[3.10] LL Storm Brand Hierophant 8k+ ES, 10k Mana, 10M+ DPS per brand

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Zweetsok escribió:

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cyberrico escribió:

Basically invincible? Biggest overstatement ever. There are virtually no defenses except for a medium-sized energy shield. Am I missing something?

Not sure who you are responding too... can't recall anything about invincible.

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AcidCitrus escribió:

Maybe its a stupid question, but, how do you avoid stuns as low-life without skyforth ? atziri foible seems like a must have instead of chayula amulet. Am i missing something ?

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JermStudDog escribió:

Posting here because I've pretty much worked myself into a corner, but I believe I have a build that a lot of people here could take good advantage of.

The whole point of my build was to abuse Archmage + Indigon. Sort of because the consensus of opinion seems to be that they are a bad combo (spoiler - it's not).

By utilizing the 50% less mana cost of skills from Sanctuary of Thought + keeping skills limited to 4-link, you can effectively run 3-5 spells that are all about as strong as a typical 6-link spell, even one that could be running Archmage.

My gear:

The general playstyle is to drop the 4 storm brands, then use brand recall to extend their duration near-infinitely. Now you stack up Blade Vortex to 10 stacks, taking advantage of Unleash + Inc Dur + Archmage to make it deal insane amounts of damage and last for a decent duration. When you encounter packs, you drop Firestorm on them, which shares the same 6-link armor to also take advantage of Unleash + Inc Dur + Archmage. This is more than enough to kill pretty much all trash in the game and speed through Deliriums without concern for much of anything really.

When you encounter a boss, you can put down corpses with Desecrate, and unleash Cremation + Vaal Blade Vortex and then move into your typical rotation.

I'm aware that the build advertised in this thread sports 10 mil+ damage per brand, but I'm doing ~15 mil DPS with 1/10th the amount of money spent on my build, and recent adjustments have gotten me very, very close to your build here - but I don't like spending 10ex per slot so I think I'm about done.

You guys can pick up this style and explore it if interested, I believe it should be able to go so far as doubling the damage capable from the build this thread is based on with little more than a helm change.

2 obvious advantages of taking advantage of low mana costs, rather than high mana costs is that I get to take advantage of Kalisa's Grace + Grand Spectrum (or really any other jewel, whatever) rather than using Voidbringers and Fevered Mind jewels. Indigon takes care of all the mana-cost-pumping concern by itself, so I still get to take advantage of ~6k mana cost Storm Brands, but I also get to take advantage of ~6k mana cost Blade Vortex, 6k mana cost Firestorm, and 6k mana cost Cremation + 4k mana cost vaal Blade Vortex when it comes to bosses. It is a bit more complicated to play in general, but I find it ultimately no different from most other builds once you get used to the nuance.

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sisco1985 escribió:

your build looks really bad to play, why would i cast 12312312312 skills if i can cast 6 brands and hold left click to win

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JermStudDog escribió:

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sisco1985 escribió:

your build looks really bad to play, why would i cast 12312312312 skills if i can cast 6 brands and hold left click to win

A reasonable assumption, but ultimately a wrong one. Your spells start out costing over 300 Mana and increase in Mana cost with every instance of the Indigon effect. The build literally CAN'T be spammy. That won't work.

I probably average 2 spells per second, one of which is that "hold left click to win" that you mentioned is shared with this build. I have merely added blade vortex on top, which is another long duration spell.

Those 2 spells make up 80+% of the damage I deal and the build largely plays out like a typical BV character. I just happen to have brands bouncing around while I clear the map.

Firestorm helps to further pump damage when required. You don't have to cast it if you don't need to, but it helps when you want everything dead in 1/4 a second rather than 1/2 a second. It also gives a bit of ranged damage to a build that can otherwise struggle to deal damage at a range.

Cremation and vaal blade vortex are mostly just there because they can be, but still, they help add another layer of death over the top when you want it. You could swap out cremation for something like blade blast if you wanted, but I find it to be the best way to take advantage of my 6th gem slot.

While my bar is full of buttons, I tend not to hit most of them most of the time.

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cyberrico escribió:

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Zweetsok escribió:

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cyberrico escribió:

Basically invincible? Biggest overstatement ever. There are virtually no defenses except for a medium-sized energy shield. Am I missing something?

Not sure who you are responding too... can't recall anything about invincible.

The OP did. "During clear you are generally invincible as long as you don't run into packs like a berserker. Cast brands, see if things die, normal packs can usually be charged, but with Delirium you always have to be careful."