You all seem to approach the issue in a wrong way.
Its all “how to get more storm stacks, how maintain them”, but the real question is “do you really need them?”
What are the stacks good for? Bolts from mealstrom dont need stacks, bolts from tornado dont need stacks, thunder strikes dont need stacks, tempest strike with storm breaker attacks around 25314794 times a second, creating a stack everytime and expending it at the same moment, generating bolts.
Stack stacking is stuck in past, when the goal was to have 50 stacks and generate bolts from that.
Its either that and going full in on stacks using gathering storm directly, or ignoring them altogether. I chose to ignore them and I have no issues so far, but going halfway seems to be defeating the point
I believe we already said why we want storm stacks. This:
plus this:
More Storm Bolts and higher damage
That’s the point. We were exploring options of getting storm stacks without the need for the Storm Breaker weapon. This weapon sucks, there are better options.
The discussion is pretty interesting Because it validates my impression: I need ALOT of +skill for Gathering Storm. This is the one and only skill where I fell I need more Points. Currently, I reduced the bonuses for Storm bolt a bit to get the node where the crows generate stacks. I would LOVE to get more Crows for that and increase the frequency but then I cannot get the node where Storm bolts do more damage that way.
Ahhh decisions, decisions…so far, the build is fun and I like the visuals. Damage is OK, but I only do story for now at around level 50. The Rift beasts and nemesis seem to be a bit overtuned at times and they are VERY spongy. But I only got rag tag equip and the passives aren’t that optimal.
So far, pretty fun but would not recommend for hardcore
