3.20 Hydrosphere Occultist 4+ pulses per second Build Showcase

Since Hydrosphere came out I always wanted to make it a main skill in a build and i think. Here's my take on it stacking as much quality as feasible (you can go with enhance in one of the links but i think the dps lost is too much if you lose on of the other gems). At the moment my hydrosphere is lvl 29 with 75% quality which makes it pulse once every 0.24sec according to the tool tip.

So you use vortex to freeze hydrosphere and make it pulse. From my understanding if the HS crits, all the pulses of that cast are gonna be crits so the damage can get very high if you are able to scale crit chance and crit multi.
My setup is a bit more defensive, you can go full dps with 2 void batteries and path around the left side of the tree instead of the right, but this fits my play style better.
Also Taryn's Shiver is an amazing unique for the build, the chance to freeze makes so that vortex goes 100% chance to crit so you are sure it always triggers Hydrosphere. I tried with lower chaance to freeze and relying on crits from Vortex to freeze the HS, but it didnt feel as good.


Here's the items:



PoB: https://pastebin.com/XtU0nS5q

T14 Veritania: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVuGV63NKD4

T16 Al-Hemzin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOkmaFHIRZc

Elderslayers Invitation 81% quantity 48% rarity : https://youtu.be/0v5i36Gc_5s

Last edited by jack613379 on Jan 18, 2023, 6:13:02 AM
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