Lightning Spec - Is it wroth it?

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gillemans007 wrote:

Why everyone here is forgetting about the Str gem: lightning strike?

You know one aspect of the game is your not bound to way to go..
Try lightning strike witch, Dagger lightning strike/whirling blades, multiple projectiles, piercing, Attk speed/ light dmg/ elemental dmg

Try it, love it :)

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Kelthien wrote:

I'd love to be able to rock a lightning build, but the lack of skills is devastating.

Frost has:
-Ice Spear for solid ranged damage
-Freezing Pulse for insane close-range damage
-Frost Wall for distancing/protection
-Ice Nova for AoE with medium range
-Cold Snap for high ranged freeze

Fire has:
-Fireball for ranged small AoE
-Fire storm for high-damage ground-targeted AoE
-Shield spell, which requires you getting hit and being in melee

Lightning has:
-Spark for 'random' ranged damage but solid close-range damage
-Lightning warp for movement or damage, if you care to be in melee
-Shock Nova for high but unpredictable damage

There are various "convert X damage to Y type", and many more melee skills for Templars. Plus traps may benefit from skills. But for now, Frost has almost twice the amount of skills as the other elements. The skills compliment each other well and form a complete set, which make Frost very attractive.

Personally, I'd like to see the following. Fire could use a quick-casting AoE nova-style spell with high Burning chance and some form of crowd control. Lightning should have the weird damage spread on Shock Nova removed and get a single-target lightning or chain lightning spell.