[3.12] Durimon's Ball Lightning Miner "REVIVED", 6 ex, even FASTER than pre-nerf (Updated)

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"You nerf, I 'revive' it" by Durimon

After severe nerf in 3.12, almost everyone said, 'BL miner's dead.'

As always, I decided to do what everyone thinks impossible and bring my BL miner back.

I worked on this build 3 days pulling the nights, and now I guess it's time to show you the result.

To sum,

It's even faster than pre-nerf BL miner.

Boss DMG about same as pre-nerf in same price.

It only takes about 1 min or less than 1 min. to clear T16 rare maps (awk. 8) with any mods.

Guide is ready for you in video (Eng. subtitle + pob link), just watch and enjoy the "REVIVED" version of Durimon's Ball Lightning Miner.

Budget: 6 ex (current price. it will be much less later)



Video

T16 maps witt various mods, Bosses and Conqueror melted, Sirus...etc (all awk. 8),
and Guide:

https://youtu.be/1uFPmxbp9oc

POB : https://pastebin.com/jwT3Yu7t




---Updated (Melting T16 100% Delirium Maps / No 4th phase Sirus)---



Budget : 20 ex


Video - Melting Awk.8 Sirus with no 4th phase, 100% Delirium map with full mods...etc :

https://youtu.be/_H6Uy3MMsYw


POE for Full-Up (minimal): https://pastebin.com/L81YJ9gx



Notice

Gem Setting (not appeared on POB properly):

Gloves : CWDT(lv.6) – Frost Shield (lv.8) – Vaal Molten Shell (lv.13), Flame Dash

Boots : Arcanist Brand – Conductivity – Wave of Conviction, Vaal Righteous Fire

About Swift Assembly Gem vs. Awakened Added Lightning Damage Support:

AALDS (before lv. 5) is better when you can pre-lay 19 mines (ex. Sirus), but you throw less number of mines at once which results in slightly low dps in fighting a lot of monsters like 100% delirium maps. I recommend you to use swift assembly for 100% del. maps until AALDS becomes lv.5. When it gets to lv.5, switch the gem and see if you find AALDS better also in bunch-of-monster-fight like 100% delirium maps.


1. If large cluster jewel is impossible to find or make, just get whatever lightning large jewel with 8 passive nodes and supercharge only. Or, just forget about supercharge node and get cheap widespread destruction / any lightning dmg % node large cluster jewels. Dmg loss is not that big if you use non-supercharge jewel.

2. Flasks mods are important. Get same as mine. (Drink All at once when you fight bunch of monsters or bosses)

3. Watcher’s eye is not that important. If you cannot afford it, just get life + crit multi rare one. (But if you have same as mine (vitality / wrath) this one funtions well. I bought it 1.5 ex)

4. In order to make amulet like mine, you need hunter based amulet + crusader based one + awakener’s orb. Have your crusader one as a remaining one (which means you slam awakener’s orb on hunter’s first and crusader’s last), and try to get the base with implicit stats you need (citrine amulet was best for me.) Make sure each base item has only one hunter mod and crusader mod respectively. Otherwise you will waste your precious Awk. orb. (+1 intel. skill gem lvl on hunter / +1 lightning skill gem lvl on crusader)

5. Priority in Upgrading:

Gems! 21 lvl ball lightning, awakened gems
Enchant on boots (either 120% increased crit. chance if not killed or 1 – 160 lighting damage if not killed. If you are using supercharge large cluster jewel, the latter is better.)
amulet
Enchant on helmet
6. Don’t forget oil enchant. If you do, you will lack mana.

7. Be careful with cwdt, vaal molten shell, frost shield. Make their lvl same as mine.

8. If you are up to only 100% delirium map, +1 ball lightning enchant on helmet is better since you are to fight a lot of monsters at once. Ball lightings from a mine cannot shotgun, so dmg for just 1 monster is lower than 24% AOE enchant.

If there are other things to mention, I will add more. Feel free to come to my twitch if you have any question.

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Mid-Budget Version (Fire Conversion) : 11 ex


Video : https://youtu.be/rVR2A1tckBg


POB : https://pastebin.com/4CZDZVPB


Note:

1. Change your Trap and Mine Damage Support to ANOMOLOUS Trap and Mine Damage Support with 20 quality. This will solve your mana problem.

2. New gems such as frost shield and arcanist brand are not shown on POB. Refer to the first part of video for gloves and boots gem setting.

3. As soon as you get 24% AOE enchant on helmet, get rid of Blast Wave on passive tree and get Snowforged / rare jewel with double crit multi + life instead.

