Ele Hit of the Spectrum Ballista Totems Slayer - Tankier Totems for T17s
35.5MDPS42.6KEHP3.83KLife~30
Budget
If EC was a well designed skill then the interesting aspect (flask usage) would be extremely beneficial to the skill. As it is, this is not the case. &x200B; This isn't going to be a math heavy post, but long story short, you can only regenerate so many flask charges, and that number is way lower than what you need to constantly use sapphire/topaz flasks outside pure mapping. The new sapphire/topaz flasks are quite good, but really only modestly better than just slapping on a diamond flask and require massive investment to sustain. The recent 3.21 change to EC which makes you use massive am
Explosive Concoction is both the worst designed skill in PoE and my probable league starter
Explosive Concoction·Raider·Mapping
656KDPS31.3KEHP4.1KLife~1.1Budget
Tri-Elemental Hit Ballista Totems Slayer – a fun, fast, off-meta, inexpensive, most content build
Elemental Hit·Slayer·Mapping·Simulacrum
2.33MDPS78.9KEHP4.15KLife~19Budget
When Frostferno was in the game, EC had a 5.5 link with +8 gems that was highly possible to use. You would take Avatar of Fire, get a double corrupted Frostferno and now you had a cool non traditional setup. It was reasonable to use sapphire at least due to cold to fire on Frostferno. Frostferno is gone now though. After a lot of PoB work, I am of the strong opinion that EC is better off without Sapphire/Topaz flasks. This, imho, basically makes it a broken gem. 1) It takes solid investment to get the flasks to be useable over a longer period. If you go pathfinder, you have very little sy
Explosive Concoction is a goofy skill that minimally rewards topaz/sapphire flask usage
Explosive Concoction·Slayer
32.4MDPS78.9KEHP4.28KLife~53Budget
Untested Update for 3.18 - I have not tested the above PoB. It should be a dramatic improvement in survival as its converts a lot of ele to 90% chaos resistance (and also has 90% chaos resistance). It loses about 40% of the DPS from the original, but honestly, that hardly matters as it is still >40M DPS. This is also a slight overestimate as punishment would not be active all the time. If anyone plays this and it sucks, please let me know, I'd love to iterate on it with you. &x200B; This is NOT a star
Phantasmal Lightning Tendrils Elementalist - (almost)all content - also a brief treatise on what I think is wrong with channeling in PoE
Lightning Tendrils·Elementalist·Mapping·Simulacrum
113MDPS123KEHP3.62KLife~24Budget
So, I was watching Jaamon's channel on Youtube (good Youtuber, good builds in general, recommend this guy) and he put up a pretty solid rolling magma ignite build. I worked at it a bit based off his stuff and came with this idea of using stormbind + blackflame + Eber's unification + incandescent heart. It turned out pretty well, but only in theory. Just a note, I haven't played this at all. This is not a post to say "go play this build" or "this is going to be great in 3.17". None of the build is insanely pricey. Blackflame is like 2ex. IH 6 link is probably 2 ex. Matyr is like 40c. Most of