Okun, Axial, Esadora and Verglas

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(I’m playing in the Eternal)
I’m testing some weird ideas and end up using Okun’s Catalyst, Axial Conduit, Esadora’s Overflowing Cameo and Hail of Verglas.
The idea started with using Ball Lighting to generate Crackling Energy (for mana regeneration) and Axial to consume hugh amounts of mana.
The mana consumption was supposed to summon Hydras and more Chain Lighting. The Hydras was a bust, but the Chain Lighting worked very well (no need to cast it myself).
Then I added Esadora for the explosions and Verglas for Int% and Attack Speed.
This is by far the most noise build I ever heard… but it is fun, just zooming around and blowing up stuff.
Surprisingly half of my damage comes from Esadoras (3720%x damage bonus currently). Sometimes it cleans the entire screen.

Now I have some problems to solve.

  • Many of the Chain Lighting are dying before exploding. I have 180 mana and regenerate instantly, but even so, Axial drains everything and some Lightings don’t have enough.
  • The damage from Chain Lighting, Axial explosion, Okun damage (Ball Lighting) and Lighting Spear are weak compared to Esadora. I tried many combinations but it makes little difference.
  • I don’t want to use Enlightenment, but Vyr’s Mastery and Overflowing Energy are useless.
  • I only have a little over 3.5k health and that includes Paragon and Potions.
  • The damage against bosses is very bad. I cannot kill the Butcher from Infernal Hordes during the time of the wave.
  • Don’t know what to use as Tempering in the weapon, I can have max Ball Lighting without it and double damage for Chain Lighting and Lighting Spear makes no difference.

This build clears pit 55 in 4 minutes, pit 67 in 10min. I get 600 to 800 in Infernal Hordes (10).
I have:

  • 100% crit chance
  • +160% in Attack Speed.
  • 2200k crit, 600 vulnerable, 1200 shock, 300 elite, 200 all damage
  • 13 levels of Invigorating Conduit (52 mana per orb)

I’m using Tam-Xan and Poc-Qax, both triggers every second.
My Glyphs are all around level 46~50 yet. Destruction, Exploit, Unleash, Tactician and Reinforced (will change later for Territorial or Control).
Fundamental Release, Enchantment Master, Static Surge, Ceaseless Conduit.
My gear are the 4 uniques plus Esu’s Heirloom and Hands of Fate. Aspects are Gravitational (chest), Conceited (weapon), Shredding Blades (ring) and Storm Swell (ring).
No Boss Powers (Eternal Realm) and no Mythics (they suck).

Do you all have any suggestions or opinions about any of this?

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Have you added anything to shocking impact passive?

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I tried… it didn’t helped much.
Will try again after the patch.

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Add tempering for it under weapons/prismatic/shocking impact… Adding about 650% damage for me now and I run it at around 16/3… The patch fixes the bug once stun is applied anything coming out of it doesn’t get it reapplied; after the 14th it will be.

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If you swap to Destructive Chain Lightning you’ll get tons of Crackling Energy for free and won’t need to spam BL for it, but you’ll need a different spender to trigger the CL enchant. That would, however, possibly free up the option to use Avharion Spear of Lycander for the % All Stats affix it has, which should make Esadora’s even better assuming you can spare the other Aspect slot.

I’m not sure where I’d go with the spender though; the nice thing about Okun’s is you can spam while on the move. Meteor would have a high spend rate. You could use Ice Shards to get more benefit out of Verglas… Just spitballing here.

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