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P.S. If you are to use my build (or modified ver. of my build) to earn money on streaming broadcasting service, please specify your reference, that is DURIMON! It's really annoying to see someone pretending to be an expert mine build maker and to have made the build by himself. From now, give a credit before using my build for streaming.

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Leveling Guide


Other "PLZ BRING MY OLD MINE BACK" Mine Builds are Coming SOON!

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Will try this today more later can u give me your Details about leveling? i mean which grab in this Chapter etc.? just a TLDR and sure in the leveling to which nodes should take first a tldr.

This looks fun and strong. So far I've been playing a bit of a weird build (Whispering Ice mines as Ascendant) and though I did not max that build yet and has good burst potential it feels a bit clunky and slow to ramp up so having doubts to continue that build... then I found this.

Have some comments / questions:

1. Would this work with a tremor rod? It has a built in blast chain mine so you can potentially make Ball Lightning 7L. High impact mine looks nicer but the free extra link will probably make up for that. Tremor rod has some nice other bonuses as well.
2. Instead of minefield support why not use Swift Assembly? The huge mine throwing speed will make it feel more clunky than needed.
3. 4.2K life is really low. I see you cleared alot of content but you will probably get 1shot regularly? Maybe good to sacrifice some DPS for HP?
4. What about LMP or GMP? Guess that is not that good for Ball Lightning

Hey you just revealed a big secret lol. I'm playing BL mine last 2 seasons and as you stated the damage is insane even before in the last league. However i switched to shock nova this season for mapping and using BL for single target.

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JohnnyV76 wrote:

This looks fun and strong. So far I've been playing a bit of a weird build (Whispering Ice mines as Ascendant) and though I did not max that build yet and has good burst potential it feels a bit clunky and slow to ramp up so having doubts to continue that build... then I found this.

Have some comments / questions:

1. Would this work with a tremor rod? It has a built in blast chain mine so you can potentially make Ball Lightning 7L. High impact mine looks nicer but the free extra link will probably make up for that. Tremor rod has some nice other bonuses as well.
2. Instead of minefield support why not use Swift Assembly? The huge mine throwing speed will make it feel more clunky than needed.
3. 4.2K life is really low. I see you cleared alot of content but you will probably get 1shot regularly? Maybe good to sacrifice some DPS for HP?
4. What about LMP or GMP? Guess that is not that good for Ball Lightning

Here is my 2 cents.

1 - This works with Tremor(i'm using it anyway for free blastchain) but for max DPS output you should switch to DW with ele as extra chaos weapons.
2 - I read in another build post, the OP was also suggesting using Swift Assembly however i chose Minefield because with mine throwing speed you get from the tree it's very fast to throw 5 mines which i barely need more than 5 to clear a screen even in t14s.(probably i also won't in 15-16, but as i said im using shock nova for mapping and it has huge aoe) For bosses you can actually stand and throw all your 23 mines pre-fight and then start the fight and detone it. When you see the damage of BL you'll be surprised ^^.
3 - Even though the life pool is not that big, with Born in Shadows, Acrobatics, Phase Acrobatics we are doing pretty good(you can also get spell dodge in boots which is very useful). But if maps have some insane damage rolls for monsters you could be one shotted for sure though. Other than that you can do every other encounter with that HP pool. If you feel vulnerable you can do as you suggested to cut off some DPS and go for life.(i'm not sure how much you can add since mine passive tree choices are pretty much straight forward and we are getting every life nodes on our path)
4 - You won't probably need GMP or LMP for BL setup especially in narrow corridor maps like sewers. You'll gonna like those maps if you play this build :) I was using BL has additional projectile helm enchant in the last league which was very cheap to get(you won't need damage enchant i think). You can get one and then fossil or essence crafting -if you're lucky- you'll get a nice helm. If it's not enough you can use Dying Sun to avoid using GMP or LMP.

Hope that helps.

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haindeve wrote:

Hey you just revealed a big secret lol. I'm playing BL mine last 2 seasons and as you stated the damage is insane even before in the last league. However i switched to shock nova this season for mapping and using BL for single target.

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JohnnyV76 wrote:

This looks fun and strong. So far I've been playing a bit of a weird build (Whispering Ice mines as Ascendant) and though I did not max that build yet and has good burst potential it feels a bit clunky and slow to ramp up so having doubts to continue that build... then I found this.

Have some comments / questions:

1. Would this work with a tremor rod? It has a built in blast chain mine so you can potentially make Ball Lightning 7L. High impact mine looks nicer but the free extra link will probably make up for that. Tremor rod has some nice other bonuses as well.
2. Instead of minefield support why not use Swift Assembly? The huge mine throwing speed will make it feel more clunky than needed.
3. 4.2K life is really low. I see you cleared alot of content but you will probably get 1shot regularly? Maybe good to sacrifice some DPS for HP?
4. What about LMP or GMP? Guess that is not that good for Ball Lightning

Here is my 2 cents.

