(Stormweaver) Max projectiles cold converted fireballs. Cheap, easy, powerful, FUN! (T16+ ready)

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Hausgeist#5228 wrote:

To be honest, I can't get anything down with it. For trash mobs it's OK, if they are not fast. Rares is significantly harder and bosses are impossible for me. Freeze and frostwall procs every 2 minutes once - this is useless. Sigill of Power is completely useless - I don't see any effect in damage numbers.

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rionguyenngoc#8230 wrote:

how to set up with EF for boss? do you use EF for clearing?

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Konried#2763 wrote:

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Hausgeist#5228 wrote:

To be honest, I can't get anything down with it. For trash mobs it's OK, if they are not fast. Rares is significantly harder and bosses are impossible for me. Freeze and frostwall procs every 2 minutes once - this is useless. Sigill of Power is completely useless - I don't see any effect in damage numbers.

Sorry to hear that but it sounds like you're doing something fundamentally wrong.

You need to have a hard cast frost wall gem you use independent of your cast on freeze setup.

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Jezereal#2816 wrote:

Wanted to chime in as I have been playing this build for about 80 hours or so now with different variations.

HigherTimes#6965, regarding your observations about ES -> Mana from EB, that is correct. If you look at "Conversion" tooltip in game it says it converts the "BASE" value of something to the "Additional" value of another. So your raw/base ES with no % mods either increased or more etc, would impact this conversion. Any percent increases to MANA however would increase the amount you are now getting. This is to avoid "Double Dipping", as intended. I have seen a few people report this as a bug, but the math IS correct. I can also confirm that Ancient Aegis is now working correctly as well (60% ES Increase on armor equipped. Having 100 ES on chest now means 160 ES.)

I tried EB+Staff for about a day of mapping and it felt terrible. I swapped back to Wand/Focus with heavy tree investment into ES and decent bases. I am sitting at about 7.5k ES currently. The only mobs that scratch me in T13's are Rares, or projectiles I fail to see. I cannot recommend any stronger than this. Swapping to ES if you are an EB user will result in around 100-200% increased defenses in terms of 1 shots or quick hits (Monsters fire x additional projectiles).

I also wanted to add that a poster from a few pages ago (crackred#7106) had the right idea in terms of setup for gems. Having unleash in fireball is a horrific setup in terms of sustain dps and defenses when compared to other setups. I played unleash for 3 days and couldn't make it work consistently. I changed to (Wildshards, Scattershot, Arcane Tempo, Controlled Destruction, and Mobility) and this setup is absolutely rocking. If you need more damage take Rising Tempest or something similar. The defenses from Mobility now that it does NOT impact damage directly is a solid tradeoff. The "defenses" you pickup from this switch cannot be understated as it simply moves you out of things while keeping dps up, which acts as a better type of evasion/dodge.

I know the OP mentioned that he wants that big moment where the screen fills with 7 billion fireball projectiles, but I found that unleash simply had too many downsides not only directly, but in terms of competing options in the support slot.

Again I want to emphasize that EB should NOT BE USED unless you are drowning in ES without any modifiers to it and mana regen is insane as well. I'm talking like multi mirror budget range, as I tried this with like current value of 1 mirror worth of gear and did not see any significant increases, and actually saw a decrease in my defense capabilities. I am also running CI, as I specced that before the chaos damage scaling changes with the .e patch. Getting a focus and some solid es gear with decent resists is paramount to making this build feel good in terms of living.

Also worth noting, you MUST have Grim Feast running and reserving spirit (Get a 30-40 spirit amulet or on the chest). It's defensive layer makes ES shine as you can basically overcap ES by up to double (5k es can go to 10k) which allows you to run maps 2-3 tiers higher than you would be able to without it as you can tank huge hits on ES alone. You can blast if you don't need it, or play a little slower to build up the temp ES in preparation for a tough rare or boss if one is present.

I hope somebody out there read this and finds this post helpful as it took me almost a week of keeping up to date on the game as a whole as well as.to find out where the build was failing me in terms of defenses as well offense. Again not to say the original build is strictly bad, but it is NOT for me, and given responses I'd assume a lot of players that want consistency of mapping/clears more so then big spikes in terms of raw dps.

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Konried#2763 wrote:

I updated the main post. I think EF is a great addition to the build that has lots of use for clearing and bossing. Even with 1 or 2 very fast casts, we can get a nice chunk of freezing damage that auto targets and forks, that works great along with a fireball cast.

I've been using it during clearing by pre-casting it before I go around a corner to confront a pack, and it fires while I cast fireball for even more burst damage. It's excellent vs rares also when we can't quite get into range for frost wall shotguns, or we need to skirmish a bit. Of course the simple usage is as a supplement to pure standoff damage, and in that capacity you just double cast it for full stacks between fireballs and let it rip.

For bossing, I would say it is situational only when you cannot be in melee turbo dpsing, or when you are repositioning. It makes a great addition to the 'shotgun blast' if you can align it, but I think its more damage faster to simply alternate between walls and fireballs, if the boss is open.

When skirmishing its freeze buildup is significant, so that is another bonus to having this skill for a boss.

There are a couple bosses (like the huge skeleton worm guy) with really bad hitboxes/gimmicks for frost wall, and on these guys ember becomes our fallback until they open themselves up to a proper shotgun (like when he slams and lays out for a bit).

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Hausgeist#5228 wrote:

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Konried#2763 wrote:

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Hausgeist#5228 wrote:

To be honest, I can't get anything down with it. For trash mobs it's OK, if they are not fast. Rares is significantly harder and bosses are impossible for me. Freeze and frostwall procs every 2 minutes once - this is useless. Sigill of Power is completely useless - I don't see any effect in damage numbers.

Sorry to hear that but it sounds like you're doing something fundamentally wrong.

You need to have a hard cast frost wall gem you use independent of your cast on freeze setup.

Interesting, this is not working for me. I can only cast frost wall directly if I take it out from cast on freeze or via cast on freeze. But then I can't cast directly. This is strange. I can only use one of the options, but not both togehter. One of them is always deactivated.

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stoyy#4662 wrote:

Hey im pretty new to this. In the ascendancy section, what exactly am I suppose to pick here? Thanks for the guide!