[Build of the Week Submission] [0.3.0] Rambo Wizard - His Scattering Calamity spell Titan

This skill behaves very similarly to ember fusillade, where you cast an orb which hovers for a duration, then fires off at enemies. Additional projectiles add the amount of orbs you accumulate per cast. However this skill differs slightly: Not only is it lightning damage with higher base damage, it has a limit of projectile fire frequency. So scaling cast speed will not only refresh existing orb duration but also just accumulate more orbs that take longer to all fire out.

But since we do want to scale cast speed to increase our dps, we will need to reduce the duration of the orbs, both from reduced skill effect duration on the tree



as well as compressed duration II, and swift affliction III



In total, we can get 64% reduced skill effect duration from the tree, 35% less duration from compressed duration II, and 30% less duration from swift affliction III. This brings the firing time down from 1.2 seconds to 0.19656 seconds. This is already quite nice, as we are firing off more than 5 orbs per second. However we can bring this further beyond by playing as warrior ascendancy: Titan, which is normally a class known for melee and tankiness. With Hulking form,


we get 50% increased effect of small nodes, this brings our reduced duration from 64% all the way to 80% reduced skill effect duration. So our orb firing time is now reduced all the way down to 0.1092 seconds. Wow


This already makes it so orbs fire almost instantly, and we can not cast fast enough to keep up with its firing speed. Luckily, rather than trying to get 300% increased cast speed, we can simply scale the number of projectiles for our spell so we need to cast less often. This also ensures we don't need to pay the high mana cost from so many casts.
The simplest method of getting additional projectiles is through multishot II


However this support comes with a hefty 25% less damage and 20% less skill speed, with us already sacrificing two support gem slots for compressed duration II and swift affliction III, we don't want to further lessen our damage. Luckily we have another tool, the modifier "x% chance for spell skills to fire 2 additional projectiles"


This is a very powerful modifier, especially for skills that can shotgun, like ember fusillade, frost dart, and scattering calamity. We can easily reach 100% chance via the passive tree, Thane Girt's Rune of Wildness


Or from desecration exclusive suffix modifier on staffs


This mod is easily obtainable on the unborn lich unique staff, and also gets buffed by the increased desecrated modifier magnitudes line.

Now all we need to do is stack enough cast speed and damage to guarantee our cast time approaches around 0.3 seconds, and you get a barrage of scattering calamity!

But wait, in the video above it looks far more like a gatling gun rather than a machine gun, how do?
Since we are already investing in additional projectiles from spells, we can trigger frost dart via cast on critical and cast on elemental ailments.


Normally, we are not allowed to use duplicate of the same skill gems, however socketing into meta gem prevents this limit.

Scattering calamity has really good base damage to guarantee sufficient energy gain, and we are hitting fast enough to constantly trigger the two spells in quick succession.

With Time of need spirit gem skill


It normally grants you life and removes curses/ailments once every 10 seconds. However with our setup of reduced and less duration, we get to lower it to once every 1.27 seconds! So every second, we get to heal a chunk while removing any curse from map mods or elemental ailments.

There is also another skill that takes advantage of reduced skill effect duration: Orb of storm.


This skill leaves elemental infusions when expiring, with our setup we can get its duration down to 0.65 seconds, essentially giving us an elemental infusion on cast. With elemental equilibrium keystone allocated on our passive tree


We get to generate all three types of infusion rapidly for our other skills to benefit from.

For buffs: We can further boost the base damage of our hundreds of projectiles through the use of flame wall.


Introduced this league, is the elemental infusion system. Flame wall grants projectiles passing through it added fire damage, and if lightning infused, lightning damage as well!

We can also place down sigil of power to gain massive amounts of more spell damage.


Sigil of power normally requires you to spend amount of mana proportional to your maximum mana to gain stages, but since we are taking blood magic, our maximum mana is 0, so any cast will instantly grant it stages. This provides us a whopping 60% more spell damage.

We can reduce enemy resistances with elemental weakness curse and frost bomb elemental exposure, which can bring all bosses down to the negatives for all elemental resistances.

We can also chill the boss using frost infused ice nova supported by astral projection to leave chilled ground at our desired location


This allows our frost dart, which normally does minuscule amounts of damage, to creates ice shards on impact that does additional damage.