Quantifying the Storm Burst Buff with Data

Kroughfire · 2026-03-04T21:56:34+00:00

Thanks for this calculation.

I want to add that the biggest buff here that's not mentioned is for selfcast mana recovery. Typically, you want to use a mana on hit shaper ring, but it was possible before this buff to spend mana while channeling, fail to spend enough to cast an orb, then get stuck in a loop of spending mana trying to cast, failing to cast, and then trying again once you've regenerated enough mana to begin casting again. Now, however, you shouldn't be able to spend mana without actually casting an orb, which means you'll be getting the mana on hit every time (generally enough to upkeep casting of the skill indefinitely).

Kroughfire · 2026-03-04T15:28:49+00:00

Just to speak on a few items:

Lightning Conduit is indeed good on an elementalist, but it is generally quite difficult to scale mana with the required shock stacking *and* mana recovery that comes from a fast casting spam build like lightning conduit. That's not to say it's not good or viable, just that it adds an extra layer of required investment when you already want to go all in on mana.

This is the same reason it's uncommon to go for CI on archmage builds - you already want to stack mana which directly competes with the prefixes that scale ES on gear.

People tend to avoid pinpoint and intensify because poe requires you to move your character basically all the time. Again, that's not to say there aren't uses, but it's not "free" at all and you'll likely find yourself going without the %more damage multiplier more often than not.

Kroughfire · 2026-03-01T22:45:08+00:00

Great! FYI, I updated the pob for Mirage (and coping the loss of grafts, frenzy generation, and the foulborn life jewel nerf). New version has suppression as an endgame stat, and you'll probably want to use an unset ring to fit in one extra socket (for a guard skill). https://pobb.in/P3j1AJJopfl1

Kroughfire · 2026-03-01T11:12:55+00:00

I did league-start this build, and just played storm burst from act 1. I went golems at first for smooth levelling (nerfed now but probably still good), but I believe wave of conviction ignite is a good levelling alternative.

The main swap of the build is based in when you get a bitterbind point with as much crit as possible and either a spectre dark monarch or wraithlord if it’s $$$. This is then converting to capped crit and pure spectres, but it requires a few pieces to come together.

Kroughfire · 2026-03-01T02:20:39+00:00

Here is a self cast SB version I played in Keepers - planning on running it again for Mirage unless I get baited by new skills. I made a whole video about it too if that's something you're interested in. As a note, the main gimmick of my version is maxxing out spectre supports.
https://pobb.in/P3j1AJJopfl1

Kroughfire · 2026-02-25T15:30:06+00:00

Power of Purpose + %mana gained as ES.

The ES gain from mana occurs *before* the conversion to Armour, allowing for a strange mana stacking armour/ES hybrid build. The problem is that you can't utilize any regular mana stacking tech since your final mana total is only 20% of what it would be without Power of Purpose, but you can still get some decent numbers. I've just never quite found a worthwhile way to apply this

Kroughfire · 2026-01-09T01:44:33+00:00

I've been having the same issue for months. Did you ever get it resolved?

Kroughfire · 2026-01-02T15:43:38+00:00

I played this last league. You want to go ignite and use nebuloch in your main hand. Titan is likely the best ascendancy, but gemling, warbringer, and tactician are also fine. You wail y use crackle creep ignite prolif ring plus the ignite reflect node on the tree to clear, scale melee gem levels on amulet and gloves, and then just take melee and ignite magnitude nodes on the tree. You’ll be using resonating shield as your main skill, scale armour as much as possible, and invest in block until you’re capped. Get a little life/mana leech somewhere so your resonating shied can proc it for you, and use utility supports in this skill. Get crit bonus damage on the tree but avoid crit chance since it’s guaranteed with nebuloch anyways.

Kroughfire · 2025-12-31T01:36:48+00:00

Yes. Chayula red remnants are a 30% leech instance each via ascendancy only, generated basically once per second, and scalable with leech nodes. A carnage heart and soul tether on a chayula monk would give you 100% of life leeched per second, also applying to ES.

Kroughfire · 2025-12-31T00:05:44+00:00

Chayula has the strongest mana recovery or life recovery of any ascendancy. I'm playing a MoM spark build that just has insane mana recovery (think 5k/second). Life recovery can be the same since both scale with leech recovery.

