This was the setup I played two patches ago, it’s more AA focused than SS. It was okay, surely no problem in MC and can do some 65-66 if you play careful, damage was not that bad as it seems on GT but it was too squishy. The sad part you don’t have enough OA to utilize those crit damages and no skill points to invest WPS.
That looks pretty similar to what I was just theory crafting though hasn’t quite finished with it. That’s what gave me the idea to ask about serpent.
If it got buffed to legendary status you could put a oa% on the belt. Frustrating with the weapons as well. Not really any greens to throw in the either.
Oh damn! I tried to search to see if there was anyone else calling for it. I’ll see if I can find it again, much easier knowing who, and I’ll put a link in your thread so it’s somewhat consolidated
Well any upgrade to the set or changes some other items to be used in the archetype is welcome. Maybe we get an AQC modifier with lightning damage? Because it’s mostly useless without 11/8 and this build has not such skill points to invest that and I really feel pierce>lightning conversion obsolete without having AQC and WD wps invested.
In my defense i’ve never posted long feedbacks in the open forum ever. There used to be a no reply feedback section on the old forum and i’d post there
Long, very long story short storm had 3 issues to be addressed:
Survivability, resistances, hp, phys res
Skill point hungry, very hungry and all over the place
Simply needs a bit more damage
With all of these it could do under 5 min crucible consistently i think, and without dying all the time
One thing that has me baffled though is the Pierce to Lightning Conversion. Helm, Amulet and Chest + the three piece set bonus all point to 100% pierce to lightning. Am I not reading that correct? Because if so, why is there a metric shit ton of Pierce showing in Grim Tools.
Other than that everything else is obvious to me. Starving for skill points. Low Phy Res. Low Secondary Reses. Trying to keep AS up and OA up and DA up.
huff huff huff
I’m tired thinking about it.
Oh and that green amulet, those affixes are OBVIOUSLY DREAMING TO BE BIG but aside from the huge damage losses you don’t really need it (i took it for the AS mainly.)
I have everything to test this except that ‘specific’ amulet make up. Will probably just give it a go to see how hilarious it is.
Because grim tools didn’t read that conversion from conduit, so in total it read only 75% pierce to lightning. You can check yourself by removing the conduit prefix.
The pierce to lightning, it’s not as bad live BUT turns out it’s the physical to lightning on the Crystallum that is causing it.
Oh is this meme-ry at it’s finest. Took me 18 seconds to kill Zarthuzallan. And I nearly died once. Now, I’m not the best pilot in the world so far be it from me to say that’s pretty bad, but, yeah.
I have played in the past Stormserpent Trickster and build was cool but sadly lacking on multiple levels. The biggest concern was the lack of +mastery and set is occupying head and belt slots, which usually are your main booster. Especially problematic if you use MI weapons.
Also defensive problems , Trickster class is usually pretty glassy and set is actually intensifying this problem. I hope it’s improved, lightning Shadow strike is pretty cool concept.
This is what you can do if you go full retard with greens
Impossible Lightning SS / BS / Chillspikes trickster: https://www.grimtools.com/calc/p25YvPo2
(survival in Crucible not yet known but maybe Twin Fangs on Chillspikes
with 67% proc chance on single target thanks to 5 projectiles can carry)
Just wanted to pile on and say, I’m also very interested in this set, but it’s hard to work with without +1 to skills. Really the best solution here is to add +1 to all three classes on the helm, there’s no other sources you can use, I checked on grimtools and there isn’t a single cold+lightning weapon that brings +1 to all skills to Nightblade or Shaman. Maybe alongside, (just throwing suggestions out there), rework Shard of Asterkarn to have cold + lightning damage and attack speed, and move the conduit affix to that weapon. Then we could use a Kaisan amulet. Or better yet, if we want the set to truly shine, add some global acid -> lightning somewhere, then this could turn into a cold+lightning alternative to Nex and Ortus.
Or instead of any of that just upgrade the set to legendary status. If there’s so much interest in the set + playstyle then perhaps it deserves an upgrade.
I’ve got no comment on demo side of the set.
Edit: Also, for people making builds with this conduit, you really want Lethal Assault, like you would with a Morgoneth SS build. It’s a gigantic damage boost.