[3.1] The Laserbeam! Crit Ball Lightning build - Clearspeed & Bosskills!

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Zand wrote:

My only concern is how to adopt this build without making too many changes. All my gear was put together with MoM in mind and I'd like to keep it that way. How important is the Choir of the Storm? Not sure if I want to swap that out with my Foible. I have my gear linked below and passive tree is in profile. I'll also leave the pastebin in case you want to take a deeper look. Any feedback would be appreciated!

Choir of the storm is a big damage boost but if you already have enough damage, bisco's collar is definitely an option. Atziri's foible is just a wasted slot imo.

For your passive tree I'd go through it and fix up inefficient areas, with a special focus on getting adjacent jewel slots, which for some reason you seem to have purposely avoided. You're missing out on 500+ life if you fill those slots with decent jewels (life, spell/lightning dmg, crit chance/dmg)

Your flasks could stand some attention. I would personally recommend a stibnite flask of heat, so that you can drop dream fragments and put in a life/dmg/crit ring. And Dying sun really makes this build shine. Until you can afford it, I recommend LMP linked to ball lightning.

Since you've already taken MOM on the tree, you should probably replace your armour with something with a good life roll and high ES (over 400 if you can swing 300-400 chaos). Although since you've taken VP the main source of life is damage, and if you take some big hits, is there any perceptible interruption to your casting? I've played with the idea of MOM myself but thought that it might compromise me in that way.

Would strongly recommend replacing herald of lightning with herald of ice, linking both to your enlighten once you it's leveled, and putting your portal elsewhere on the tree.

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EDIT: I ended up buying a Choir of the Storm anyway and didn't take too much of a hit on mana. Still have 3,300 total with 1,156 unreserved. Also, shouldn't there be better alternatives to Arcane Surge if you could just proc AS through Orb of Storms?

I don't think it will proc enough to be consistently up if you link to orb of storms. Also, orb of storms already has three linked gems (all essential) so you don't have any room for another.

Hope this helps! good luck!