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

I'm not convinced all those points for extra projectiles is worth it. Have you considered going crit instead. The crit nodes are a lot closer. and the extra projectiles are only a small chance.

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Zephryl#5929 wrote:

I'm aiming for "Good enough that I'll only replace when I'm really starting to min/max the gear", which wasn't too bad with the gloves, but the belts are selling the second they hit the trade site lol

Chaos is always a pain, I think my last 9 builds on PoE all used Shavronne's Wrapping lol

Does PoE2 even have Chaos Innoc?

yeah there is CI, a ton of endgame builds use CI
this build can also use CI but CI gear is usually really restrictive and I like being able to mess around with the passive tree and experiment

IMO huge single physical damage hits are more dangerous than chaos damage at the moment, so having a combined health pool from health/es/mana all together seems like a better idea to me (and is working very well).

As for chaos resist, once I rearranged my gear and spent some ex, I got up to 55% chaos res without making any big sacrifices, and then I started feeling pretty good.

Anything about T5 or so with only 10 chaos res you get from the campaign is a nightmare.

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Nis42#1959 wrote:

I'm not convinced all those points for extra projectiles is worth it. Have you considered going crit instead. The crit nodes are a lot closer. and the extra projectiles are only a small chance.

With all the projectile nodes and a 10% chance from fireball gem we have a combined 58% chance to fire 2 extra projectiles.

That means 6 extra fireballs per full unleash about 60% of the time. Which means even more splitting projectiles. On a full unleash + wildshards + extra projectiles proc we get a ridiculous stream of fireballs in all directions, which can get buffed by firewall, and then they are split into smaller projectiles that retain the firewall flat damage.

So basically, extra projectiles scales our damage exponentially.

The problem with crit is that crit happens when the initial spell is cast, and not calculated per individual projectile. Fireball is also a low crit spell (only 8%), and it would be very difficult to scale it up to a point where it is reliably critting. Yes when it does crit the projectile proliferation damage would also be huge, but getting it to the point where its reliable would be a pain, and also hard to fit into our gearing budget.

The alternative build I have used without projectile nodes that works well, instead goes for huge amounts of cast speed, to get less damaging procs more often. Ironically it uses inevitable critical frost walls to proc the cast speed. (This build is actually super smooth and a joy to play because of the crazy high cast speed making it feel much more mobile, but it lacks the turbo nuke of max projectiles that I crave)

I'm sure crit works, especially at massive gear levels. "Why not both?" is the ultimate lol answer here. Inevitable critical has huge synergy with unleash, on a 6 link and with perfect crit gear it might be the amazing.

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Konried#2763 wrote:

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Zephryl#5929 wrote:

Just a quick question: I'm levelling and just picked up a staff with Sigil of Power... Is there a reason you specifically weapon swap over to cast it? I assumed originally you couldn't cast it in the other weapon slot, but it lets me cast it just fine.

if you mean why am I not switching automatically well yeah I do, I'm just saying its the weapon swap skill, so you need to swap back

maybe there is a way to swap back on using fireball, that would be ideal, but I havent seen a way to do that yet

Just discovered that in the skills window, if you click the arrow next to the DPS you can restrict spells to certain weapon sets. So, you can set Fireball to only cast with Weapon Set 1 (Or indeed everything but Sigil of Power). Now everything will swap back to the main weapon when used.

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jakob450#0331 wrote:

The Build seems really fun but how do we do damage? :( I am Level 72 and clearing a white T1 map takes like half an hour because Fireball has 600 DPS...
What am I missing? Coming from CoF Meteor...spent nearly all my Gold to respec to this.

Oh man, I'm fifteen levels behind you, and that doesn't give me a lot of hope.

Other than that, thank you for the guide. It is a lot of fun.

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Scotchfist#1987 wrote:

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jakob450#0331 wrote:

The Build seems really fun but how do we do damage? :( I am Level 72 and clearing a white T1 map takes like half an hour because Fireball has 600 DPS...
What am I missing? Coming from CoF Meteor...spent nearly all my Gold to respec to this.

Oh man, I'm fifteen levels behind you, and that doesn't give me a lot of hope.

Other than that, thank you for the guide. It is a lot of fun.

I'm clearing T13 maps with it at the moment. The build works great. The dps on fireball is deceptively low. We get most of our damage out of mass projectile creation through flame walls, then we can ramp it up with two buffs if needed.

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Zephryl#5929 wrote:

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Konried#2763 wrote:

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Zephryl#5929 wrote:

Just a quick question: I'm levelling and just picked up a staff with Sigil of Power... Is there a reason you specifically weapon swap over to cast it? I assumed originally you couldn't cast it in the other weapon slot, but it lets me cast it just fine.

if you mean why am I not switching automatically well yeah I do, I'm just saying its the weapon swap skill, so you need to swap back

maybe there is a way to swap back on using fireball, that would be ideal, but I havent seen a way to do that yet

Just discovered that in the skills window, if you click the arrow next to the DPS you can restrict spells to certain weapon sets. So, you can set Fireball to only cast with Weapon Set 1 (Or indeed everything but Sigil of Power). Now everything will swap back to the main weapon when used.

....damn

well Im glad found out about that now, and not like a year from now lol

Dear OP,

Im completely new to POE , but can ou post gem skills on website for easy to see?

you said using fireball + fire wall, and cast on freeze but using cast on freeze with "wall", but which wall ? frost or fire wall?

thanks

Hey, can you put your gems and gear on maxroll?

How essential is it to use fortress on flame wall? Almost tempted to use it on ice wall, trap myself inside and destroy things?

Is this even viable?