[3.10] Bashtart's SPARK INQUISITOR * farming like a god! :)

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cocoseb wrote:

Hello, I made the changes that I was advised but I still have a bit of trouble for high map. other advice?

I think you need to be a bit more precise than that when requesting help. I can vouch for the build being fine up to T16 at least. If you have trouble it could be gear, but it could also be your own playstyle. I have run many builds and this is a very solid one. The only real danger is getting crowded by mobs or otherwise repeatedly hit (or having degen applied to you) so that you cannot cast spells because your mana is drained because of MoM.

What do you guys think about Mark of the Shaper and an Elder ring with Multiplier/Projectile damage/Warlord's Mark?

That would give us Adds (13-18) to (50-56) Lightning Damage to Spells along with (60-80)% increased Spell Damage if your other Ring is an Elder Item plus 20% chance to Trigger Level 20 Summon Volatile Anomaly on Kill.

Seems to be good, nay?

Edit: I just tried it and it's insane...

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WilliamCZE wrote:

What do you guys think about Mark of the Shaper and an Elder ring with Multiplier/Projectile damage/Warlord's Mark?

That would give us Adds (13-18) to (50-56) Lightning Damage to Spells along with (60-80)% increased Spell Damage if your other Ring is an Elder Item plus 20% chance to Trigger Level 20 Summon Volatile Anomaly on Kill.

Seems to be good, nay?

Edit: I just tried it and it's insane...

Are your resistances capped or at least 70~ if you're using these rings? I'm generally worried about my life/res if I'm trying to add more DPS on the rings.

In other news, what jewels are being used? What stats are desirable for us to look for? On that topic, how many Spark threshold jewels are being ran? One or two?

I'm also a bit worried about survivability. With Shaper rings we can run "X life gained for each enemy hit by spells", which helps keeping us alive when using Spark. The Anomalies will only help clearing speed or vs. bosses with adds - but it's definitely an interesting choice.
I'm running dual Shaper rings myself, however.

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MisterTails wrote:

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WilliamCZE wrote:

What do you guys think about Mark of the Shaper and an Elder ring with Multiplier/Projectile damage/Warlord's Mark?

That would give us Adds (13-18) to (50-56) Lightning Damage to Spells along with (60-80)% increased Spell Damage if your other Ring is an Elder Item plus 20% chance to Trigger Level 20 Summon Volatile Anomaly on Kill.

Seems to be good, nay?

Edit: I just tried it and it's insane...

Are your resistances capped or at least 70~ if you're using these rings? I'm generally worried about my life/res if I'm trying to add more DPS on the rings.

In other news, what jewels are being used? What stats are desirable for us to look for? On that topic, how many Spark threshold jewels are being ran? One or two?

I just tried it out with in Path of Building (https://pastebin.com/zcwEWiZ9) and capping resistances is no problem at least with my gear.

Dps boost is great:
Spark: from 224K to 270k (+46k dps)
Blade Vortex (10Stacks): from 1097k to 1310K (+213k)

So just looking on the numbers it seems absolutly to worth it. I will add it in the guide as option.

Hi.

https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/bigwolf16/characters

This is my character on poe. What would you advise me to change? :)

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bigwolf16 wrote:

Hi.

https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/bigwolf16/characters

This is my character on poe. What would you advise me to change? :)

Do you feel the need to change anything?
* Your flask setup is missing Vessel of Vinktar.
* Mana leech on gloves would help with certain map mods and would add overall survivability as it will help keeping your mana topped up.
* Your Watcher's Eye could be replaced with a better version.
* Getting a Hazardous Research jewel with the corrupted implicit "You cannot be inflicted with corrupted blood" would be a QoL upgrade.
* Consider using a Shaper ring with "life gained for every enemy hit by your spells" to increase your tankiness - but overall your rings are pretty good as is. There is also the new "Mark of the Shaper" combo mentioned above, but personally I think it's overkill with the DPS output this build already has.

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Bizze79 wrote:

I'm also a bit worried about survivability. With Shaper rings we can run "X life gained for each enemy hit by spells", which helps keeping us alive when using Spark. The Anomalies will only help clearing speed or vs. bosses with adds - but it's definitely an interesting choice.
I'm running dual Shaper rings myself, however.

Yeah, I am capped. Not for Elemental Weakness, but a flask does solve this.

And it's not about the Anomalies at all.

Hey guys so i'm new to poe and this is my first build. I'm not exactly sure if my character is at a decent spot as I tried to follow everything from this guide. So far I can clear up to t7 maps without much difficulty. However, I do die time to time from the incursions at the higher tier maps. I don't know why exactly i'm getting smacked hard but the vaal mages hurt the most and the temple of atzoatl gets kind of hard but not to the point where it's impossible to complete. I maxed out of resistances and try to get a lot of health from my gear. If I can get some guidance from veterans and experts that'd be much appreciated as I know I have a lot to improve.

https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/MistaChun/characters

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MistaChun wrote:

If I can get some guidance from veterans and experts that'd be much appreciated as I know I have a lot to improve.

Ok, a few things:

Chest armor:
It's possible you cannot afford Inpulsa's right now, but your chest armor is not very good. The life roll is too low. I would suggest to buy the cheapest Inpulsa you can find and start socketing it. You will not only get more life but a large DPS boost, which will help you clear out dangerous mobs faster so that you take less damage in return. Even a 4-linked Inpulsa will be better than what you have since it will boost the damage of Spark as well.


Helmet - a.k.a. Where is Wrath?
You have Herald of Thunder AND Herald of Ice in your helmet. They are also both linked to Elemental Proliferation, which means they are both getting an increased mana reservation multiplier.

Remove Herald of Ice and Elemental Proliferation and slot in Wrath instead. You will gain a lot more DPS that way and will still have mana to spare for MoM.

Your helmet does not have the +3 to spark projectiles enchantment that is recommended. I suggest getting one such helmet. It doesn't have to be a Rat's Nest if it's too expensive. Just buy any rare helmet with the enchant and if possible a life roll as well. This will allow you to ditch one of your Hazardous Research jewels for a rare one with %life instead.


Jewels:
Your rare jewels could be replaced with jewels that have %life and some good damage mods.


Tree:
You have made some weird prioritizations in your tree. Instead of taking the 10% increased life Herbalism node to the bottom right, you have opted for a regular 5% life node in the Scion life wheel. You could use a passive respec point to fix this immediately.


Hybrid Flask:
A very strong suggestion is to invest in a "Bubbling" Hybrid Flask. This will allow you to instantly heal for 50% of the flask's healing rate and will help you in dire situations where you are taking lots of damage.


General playing advice:
This is an evasion build. The game mechanics for evasion means that the longer you stand in one place - the easier for enemies to hit you. Make sure to constantly be on the move with Shield Charge so that you are "resetting" your evasion rolls.

The snakelike constructs in the Incursions deal chaos damage and can be very dangerous. My best advice is to ramp up your Blade Vortex before even entering the Incursion and then quickly dash into the middle of the dangerous pack and spam spark to quickly kill them. However, this might be too dangerous unless your DPS is up for it. Then again, if you get a Bubbling Hybrid flask you will be more safe in these situations.

Also note that the incursion will retain all the mods from the map you are running. If you are running a map with very dangerous mods, it could even be an option to let the incursion be. Alva will keep appearing with the same incursion if you open other maps until you run it - so there is no risk that you will "miss" it.