[3.4] Teleports Behind You - Poet's Pen Lightning Warp & Arc, MF / Facetank t16 / Shaper / U. Elder

Nothing changed.

BUFFED!
The build is stronger than ever in 3.3. Arc now has greater area coverage due to forks. It also got a massive damage buff , especially against single target. Ball Lightning got buffed as well. For single target the new recommended setup will be arc + ball lightning. The build has no other changes.

• T16 Minotaur facetank
• Shaper Kill (apologies for clunkiness, not using a mouse)

More videos to come...

Poet's Pen
The Poet's Pen wand triggers a socketed spell when using an attack (Default attack, Frenzy, Barrage). If holding two Poet's Pens, one spell from each wand is triggered simultaneously when an attack is used. Each Poet's Pen spell has a cooldown of 0.25ms. This means that you cannot simultaneously trigger the same spell socketed in two Poet's Pens (i.e. if I have ball lightning in Pen#1 and ball lightning in Pen#2, only one will be casted per attack).

In order to trigger spells every time they're off cooldown, it is ideal to have <4.00 attacks per second. In fact, it seems more ideal to have an attack rate of 3.75 attacks per second, possibly due to server tickrate. It is possible to use gear with Cooldown Reduction (can be found on belt and boots) in order to increase proc rate of spells. However, this requires a significant investment in attack speed. If you have a 20% CDR belt, you ideally want >4.7 APS, but this requires an investment of about 50% increased attack speed compared to 3.75 APS. In the end, the CDR belt causes you to sacrifice a lot of skill points and jewel mods which could have been used pumping up your damage instead, and it causes you to lose the Darkness Enthroned belt. Therefore, I do not recommend using CDR gear for this build, because the investment in attack speed is too costly.

Beacon of Ruin
This Elementalist ascendancy node really makes the build tick. Elemental proliferation allows the build to shock entire packs of monsters - without it, Arc would only shock 7 monsters in the pack. This is important because of Inpulsa's Broken Heart - when every single monster in the monster pack explodes, it results in very efficient and satisfying pack clears.

This node is also important because it grants a minimum 20% shock. When combined with %shock effect from skilltree, the Arc gem, jewels, and Inpulsa's Broken Heart, the build achieves >45% shock against all endgame bosses. Aside from being a huge source of DPS, this is also important because it allows Ball Lightning to shock bosses many times per second, resulting in insane mana sustain with the Mind of the Council helmet.

Mind over Matter
This node has great synergy with the Mind of the Council helmet, especially because this build shocks enemies dozens of times per second. It allows the build to scale up to 7k effective HP. In order to get the most out of the Mind over Matter node, 70% of life pool should be Life and 30% should be Mana. Another guideline you can use is, Mana = 43% of life. I.e., if you have 4900 life, you need 2100 mana.

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Deal With The Bandits - Help Alira
Ascendancy order: Beacon of Ruin -> Mastermind of Discord
Pantheon - Soul of the Brine King, Soul of Ralakesh

Pen 1:
Pen 2:
Pen 3:
Pen 4:

Gloves
(Socket this into a glove with Faster Attacks if possible)

Chest
(Use this setup for high life sustain while fighting single targets)

Supporting skills
(keep Arcane Surge at level 8 so that a single cast of orb of storms will always proc the buff)

Ideal labyrinth enchantments:
Helmet - Reduced Ball Lightning Projectile Speed
Gloves - Commandment of Reflection
Boots - Adds 1-160 Lightning Damage / Damage penetrates 10% elemental resistances / Chance to dodge spell damage if you've taken spell damage recently / Chance to avoid being stunned if you've killed recently

Ideal jewels:

• % Maximum life/mana
• % Lightning/spell/area damage
• % Spell damage while dual wielding
• % Critical strike multiplier with spells/lightning skills/elemental skills
• % Critical strike multiplier while dual wielding
• % global critical strike multiplier

Example search link in poe.trade: http://poe.trade/search/arisihiodameho

Ideal abyss jewels:

• + Life/Mana
• % Global critical strike multiplier
• % increased effect of shock
• + Lightning damage added to spells / while dual wielding

Example search link in poe.trade: http://poe.trade/search/bohakirehihado

Boss Fighting setup (7k eHP):

Instead of a second life flask, you can also consider The Wise Oak or Vessel of Vinktar.

Magic Find setup (6k eHP, 46 iiq / 47 iir):

Should I play this build as an Ascendant?
Ascendant - Elementalist only gets 10% minimum shock. Ultimately, this causes the Ascendant version of the build to only achieve about 20-25% shock against endgame bosses. After considering the extra jewel sockets from Scion, as well as the Inquisitor subclass nodes, an Ascendant gets approx the same DPS and life total as an Elementalist.

The benefit of Ascendant is that it also gets immunity to elemental reflect. However, it does not get innate Elemental Proliferation. This ultimately causes the build to be slower at clearing maps. (Example: Inquisitor without Elemental Proliferation clearing a Minotaur map - it is slower than the Elementalist clearing Minotaur) This can be somewhat resolved by getting a Poet's Pen with Elemental Proliferation corruption, and socketing Arc into it. Even with that item, the clearspeed is a bit slower.


In the end, it is your choice - elemental reflect protection vs about 10-20% difference in clearspeed.