1 - This works with Tremor(i'm using it anyway for free blastchain) but for max DPS output you should switch to DW with ele as extra chaos weapons.
2 - I read in another build post, the OP was also suggesting using Swift Assembly however i chose Minefield because with mine throwing speed you get from the tree it's very fast to throw 5 mines which i barely need more than 5 to clear a screen even in t14s.(probably i also won't in 15-16, but as i said im using shock nova for mapping and it has huge aoe) For bosses you can actually stand and throw all your 23 mines pre-fight and then start the fight and detone it. When you see the damage of BL you'll be surprised ^^.
3 - Even though the life pool is not that big, with Born in Shadows, Acrobatics, Phase Acrobatics we are doing pretty good(you can also get spell dodge in boots which is very useful). But if maps have some insane damage rolls for monsters you could be one shotted for sure though. Other than that you can do every other encounter with that HP pool. If you feel vulnerable you can do as you suggested to cut off some DPS and go for life.(i'm not sure how much you can add since mine passive tree choices are pretty much straight forward and we are getting every life nodes on our path)
4 - You won't probably need GMP or LMP for BL setup especially in narrow corridor maps like sewers. You'll gonna like those maps if you play this build :) I was using BL has additional projectile helm enchant in the last league which was very cheap to get(you won't need damage enchant i think). You can get one and then fossil or essence crafting -if you're lucky- you'll get a nice helm. If it's not enough you can use Dying Sun to avoid using GMP or LMP.

Hope that helps.

Thanks, haindeve! you provided through answers that I was going to say, so I won't repeat. To add some to 4, if you take off one of the gems in my build and put GMP, you will lose too much DPS and you cannot one-shot monsters when mapping t15-16. Whatever the roll and tier your map has, just one throw(5 with minefield) kill all near you already. I don't think gearing GMP is a good idea.

Instead of GMP, like haindeve already said, Dying Sun would be a good option for faster mapping and boss because the more ball you have, the more DPS you get. It will be even more insane if you get one.

Also, Minefield is much better than Swift Assembly in this build. To survive you need to one-shot enemies as you spot. In order to do that, you need to throw as many mines as you can at once.

@haindeve: I already played with shock nova this league. Mapping speed and boss are pretty decent, especially when you max AOE. I love the way it creates big rings covering almost whole screen. lol. By the way, is there another person who uploaded a post about BL miner 3.8?

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Tozanarkand wrote:

Will try this today more later can u give me your Details about leveling? i mean which grab in this Chapter etc.? just a TLDR and sure in the leveling to which nodes should take first a tldr.

I will try to do it when I am done with a new mine build. Thanks for your comment.

in a 4L for BL which gems should get priority?

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Tozanarkand wrote:

in a 4L for BL which gems should get priority?

BL, High-Impact Mine, Mine Field, Slower Projectile - Trap and Mine Damage - Lightning Penetration. (if you have hard time getting used to a short delay after a throw, put Trap and Mine Damage instead of Mine Field)

Lvling with BL in early stage may feel a bit slow. Some people start with new mine skills such as icicle and storm-blast mine (the former is faster) and then change the setting to BL when they get 5L or 6L

If you wanna lvl up with icicle mine until you get 5L or 6L body armor, buy or look for cheap wands with mods like add cold damage to spells, increased critical strike chance for spells and increased spell or cold damage. Recommended gem setup would be,

icicle mine - hypothermia - added cold damage - minefield (or swift assembly support).

Hope this helps.

I Just wanna point out that Elemental Focus is the exact same Hit damage as Trap and Mine Damage support, without the reduced throwing speed, so if you're not freezing it's actually a better support as we already have shock and chill from skitterbots.

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FreddyRamsone wrote:

I Just wanna point out that Elemental Focus is the exact same Hit damage as Trap and Mine Damage support, without the reduced throwing speed, so if you're not freezing it's actually a better support as we already have shock and chill from skitterbots.

Thanks for your input, but I don't think utilizing skitterbot is a good option for my setting. you lose dps by its 35% mana reserve, and THAT ROBOT is so dumb that it even gives delay in detonating laid mines. It totally seems useless.

Like I said, throwing speed is not a problem at all. No matter what mods and tier a map has, BL in my setting kills bunch of monsters with only one throw. It's like, you spot, one throw, detonate, all dead, you move to another bunch. So, you don't need to worry about a short delay minefield support gives.

Moreover, Having elemental focus instead of trap and mine damage support is not a good option for BL miner. It just makes things complicated without any benefit.It only makes BL miner's strong point less powerful.