This is the case of knowledge that would help me in the past, but now - not so much, if at all...
In theory, having a 4slot galvanic field will give you quite a big boost against lots of bosses since you only have to cast it once every 10s. It might only do 50k deeps, but that's 500k damage for a 0.5s cast, pretty good. In practice I don't have enough buttons or gem slots.
It lasts 6s, and 4 link is bad. Also does not work in combination with shock skill used for Lightning Conduit. For LC you need something like orb of Storm or some other skills that automatically casts on enemy and casts fast because you want to use your full cast speed for Lightning Conduit for max deeps. Galvanic ignores all that and it needs just one strong shock, this is why I used Shock Nova as it let me apply 75% shock to targets. Also when you start spamming Lightning condruit you don't want to stop that to recast Galvanic. If you are going to stop, it is to change position.
Ok, so you press your macro and hold the mouse on the item for 5-10 seconds. Then you move to the next item and wait again. Do this for every piece in the chaos recipe, so 9 times, so around 1 minute or more. Is the time and the tedious process really worth the 1 chaos to you? Not to mention the 160 Armourer's Scraps and 20 Whetstones? You can sell 150 Armourer's Scraps for 1 Chaos on Standard right now.
:D I assure you the ratings I gave out were based on the content of the posts, not on any perceived spite on your end.
Are you using +1-2 Strike Targets Implicit on your Gloves, 2+ Pierce for Projectiles and Vaal Lightning Strike? LS is already the best Strike skill in the game and if you don't like that, you might as well re-roll into a different archetype altogether.
If you are doing unidentified quality chaos recipe that is 3c . And that is only Chaos recipe worth doing. I pick up rares with quality I find and put them all in one in stash tab. When I fill it I can do 4 recipe for 12c and move on. It does not take that much time. Certainly more reward than this league that barely drops anything.
Storm brand has better range though, and doesn't need to be recast as often as it can jump. And can be cast on the other side of the screen. Not sure about duration. Does the orb of storm proc from LC cast apply the shock before the LC hits? Pretty shit if it doesn't.
Fair enough, it's still a good dps boost if you can afford the slots. Cast it while the boss is doing some iddq phase or something, or before popping the essence stack.
Sure elementalist applies shock easier but I am pretty sure dies more often in the game. At lvl 87 I got 3400 life and 3300 ES, 100% suppression (with 63% reduced spell damage) and 78% evasion vs attacks, super fast ES regen, ES leech and even chaos res is at 38% (and Trickster abilitiy gives me back 10% of life, mana and ES per killed enemy making me unkillable while there is stuff to kill). And I still die here and there if I miss potion rotation or don't move out of danger ground in time. I cannot imagine how this stuff will work with Witch, especially since LC asks you to stand your ground and spam until they die.
We'll see. I am going for armor and primal aegis, plus some golems, because I don't understand suppression and it scares me.
Removing the +10% maximum resists is going to be pretty big I think, a lot of the rest seems a bit meh. Archnemesis enemies having 75% ele resist most of the time instead if 85% is pretty huge, but I still think they'll hit 75% almost all the time as soon as there's 2+ defensive mods?
My expectation: They're going to go quite deep on some unforeseen technical issue that made loot worse than expected, and that they now have fixed, and be a bit apologetic about it, especially in how it made people feel betrayed about communication. But loot will still be worse than in previous leagues, even after fixes have been deployed. Not much worse perhaps, but worse.
Can't really double down after already buffing the loot rate in the patch yesterday. Question is, will they tell us why the loot rates were as bad as they were?
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3298509
If you don't realize how great the PoE community has been you are way more retarded than I ever imagined.
