[2.0] Zazey's Chaos Shocker - Static Electricity SA Voltaxic! Refect immune!

VOLTAXIC'S BACK BABY! This build focuses on using Voltaxic Rift with the new jewel Static Electricity. The basis of this build is that you path around jewel nodes with as much dex as possible without taking unnecessary dex nodes that lead to nowhere. This bonus lightning damage that is obtained from the jewels gets transformed to chaos damage, making almost 90% of your damage chaos damage, making reflect virtually a non issue. It also picks up IR to get you easily over 10k armor, giving you 65-70% + armour rating.













Videos and Screen Shots to come. Plenty of Updates to come. Shoutout to Neuralgic for help with the tree concept.

Hi there

Smàrt build and really looking forward to the videos, to sell me on it. The higher the map level the better it would look IMO.

Your Tree is really not that great. You pick up weak dmg nodes like Method to the Madness and travel all the way to Templar for life and dmg while not taking all the easily attainable life and dmg on your side of the tree. Things like shadow elemental nodes (42%), ranger projectile nodes (30%), Frenzy charges, Life nodes near dualist and shadow, thick skin, profane chemistry and several easily reachable jewel slots (a blue jewel is ~25% inc dmg or 7% life with res)

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Flouyd wrote:

Your Tree is really not that great. You pick up weak dmg nodes like Method to the Madness and travel all the way to Templar for life and dmg while not taking all the easily attainable life and dmg on your side of the tree. Things like shadow elemental nodes (42%), ranger projectile nodes (30%), Frenzy charges, Life nodes near dualist and shadow, thick skin, profane chemistry and several easily reachable jewel slots (a blue jewel is ~25% inc dmg or 7% life with res)

Not going into templar is viable yes, however after looking at possible changes you still would only realistically go up to 186% increased life, which is more than enough to put you at 4.5k+, which is realistically all you need. The problem with what you propose is that it doesn't take into account the actual amount of points we have available. I managed to grab as much life and damage to make it a nice smooth mix but you are still only picking up 1 jewel node.

You also mention method to madness being a weak damage node when infact it's adding nearly 2k dps by grabbing that wheel to split arrow, which is absolutly insane if not the biggest source of damage on the tree.

As for jewel sockets, if you can link 40 dex to a jewel socket it will always be a bigger dps increase with static electricity than any blue/yellow jewel you can find.

The worst node in the tree is surprisingly Quickness because we only really use the 10 dex/5 movespeed just to be able to enter that crit crescent. Phys damage is pointless and if anything a detriment to the build.

Sure, I'd love to have 150 points and grab an extra 20% life and 100% damage but the fact is we don't and grabbing nodes like I do in the following tree seems to be the most optimal. It is however skipping thick skin because it was a choice between thick skin and profane chem and i feel that profane chem outwieighs the 6% bonus life you would get.

Still the problem is the tree is 123 points which is nonsense.

http://cb.poedb.tw/us/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwIBAF4A7gMeBfkILg-rFSAV8Ba_GYoZjhm0H0EkiyaVKk0s6S2DNZI31D8nR35JE0rIS1dRR1FMVUtfsGHiZU1uqm-edct9W311hMWGs4ngjDaTH5XMlwabjZu1rEe18rvjvTa-p8DjwzrEospK037YveZY6mLtP-2D8bP5Y_4K_rr-j03j8kU64TB8fys51G_yoJ8GI7VI8-oqC3BSidNw1ZykhxN3B-dUJP3_3t0NW68UdRjbdPGQCimlIXaGzsEzjX0j9k2SR-Ii4qQ5bWw2PRvIz93xip2qYqxsjOUZtDj79ZeXRXyhIvT4okA-z73mWlKomnvD


I am also still playing around with the idea of running IR and Phase acrobatics. I know that the idea is usually bonkers however with both I would be sitting around 9k armour (50% phys reduction, down from 70%) and 40/30 dodge which I am not sure is a better trade off or not. The main problem im finding with getting this build atziri viable is there is 2 options. Drop a lot of survivability and get a ton of damage and just kill everything before it can do anything, or get more survivability and less damage and have to actually do something other than right click. I feel the latter is better because it will always be better for 77+ maps.

I'll be honest, i tried both variations of the tree and personally I like my first better, however I took out the chaos damage nodes for now, if anything Method to Madness will be the last things I pickup at 95-100. Still toying around with IR/PA combo to see if I like that, armour, or no IR. For now though I am having no problems soloing almost all maps, Palace Dom isn't too bad, just requires a lot of attention, but overall it can do almost anything, haven't tried 81s-82s.

I'm playing a similar build using acrobatics instead of IR. Moving into the Templar seems strange to me as well, even after your explanation. I'm curious why you didn't move further into the shadow section ad grab the jewel node.

For 5 points, you get an additional 50 dex(for static), and are on path for the blood drinker life nodes. This also gives the option of depth perception for more dex and crit instead of the flat crit nodes above depth perception.

Forces of nature can replace catalyse, elemental nodes at the shadow start can replace templar elemental nodes.


I played around with the tree a bit and found that staying on the right side gets you higher damage, but slightly less defense. Here's a modified tree


In the end, I guess sticking to the right side might be better for my acro based build with queen of the forest, where dex stacking is even that much more valuable. (especially considering you having IR)

Pretty cool stuff, it's clear that you've put a lot of thought into this.