PoE Ball Lightning, Lightning builds

On brand wheels, there is a mastery available that reads "Recover 10% of mana when a brand expires while attached". In theory, if we reduce the brand duration low enough, we can proc this effect frequently enough to sustain the monstrous mana costs of Indigon or Archmage. And since we are recovering by a percentage of maximum mana, we don't really need to invest much into mana regeneration. Our mana recovery will basically scale with our maximum mana. Reducing Brand Duration ================== So this is actually the easy part. Wintertide Brand is the shortest duration brand at a base

Hello everyone! I am currently playing a self-cast Archmage Ball Lightning Hierophant. The damage is okay and sufficient for general T16 alch & go mapping. However, when I turn up the notch a little (more juice) or try pinnacle bosses the lack of physical mitigation really shows itself. I can complete most tasks that I set my sights on, it's just that I'll get randomly one-shotted and die along the way, losing a few portals. I'd like to add a little more tankiness to eventually make progress towards level 96 while also being able to moderately juice my maps. With that many unique items

Saw somebody post their Poison Winter Orb build earlier today and thought I'd share the Poison Ball Lightning I made. It's more or less identical to Poison Spark, both in tree and gameplay feel, except for bossing when I swap gems and rings. You (probably) shouldn't play this? It does feel a tiny bit worse than Poison Spark in doing most things. But it was a nice change of pace for a bit, and I have a strong suspicion that as long as you have an Original Sin, you could get Ball Lightning going farther on a smaller budget than Spark. (i.e. if I had no Mageblood or Nimis or Grand Spectrums e

That fact that ball lightning hits every 150ms has always made me think it would be an interesting applicator for poison, but given lightning damage didn't really have any good way to do that I forgot about it.... Until I saw the new Voltaic Rift. I was just fooling around in POB and with literally no gear whatsoever (5 empty gear slots right now with no cluster or jewels/flasks) it's looking very easy to break 1M dps with the rift and a few historically reasonably priced uniques. Also, given you're going to that side of the tree anyway I think getting suppress capped is going to be pretty ea

So I previously played a ball lightning CoC build with Arc in a Mjolnir. Given the new skill that needs shock I've replaces Arc with LC. Does anyone have any ideas for this build? Or ideally if anyone has seen something similar pop up by someone better at this than me?

POB link: tl;dr I made this build in harvest.. it's really good and fun, but the problem is that now I don't want to play any other build.. and I don't want to remake this build in another league because I know I wont be able to achieve the same level of gear. So it feels bad. At the same time I don't want to miss out on Lake of Kalandra. I want you to convince me there are better builds out there I could use, so that I haven't reached the end of my fun in poe. so yeah. I'm not trying to brag. I consider myself a fairly casual play

Sooo..i really like the idea and gameplay of the new Lightning Coil skill and have been trying to come up with a build around it. there is a horrible pob made by me with lots of probably too expensive and rare gear to be even considered something like a league starter (and it doesnt have to be imo) I took BL as a subsitute for LC in the chest armor But lets break this down: we are using inquisitor with mjölnir to automate shock novas from the hammer together with elemental prolif to spread shock which we then detonate through L

I want to present to you a league starter build I made last league. I played in a relatively small private league and mainly crafted the gear myself. I'm not a terribly good crafter so those more proficient at crafting would have an even easier time. Those who play trade league will find the build to be even smoother in its progression.I'll be explaining some thing about the build that many may already know but I want to keep it as noob friendly as possible. Here's the PoB: Offenses: 2.3 to 3.1 million DPS Max DPS condi