Path of building cant load in the new gems or supports rn so I will mention the skill gem setup while levelling here.
PLEASE CHECK VIDEO TIMESTAMPED SECTION FOR WEAPON SWAP SKILLS.
All Curse Magnitude stuff on the offhand.
Remove the lightning damage nodes from the generic tree and put them into weapon swap 1.
Dont remove any non-offence nodes for the weapon swaps. You dont want to for even a split second be less tanky while casting diff spells.
GEAR:
While doing the campaign just pick up and wear whatever you find BUT PLEASE GET A GOOD STAFF. I used 2 different +2 staff from the vendor all of act 1
and then spent 3 exalted orbs on the 3rd staff and used that all the way until the end of campaign. Its that good and easy. That allowed me to have absolute Garbage gear and still breeze through.
Here's what you should prioritize on all gear though ranked in order of importance (Not on the staff, thats just always +level and cast speed main priority)
Amulet:
Level of all spells
Cast speed
Life/Resistances
Rings:
Cast speed
Life/Resistances
Helmet Body Boots
I like evasion or hybrid evasion ES. If your rings or amulet don't have alot of dex on them, then just wear pure ES gear.
Besides that, Life and Resistances.
Boots with movespeed OF COURSE.
Staff:
Level of all Spell skills or Lightning skills (highest number wins)
Cast speed
%spell dmg
%lightning dmg
Gain as extra X dmg
Gloves:
GET Kitoko's Current as Early as possible. Very cheap gloves you can use them level 16 onwards
The above gear is for early campaign. As you go higher try to get your gear as similar to mine in my current early mapping setup.
LEVELLING:
You can level with spark Immediately. No ED contagion no respecs. But if you want to do that go ahead, I like spark more. Its stronger.
Path of building cant load in the new gems or supports rn so I will mention the skill gem setup while levelling here instead of in a loadout format in pob.
Gems are arranged in order of importance, order of importance changes as acts continue so keep an eye out for that. The importance is both which gem to add sockets to first, and to prioritize new support gems in.
Act 1:
Spark Linked With Rapid Casting 1, Controlled Destruction
Flame Wall - Rapid Casting 1, Fortress
Frost Bomb - Overabundance 1 - Spell Cascade (Gives you 2 ice infusions, very good)
Orb of Storms - Overabundance 1, Controlled Destruction
Act 2:
Spark - Rising Tempest, Controlled Destruction >> Replaced Rapid Casting with Rising Tempest
Flame Wall - Rapid Casting 1, Fortress
Frost Bomb - Overabundance 1 - Spell Cascade (Gives you 2 ice infusions, very good)
Orb of Storms - Overabundance 1, Controlled Destruction
NEW
Mana tempest - Efficiency 1
Elemental Weakness - Heightened Curse
Mana Remnants
Act 3:
Spark - Rising Tempest, Controlled Destruction, Elemental Focus(orb of storms is used to shock instead) >> Replaced Rapid Casting with Rising Tempest
Orb of Storms - Overabundance 1, Controlled Destruction, Rising Tempest
Frost Bomb - Overabundance 1 - Spell Cascade, Cooldown Recovery 1
Flame Wall - Prolonged Duration, Fortress, Spell Cascade
Mana tempest - Efficiency 1
Blasphemy reservation gem with Elemental Weakness in it
(try to get 30 spirit on body or amulet if you also want mana remnants with it, but not important)
Act 4:
Spark - Rising Tempest, Controlled Destruction, Projectile Acceleration 2 (By now you should have enough mana regen to unspec the arcane surge magnitude ascendancy and take double shocks instead)
Orb of Storms - Overabundance 2, Controlled Destruction, Rising Tempest
Frost Bomb - Overabundance 2 - Spell Cascade, Cooldown Recovery 2
Flame Wall - Fortress, Spell Cascade, Prolonged Duration
Mana tempest - Efficiency 2
Blasphemy reservation gem with Elemental Weakness in it
(try to get 30 spirit on body or amulet if you also want mana remnants with it, but not important)
Your links now do not change at all, until you are high enough level to use Lightning Conduit. Then you add these gems in
Arc - Overcharge, Shock, Unleash
Lightning Conduit - Elemental Focus, Considered Casting, Inevitable Crit
Only use arc on a boss after its electrocuted and then blow them up with Conduit.
Can also just Cast conduit on a tanky rare that you shocked with spark.
Final Interlude and going into early maps:
This is the last change, you get the last 40 spirit you need to add in Archmage.
Your links now should look like the way I have them in game:
Spark - Projectile Acceleration 2, Rising Tempest, Controlled Destruction, Lightning Mastery
Orb of Storms - Overabundance 2, Controlled Destruction, Rising Tempest, Lightning Mastery
Frost Bomb - Overabundance 2 - Spell Cascade, Cooldown Recovery 3
Flame Wall - Fortress, Spell Cascade, Prolonged Duration 2
Mana tempest - Efficiency 2, Lightning Mastery
Archmage - Lightning Mastery
Arc - Overcharge, Shock, Unleash
Lightning Conduit - Elemental Focus, Considered Casting, Inevitable Crit
Elemental Weakness - Heightened Curse, Focused Curse, Cursed Ground
Playstyle:
Act 1, always flamewall or orb of storms for any packs.
Once you get mana tempest, tap that button and then kill. If low dmg, may have to use orb of storms or flame wall too. If that is the case you need a better staff
Thats basically it.
Single Target Rotation PRE-CONDUIT:
Before bossfight, use frost bomb twice to get max cold infusions, and orb of storms twice to get lightning infusions.
As boss does his intro animation, put down the lightning infused flamewall, cast frostbomb preemptively, mana tempest, orb of storms (twice), Curse (if you dont have blasphemy aura yet in act 3), and then spam Spark.
Recast orb of storms when you remember to do so, do frostbombs then too.
Mana tempest will drain your mana alot if you stay in too long, so cast as much as you can then step out and make a new tempest.
Boss should be dead by now.
AFTER CONDUIT:
Drop all the extra abilities same as before, or don't if you dont feel like you need the damage. Just get the boss electrocuted from kitiko gloves, then use Arc for mega double shock (pay attention to the shock icons on the boss)
If those shock icons Dont show a higher shock than your spark's shock, hit the boss with arc again once or twice. Try to get atleast One big shock and the other can stay lower.
Be inside a fresh mana tempest before you cast your lightning conduit.
Bye boss