[3.17]⚡Velyna's Storm Brand Occultist⚡ 5M+ DPS Leaguestart | Hidden and Feared Viable

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Velyna wrote:

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Dorfy wrote:

So really starting to enjoy the build now - I am definitely not God like for bossing but its pretty powerful clearing and well rolled T16, Scourge 10 maps are simples (and profitable for influence bases especially). Its also fun and is a different playstyle to other builds ive played before.

Question is - before I make the run to lev 99 (only 96 at present) what would be my best bang for buck in upgrades - especially for single target?

I know I need to fix my clusters and I could have a much better Watchers and weapon. Bottled faith would also be useful i think - but what first?

I have around 30ex to spend immediately and could probably raise another 20+ by selling all my scarabs, Essence, Delerium orbs and other lower currency (eg 10k+ jewellers, 6k chromes and 4k fuse!).

First thing, you gotta change your lightning mastery to the +1 Chain!

The weapon is decent, but yea flat lightning is one of the worst scaling methods for the build I think so there should be some upgrade room there.

Do you not have spider aspect yet?

Watchers eye will be expensive but a really good one will be straight +10% more DPS.

OK so can easily fix the lightning mastery - but wont that further improve clear at the expense of single target - or is my understanding of chaining wrong?

I dont have spider aspect so I guess thats should be fairly easy to fix - the gloves likely to be too expensive with curse on hit (and I would need re-gearing other slots to make up the loss of str also) but I should be able to get a Crystal belt with the correct Ele res with space to craft - though at the expense of losing the chaos res...which is quite handy.

After that I guess its a +2 gems weapon or better watchers - neither being cheap!

Just gonna paste my PoB here, Since the build itself feels fine to me and to steer people who have issues


https://pastebin.com/QRrwj752

Since Velyna knows the build best to try and see if you can scour through the thread and see what she recommends, Knows it better then me!

From what I can tell, gem levels and one proper modded Watcher's plus a proper storm brand setup is the key to doing more and more content, if you hit a wall, dont stress and try to take both PoB's (Yours and the one you want to achieve) and see what the differences are, then mimick as much of the PoB as you can

Ill try my best to answer any questions but Velyna will always know it better!

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Velyna wrote:

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matiasgil wrote:

Hey there!,

The build feels great while mapping, very fun to play.

I'm starting with red maps and I'm starting to struggle a bit, I've checked my build on pob and i have like 800k dps and compared to other builds the gear is not that different where they have 2m+ dps, I'm starting to think that I'm missing something, could anyone check if there is something wrong with my build? if not what do you think would be some good improvements?


PS: I'm using WoC and Hunter's mark self casted for more reliability,

I'm following this build: https://pastebin.com/f0cPiZEw
This is mine: https://pastebin.com/WzzFV1zt

You definately don't have gear required to boss with storm brand yet, need better wand and you dont have a helm enchant at all looks like? Or a watchers eye?

Thanks for the help, I just got a helm with the enchantment, but i added a great wand and a watcher's eye jewel to the POB and i still see only 1m dps, do you know if there is something wrong or something I'm missing?

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VashPOE wrote:

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Apostolos wrote:

Can someone help me out? I keep dying every map..repeatedly. Even hitting my bleed/corrupting blood flask I keep running into .. SOMEthing that just makes me bleed out and I cannot for the life of me figure out what it is. My ES just drops like a rock and kills me. I sit there and hit that flask twice and just nothing. I've lost 300% of this same level at minumum due to this and it is driving me bat shit insane.

are you running maps you have scourged? There is a mod on those maps "Take Physical Damage equal to 0.2% of Life plus 0.2% of Energy Shield per Second per (scourge)" that if you stop leeching Es you will die pretty fast.

Your fire res is not capped, you could be on burning ground? for now you can drop the fenumus gloves and pick up your needed resists and es.

There is a few points you could save on tree to get a small cluster jewel with Enduring Composure and run a cwdt + IC for more defense.

you have elemental weakness curse with your heralds, but not supported by hex touch so that curse never gets applied to enemies.


