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

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teig_ wrote:

So, I feel like I've upgraded a lot and use a lot of what's going on in Velyna's mid-range LL PoB, and I've been working on upgrades, but I feel really, really squishy. I often lose 3/4 my health on a hit, damage isn't up to snuff...feels like I'm missing something. Can someone check my PoB and tell me what I can improve on?

https://pastebin.com/dpVAvLyt

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matiasgil wrote:

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teig_ wrote:

So, I feel like I've upgraded a lot and use a lot of what's going on in Velyna's mid-range LL PoB, and I've been working on upgrades, but I feel really, really squishy. I often lose 3/4 my health on a hit, damage isn't up to snuff...feels like I'm missing something. Can someone check my PoB and tell me what I can improve on?

https://pastebin.com/dpVAvLyt

Yeah me too, i've already invested a couple of exalts on the build and i still cant do confortably t13 or t14, and bosses are reaaaally hard. I regret choosing this build.

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matiasgil wrote:

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teig_ wrote:

So, I feel like I've upgraded a lot and use a lot of what's going on in Velyna's mid-range LL PoB, and I've been working on upgrades, but I feel really, really squishy. I often lose 3/4 my health on a hit, damage isn't up to snuff...feels like I'm missing something. Can someone check my PoB and tell me what I can improve on?

https://pastebin.com/dpVAvLyt

Yeah me too, i've already invested a couple of exalts on the build and i still cant do confortably t13 or t14, and bosses are reaaaally hard. I regret choosing this build.

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TenebrisUrsum wrote:

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matiasgil wrote:

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teig_ wrote:

So, I feel like I've upgraded a lot and use a lot of what's going on in Velyna's mid-range LL PoB, and I've been working on upgrades, but I feel really, really squishy. I often lose 3/4 my health on a hit, damage isn't up to snuff...feels like I'm missing something. Can someone check my PoB and tell me what I can improve on?

https://pastebin.com/dpVAvLyt

Yeah me too, i've already invested a couple of exalts on the build and i still cant do confortably t13 or t14, and bosses are reaaaally hard. I regret choosing this build.

Hi, so basically I would suggest a wand with +1 to all spell skill gems, it's better overall since it's also giving + level to rest of the gems. You can take a look at my character profile, the scepeter I got cost me about 30c and it's ok for the time being. One of you is also using facebreaker which does nothing except curse with elemental weakness. Before I got vixen, I was using rare es gloves with resistances and ele weakness, at least that way you can get a little bit es or armor and maybe get lucky with the mods before you invest in templar gloves or something else. Next thing is clusters, I suggest a cold damage one with 8 passives, for the medium ones, use what you feel comfortable. First I was using grand design and holy conq, but in the end opted for critical strikes one which I still didn't quite decided if they will stay like this but the double damage one stay for sure and it's feeling great what stars align and you proc double damage on bosses. The boots I got were like 25c with 2 open suffixes so I just bought fenumus to craft aspect of the spider and crafted another suffix.
Also, I would get awakened added lightning since on lvl 5 it gives you +1 to all lightning spell skill gems. Storm brand 21/20 is about 1 ex, that's what I payed and that way you have lvl 23 storm brand. Wrath 21 is cheap, last time I checked it was about 40c, I was lucky to hit the corrupt so didn't have to buy it.
Everything on my character was self crafted and budget bought so you can make small upgrades depending on your budget.
The helmet is a work in progress, I don't use TFT so hunting for harvest to roll prefixes.
I did AL8 Sirus deathless, conq are no problem, 10 boss maven depending on the bosses and mods are either deathless or 2 deaths.
The main thing with this build is that you can't stop moving, get your brands out and run like a chicken until everything is dead. So before activating scourge put your brands out and then get in to scourge so everything near you is frozen and can't touch you.

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teig_ wrote:

So, I feel like I've upgraded a lot and use a lot of what's going on in Velyna's mid-range LL PoB, and I've been working on upgrades, but I feel really, really squishy. I often lose 3/4 my health on a hit, damage isn't up to snuff...feels like I'm missing something. Can someone check my PoB and tell me what I can improve on?

https://pastebin.com/dpVAvLyt

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teig_ wrote:

I'll look into the +1 all gems wand. I currently have a +1 lightning with % lightning and cast speed, which is pretty good it seems. Any wand that seems like a significant improvement in PoB is looking like 20ex or so. I basically used the recommended cluster that Velyna gave in her PoB God or whatever, so I have blinding, more damage per brand attached, and generic % damage incr. Just upgraded my watchers to cold pen with hatred.

I think a main pain point for me is leech from spell damage. Sometimes it does a great job of keeping me healing, sometimes it doesn't. Also, when I'm in a large tanky group (Expedition) I barely have time to replace my brands when they expire if I want to keep moving, because I definitely understanding always moving is a huge point. With how volatile/glass-cannon it feels right now, I feel like I'm gonna get one-shot constantly with Sirus. Upgrading Pantheon helped a bit, but only a bit. I'll look into some of these upgrades, but sitting on 7ex and 400+c, I'm wondering if I should look into another build at this point to invest into.