I want to create an obscene Spark build for 2.1. Possible?

With the announcement that Spark will have added projectiles as it levels, along with another damage buff, I was wondering if it was now in a place where it's viable. My problem is I can't character create for crap and my skill tree looks like a roadmap to hell.



The idea is to link Spark with Pierce, Faster Projectile, Echo, and Lightning Penetration to have fast moving spiders that can reset the shotgun effect by colliding with walls, while also stress testing my computer and forcing other players to crash their comps before they can kick me (But really, this will be a solo build).

Concerns are lack of focus (Pierce, with projectile speed, with duration), damage, and the fact that Spark pathing is totally random.

Is it worth investing in? Or am I too off base?

Any thoughts? Suggestions?

To little life, to little durration, too little damage. You pathing looks a lot like 1.2 pathing. Sadly the things that were efficient then are not longer good now. I don't really want to highjack your thread, but I feel confident I can provided something that will spit out a few thousand sparks a second, and I think that is what you are looking for.

I was dissatisfied with the poor performance and clear speed of Vaal Spark. You can't use it at the start of the map, you have a .05 percent chance to not crit resulting in slower charge, don't like whirling blades sound effect, not enough sparks on the screen, a am a special snowflake and don't like doing things other people are doing.

As such I set about making Vaal Spark build without the Vaal part.

An Expensive upgrade is a Drillneck, I would post mine but I sold it a wile ago.

Spark linked with Barrage - Cast on Crit - Spark - GMP - Pierce - Lightning Pen.

http://exiletools.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwIAm40ILu2DGY4AXtN-73ruDvzFDY2HduOfSn1bryF2hs7BMyP2TZKNfVb6fys51Hb3Mfqgn2_yMHxRR-dUJP3_3q_rAdGiQPT4oSLEopcGGYrDOio4JIsPqxa_JpVh4lVLjDZtbOywjAu5fDY9napsjGKstMXC7CpbefZDNlLsidNwUioLXfLlGbQ4-_WXl0V8m7WExV-wykpvnpykhxN3B1FMrEd9WypNPydfmFltzzJKyG6qtfI1kti9_gq3PkGH-eiCxx2-M4cD7v6PTeOmVzrh8kU=

The reason I think this works is because of the large synergies with all of the involved mechanics. Quill Rain can have up to 100% increased projectile speed. It makes your sparks fast. It also attacks many times a second. You can reach 50% crit chance for barrage and when it crits magical things happen. You shoot 8 arrows. Each arrow creates 11 sparks. since crit is rolled once if you hit all 8 shots you create 88 sparks. Then because of that 100% pierce you got for your sparks, your barrage also has 100% pierce. Now you create 88 sparks per mob hit. You should also be attacking 4 to 5 times a second. When you take into account CoC 70% chance to cast and accuracy you should have a cast at least once a second if not more.

So now you have a bunch of sparks flying around. So what? They won't don'y have any more multipliers and won't deal any damage. First off, all that crit you have for you Quillrain also buff the crit for Spark, so spark getting a crit is a more multiplier. And Lightning pen double damage when fighting bosses. Also the projectile damage from Drillneck actually will buff spark the amount would would normally get from a wand. Here is video proof.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIDZw8XBggk

The video is a year old and things could have changed. But to the best of my knowledge it still works.

But I think even this is over kill for how fast these little things will fly. 100% from drillneck, 40% from gem quality, 20% from tree, 30% from Karui Ward, whatever increase you can get off your jewels. Those are fast sparks. Those are a lot of fast sparks. Those are a lot of fast Sparks with 100% chance to pierce that can fly back and forth through enimies. If you don't crash the server and cause a rollback, everything should be dead.

But faster clear than Vaal Spark? I don't like WB. I like good old fashion Move Speed. 30% from boots, 20% from hat, 10% from amulet, 65% from speed flask, 20% Vaal Haste. 145% increased Movement Speed. Your crit with a billion spider babies, you should have infinite flask charges even after the nerf. Also with all that duration Vaal Haste should get around 18 seconds, and at that point it should always be up.

Pretty sure I am forgetting a bunch of stuff but that's the basics. Hell, the build should with just a Tabula and a Quill Rain with a decent amount of crit. Everything else is just expensive upgrades that push the build into crazy amounts. Yes, you die to reflect, I recommend a little lightning leech and Vaal pact. Yes, mana will be a bitch, I recommend running a level 20 clarity and leaving the rest of your mana unreserved; its not like you need more damage. Yes, I have not actually played this character since it uses 2.1 tree. That being said I can't imagine hundreds to even thousands of piercing sparks with a 3 second duration and gazillion speed could be bad.

I consider myself a mad scientist of sorts. I don't like making my "clever us of game mechanics" pubic as I fear GGG will change it. I don't see much harm burying this in a thread not many will see and I was not planning on using the spec anyway, I have better stranger builds in fount of it and I don't think I would get around to making this one. That being said I would love to know how this would preform in practice.

/Not responsible for melting your cpu.