[3.13] HC/SC/SSF All Content Miner - Any Mine Skill - LL/CI - 12k ES w/ Videos!

Hey there,
I took a break after league start and came back to try this build with Ball Lightning to see if i click with the mine-playstyle and i have to say that I really like it a lot.
The guide is very in-depth and helped me get over the hurdles after the acts.
However, I'm now struggling on three fronts in later maps (T14+)
1) ES: Despite following (hopefully) everything down to a T in the section "how to get more ES" > "Step 1: Get to 8k ES" I'm only at 7.2k ES and that's despite me gotten lucky and having rolled 3 Points "Small passive skills also grant: +20 to maximum Energy Shield" on a "Energy from Nought" cluster. (So basically 140 base ES for 3 points investment).
I would start with the next step in the section and am currently looking for %ES on rings, as well as getting Defense Catalysts for my belt and a "Energy from Within" Jewel. But I think that might still put me short of 8k.
Is there anything I'm missing? I could roll for a new Helmet (280ES and BL Enchant) but I'd have to buy another base so I still have my current one to fall back on in case i get unlucky.
2) Mana: Ever since I got aspect of the spider on my belt, I found that I'm running dry on longer boss fights. Currently I have 233 Mana (of 1061) and I'm dry after about 15 preplaced mines. If the fight takes longer than say 45s my mana-flask is depleted and my regen wont really cover anything (currently 30/s). What can I do to solve this? Currently I'm either forced to die or to log-off in order to refill my flask. Im thinking of taking 2 or 3 mana flasks for conqs or Sirus, but that takes away a lot of damage, which brings me to point 3:
3) Damage: I don't quite understand which stats I can actually profit from. Earlier in the build I scraped together all my (then) currency and bought a wand with Spell Damage (69) flat lightning to spells (5-91), increased critical for spells (88) and +1 level of all lightning gems.
Since I got 3 exa yesterday, I would take that as the opportunity to improve in the damage department but again, I dont quite know how and if I just search for high spell damage (80+) and high crit (80+) with lightning gems, I end up in the 10 exa+ range.
And Tips here how I can improve here? It doesnt need to fit my budget exactly, I'm aware that you cant demand damage XY on a budget, but I'd at least like to know how I can improve, what to look out for and what I should expect to pay for that.

Other than that, thanks so much for the guide. I usually only have time for one build per league, and my chosen starter really was a disappointment but this build really helped me find fun in poe again.

Aimlezz91

some Points i saw:

tree:
get "influence" for -mana res
remove small ES% at "forseight" if u Need nodes.

that will give you more mana, maybe enough for the 19 max mines

gear:
left ring: As u wrote already, it has no %ES. Additionally, the elemental-damage-with-attacks has no effect for u. But until u get a better ring, bless it to 30 ES implicit.
Add Defense-Catalyst on it.
Same on Amulett, add defense-cata.
right ring: Same here, no%ES and the same mod again, which doesn't help u, cause we dont attack, we cast spells.
Quality 20 your gloves asap, or 28, like your other gear.
every Little step helps.
Try to get a corrupted prism shield with +2 to aoe or Aura, which affects all socketed gems.
For more damage, get a bottled faith flask (expensive), remove for sulphur.
Meanwhile, a dying sun ruby flask and remove silver flask.
Q20 all Support gems for BL, and skitterbots, and enfeeble. Try to get enlighten 4. Remove steelskin-gem and replace it with immortal call (i think its better, who cares about this low amount of damage that the buff eats)

hf:)

@Infarkt

thanks so much for your detailed help! Actually switching out some nodes near Foresight into Influence was something I also found during my research, but i wasnt sure if it still was something that should be considered.
I've checked it out in PoB and I only lose around 100ES, so that's surely doable.
As for unnecessary mods on my rings, you're completely right. However, when I bought these I wasn't really in a pick-and-chose position financially and I think I'll probably wont be for a while.
Since I'm super strapped for Dex and Str, I'm forced to be able to craft it on these rings, so generally I would look at around 2 Exa per ring. Not that much, but currently I'm down to 4 Exa (I blew about 1 Exa on trying to roll a better helmet, it didn't go well), so that's all my budget.
I however bought two bases and I was hoping to spam some fossils on these in order to get any %ES roll coupled with T1 Flat ES.
Since I'm not that wealthy, I was also holding off on Catalysts, but I completely didn't notice that defense would help on amulet. Since I'll keep that for a while, I'll invest those 20c asap.
As for gloves - I completely forgot about these mate. Consider them 20Q until i find hillock again.
For Corrupted Prism and Enlighten 4 - both of these would cost most my current currency, what should I prefer here? I'm leaning towards the shield, but I still want to make sure. (Edit, I just saw that PG is 15 Exa, soooo probably out of my reach)
And finally, I was shocked at the Bottled Faith price this league, compared to last league. IF i luck out and manage to find it, I'll surely use it. Otherwise I think that's out of my league.
I'll also buy some gcp and quality up the remaining gems, I was focusing on the "important" ones for now, but your point is completely valid.

