PoE Archmage, Lightning builds

So this is my current build I'm working towards right now. There are two versions of the build 1. a budget version which is the gear that I currently have equipped right now with almost no investment (like less than a divine at this point aside from foible) 2. the endgame version which is the gear and tree I'm hoping to get towards as the league progresses Both versions have a separate skill tree, gem links, and gear in the dropdowns. My idea here is that everyone seems to be playing lightning conduit, which is an awesome skill and very fun to play, but I wanted to take a unique spin on it

Guide: Formula for shock application: 0.5(D/T)^(0.4)(1+M) D: damage dealt, T: ailment threshold, M: increases to effect of shock. Ailment threshold is 7M on Sirius and Pinnacle bosses. Use this spreadsheet to figure out how much damage you need to do to apply max shock on Sirius: DON'T FORGET TO REMOVE THE SHOCK IN T

It's 147% now. Ed: I bunged up, I just now realise the Catarina mod only affects Support Gem Quality. This is bad. Sadly this mean 140% Quality can only be reached with a double implicit synth item with unveiled Gem Quality from Haku. Makes the Catarina mod pretty useless tbh, I will revise my crafting now, I have to think a bit about this. Sadge. Yet another ed: Some Gems can still go up to 149% in total with everything perfect, it's just that the Active Skill Gem needs to also have the Support Gem Tag (Predator for example). Any other Active Skill can only ever go to 141%, and those 2 last

Dram Fragmenst good for League-start

So I wanted to make a archmage necro character using the Mahuxotl's Machination, threw together a POB. Can you guys take a look and see what can he improved? &x200B; &x200B; Edit: Apparently I am an idiot who forgot to add arcane cloak into it.

Im really really enjoying the build and as we speak I did everything I could in the game with it (Sirus A9, Maven, all maven invitations including Feared, all bosses except Delve bosses as I wasn't delving much this league, juiced maps, you name it). Everything was super comfortable on this setup, I could also facetank most of Maven and Shaper stuff from when I was limit testing for fun (and then died to Shaper bullet hell because I accidentally let my Zana die, oops :d). Quick summary of the current state of the build: - It is giga tanky - It has giga damage - At least decent clear I

Hello again everyone. So, I was experimenting a lot with various spell setups for my CoC Indigon PF and eventually I ended up on Spark again but this time without Exquisite blade as nice dagger + shield (either manastorm for damage for Immortal Will for defense) ended up looking and feeling way better. I use Hits cant be Evaded together with Second Sight for easy crit + accuracy for Cyclone and just like that half of build issues are solved. This also frees up some points on tree so I can offset the DPS loss from Spark being 0dps skill. It works to some degree, Spark still does only like 1/3r

TL;TR 100% lightning to chaos with phantasmal spark and voltaxic rift, hierophant mana based build with archmage, 50-60% MoM, agnostic, lots of mana regen, lots of fun. Pros: high eHP (8.7k), high life & mana regen, 100% chaos damage Cons: prone to oneshots (low life pool), res hungry (cuz of uniques) &x200B; I didn't play (vaal) valtaxic spark when it was popular (some time ago) so I decided to try to make one now that it isn't as powerful/viable (I'm smort). First, phantasmal spark gives 40% lightning to chaos conversion, combined with Voltaxic rift you get 100% lightning to