserved mana for mom, 0.5% life leech, reflect immune for smoother mapping.

-Amulet
A rare amulet with crit multi + spell/lightning damage + life + mana is comparable with choir of the storm.
According to my own gear, a rare amulet gives similar dps on arc/ball lightning and 100-200 more ehp, tho you lost some dps from level 20 lightning bolt skill on choir of the storm

My Gear

Thank you for the info. Because of your BL and Slower Proj issue I'm trying out Increased AOE in that slot. The added damage from the quality and increased AoE might make up for the loss in hits from slower projectiles while the balls still move at a faster pace. I haven't noticed much of a difference although I haven't brought it into PoB yet. I'm wondering now if that enchantment for a second BL projectile might come in handy for the fight.

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hey guys, sry for nab questions, what good for this build? dont look gem links

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YT_HB wrote:

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Deathwing6 wrote:

You can't do double arc. Poet's Pen puts a global cooldown on all spells of the same name when it casts any of them.

What post are you referring to? I don't recall it being said to use 2 arcs at the same time.

The guy above me said he was going to try using two arcs. He edited it out, it looks like.

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rel4us wrote:

I don't think I have ever done Chayula run that fast and EZ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY_dlXljrpw&feature=youtu.be

Video is uploading, will be up in a few min

How expensive is the Indigon version? I'm sitting on 17 exalts right now, wondering if I can afford the Indigon variant.

Most enjoyable build I've played since Dried lake farming was still a thing and I had an avatar of fire lightning warper with vaal righteous fire boss oneshotter! Ty for posting!

Was also able to first time ever solo the Hall of the Grandmasters with this, down to last portal but I did it!

Wow, that formatted poorly...how do I use those fancy + and - symbols?

So, I made cold/lightning version of this build. I think it's a bit unrefined and could use some feedback, but the overall gains vs the lightning version I think make it worth consideration.

https://pastebin.com/cHjc7E2Q

Pros:
Everything is chilled and blinded. Everything but bosses is frozen. This usually isn't a problem but I've seen some of you comment on how the defenses of the lightning-only build is a bit weak. This should help. A great example is LW into a pack of meaty incursion mobs and your first 1-2 casts of arc doesn't kill any of them. Dangerous map mods? You're at risk of being beat down. Not so if they're all frozen.
Higher stun threshold since this is purely life based.
Higher dps. I went non-crit, which I think works better with PP builds due to limited number of supports. I got ~20% higher dps, but I'm willing to admit user error here.
No need to balance APS threshold of Frenzy and Barrage. Frenzy is only used on bosses to maintain charges.
No need to maintain power charges.
Clears screens even better. I borrowed this idea from the popular blade vortex builds. Inpulsa can't chain itself. But if you convert some lightning damage to cold, Inpulsa can chain HoI, HoI can chain HoI, HoI can chain Inpulsa. Basically, the status affects that cause Inpulsa and HoI explosions can easily propagate themselves. Those multiple death explosions that can make your computer pause for 1-3 seconds? Those are _quite_ common with this build. With a high enough pack density, it's easy to clear 2-3 screens of mobs at a time.
HoI MTX and delicious shatters.

Cons:
Lower EHP. It's at ~6.4K HP at level 95. Strictly a con but still a great life total and when considering stun threshold, I think X amount of life must be rated higher than X EHP.


There's some flexibility with some of the links. And I'm still figuring out what's the best 4L and ring swap to make when transitioning to a single target fight.

I would appreciate some feedback. I think adding some cold damage is the next step in improving the lightning-only build. It doesn't have to be via CoTB, but I think taking advantage of Elementalist guaranteed chill(and thus blind via Pandemonius) will bolster this build greatly during boss fights.

The only puzzle I can't really figure out is how to shoe-horn in an on-demand movement skill for boss fights. Flame Dash doesn't count. Neither does weapon-swapping back to LW. Both are too clunky for the situations that would demand them.