(Stormweaver) Max projectiles cold converted fireballs. Cheap, easy, powerful, FUN! (T16+ ready)
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Do you have a build order?
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" There are a few things to do while progressing into harder maps: You should really invest in a 5L ASAP to slot in inspiration. This should be your priority, 40% mana reduction goes a long way. You should fill out your jewel slots with defensive stats and mana regen. You should balance your total ES needs vs your mana needs. Get as much mana as possible. Around 1.8k-2kman and 270 mana regen (with mom) allowed me to run 'mana neutral' spammy fireball style after dropping unleash. This setup didn't require mana on kill. I cleared T16 and juiced bosses with only 4.5k ES. It's nice to have a lot but not necessary. You should grab the midnight braid belt and fit it into your build. 50% Damage to mana recoup goes a LONG ways in crisis situations, and if you are clever you can use it to fuel your regen during boss fights by deliberately tanking hits you know dont have follow ups and wont kill you. Some good stop gap measures for mana regen are a weapon with huge mana regen on it, necklace mana regen, and some extra mana regen nodes on the tree. You could dump a few ES nodes and grab those instead. Body armor is a big investment and missing ES boost on it sucks, but you could also try an expert Keth robe and use double mana regen runes. However, don't make any big gear changes until you 5L your fireball and try out inspiration first. I will also mention that 'mana regen while moving' is excellent, but if you are playing click to move and not moving while casting, it's only going to harm you (I play wasd, just mentioning this in case) Last edited by Konried#2763 on Dec 20, 2024, 9:33:00 PM
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" A 5L is definitely in my plans, but very pricey so just gotta wait unfortunately. Only 1.2k Mana, so I've definitely not gotten enough of those, but at the moment not a lot I can do to change out my gear. I think the only cheap upgrade I could probably do is get a better wand, I'll have a browse see if there's anything for a few ex, otherwise I'll pick up a few mana regen jewels and then start saving for a 5L. Midnight Braid I've already picked up, seemed very useful even pre-MoM, and I like to pick up any Uniques the build is gonna have ASAP so I can more easily figure out the resists the rares need. I'm also playing WASD so I'm generally only standing still when I'm trapped on scenery lol Thanks very much for the tips! Just progressed the questline to T3 maps. Edit: I levelled up again so slotted in MoM to check out where my stats are at with it on. 200 Mana Regen with it on, Fireball costs 189 but I can fire 1.2 a second roughly so it's probably technically not neutral. I might run a few maps with it, see if I OOM or not. I'm mostly worried about all the CoF procs eating everything Edit 2: I had to swap Arcane Tempo for Inspiration, drop the cost down to 114, but it feels really comfy. I got body blocked between two rares and going OOM with MoM saved my life, and I'm sure it'll be even better when I've picked up the extra damage-to-mana node, which will bring me up to 81%. Also... not that it's in any way affordable, but does that means with Temporalis we can get 100% recouped as Mana and be immune to everything but one shots? Last edited by Zephryl#5929 on Dec 20, 2024, 11:07:37 PM
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Technically we could have an Electric-Ice build with CotB Topaz Ring. So do you think which advantages Fire has over Electric in this setup?
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" the point of the build is maximize the use and capabilities of the fireball spell, because I think its cool and I like blowing up the screen if you want to go play whimpy little bouncy sparks you can, but this isn't the build for it CotB is also good for us to condense our archmage damage into cold to take max advantage of curse/pen/expose, but its a bit hard for me to fit it into my build atm. It's a chase goal. Last edited by Konried#2763 on Dec 20, 2024, 11:19:49 PM
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update: added tl;dr mobalytics link with gear/gem link for the zoomers
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Lol, I love to hear the joke about Spark, I was gonna switch but I've decided to hold onto this build as long as possible and keep upgrading it with all of our info in this thread!
Curious Kon, what's your Fireballs sheet DPS @? |
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" My sheet dps for Fireball is 6,975 As for cotb spark cast on shock, it's extremely powerful and definitely broken. However I think spark looks stupid and I'm angry at GGG for removing the laser beam effect on arc, so I'm not going to play lightning. This build is totally capable of reaching/farming endgame using practically worthless 1ex-2ex gear, so it's an easy way to get started and save up if you want to switch to something later. Last edited by Konried#2763 on Dec 20, 2024, 11:31:26 PM
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The Lightning-Cold ring is also significantly more expensive than Fire-Cold gloves, which is a major thing.
What gems benefit the most from Quality? Edit: I 20%'d Fireball, not sure if the rest should go to Fulisade or something else first Last edited by Zephryl#5929 on Dec 20, 2024, 11:31:32 PM
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" You should 20% your cast on freeze gem for the extra energy gain, and also both your frost walls for 20% cooldown reduction on their charge generation. After that it doesn't really matter, but those are the big power spikes. Our ability to seriously damage bosses in huge chunks is 'gated' by frost wall charge generation, and we want to reach the sweet spot with our cast speed and cooldowns to where we get 1 charge per rotation without any downtime. |
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