[3.0]CoC Discharger

Hello there fellow Exiles! o7

So after going to lvl 89 with my first char I decided it's time for something more fun than RF and ended up creating a concept for an Elementalist CoC Discharger and it was fun till the bitter end, but first things first.


Pros:
-Flashy Explosions
-Immense Damage
-Insta Leech
-Something not boring in the meta


Cons:
-take all pro points & there you go
-Hella expensive


First up I exclusively play on HC so it was intented to balance out life and damage after brewing I came up with this:

skilltree:
http://poeurl.com/bssT

Take Alira for bandits.

I took everything for a reason, ask and/or explain if you think there is some room for improvements
(and surely there is some room for that)


Ascendancy:
So why ele??? Why not something good like Inq or Flaskfinder or Trickster one might ask?

-B/C Inq is too much dmg which will kill you 100%. no argue. period.

-Building a flaskfinder with life fitting for HC turned out near too impossible so I quited

-Trickster got huge buff and extra charges but if u do the math and since we're playing with EE turns out trickster isnt so great for this purpose.

That leaves us with the Elementalist solely for HC! I REPEAT F O R H C ! ! !
SC I would choose Inq and rofl olololol wipe my way through to shaper EZ.

Overall Ele gives you the best Defense and good offense: Pendelum of Destruction is simply amazing for dps, Paragon of calamity for the reflect protection and golems for even more deeps, conflux gives extra shatters for another form of defense.
For normal lab take golems they'll carry you to A10.

Now this is important! You have to have Paragon of Calamity b4 switching to CoC Discharge or you will end where I ended: in SC HELL b/c you will inevitably one-shot yourself to reflect like I did at level 65.
Conflux for uber.


Core Uniques needed:
5L Voll's Protector (at least)
Voll's Devotion
Vagan Dagger
Rest of the gear rare: insanity crafted gloves for faster SCharge

Links:
Cyclone/ShieldCharge - CoC - Discharge - Inc Crit - Conc/IncAoE - Controlled Destruction/Inc crit dmg
CwDt - Blade Vortex - Inc Duration - Inc Crit
Flamedash - faster Casting - Flame golem - Light Golem
Blasphemie - Warlords Mark - Enfieble or dmg curse
other links for vaal hastes & Movement


Flask Setup:
Seething Divine Life Flask of Staunching
XXX Basalt Flask of Heat
XXX Diamond Flask of Warding
Wise Oak
Last Flask is another Unique prolly Vonktars but than one would need anti shock


Leveling:
Level as any Spellcaster really prolly bf totems or something of that nature
!!!WARNING: DONT THINK ABOUT LEVELING AS COC!!!
I did it and it was horrible, mobclear is alright but you can't kill any boss
(unlees you equip Voll's Devotion)


Playstyle:
The playstyle is the same as always charge / clone into a group preflask and BOOOM!


Conclusion:
The Build is not a S-Class Godtier ISHITONEVERYTHING Build anymore BUT it performs really well and it is still fun and I think if you later on switch to Cospris Malice T16's and above are easily doable.

THOUGHTS?

i get crits with Cospri's Malice but i feel like it's not enough, sometimes i just touch a mob and crit but some other time i get to wait 5 secondes in the middle of the ennemis to get a crit, even with diamond flask.
As for Items i looked for res to cap first, then life, but i happen to run short on mana really quickly and get wrecked, especially against bosses on which Cyclone is used many times/s.
Any tips ?

Also where do you get your +1 curse ? corruption on an equipement?
I really enjoy this build atm, still have a good damage output even with the -35% and above all, big explosion <3

how to manage mana?
good build

Hm i was try your build and hmm how you survive in hc ?? i try it on std die like biach XD crit rate its low even with vagan dager ,boss fight long and hard die many times

Couple of tips from building this as scion in 3.0 - worth a look, btw, since she can get the same reflect mitigation as elementalist, but also assassin base crit.

Items:

This belt is now BIS for any CoC build. It lowers the cooldown on CoC (also Mjolner/Malice), grants attack speed and the harbinger buff acts like a more multi on all action speed. only discharging twice per second with CoC gem feels awful. This belt + Malice = 5 discharges/ second from the weapon alone. Offense is defense for Dischargers.


These are also BIS in terms of maintaining full charge discharges.


Lycosidae is also super valuable, because it turns any weapon including Cospri's Malice into a vagan dagger. No need for accuracy gems or passives. Has about half the life you'd get on a rare too.

Survivability: your tree only has around 180% life. That's only going to net you around 4.5k life, not HC viable.

Damage: Discharge damage comes from Jewels. They also give you flexibility to balance resists for wise oak.

Here's a tree that boosts life to 222%, gets higher crit chance, and more jewel sockets:
http://poeurl.com/bwsp
Conflux is bad when you're using a skill that's already capable of massive shocks, and can run Herald of Ice for shatters. Mastermind of Discord can net you 25% pen if you run lightning and ice golems. That lets you drop wise oak for a grounding flask to run vinktar.