[3.15]Archmage Ball Lightning Hierophant, will it work in Expedition?

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vladimars wrote:

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SkylerOG wrote:

Looks again like we need to confirm this, then.

Mark_GGG says BL travel time is 36 units per second here: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/960086/page/14#p8249654



Also, when you did your 13 hits test, if you still have that char setup like that, you could simply re-run the test without slower proj and with 36 AoE and see if you can still hit 13 poison stacks. If so, then we have our answer.

That quote is from 2014. both radius and travel speed has increased since then.

3.3.0
Now deals 2-35 lightning damage at gem level 1 (up from 2-32), up to 22-420 lightning damage at gem level 20 (up from 14-260). Now has an added damage effectiveness of 35% (up from 20%).
The projectile's base speed is now 33% faster. The projectile hits 33% more frequently to compensate. The base radius has increased by 10%.
Disabled the "Reduced Ball Lightning Projectile Speed" enchantment from appearing.
Ball Lightning no longer has a 10% damage boost against players.

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Socaro wrote:

That is a lot, so PoH is better in every way, other than longer lock down.

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Aniki_Leads_people wrote:

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Socaro wrote:

That is a lot, so PoH is better in every way, other than longer lock down.

With the cast speed buff in 3.11, lockdown is not a serious issue anymore. With normal gears, one can push cast time to around 0.2s and a whole cast only takes less than 1 second.
Also, the 150% mana multiplier from great spell echo is a huge dps boost itself. More mana cost = more damage.

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SkylerOG wrote:

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Aniki_Leads_people wrote:

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Socaro wrote:

That is a lot, so PoH is better in every way, other than longer lock down.

With the cast speed buff in 3.11, lockdown is not a serious issue anymore. With normal gears, one can push cast time to around 0.2s and a whole cast only takes less than 1 second.
Also, the 150% mana multiplier from great spell echo is a huge dps boost itself. More mana cost = more damage.

Hmm, I'm at 4.57 cast rate and it still take around 2 seconds for my echo animations to finish.

What's your cast rate at to get it down to 1s, and how are you getting that?

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dsBraver wrote:

Great build, and I'm having a lot of fun with it as my second build in harvest. The civil and high-level mechanics discussion here is also really interesting, and thank you to you both from the rest of the community here.

I'm still short a few fuses to link my staff, but in the meantime, I wanted to pass on some budget tips to people just starting out:

- I've comfortably leveled from 36 and cleared high yellow maps on just an amplification rod for a weapon and 3-link BL. If you're broke, try this 1c option (reverb rod + prophecy) that also gets you a fated item upgrade for your challenge.

- If you don't have clarity watchers, and they're expensive, don't run clarity. Run Clear Mind instead. It's a cheap jewel with mana regen and an ton of spell damage. While leveling, Survival Secrets is handy with its 3 base mana regen and ele damage.

- Anoint Mind Drinker - Teal/Teal/Verdant. It's very cheap, and provides great mana/mana regen on a budge while mapping.

- Remember your support skills give a ton of mana regen. Having sustain issues? Watch your uptime on arcane surge (Dynamo is really important here), make sure you're hitting cursed enemies (Cursed Concoction cluster), etc.

- Check out OP's character in harvest. He's still working into his 3.11 build, and seeing what he's doing show's a slightly different gem arrangement and some innovative ideas for people still gearing/leveling, like taking Battle Rouse.

Thanks again Aniki for such a fun build.

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dsBraver wrote:

You're quite welcome, thank you for the build!

Of note, for the lockdown issue, blink movement skills bypass the lockdown. If you're worried about dodging during the animation, run frostblink or dash instead of flame dash, and you'll have no problems!