Ball Lightning of Orbiting, How to deal with collision while leveling?

If any of you have explored Ball Lightning of Orbiting (like I did last league for a sick build), I tried to make an alternative for leveling and I'm struggling to map and finish atlas in a fun way.

There are lots of maps with obnoxious amount of collision assets. And in some cases it's just not possible to even kill a rare b/c they won't leave a section. This has included mercs, who have also figured out that some of their projectiles can go through objects that mine cannot.

Right now I'm exploring Ulamaan's Gaze (Chance to chain against terrain). It's helping quite a lot. Searching eye jewels to offer various immunities and damage bonus from ES b/c I'm using EB seems extremely helpful so far. However, it's not quite good enough. Returning Projectiles is just such a damage hit. I'm still making my build and i'm stingy and try to do things cheap for a while before I pick it up so I understand some other improvements I can make. I'm mainly looking for strategies people dealt with, if they started it as well.

Had the same issue. Especially bad for Betrayal, felt like ZDPS on doors or certain zones. Also, many mercs start the fight running away so your dps is again lower.

Cast while channeling with mjölner is a highend way to solve it, but I just made another character and switched to a different skill...

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mdpoe#5566 wrote:

Had the same issue. Especially bad for Betrayal, felt like ZDPS on doors or certain zones. Also, many mercs start the fight running away so your dps is again lower.

Cast while channeling with mjölner is a highend way to solve it, but I just made another character and switched to a different skill...

Thought about doing that as well. However, I've really worked on using that unique jewel and it has helped tremendously more than i thought it would.

Mercs are a joke with this skill. i had one with zero chaos damage gems. zero chaos damage items. one shot me as max chaos res. Had max ES and just all my life gone.

Honestly mercs are another entire issue.

Thanks for your input. I think it's likely a better skill with CoC
(like you said, mjoolner) or mines but I'm starting to make some headway. We will see. Last league I did a pure ES and INT stacker and it was OP af but that was when instant leech was 10% and I had a watchers eye for es on hit and honestly it was an end game build. Now with 5% instant leech it just feels near impossible to sustain like before. Even with frostshield.