Hysteria Staff Elementalist ~ 200-400k DPS Fire Burst ~ WIP Guide

Chances are you're thinking "WTF is he talking about?"

Essence of Hysteria has an underutilized modifier that is applied to weapons. I'm here to show it has potential to be useful and powerful when built around.

It provides a 10% chance on hit to cast a skill Fire Burst, which is a fire AoE spell placed at the location of the hit. It has similar damage and AoE to a level 20 Fireball and a cooldown of half a second. There's more info in an older reddit post of mine.

Where this is especially interesting is it being supported by gems in the weapon, unlike say Decay which is supported by the gems of skill that applies it. And better yet, like with The Whispering Ice you don't need to link your sockets, they all simply apply.

For one-handed weapons it's effectively a 4L and for two-handed weapons it's a 7L. Since you don't need staple caster supports such as Faster Casting and Spell Echo, you can just pile on damage multipliers and utility procs.

Now lets go on to my utilization of the modifier.



I am using Firestorm, Orb of Storms, and Herald of Thunder to constantly apply hits to enemies. This allows me to continuously proc Fire Burst as long as there are enemies nearby.

Will flesh this post out more soon, just wanted to churn this out to describe the mechanics of the build.