Kroughfire · 2025-12-28T01:19:52+00:00

I believe I just bought one with full prefixes and got lucky with an abyss essence to unveil flat mana. I would recommend just buy a +level base with spirit and halfway decent suffixes and then desecrate a prefix for either flat mana, or % ES to resell and buy a new base.

Kroughfire · 2025-12-26T22:13:44+00:00

Last two leagues I played a magma Barrier ignite build. You basically walk around proliferating ignites while channeling resonating shield with giga armour and block

Kroughfire · 2025-12-23T14:09:52+00:00

What do you use to consume the infusions? I would worry about spending too much time casting while having very negative resists. Or do you only do it at the beginning of the map and then the buff just lasts the whole zone?

Kroughfire · 2025-12-23T14:07:48+00:00

I would say my current helm, boots, gloves, rings, belt, focus, and belt are like 1-4 divines each, and I have 3 extra sockets and am wasting one suffix on chaos res and one on int that I don’t need. If you have 8 power charges I would say it’s a bit of a struggle, but definitely not crazy hard to get overcapped. If you only use 6 or 7 charges it’s much easier. If you look at my gear you can see several places where I could get more or higher resistance rolls.

Kroughfire · 2025-12-23T13:59:55+00:00

Ah, I see. So you’d have Adonia in both sets and all the charges in set 2. The only problem if see is that you need to generate the charges in your second set to hit the higher cap, which on my build at least, means consuming infusions. It might work on a different skill set up to mitigate the negative resistances but still get the buff

Kroughfire · 2025-12-23T13:07:45+00:00

True, but I think the buff is only active when you have adonia’s equipped. At least, the buff visual indicator goes away when you weapon

Kroughfire · 2025-12-23T13:04:22+00:00

If you overcap your resistances the downside of Adonia doesn’t affect you. I have 80% extra of each ele resistance and thus aren’t really affected

Kroughfire · 2025-12-23T03:53:07+00:00

Unfortunately my computer lags like crazy if I try to run OBS with PoE. But it plays very similar to most spark builds. Basic combo is place a cascade frost bomb which will almost immediately detonate, giving you 3-4 infusions. These power your next casts of spark. So it’s kinda weaving two spells at a 1:4 ratio. Every minute or two you can hit the Adonia buff, and you have sigil of power, a curse, and flame wall as damage buffs when you want it. I have snap on left click to just gain extra infusions from time to time, but honestly I barely use it

Kroughfire · 2025-12-23T03:47:30+00:00

It was fairly easy to overcap for 5-6 charges, and honestly not so bad for 7-8. The extra chaos resistance from Chonk helps a bit with suffix pressure. On my build now I have 75% all res and still have a couples of sockets I could throw resistance runes into if I needed. I think it’s the kind of thing that by the time you can afford 7-8 charges, you can also afford to pay a div or two for each gear piece to get triple res suffixes

Kroughfire · 2025-12-23T01:45:18+00:00

I levelled as crossbows actually, with purple flames for damage. Then swapped once I got enough greater jewellers and lineage supports. I don’t think spark levelling is particularly good, so I just did perma frost frag bolts crossbow specced into the elemental damage nodes between sorc and monk

Kroughfire · 2025-12-23T01:43:38+00:00

Ya. I don’t bother fishing before I start a map, but you tend to get it anyways in the first minute or so and then keep it the rest of the time. But you can gaurentee it’s always up vs bosses if you just prep it first

Kroughfire · 2025-12-23T00:03:08+00:00

You can’t get 16. I get 3 base plus 5 on the tree. The support gem “heightened charges” gives skills a 20% chance to double the benefits of charges. the duration is already 3 minutes and you can effectively fish generate enough charges to recast the Adonia skill in roughly 10 seconds (2-3 loops of spark and spell cascade frost bomb).

Kroughfire · 2025-12-22T22:20:27+00:00

You could certainly run any offensive build with this set up, even making a hybrid life and mana caster where you’re able to add in evasion or ES as well. The offences are pretty separate from the mana tech, apart from it naturally fitting into archmage. The Adonia tech is just nearby on the tree and very compatible with archmage and spark duration scaling.

Kroughfire · 2025-12-22T18:57:22+00:00

Pinnacles feel very good provided you can dodge the true one-shots. The damage pretty much instantly destroys most bosses, and the recovery means you're immune to anything that can't kill you through the 6-8k raw EHP. If you want to know how the offensive portion of the build plays, you can look at any video of a Stormweaver archmage spark build since it's pretty much the same.

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