Hey Sorcs, what is the best way to proc a lot of Cracklign Energy? Is it Chain Lightning, or is there a better strategy?
Chain Lightning is really all you need.
Or you can use upgraded Ball Lightning in an enchant slot and go with the damage boost upgrade for Chain Lightning
Chain lightning is the highest i think, I also use the basic shock arrow, and there is a enchant, on one of the enchant skills, that;s all i know so far, i think there are passives that also increase it, and give you mana return on picking up a orb.
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Chain Lightning for sure.
Chain Lightning and Static Discharge, with overflowing Energy.
Chain Lightning maxed is the best bet for lots of Crackling Energy. This coupled with Static Discharge, where at 3/3 you have a 15% chance of forming one on crit with any shock spell, gives you a bunch of them.
Overflowing Energy allows you to keep them longer, and has the added bonus of each hit decreasing your CDs. Because it’s not just about gathering them, but keeping them longer so you can proc Unstable Currents more often.
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Sorry, I forgot about Ball Lightning. If you upgrade to Wizards, you also have a chance to form Crackling Eergy on every fourth hit. If you have the ball lightning aspect (which you should it’s way op) You will be swimming in CE during Unstable Currents. This helps for when UC ends and use all your CE.
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Destructive Chain Lightning, and stacking crit to the moon. I don’t suggest Elementalist’s aspect though, I don’t feel we spend enough time at 100 mana to get good value out of it.
Also, I suggest avoiding lucky hit and putting only 1 point into static discharge, unless your build actually requires it (like Ball Lightning Enchantment), or you just have extra points and don’t have anywhere else to put them. As Lightning mages who have less free affixes because we have to pick up Lightning Crit damage, we don’t have as much room to invest in lucky hit. Even with lucky hit, Static Discharge performs much worse than non-lucky hit options.