fire, ice, lightning

Oh okay; thanks for your help. I guess I will just choose one element for my build.

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BGSacho wrote:

You can definitely build a passive tree without any specific focus(simply taking +elemental damage and +spell damage nodes). Actually using all three elements may be unfeasible due to not enough links on your gear to create multiple strong spells.

Just use Discharge.

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cwhemphill wrote:

Oh okay; thanks for your help. I guess I will just choose one element for my build.

Fire is useful for pure damage. If you spread your passive tree enough Fire has the highest possible damage percent multiplier (+~150% max I believe). Additionally you have Avatar of Fire to convert anything extra into Fire damage for even more fun.

Ice is useful for defensive builds since Freezing enemies allows for quick breaks to run and heal. I'm building Ice Spear on my Shadow and anything that does not 1. hit me for high hitscan damage (think Arcmages) or 2. move quickly to my location (Piety's melee form runs extremely fast, I almost died vs Kraityn because of Flicker Strike crits) is unable to kill me simply because my chance to freeze them is so high.

Electric is really nice for DPS chars if you can stack shock really well. LMP + Fork Lightning Arrow builds come to mind as well as Chain + Arc.