Also not sure if you are aware, but you have all the crit nodes taken on the tree but are still running controlled destruction (80% LESS crit) and the shade of solaris wand (crit strikes deal no damage) and elemental overload keystone ( crit strikes deal no extra dmg). Seems like you are between the life build (items) and the lowlife crit build (passive tree).

That could have been the case. I have since stopped running any scourge mechanic while I just try to level up some. Thanks for pointing out the crit nodes and controlled destruction gem. I thought I had switched both and apparently missed.. both heh

As far as the gloves go, the pastebin for the target end still shows fenemus gloves, so I don't know if the pastebin has not been updated or not. It also does not show the skills list as using the hextouch support either.

If I was going to grab either a new weapon or high templar gloves, thats about 1.5 to 2ex each which I don't have really. I am slowly starting to work on quality on gems, rings and ammy and may start looking to run labs for a helm enchant. I've only found 1 trial in maps since league start so far, so that has also been really slow going but Im back up to about 50c so may need to just buy a bunch of lab keys this coming weekend since buying one is just about as expensive as the new weapon or gloves.

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That could have been the case. I have since stopped running any scourge mechanic while I just try to level up some. Thanks for pointing out the crit nodes and controlled destruction gem. I thought I had switched both and apparently missed.. both heh

As far as the gloves go, the pastebin for the target end still shows fenemus gloves, so I don't know if the pastebin has not been updated or not. It also does not show the skills list as using the hextouch support either.

If I was going to grab either a new weapon or high templar gloves, thats about 1.5 to 2ex each which I don't have really. I am slowly starting to work on quality on gems, rings and ammy and may start looking to run labs for a helm enchant. I've only found 1 trial in maps since league start so far, so that has also been really slow going but Im back up to about 50c so may need to just buy a bunch of lab keys this coming weekend since buying one is just about as expensive as the new weapon or gloves.

Cant you buy 1 offering and do the lab? you dont need all the trials anymore

Ya, meant farming the enchant. I think its proly cheaper to just buy a new hat from someone else.


Also, is hextouch just not used in the final pob for the build. I was a little confused on that. (or am I looking at the wrong thing?) It shows Fenemus gloves and single casting assassins' mark?

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Apostolos wrote:

Ya, meant farming the enchant. I think its proly cheaper to just buy a new hat from someone else.


Also, is hextouch just not used in the final pob for the build. I was a little confused on that. (or am I looking at the wrong thing?) It shows Fenemus gloves and single casting assassins' mark?

its because you would have corrupted gloves that have elemental weakness on hit, so hex touch not needed. With out that corruption on gloves you would use hextouch, 2 heralds and ele weakness.

as for assassins mark, it would be in your wand with the craft "trigger a socketed spell"

I'm leveling this build right now and looking at the POB for league start. Could someone explain the reason for speccing into fire damage? Is any skill using fire damage? Thanks!

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iProxyV wrote:

I'm leveling this build right now and looking at the POB for league start. Could someone explain the reason for speccing into fire damage? Is any skill using fire damage? Thanks!

Where do you see fire damage? I dont see it on the leaguestart PoB

Edit : it was a post meant for the guardian version



Hi there everyone

Little back story as a warning for ppl doing this build because i did that mistake

Transitionned from life version to LL, had all gears, (amy ring chest head shield boot ) except a trigger wand. Used up 70regret to get the new tree.
And it was .... Bad ... Nothing i was expecting.
I played two whole days like that, got to lvl90, still felt wrong (now this is a real casual player) until i found out why

When you transition all gear and tree ... Change your storm brand links too ...
Since then its been great.

Did a sirus7, did Chimaera, red conquerors

Now then allow me to ask something

Im using a Vixen glove corrupted with ele weakness, wave of conviction and Asn mark on self cast for solid mobs, and boot with aspect of Spider
Dont hv currency for Fenumus corrupted ele weakness, and im fine with self cast

I am seriously thinking about a Asenath gentle touch for better clearing, drop HOI, and link a funny thing somewhere like Chance to flee or more Blind dunno

Question is
Is Asenath touch on brand gonna be GOOD for clearing?

Thanks for reading