Grand spectrum ele Jewel build - opinions?

Looking at your tree, just go for elementalist. Your tree already goes really close to the witch starting point, shaper of desolation gives you shock/chill and paragon of calamity is almost obligatory so you don't 1 shot yourself from reflect.

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Adser wrote:

Looking at your tree, just go for elementalist. Your tree already goes really close to the witch starting point, shaper of desolation gives you shock/chill and paragon of calamity is almost obligatory so you don't 1 shot yourself from reflect.

Would the leach if you've killed recently (berserk ascendancy thought scion) + a potential chaos conversion from consuming dark/voltaxic not solve reflect issues?
And wouldn't getting more jewel sockets (or just as many) prove more difficult starting from the witch tree?

Your current tree is like 5 points away from the witch starting area, leech, unless its instantaneous with Vaal Pact, won't really save you and going chaos gives you 0 status effects. Plus, with that tree you are going to depend a lot on gear to survive, so I wouldn't recommend using the chaos conversion gear.

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Adser wrote:

Your current tree is like 5 points away from the witch starting area, leech, unless its instantaneous with Vaal Pact, won't really save you and going chaos gives you 0 status effects. Plus, with that tree you are going to depend a lot on gear to survive, so I wouldn't recommend using the chaos conversion gear.

As far as i'm aware voltaxic for example still makes it so your chaos damage can shock targets.
And for consuming dark the chaos damage poison enemies.

Would the remaining (not converted) damage still give status effects, using 1 consuming dark still leaves 70% fire damage.

As for survival gear, resistances and some life and you're set. using a weapon slot or 2 for dmg conversion to save yourself from some reflect shouldn't be much of an issue.

A bob as chestpiece would give you more than sufficient life. the tree gives a 180+% life ratio so I think that should be enough, right?

Yes voltaix allows you to shock, and the non converted damage can still do status effects, but you lose the double dipping from your massive elemental damage bonus if you end up applying poison.

I just don't see the point of investing so much in having this jewels if you are not going to use the main advantage of having such and insane elemental bonus.

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Adser wrote:

Yes voltaix allows you to shock, and the non converted damage can still do status effects, but you lose the double dipping from your massive elemental damage bonus if you end up applying poison.

I just don't see the point of investing so much in having this jewels if you are not going to use the main advantage of having such and insane elemental bonus.

Nonono, I see your point with going witch and all, it's just rather that i want to think about the possibilities before actually acting.

By the way, at 980% elemental damage alone, Ignite will do over twice the original hit per second, for a total of over 8 times the original hit damage.

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Adser wrote:

By the way, at 980% elemental damage alone, Ignite will do over twice the original hit per second, for a total of over 8 times the original hit damage.

so a fully charged flameblast with 14 jewels does "26568" dmg on average.
and the ignite would do a total of 53136 per second for how long?

Fully charged flameblast does 39,074 in average (lvl 20 flameblast) with no other support gems.

For around 80,000 burning damage per second, for 4 seconds.

In other words, everything is dead.

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QuiNoX100 wrote:

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Adser wrote:

This gem is tailor made for burning builds. Burning double dips in elemental damage, so something like flameblast is the best option for it.

Flameblast could be a good idea, ye. Don't really know the math that would go into it tho, the stage calculations is beyond me :P



Not charged:

241 to 362 base damage.

241*(1+9.8)=2602.8

362*(1+9.8)=3909.6

2602.8 to 3909.6 damage with 14 jewels.

Average damage when not charged: 3256.2

Fully charged:

2892 to 4344 damage.

with 14 jewels:

2892*(1+9.8)=31233.6

4344*(1+9.8)=46915.2

31233.6 to 46915.2 dmg with 14 jewels.

Average damage when fully charged: 39074.4