Fireball / Detonate Dead - MoM Archmage Stormweaver

Not a build, but more of a showcase proving a concept: Cast-on-Meta skills are not needed for a build to be powerful in the endgame.

Many of you are getting baited into cast-on-skills that have been continuously nerfed. As players continue to try to regain the lost power from these skills, and as streamers desperate for views keep publicizing discoveries, these meta gems are more likely to continue receiving nerfs more than any other thing in the game.

The following video provides a quick demonstration of alternative damage scaling without using cast-on-freeze/cast-on-minion death/etc.

If you're looking for a build that will let you farm a good amount of currency in T15 maps with ease and fun, feel free to check out my video for inspiration since I'm not providing a build guide.

Cost of my build was ~200ex, but it can be operational with 20ex I'm sure. You'd probably just lack chaos resist, cast speed, or crit. Those are the luxury stats that raise the price of the build. Chaos Inoculation is an alternative solution to chaos damage. That could increase the price of your build, however.. I'm not sure.

https://youtu.be/FnXfdONgggU

mmm telling people they're overreacting to the builds they're using to slog through the 40 hour campaign constantly getting nerfed by posting a 200+ ex endgame build and saying "see? it's completely possible" is kinda just in bad taste.

200 ex is the final product I was showcasing. The build can be upgraded far higher than that.

Anyone with 15-20ex can get a really good starter going with similar setup and cruise through T12s. That's very respectable. And as you farm, you can upgrade to better. That's the game, buddy.

Like I mentioned before, this isn't a guide.