[3.20]⚡ZaPwner's Crackling Lance Occultist⚡48M Pinacle Boss DPS

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Regikoko wrote:

So was thinking of using this build as a league start for next league. Never played it before and its play style seems to be something I would like. Although I have a couple questions for anyone who has played this build.

I've been working on the build and found that if we switch to elementalist we gain a bunch of damage then you can sacrifice that extra damage and increase the defenses of the build (am not of fan of squishy builds). My questions are;

1. Although elemental overload is no big deal to take (just 1 point) how reliable is it along with procc'ing tailwind and elusive on boots. The build only has 2% crit chance (at least my version of it does). Basically is it worth or should I consider other stats on the boots?

2. How important is cast speed? you can drop faster casting for awakened added lightning damage for about 1mil dps increase but noticed that a lot of things (sigil of power, elemental overload, tailwind and elusive) benefit from the increased cast speed (making them proc more) over raw damage. (Also am considering dropping zealotry for determination)

3. Finally how big is profane bloom. Seems like the only benefit from switching to occultist is to improve clear speed, but is the base clear that bad?

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Anyone knows how good this is as a Bosskiller? The Dps seems good for me in the PoB

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It's not tanky but it's not glass cannon either so you can barely afford getting hit once by a juiced boss i guess, anymore than that is pushing it.

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Sinhus wrote:

Tried this build for fun on Scourge league.. Spend about 50 ex, should have been enough, but clunky gameplay, problems with bosses, min maxing build - otherwise no dmg and no defense. Sorry that my opinion is negative, but really there are way more fun builds than this and few times cheaper.

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ravensoul wrote:

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It's not tanky but it's not glass cannon either so you can barely afford getting hit once by a juiced boss i guess, anymore than that is pushing it.

Is replacing Zealotry with Determination worth it in that aspect?

For all it matters, with my limited game knowledge I am thinking of a small variation, with Determination instead of Zealotry and Defiance banner instead of Dread banner. This amounts to 74% physical dmg reduction which looks decent with our stats and in my eyes it's a fair trade.

Can someone explain how Dread banner works for us? I see the reduced accuracy sure, but do we hit with attacks? We cast spells that doesn't count for impale, right? Or does it work for out golems? Still, does it give so much dmg since we are not stacking physical damage anywhere?