~~~~ThyRabidTemplar~~~~ Passive tree OP

I had to shelve the pally for bit, and make a witch for the power charge on crit gem, otherwise, arc (to me at least) seems a lot better then it used to be. I think I will have to purchase the lighting pen gems. The other option is to take the witch through cruel for them (on anarchy).

Tell ya what. The whole power charge on crit gem is nice to have, and the lightning penetration gems are almost a must later on in the game. BUT, until you get to the later part of the game, these things are not really all that important. In fact, I don't usually use/buy a power charge on critical gem until around the time I get the second power charge node above witch. Even then, its not really something that affects your build much until you round the 'last leg' around shadow ~ level 50~55. That's when you're really doing some steady crits, and you can start affording the links, gems, chrome orbs, mana, etc.

Until this point I wouldn't worry so much about having ALL the gems that I use, and all of them linked. The build stands on its own two feet, just with your spork totem buddy and sending out arcs all over (and lightning warping away when things get hot)
Work on faster casting on your spork totem, and on arc. That's pretty much it until later on when you can start slowing adding everything on.
EDIT:(while you're leveling, its nice to have shock nova attached to a lighting pen gem just for them pesky super-lightning res necros and such. It will drain your mana fast, but it will rip through em pretty quick. Also, those same necros are why I keep a level 1 corpse explosion around)

What's great about this build, is that its not so gear dependent as all those other one-trick pony builds. In fact, my cold templar on anarchy will confess that he is approaching level 50 fast with very sub-par set of gear. I was using a level 9 ammy until level 55. Now I'm using a level 12 ammy because it has ~50% mana regen. ^_^

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