[2.1] Voltaxic CoC Poison Spork guide - Atziri viable, can run all map mods

This is an updated version of my earlier Voltaxic CoC build. After a lot of testing i believe to have greatly improved the build - compare the videos in both guides and judge for yourself.

VIDEOS:
NEW[Tornado Shot] T8 Canyon - quick Test run
https://vid.me/ImuE

[Barrage] T9 Gorge with 2 exiles (they die before they can do anything at 2:25 & 4:35 min;D)
https://vid.me/6Qug
[Barrage] T10 Volcano clear - no sound... more videos coming
https://vid.me/ElxX

WHY PLAY THIS BUILD?
-> Unique and strong
-> Reflect Immune
-> Huge area coverage
-> Can easily do Atziri and all map mods
-> Poison everywhere!
-> ...and it looks nice:)

WHY NOT PLAY THIS BUILD?
-> Requires at least one 5-Link to work at all, a 6-Link is highly recommended
-> Doesn't have 10k hp: Our defenses consist of 3 endurance charges, Cwdt-IC, and - depending on passive tree choices - 4-5k hp as well as Acrobatics
-> not super toaster-friendly (not as bad as other CoC builds though!)
-> Not suited as a leveling build, requires a char lvl around 90


-------------------------------Concept---------------------------------------------

In this Cast on Crit build we use the Voltaxic Rift bow in order to deal pure chaos damage with our attacks and spells. We combine it with Rigwald's Quills quiver (granting Global Fork) and GMP or LMP for an insane area coverage. Fork greatly increases the number of projectiles of Tornado Shot & Spark - thanks to Rigwald's Quills it comes without a damage penatly. Especially Spark greatly benefits from that! Spark and our poison damage are further enhanced by getting 90% increased skill effect duration from the passive tree, which also improves our defensive spells. All of this lets us use the new Poison support gem to great effect. Lastly we pick up a good amount of global crit from the tree which improves both the cast on crit as well as our spell damage.

In most situations our damage is aboslutely sufficient to deal with tanky bosses etc - but whenever an extra burst of damage is needed, we use a vaal burning arrow trap with a poison support. This is perfect for Atziri split phases and similar situations.

On the defensive side, the build features 3 endurance charges with virtually 100% uptime (you can get a fourth charge for 2 points if you wish), Cwdt-Immortal Call & Vaal Grace with an extra 90% increased duration thanks to the passives. Furthermore the passive tree allows direct access to the acrobatics nodes should you wish to go acro.

--------------Somewhat detailed explanation of the damage scaling being used------------


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--------------Gear Breakdown: The Mandatory Unique Items-------------------------



----------------Gear Breakdown: The other Items------------------------------



-------------------------------Jewels-----------------------------------------------

---------------------- Passive Tree & Bandits ---------------------------------------


COMMENTS, QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED!

Added sections on damage scaling synergies being used, Jewel recommendations and an Intuitive Leap version of the Passive Tree.

Is this hardcore friendly by chance? If so, is there a tree you might have so I can take a look at it? :)

Hey, you can find the Passive Trees are at the end of the guide.

The build as you see it here is more of a SC glasscannon. This being said, i think it might be possible to make it fit for HC by giving up some damage & crit nodes in favour of Life and Acrobatics. The tree pathing has access to a lot more life than i actually took, and also to acrobatics & another endurance charge. Maybe for HC i would not travel up to the Serpent Stance cluster and go for King of the Hill instead, investing the points you save into more life.

Those are just the first things that come to my mind when thinking about a HC version. If you have some ideas or suggestions i would love to hear them.:)

Thanks for the quick reply, I'm actually not too familiar with the tree @.@, but once i test it out i'd be happy to give you my input.

Also, quick question does Serpent Stance give bow users (our main weapon: voltaxic) the critical strike chance/multiplier even though it says "while wielding a staff"?

Yes, thanks to this Jewel:
Used in the socket next to this cluster, it transforms the passives into bow passives. So with the jewel, we get global crit while wielding a bow & global crit multi while wielding a bow from serpent stance, as well as bow crit from the blunt trauma passive next to it.
We do the same thing with the Smashing strikes and Disembowling Passives on the left side of the tree. There we get that sweet "10% chance to gain an endurance charge on critical strike with a bow" - very nice for a bow crit build of course...

But just to repeat, you definitively would need to make some changes to the build to make it HC viable. I'll try to come up with a first draft of a HC passive tree and post it here soon.

Wow, well, that was a simple answer to my question! I can't wait to see what you could come up with for a HC passive tree ! Thanks for taking the time :)

So i thought about the HC variant some more. YOu have two options as far as i can see:

Option 1 - Using GMP + Increased Critical Strikes support gem


Option 2 - Without GMP, using the Volley Fire Jewel + Increased Critical Strikes support gem


Whether the build would still be strong enough (as compared to f.e. LA/BR Voltaxic) to be worthwile with these modifications i don't know... maybe not. Would require some testing

This is the kind of passive tree one might use (Acrobatics + Phase Acro + 163% Life WITHOUT Jewels -> close to 200% life in the end):

Very interesting build. I was wondering, what is your tooltip DPS, and whether you notice clearspeed decreases in party play.

Thanks!

Ok, i am not sure how much you know about this kind of CoC builds, so i am going to give you as complete of an answer as i can - sorry if it does get a bit long:)

As with many CoC builds, the tooltip can't really tell you anything. The tooltip can only tell you how much damage one spark/ball lightning would do, or how much dps Spark would do if it was self cast - but here we obviously don't do that... The important question is how many CoC procs you can produce in a given amount of time. This is difficult to tell: Currently - WITHOUT any charges - i have 90% chance to hit, 66.98% chance to crit and 2.62 attacks per second. The rest depends on whether you use Barrage/TS & LMP/GMP and on whether there is 1 monster or a pack. I honestly don't know how one could calculate an average damage value out of all that.

Plus a big part of the damage of this build comes from poison, which again doesn't show up in the tooltip damage. And on top of that the Sparks fork, possibly hitting a wall and coming back to the monster from which they forked etc... if you know a way to calculate that mess, be my guest!;)

Vaal Burning Arrow trap has a similar problem; it uses at least three damage modifiers that don't show up in the tooltip: Concentrated Effect, Point Blank & Poison.

From my experience the damage is absolutely good enough to comfortably carry f.e. a 4 man party in a T12 map - i didn't have the chance to test it in bigger parties yet. There is not a huge difference in clear speed. Unlike some other chaos builds, this build still benefits from many multiplayer synergies, such as: Haste or Anger aura, Vulnerability or Projectile Weakness curses...