Goratha's Shock Nova Hierophant 3.28 Mirage - BIG CHANGES! This gem has ridiculous potential!

FULL BUILD GUIDE NOTES HOW TO USE THIS POB? -Make sure you sync up the correct gem set, gear set, and passive tree set in order to properly use this! HOW DO WE LEVEL THIS CHARACTER?! -There is two main ways to level up this character in the campaign. -The first is the typical Armageddon Brand + Cremation, this works well on any caster build -My recommended, and the second way is: Firestorm Archmage, this comes online at level 31 (28 is when you get firestorm, 31 for archmage) and will make use of mana nodes early, and is VERY tanky -Before 28, you can level however you like, the best way is generally going to be Rolling Magma but a lot of people dislike this, so just level however you want until then EXPLOSIVE IMPACT + MASTERY -This is a mastery that gives 100% increased damage against ignited targets, you will need some flat fire damage to spells crafted on your weapon early, and later on some fire damage from crafted mod or hypnotic jewel (in order to ignite) WHEN DO WE SWAP TO SHOCKNOVA THEN?! -I would recommend using Firestorm until you at least get Cruel Lab, the main reason is before then we don't really have any AOE or cast speed, both of which make the character a lot smoother -If you do not have Shocknova of Procession, you can farm it in either Merc lab or Uber lab with Firestorm DUAL WIELD VS WAND SHIELD -Early on if you want to Cap suppression it will be much easier to do so with an EV/ES shield, however you gain a LOT of damage and don't really lose much survivability by using two wands instead -With a shield you would be able to Shield Charge, but with Dual Wands you can use "Frostblink of Wintry" which is a tranfigured version of Frostblink, this is basically spell "Leap Slam" and it scales very well off of cast speed UNIQUE JEWELS! -This build has A LOT of these, so I figured I'd make a section talking about why for each of them, and which ones to go for first! UNNATURAL INSTINCT AND LIGHT OF MEANING -These are listed together because they synergise very well - Unnatural is the more expensive of the two and I think you really only want to add Perandus whenever you get UI -Unnatural gives a ton of stats, that's basically it, it's very powerful and it also gives LIGHT OF MEANING a lot more +mana or %lightning damage WATCHER'S EYE -There is a LOT of good Watcher's Eye stats for this build, the biggest two are probably "Damage Taken from Mana before Life Clarity", and "%Mana gained as ES Clarity" -This is a good time to mention that this is why we are using a Level 1 Clarity - it's forced to be linked to Arrogance because of how Eternal Blessing works and its purely to enable the Watcher's Eye, skip this if you don't have one -However there is a lot of good stats to keep an eye out on especially when still using Grace. "Suppression with Grace" "Evade with Grace" and almost all of the Clarity Mods are useful -On SC Wrath can also be used very end-game, so those can be useful too MELDING OF THE FLESH -This is only used once you have acquired Mageblood - It's possible to use it beforehand with "Tides of Time" perhaps but I haven't looked into it much -Basically you stack one type of "Maximum Resistance" and gain the other two as equivalent to the one you are stacking, in our case we are stacking lightning -The reason it's only used once we get Mageblood is because it has a huge downside of -70 to 80 resistances and we can solve that as well as gain 95% Effect from the Topaz Flask at the same time using Mageblood -If you are using "Kitava's Thirst" you'll want to stack Cold or Fire resistance instead, this is because we get "2% max lightning resistance on helmet" but you can also get "2% cold res on gloves" or "2% fire res on boots" GEM CHANGES -Intensify is bad for overlapping (aoe scales the skill really well) -Faster Casting is great because the skill benefits a lot from cast speed -Inspiration can be dropped with Lavianga's setup or Foulborn Kalisa's Grace BETTER TRADING: 3: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