Grand spectrum ele Jewel build - opinions?

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Rowanbladex wrote:

Gotta say, the jewel is pretty broken. In my boredom, I made a 13 jewel tree, along with a whopping 220% life. Assuming you're using spells, you get 900% increased damage for an elemental spell. All that and it's only level 90. I don't understand how something of that caliber can exist in the game

yeah. you can literally spend all over passives on other things, like survivability. you get plenty of damage just from the gems.
getting 13 jewel sockets is a lot of pathing though

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xMustard wrote:

getting 13 jewel sockets is a lot of pathing though

Jewels are generally about 5 or 6 sockets away from each other. So you can get all the stats and Offense you need for around 70 passive points. That leaves another 30-40 or so to spend on life nodes. (Note you don't need to spend much on pathing to the life nodes since there will be plenty nearby!)

They might have to limit it to 10 a piece.
Than the best you can reasonably achieve is 15 or 16 times 10 (times 5%, in this threads case).

I planned for jewels a lot since I'm currently planning to use a lot of the mana ones (cheap to get, for sure), and with a Scion, which I never play out of principle, 15 is reachable around level 80 (I never plan nor play higher), and 12 is reasonably doable on any char. If you play till 90, add 1.
This generally left me with 100%+ life even on the weirdest or most offensive-minded builds.
It's quite amazing how you literally pass by 2/3rds of the good life clusters.