The Taming Prismatic Ring

I'm playing:

Wither - Cast When Channeling - Ball Lightning - Chance to Ignite - Increased AoE - Void Manipulation

on a pathfinder with voltaxic rift, poison during flask effect, 15% increased AoE from tree and the dying sun with 50% increased flask effect.

Atm I have around 95% chance to ignite and hit several times with every ball lightning. So I should stack a HUUUUUGEE amount of ignites.

The build is basically made to take down only The Shaper and Guardian of the Minotaur (since they have the insane HP that lets me stack up, and Uber Atziri/Guardian of The Phoenix are immune to ignite, Guardian of The Hydra/Chimera are immune to poison). Yet I dont shred bosses as insanely fast as I thought even when stacked up and dont feel like I have anywhere near the damage required to kill Guardians. Sure, I can still scale stuff more as I dont have a lvl 20 ball lightning, but it feels like it might possibly not be working.

Good thing you gave confirmation on this.

Ball Lightning base radius is 16. I have 96% increased AoE with flask up. That should give 31 radius.

Assuming Ball Lightning moves 40 units in 1 second before slower proj (i dont understand what the number "400" on projectile speed means). With slower proj it moves 20 ish units in 1 second. The diameter is double the radius thus 31*2=62 units the projectile needs to move through. That should take around 3 seconds and since ball lightning hits 5 times per second, thus lead to 15 hits. Since I dont really know the mechanical numbers here lets make it easy, and go harsh on the builds theoretical damage at the same time, and assume it has slightly more than 10 hits per ball.

Lets say it ignites around 10 times per ball with my 96% chance to ignite. I shoot Ball Lightnings every 0.37 seconds, that is 2.7027027 balls per second. Giving me 27 ignites per second.

The ignites last 4 seconds as base. I have 29% increased ignite duration from jewels. That gives me 4*1.29=5.16 seconds ignite. 5.16 seconds long ignites times 27 ignites per second gives me 139 ignites. This is without temporal chains with enhance and uber lab enchant.

I cast wither in 0.25 seconds and it lasts 2.00 seconds. This lets me put 4 withers per second lasting 2 seconds for 4*2=8 withers on the target enemy. The 8 withers increase the chaos damage taken by 56%. I also apply vinktars shock for another 50% increased damage taken for a total of 106% chaos damage taken.

Ball Lightning base damage at lvl 17 is 11-217 which gives an average of 114, after voltaxic converts 60% to chaos (which is all that really matters with poison). 114*0.6=68 chaos damage per hit. The math was counted low and assumed we only ignited 27 times per second. Lets count low again and discount the hits that didnt ignite.

Slower projectiles dmg bonus is easy: 28% more dmg at my gem lvl.

So: 68*27*(1+139*10%)*(1+106%)*128%=

=68*27*(100%+1390%)*(100%+106%)=

=68*27*14.9*2.06*1.29=72696,89736 , or 72k dps

All of that 72k dps poisons. So 8% per second of 72k for 2 seconds, increased by 20% from pathfinder leading to 2.4 seconds poison duration. And all of the double dipping modifiers applies to that. Counting again.

First base damage * poison 8% of original hit * taming * (wither+vinktar) * slower proj

72696,89736*0.08*2.4*14.9*2.06*1.29=552662,8900152026 , or 552k poison dps.

You may see now why I am a bit concerned that after almost running out of flasks, I still dont have insane damage versus even t12 map bosses.

(I removed void manipulation because it lowers fire damage and might make me ignite less before I have reached the stage of ignites ramped up enough to deal so much damage that it's always enough to apply more ignites.)