Shout out to caxius for his awesome focus build! Clear out bosses in 1 hit with lightning!
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Always been a fan of Focus-Nova builds. Considering the skill already causes you to stand still, have you considered using that new Ascendance skill with it to boost your damage even further through the additional spell damage and the occasional lightning blast proc? You would still be able to stay at full mana if you took the node that disables that skillās mana drain. The gameplay might end up kinda clunky though as youād have to manage two stationary skills at once.
Caxius was running ascendence and yes even more damage, but in the case of this build which skill would you get rid of? The way i have it set up video seemed most likely to succeed for survival, but yes ascendence does give even more damage.
Unsure. Teleport Nova nuking is good, although I imagine it doesnāt aid much against larger enemies where ascendance would be better. So I suppose itās a choice between elemental nova for clear speed and ascendance for boss nuking.
Thatās the problem though Iām not even suspect into Elemental Nova so getting rid of that skill wouldnāt help me get ascendant leveled up
Board, how are you getting such high protection increases when you are channeling? There is some weird interaction going on. Iāve tried to mimic it, but Iām getting the normal 40% increased from focus. My base protections are about the same as yours.
armor and protection while channeling shards on both rings/relic/weapon. You want some of those 
Thanks. Ahh yes of course. Iām stockpiling all the channel items. But as you know itās so hard to craft 3+ T5 items.
Without crafting those I donāt think Iād want to go high arena with this build. Just a little too fragile and immobile.
Was trying to incorporate Ward build with this but itās so-so. I needed to drop so much int and ward retention and also hard to keep ward/sec items on for a decent steady state ward level. But with more protection with better items, probably doable. Also, staff in your build. I am doing much more damage with wand/shield than you but obviously Iād do a little more with staff. Itās too bad there is no crit with this because mages are able to stack crit/crit damage very well and crit dmg scales dmg better than most scaling things. Real life crit is about 26% for me since there are lightning only crit chance modifiers that arenāt shown in damage tab.
Anyways, thanks for showing a nice build.
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Iām going to try this out!
i like the look of this build and the build you had earlier. will be trying them outā¦ hey just a quick tip when you do your videos i used to say Melee the same way you do but was corrected long ago thought i might give you a little nugget there. MAYLAY is how its pronounced. awesome build guide thou man thanks a lot been trying to find some good mage builds.
Lol yeah i pronounce a lot wrong. My personal favorite is when i say nod for node. Thanks though Iāll practice for maylay
Donāt worry, you arenāt anywhere near as bad as Cute Dog (a PoE streamer) who doesnāt pronounce āchaosā (he pronounces the ch as in church) or āvaalā (his pronounciation is pretty close to whale) even slightly correctly (to the point that I canāt watch any of his vids).
Thereās more than one school of thought on that. I would pronounce it āme-layā (me as in āmehā but without the h). So I think it depends on whether youāre American or English (and itās our language, therefore Iām right, just sayingā¦).
naw its our language because we kicked your butts in one war and then had to come save it in two others so we own the rights to the english languageā¦ Kidding btw
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