[3.15?] (Archived) Ball Lightning Miner | Facetank Sirus | Destroy All content

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Daibom wrote:

Hi ,

Thank you for this build guide. Superbly well written and very detailed. Was easy to follow.

First time for me to try a Scion and its very interesting.

I have a couple of questions:

1. I am very squishy. Have to keep spamming the mana flask to survive. Is my dodge chance low ?

2. I have an exploding Mace but am not sure the mobs explode if i use the Mines rather than doing a direct attack w the Mace? Can you clarify this? keep dying to those mobs that shoot Spikes when they die.

3. DPS for a miner lvl 90 is not that high for Single Target. Am i doing something wrong? Will include my pastebin and gear.

Any help will be much appreciated . Am hoping to kill Sirus A8 with a miner build. have never been successful with my 2 other miners (pyroclast miner and low life ball chain miner). They are too squishy and never survive Phase 3. Im hoping this build is MORE forgiving of mistakes and tankier to kill Sirus A8.

Here is my pastebin

https://pastebin.com/d6m23vKM


here is my gear. PLease have a look at my exploding mace and tell me if its the correct one and how to use it ? Physical attack or use the normal barrage?

1. The main reason you have low survivability is your mana, you need at least 4.5k mana so that your 50% MoM could take a lot of damage while able to recover a lot, since you are not at 4.5k mana, you'd lost some dodge too, get to 5k mana asap if possible. Also, try to use vigilant strike often as fortify gives you a lot of defensive layers.

2. Unfortunately that explody legacy sceptre doesn't work. If you looked closer it said "Enemies you killed", which means that YOU are the one must do the killing, not your mines, enemies killed are due to your Ball lightning summoned from your mines and you are not the one who's doing the killing so that sceptre explosion won't apply, unless it died from ignite.

3. From what I saw on your PoB it should be fine for your damage, just make sure to use arcane cloak often because it gives a huge amount of damage boost, since you are lacking on mana too it won't give you much.

tl;dr get more mana, pretty much solves everything later on.

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Ciatlov wrote:

Hey i had a quick glance at your pob. Here is

3: Passive tree: Swap Saboteur -> Hierophant for 8% mom for 1shots. Pick up Constitution near scion area. Try to get 3200 hit points and 5k mana with 57% mom atleast. Unspec your witch mana nodes and skill effect duration nodes.

5: Skill links: Inspiration+Swift assembly changed to minefield and charged mines.

6: Cluster Jewels: You need a good 8 passive lightning cluster jewel with 2 sockets, scintilating idea at the minimum, and disorienting display or other useful lightning node if you can afford it.

9: Indigon: Get 10% max mana and highest spell damage roll you can get on it with a relevant enchant: Ball lightning aoe, damage, +1 proj or arcane cloak etc. (expensive)

some errors here and I wanted to clarify.
#3 : 3 main reasons I stick with sabo, tldr more damage and less passive required, as this is my build guide, not Akane's.

Reason 1 : By switching to Heiro, you need to use the passive points to make up the lost, so you have to be at least lvl 97 to swap to heiro, i know most people won't be hitting lvl 97 easily so that's why I pick sabo.

Reason 2 : More damage, why more damage? If you think about it, BL dmg comes from the arcing bolts, the more it hits the target the more damage we deal. By having the increase area, we will have generally better clear and single, why? Because tl;dr our BL will hit more.

#5 : As I've stated, swift assembly is personal preference, so I won't go much on that. For inspiration, the reason Why I choosed inspiration instead of charged mines is inspiration deals more damage compared to charged mines. Basically it.

#6 clusters, my goal here is to limit the usage of clusters as this is to prevent the over usage of currency to get good results. Again this is my build guide, not Akane's, do note that he is in std, he won't have easy access to clusters either. I know that on next league getting clusters will be hard so that is a main reason I'd limit usage of cluster jewels.

#9 Arcane Cloak consume 15% additional mana is priority, BL proj does not add damage as I've stated doesn't shotgun, just more clear, BL area is more damage and more clear so I'd recommend that too.

I know this is your recommendation, but don't take other people's build then throw into my build please, it is like "hey you should do what that guy does" and it makes me feel uneasy ya know :>

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Remicaster1 wrote:

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Daibom wrote:

Hi ,

Thank you for this build guide. Superbly well written and very detailed. Was easy to follow.

First time for me to try a Scion and its very interesting.

I have a couple of questions:

1. I am very squishy. Have to keep spamming the mana flask to survive. Is my dodge chance low ?

2. I have an exploding Mace but am not sure the mobs explode if i use the Mines rather than doing a direct attack w the Mace? Can you clarify this? keep dying to those mobs that shoot Spikes when they die.

3. DPS for a miner lvl 90 is not that high for Single Target. Am i doing something wrong? Will include my pastebin and gear.

Any help will be much appreciated . Am hoping to kill Sirus A8 with a miner build. have never been successful with my 2 other miners (pyroclast miner and low life ball chain miner). They are too squishy and never survive Phase 3. Im hoping this build is MORE forgiving of mistakes and tankier to kill Sirus A8.

Here is my pastebin

https://pastebin.com/d6m23vKM


here is my gear. PLease have a look at my exploding mace and tell me if its the correct one and how to use it ? Physical attack or use the normal barrage?

1. The main reason you have low survivability is your mana, you need at least 4.5k mana so that your 50% MoM could take a lot of damage while able to recover a lot, since you are not at 4.5k mana, you'd lost some dodge too, get to 5k mana asap if possible. Also, try to use vigilant strike often as fortify gives you a lot of defensive layers.

2. Unfortunately that explody legacy sceptre doesn't work. If you looked closer it said "Enemies you killed", which means that YOU are the one must do the killing, not your mines, enemies killed are due to your Ball lightning summoned from your mines and you are not the one who's doing the killing so that sceptre explosion won't apply, unless it died from ignite.

3. From what I saw on your PoB it should be fine for your damage, just make sure to use arcane cloak often because it gives a huge amount of damage boost, since you are lacking on mana too it won't give you much.

tl;dr get more mana, pretty much solves everything later on.

is this weapon better than the explody mace then ? (cry exalts wasted on Mace)




So i go for mana nodes first?


thanks!!!!!!

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Daibom wrote:

is this weapon better than the explody mace then ? (cry exalts wasted on Mace)

So i go for mana nodes first?


thanks!!!!!!

Ciatlov stated some factors, like the gloves and belt are quite major on your mana, so yes you need to target mana nodes for now.

Wepaon looks solid btw

am at 4664 mana now and 2663 life at lvl 90 by crafting the mana mod on the gloves and getting a better belt.



do i change the mana flask ?

switched to the weapon already from the Mace .....

Thanks! Love your guide and easy to use filters for items!

sorry, i cant find the PoB link? im trying to look at the images but its too small.

Can you link the PoB ? many thinks

Am removing the "Skill Duration" nodes for more passive points and will allocate to Mana nodes. Am i correct?

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Daibom wrote:

am at 4664 mana now and 2663 life at lvl 90 by crafting the mana mod on the gloves and getting a better belt.

do i change the mana flask ?

switched to the weapon already from the Mace .....

You might slightly need more life, try to hit 2.8k life because currently each point of life double your ehp

Highly recommend to get enduring mana flask

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Thanks! Love your guide and easy to use filters for items!

Glad you find the guide useful!

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sorry, i cant find the PoB link? im trying to look at the images but its too small.

Can you link the PoB ? many thinks

Am removing the "Skill Duration" nodes for more passive points and will allocate to Mana nodes. Am i correct?

how can you not see the link :v

I did not took any skill effect duration nodes tho, there's a mana node near the skill effect duration, you might be mistaken for it

Hey not trying to derail your guide or step on your toes, thank you for posting your information.

72% of people playing scion bl mines 97+ are using hierophant, other 28% using saboteur. Either way I don't think it matters too much on how the build functions. Saboteur has more recovery and area of effect and extra points from tree, Hierophant has more survivability from 1shots with 58% MoM.

Quartz flask:
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Delirium/nrdmy29u0

Diamond Flask:
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Delirium/OwJzrOCE

Weapons:
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Delirium/QgOaDjpFw

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Delirium/jvzyRXlTX

Stats you want are slightly debateable. Reccomend you copy/paste them into your pob. From looking at level 100 profiles mostly the weapons they use have big %spell dmg, added lightning, with atleast 2 of crit multi/penetration/crit chance/added chaos. 5 t1/t2 damage mods on a good base are what you want for endgame.

Mana Flask:
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Delirium/KyWGlDnf5

Hierophant version: https://pastebin.com/Lhvnzva9
(Level 100, Unnatural instinct) Remove frenzy charge nodes, bottom cluster, and a jewel socket or two when lower level.

Guys,

What is the clsss for the build? (And Why?)
Scion, Hiero or Saboteur?

i'm a bit confused :S

Edit: Is a Headhunter belt good for the build? I Have it and not sure if it's good or not.

Thanks!