Thanks again for your help, I really enjoy this build a lot and I think it's definitely a build I'll keep on using for future leagues.

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Aimlezz91 wrote:

@Infarkt

thanks so much for your detailed help! Actually switching out some nodes near Foresight into Influence was something I also found during my research, but i wasnt sure if it still was something that should be considered.
I've checked it out in PoB and I only lose around 100ES, so that's surely doable.
As for unnecessary mods on my rings, you're completely right. However, when I bought these I wasn't really in a pick-and-chose position financially and I think I'll probably wont be for a while.
Since I'm super strapped for Dex and Str, I'm forced to be able to craft it on these rings, so generally I would look at around 2 Exa per ring. Not that much, but currently I'm down to 4 Exa (I blew about 1 Exa on trying to roll a better helmet, it didn't go well), so that's all my budget.
I however bought two bases and I was hoping to spam some fossils on these in order to get any %ES roll coupled with T1 Flat ES.
Since I'm not that wealthy, I was also holding off on Catalysts, but I completely didn't notice that defense would help on amulet. Since I'll keep that for a while, I'll invest those 20c asap.
As for gloves - I completely forgot about these mate. Consider them 20Q until i find hillock again.
For Corrupted Prism and Enlighten 4 - both of these would cost most my current currency, what should I prefer here? I'm leaning towards the shield, but I still want to make sure. (Edit, I just saw that PG is 15 Exa, soooo probably out of my reach)
And finally, I was shocked at the Bottled Faith price this league, compared to last league. IF i luck out and manage to find it, I'll surely use it. Otherwise I think that's out of my league.
I'll also buy some gcp and quality up the remaining gems, I was focusing on the "important" ones for now, but your point is completely valid.

Thanks again for your help, I really enjoy this build a lot and I think it's definitely a build I'll keep on using for future leagues.

few more small things as well:

1. level 21 BL is a big upgrade. If you cant afford one with quality, thats fine. Get 21 ASAP. its super cheap

2. Flasks are a mess. You need some damage flasks in there. Atziri's and wise oak would do a lot.

3. Wand can be replaced cheaply I would imagine. Check PoB, but I would guess a 20-30c wand will be much better.

Level 21 Ball Lightning is in the making :) Almost done leveling my main, but Ive got 6 more in Offhand to try soon. If i fail these, i'll resort to buying one.
For flasks: Do Sulphur, Diamnond and Silver not count as damage? I thought they'd help out as well. With Oak i gotta check my res because they're pretty crazy from gear-up.
And for weapon, what stats do I profit from there?
If i check your in-depth section in the start and have a look around I only find stuff > 10 exa which is a long way off of the 20-30c.

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Aimlezz91 wrote:

Level 21 Ball Lightning is in the making :) Almost done leveling my main, but Ive got 6 more in Offhand to try soon. If i fail these, i'll resort to buying one.
For flasks: Do Sulphur, Diamnond and Silver not count as damage? I thought they'd help out as well. With Oak i gotta check my res because they're pretty crazy from gear-up.
And for weapon, what stats do I profit from there?
If i check your in-depth section in the start and have a look around I only find stuff > 10 exa which is a long way off of the 20-30c.

21 BL is like 10c or less. Just buy it immediately.

Silver and Sulphur no, diamond yes. For wise oak, all you need is lightning to be your highest.

For the weapon, check the pinned search in the discord.

Hi all.

Respec my BVass to saboteur, but have trouble with dps D:
Gems 20, 6L, tree for GC ES.
But in T12-14 map bosses die after 6-8 mine pack(19)
I think I do smth wrong.
Equip is cheap, but so low dps... i don't know.

I see you're still responding to comments 410 pages into this post, which is really impressive.

I set up the BL version of this build today and sunk maybe 10ex into it, hard to say... I had some of the gear from other builds, six linked my own shavs after picking up the div cards, etc. I did all 1/20 gems to save currency except a 21/20 BL gem.

So far I actually really like the build and see a lot of potential with partially leveled gems. I watched your videos, but you don't have any post-nerf BL videos. Have you set up a BL build in 3.12? If so, do you have any videos? I'm curious to know if this is still the best setup. I'll probably try GC just to compare on my own but would like to know what you think this far into the league.

I dont have any real questions about the build, but here's my POB:
https://pastebin.com/dNvxfpeL

Thank you!

I just threw this stuff on a side character hoping it would be a decent boss killer. How can I improve my damage aside from gem levels? I am aware I have a shitty 33% increased projectile speed on my wand lol

UPDATE

Beer thanks once again for the build. Apparently I am the top Icicle mine saboteur. I had no idea. I've been contacted by another player to copy "my build" :)) (I gave you credit for it and sent him here)

Everyone went deadeye with 3-4-5-6 mill DPS. Only I went Saboteur with 420k DPS LMAO :))