Theorycrafting - Vitality Storm (Corrupted Storm)

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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Anyone think of a build around this yet?

I tried combining sigil, doom bolt and Storm Totem but ended being starved on skill points

Vitality Storm is basically Storm Totem with it’s 100% Lightning to Vitality transmuter on

Storm Totem - http://grimdawn.gamepedia.com/Storm_Totem_(Skill)
Transmuter - http://grimdawn.gamepedia.com/Corrupted_Storm_(Skill)

Also, if i am not wrong the conversion on transmuter is restricted to the Totem itself right?
And if i have something that converts Pierce to Acid then the conversion won’t be applied to Blade Spirit right?

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sighs

I asked about Theorycrafting around Soiled Trousers and everyone chipped in

But for Storm Totem, i can hear the crickets

Any reason why Storm Totem is hated so much?

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I want to love Storm Totem, but I have troubles scaling it. It never seems to have the impact as other skills. It’s certainly missing some “umph”

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A single ST is weak but multiple ST’s deal some damage

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I thought all vitality casters use corrapted ST :smiley: They have so many free skill points so they can to invent it into that skill.
Sure, transmuter applies only to ST, it’s like Tainted power on AAR.

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Ah
And Pierce to Acid conversion doesn’t apply to Blade Spirit right?

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Conversion DOES apply to pets that are player damage bonus based.

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Seems like an old build?

http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31945

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If you have this conversion on the equipment or aura - it works for all damage, if on the skill - only for damage of this skill and nothing else.

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“Conversion on Equipment and Buffs” are at same level. It should be 65%.

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Ah, right, calculated it one more time, equipment and Storm pact on the same level.

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Cos this is a complete garbage spell. :rolleyes:

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Well to optimize the Storm Totem skill in general you would need to focus on…

  • CDR
  • Vitality RR
  • +% Vitality damage
    • to Storm Totem

And that’s it. Other skills that would benefit from the top 3 stats are Doom Bolt, Sigil (although multiple Sigils don’t stack), Bloody Pox (to an extent), Blade Trap w/ Devouring Blades (:p), and AAR w/ Disintegration. So as you’ve said, Occultist would probably be your pick as a secondary mastery.

The difficulty is that the 4th stat is never found paired with Vitality damage, so gearing to maximize Corrupted Storm is a challenge. You can either get CDR and + to Storm Totem, or CDR and Vitality damage/Vitality RR, but not both.

I’d guess something like this would be optimal?
http://www.grimtools.com/calc/0V0AdMZm

Basically Superfluff’s guy but with more focus on Vitality and less on Chaos, points out of Destruction and into Storm Totem, and a Badge of Mastery with +5 to Storm Totem?

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Storm totem doesnt exist on BoM Prefixes/suffixes.

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Oh wow. Yeah nvm there’s no hope for Corrupted Storm Totem then :stuck_out_tongue:

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I tried it in a Vit Conjurer build, but it seemed pretty weak.
Ended up removing the points and putting them in other skills instead, which made that char better and less clunky to play.

I think the combination of CD, stationary skill and subpar damage makes this skill pretty bad outside of normal, at least compared to other stuff you can get.

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How about LD Set?

It has bonuses to ST right?

I’ve never used ST in a boss fight. On a scale of Wind Devil to Wind Devil with Maelstrom how bad is it?

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Vitality Totem sucks because to get into the ultimate ranks you have to use lightning gear. As there is no vitality gear with + to storm totem.
This is one of the reasons I hate conversion in this game.

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Vit gears are generally lack of diversity atm…

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I think you can get something like 25/16 storm totem with LD iirc, actually i tried maxed storm totem on SJ elementalist with ~1700% lightning, shitload of RR & crit damage, it was still complete garbage, i’am not even sure investing 1 point into it is worth. :rolleyes: