Im running a CL / hydra build at lvl 70 hardcore. With the changes to CL, this build really wrecks now. If you havnt tried it out I encourage it, and its pretty fun. I just hate that i always have to use a slot for flame shield enchantment but w/e.
Whats the easiest way to get Barber and also, doesn’t it disable all other procs?
Wet Noodle spec + barber wrecks stuff. It’s the heart not the spec.
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Yeah, Omnipower heart with CL and extra chain and mana return on bounce makes CL spammable basically.
Damage is still low, just a lot more hits.
Add CL enchantment and that also goes off basically every cast as the heart drains over 100 mana each time basically
80% CL 4 chain on Staff + Aspect of Ancient flame on ring/gloves (50% attack speed)
Because Esu ferocity’s critical strike on kill and new critical strike on boss gives the buff we can use Aspect of Ancient flame and have a tone of attack speed without almost any problem of mana now so its much better than 1 hand + offhand.
Why Esu ferocity’s ? because Vyr is only usefull on melee and with the new Greater Chain Lightning its useless to build into crackling energy because its useless we don’t have mana problem.
I have 1.64 attack speed with a staff and deal x2 base tooltip damage now with staff + 80% chance to have 4 more chain so even more damage.
Sometimes when unlucky or CL cannot chain to many times we can get very low on mana so taking the legendary parangon node +10 mana when you stun a close enemies help a lot with lightning spear.
Crackling energy is for cd resets and perma 30% teleport DR, with crackling energy, you can keep Unstable currents up all the time and just chain teleport with the ultimate always engaged.
I think it’s the better build, but what do I know, I only completed NM100 with frozen orb without being one shot.
I told you haters, hold my beer.
Exactly. Chain lightning didn’t receive any significant damage increase. It was mostly QOL changes. Like mana on hits aspects.
It did get an upgrade for non-boss clearing with the extra bounces and the change to Greater Chain Lightning. It’s less damage on bosses, but when engaging large groups it’s a significant damage increase.
It’s not a damage increase when you are running a crackling energy build.
I switched to the vyrs and the 5% more damage on bounce but, it wasn’t worth not having lower cooldowns especially on unstable currents. So it’s only a small damage increase with a specific build. That is not really a class wide CL buff other than a quality of life change for a very specific build.