Headless-Chicken, aka HoT Autobomber + Galvanic Field (my leaguestarter)

Hi exiles,

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Here's the build I'm gonna leaguestart with, which is a HoT Autobomber with Galvanic Field for more Single-Target damage

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I'll probably level with Storm Brand/Galvanic Field until white/yellow maps then switch to HoT and stick with a + X all lightning spells staff until I can get my Annihilating Light and the resist gear needed for it

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How to map with it ?

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-Open a map

-Run around to find the first mob

-Flame dash on a mob to shock it and proc Herald of Thunder and start taking damage

-Run around to kill the mobs

-Automatic CWDT Arc every 3.6s to apply a shock to nearby enemies

-Run around until boss

-Manually cast Galvanic Field and wait for your Arc to proc

-Run around the boss

-Optionally use Wrath Blessing + Conductivity for a bit more damage

-Run around the boss some more

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Basic explaination of the build :

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-It's an Elementalist for the big shocks, Primal Aegis and Convergence

-It uses 2x Storm Secret to allow for HoT autobombing. I therefore take 900 damage/s when Primal Aegis and/or Steelskin are down

-It uses Purity of Elements for ailment immunity + more resists to counteract Annihilating Light

-It also got Vitality running for more sustain

-Using Eldritch Battery

-It's using CWDT to cast Arc every 3.6s and apply a 65% shock (could use a lvl 1 Arc if sustaining Eldritch Battery is a problem) by stacking increased shock effect on tree + ascendancy

-It's using Galvanic Field mainly for single target damage on top of HoT

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How is the build sustaining Storm Secret ?

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-We take 900 damage/s from the 2x Storm Secret

-We have 1050 life leech/s

-We have 500 life regen/s

-We have 30% of damage taken recouped as life on the tree + (7-18)% lightning damage recouped as life (from Searing Exarch implicit on helmet) for a total of (37-48%)

-Primal Aegis with a 28% uptime (1.83 seconds of tanking the damage then 5s cooldown) were we take 0 damage/s from HoT

-Steelskin on left click with a 33% uptime (1.5s of tanking the damage then 3s of cooldown) were we take 270 damage/s (30%) damage from HoT

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With 40% of damage taken recouped as life, we end up needing only 540 (900*0.6) regen/s in order to offset the self damage which means have a permanent 1k regen/s AFTER sustaining the self damage

We then have Primal Aegis and Steelskin "alternating" for an approximate 40% uptime (taking into consideration the overlaps) where we take virtually no damage from the Storm Secrets

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The PROS :

-Mapping should feel like a walking simulator

-Bossing should feel like a dodging simulator with only one button to press every 6 seconds (Galvanic Field)

-Every bit of damage is 100% uptime therefore the DPS is the ACTUAL DPS

-1M dps with really crap white maps gear

-3M+ dps with budget gear

-Not that expensive to get going

-You can get going with only one Unique (one Storm Secret) mandatory

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The CONS :

-Struggles a bit against Physical/Chaos damage

-Wrath blessing + Conductivity + Galvanic Field to be manually casted every 10/6 seconds for bosses

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Here's my current PoB : https://pastebin.com/8RJMZY75 (currently a Lightning trap placeholder that kinda matches the damages of Galvanic Field with 65% shock and a 2 hit/s hitrate)

PS : PoB incorrectly shows 56% Current Shock instead of 65% when checking HoT damage. If you switch to the Arc skill, it rightfully calculates that Arc WILL shock to 71.81% GUARANTEED no matter the damage it does