[3.9] Storm Brand - Fast Mapper

Hmm any other armor recomendation? Why not Carcass Jack?

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zaboleqqq wrote:

Hmm any other armor recomendation? Why not Carcass Jack?

If you only want to map you can take Carcass Jack, but I wanted to show a setup that is just good for everything. The 80% max resistances is just way too good to not to use.

You could even use Inpulsas Broken Heart for even more and stronger shocks.

Looks good! I only have two remarks:

1) Checking "Enemy is shocked" in PoB configuration assumes a full 50% shock value. This is unlikely even on rares, due to the nature of storm brand hitting very rapidly but not for a ton. On bosses, it's possible you won't get any shock at all. This checkbox shouldn't be used when you want accurate damage values. This dramatically lowers your damage.

2) PoB does not add the 100% inc global crit chance from Shaman's Dominion (totem nodes by elemental overload) by default, because it doesn't assume you've summoned a totem. That means your crit chance is higher in reality.

After adjusting for these two things, you're still hitting a respectable 305k DPS per brand on non-bosses, or 610k in singletarget. Storm Brand always struggles most in single target, especially on bosses, but you're still hitting just under 400k on shaper with storm brand alone.

If we add in Lightning Bolts and Vaal Storm Call, you have very respectable DPS even with the lower values you have with the brands!

Is mana an issue? how do you manage mana costs? or is being MOM and regeneration enough?

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Lilyliciously wrote:

Looks good! I only have two remarks:

1) Checking "Enemy is shocked" in PoB configuration assumes a full 50% shock value. This is unlikely even on rares, due to the nature of storm brand hitting very rapidly but not for a ton. On bosses, it's possible you won't get any shock at all. This checkbox shouldn't be used when you want accurate damage values. This dramatically lowers your damage.

2) PoB does not add the 100% inc global crit chance from Shaman's Dominion (totem nodes by elemental overload) by default, because it doesn't assume you've summoned a totem. That means your crit chance is higher in reality.

After adjusting for these two things, you're still hitting a respectable 305k DPS per brand on non-bosses, or 610k in singletarget. Storm Brand always struggles most in single target, especially on bosses, but you're still hitting just under 400k on shaper with storm brand alone.

If we add in Lightning Bolts and Vaal Storm Call, you have very respectable DPS even with the lower values you have with the brands!

I've seen most bosses shocked, so I think no problem here.
Can't say much to the rest as I don't know values too much.
I'd rather wanna know what Vaal Storm Call does.

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DeadManWalkin wrote:

Is mana an issue? how do you manage mana costs? or is being MOM and regeneration enough?

No problem at all. Not even while leveling.

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AkumaNoTsubasa wrote:

I've seen most bosses shocked, so I think no problem here.
Can't say much to the rest as I don't know values too much.

It's very possible that they're shocked, but shock values depend on how much of the total health was taken in a single hit. Without investing heavily into shock, it's unlikely that it was a very high amount for difficult bosses, and extremely unlikely to be the full 50% that is assumed by PoB. The "Enemy is shocked" checkbox is a classic pitfall for a lot of people, since it always assumes the maximum value regardless of the likelihood of it occurring.

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Lilyliciously wrote:

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AkumaNoTsubasa wrote:

I've seen most bosses shocked, so I think no problem here.
Can't say much to the rest as I don't know values too much.

It's very possible that they're shocked, but shock values depend on how much of the total health was taken in a single hit. Without investing heavily into shock, it's unlikely that it was a very high amount for difficult bosses, and extremely unlikely to be the full 50% that is assumed by PoB. The "Enemy is shocked" checkbox is a classic pitfall for a lot of people, since it always assumes the maximum value regardless of the likelihood of it occurring.

Yeah it would be nice to be able to edit that field like the amount of charges.
But none the less you have plenty enough damage to do shaper and red elder with absolutely no problem. A pal as even downed uber elder with this build (but better items of course).

I'm not saying the damage is bad, I'm just saying that 1 million DPS is wildly misleading.

To shock shaper at the minimum value of 1% inc damage taken, you'd need to hit for 40k. The average hit with your build without the "Enemy shocked" checkbox is 39389, which means that with storm brand you're wildly unlikely to shock shaper for any significant amount with any consistency.

I'd argue that for bossing, elemental focus would increase the amount of damage you'd do, even taking into account replacing one of the existing gems. For example, replacing faster casting with it takes your DPS per brand against Shaper from 190k to 226k.

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Lilyliciously wrote:

I'm not saying the damage is bad, I'm just saying that 1 million DPS is wildly misleading.

To shock shaper at the minimum value of 1% inc damage taken, you'd need to hit for 40k. The average hit with your build without the "Enemy shocked" checkbox is 39389, which means that with storm brand you're wildly unlikely to shock shaper for any significant amount with any consistency.

I'd argue that for bossing, elemental focus would increase the amount of damage you'd do, even taking into account replacing one of the existing gems. For example, replacing faster casting with it takes your DPS per brand against Shaper from 190k to 226k.

You say you need 40k hits
The AVERAGE damage is 39k so it does higher and lower hits, please keep that in mind. Also please note my gear and jewels are by far not the best and this is still all work in progress. Just pure numbers are not everything. I tried Elemental Focus but it slowed down higher monster killing. I might have been unlucky with map mods on those tries too. But currently this setup has given me the best ingame results. Also slower casting slows you down a lot when trying to delve and mapping. At pure bossing this might be different but didn't have any big problems yet.

Also please note I am not a huge boss farmer and there are certainly better builds to do bosses but up to shaper everything was very doable. If I ever get my helm enchantment everything will be even more doable.

So please understand that I am not creating my guide just around numbers for shaper :)

edit: The 1 Million DPS is not misleading. I would even claim to say it's ~1.4 million with everything popped up including Vaal Storm Call. Even if you just think about lower shocking values.

Firstly Thank you,

a build that I sort of can follow as a casual player that doesn't require high end gear that I cannot afford.

I have been able to reset all passives so this is great as my build wasn't working past T2 maps hahahah

Questions - I see in the tree no gems are required is this still the case?

And pushing my noob luck and understanding, the Cast when dmg taken level 1 . we don't level this gem at all?

I have a Tabula , so will use this, to get the effects should craft it to similar states where I can?

Again cheers for an interesting build

Phabby