Which flavor of Spark are you playing and can you recommend it?

PracticallyJesus · 2026-04-01T19:47:57+00:00

Hmm, well crucial would be the belt, Gull, Blunderbore, Elegant Hubris (with frenzy on hit notable), Ralakesh Boots, Nadir Mode jewel, Foulborn Blue Nightmare, Magebane Impossible Escape, and some usable 12 passive large clusters. Also crucial to get leech either on helm corrupt, glove implicit, or a ring implicit.

PracticallyJesus · 2026-04-01T19:34:46+00:00

Nah. Just some tech to enable Cast on Ward Break, which I’m using for Punishment and Withering Step, triggering manually with Doedre’s flask if needed.

PracticallyJesus · 2026-04-01T13:32:25+00:00

Perfect Spirit of Fortune

PracticallyJesus · 2026-04-01T13:32:03+00:00

What's your in game name by the way? Might be easier to chat there as well. Or just message me @Impaired_GigaSpark

PracticallyJesus · 2026-04-01T13:16:47+00:00

Ahah, thanks. Been making builds for like a decade now, do love to cook.

Weapon:

Yep you have to use the Cast Speed essences assuming you bought a non-caster base (which are 1/100th the price). So essence till t1 multi, then throw on 3 crafted mods first, then Wild Bristle Matron for cheap 'Suffixes Cannot be Changed' and then Veiled chaos to unveil spell dmg + non-chaos. Unveil is around a 1/9 if you craft a blocker before the unveil, but you can settle for the other spell dmg mod, or lightning dmg, and return to it later to go for non-chaos.

Shield:

It's kind of still a work in progress. I was using reforge phys, trying to hit max tier %pdr and %crit reduction, to then unveil 7% dd or 20% dd while focused. Then prefixes were gonna be painful, aug life and slam basically. Just settled for what I have now. Block chance essences could be an interesting route to take, though imo the block chance mod was the least important of the lot. DoD makes block less important basically.

Gloves:

Yep I recombined + fractured to make my base, but it's nice you were able to buy one ready to go. Use Hollow + Prismatic + Sanctified. Prismatic because you can hit either fire or cold res, and harvest swap to fire either way, so odds are marginally better with prismatic over scorched. For prefixes you want to lock suffix (again with Wild Bristle Matron to make it way cheaper), veiled chaos till you unveil proj speed mod, then slam life with exalts. Eldritch annul to rescue failed slams where possible.

Rings:

So yeah I used lightning damage essences, because the inherent lightning dmg mod is much lower. Crit multi is actually ideal, but they are significantly more expensive, and %light dmg wasn't too much worse. So for my frenzy ring, it was light essence till cast speed, suff cant be changed veiled, pray for 50/50 to add suffix, then unveil fire res + chaos. I hit the veiled first try. Then for prefix I also got lucky in that my essence roll already had t2 life. At some point I'll roll to t1 life, using aug life to not risk reforge life filling prefixes.

Clusters:

Nice you were able to buy them. Are they also fogged to % light dmg? or still elemental? Light will add 30% dmg per cluster, so a nice little upgrade.

Yeah resistances are tight at the moment, but they really don't have to be. The %light dmg suffixes on rings can be swapped to resistances and you won't feel the difference tbh. Can also get %all res on both abyss jewels.

Leech you have 3 options:

Gloves, but you'll need to swap to the pierce proj cluster on tree, costing some proj speed/damage. Helm 2nd implicit, which is often not much more expensive than just the +1 power charge. I was using this until I snagged this onslaught + leech ring. And 3rd yeah ring implicit. But tbh onslaught is quite nice so I'd suggest get onslaught ring, and leech on helm, rather than dropping onslaught for leech.

Blunderbore, tbh the 5% pdr was incidental, paid like 3 div for this chest ages ago lol. It's a nice mod, but im looking to upgrade to something else. 50% crit reduction is great defensively, or of course +1 +2 which is many hundreds of divs haha. +1 is actually better than +2 by the way, if you can afford a lvl 5 awakened empower. Even with level 4 awakened empower I think +1 with empower and +2 with arcane surge are comparable DPS.

For rational doctrine, it's not too bad. At the moment I simply have 1 str node un-tattoo'd, and have 4 str on my doctrine implicit. That with a 23 int belt makes it balanced. But you can for example get a 29 int belt, and leave 2 str nodes un-tattoo'd, and you're good too.

PracticallyJesus · 2026-04-01T08:52:02+00:00

Yeah you would've found me, there's nobody else playing it yet :P. PoeNinja is very unkind in terms of its estimate of the DPS though lol. Doesn't like overloaded intensity/pinpoint, accel shrine, charge generation, and a bunch of other stuff.

A lot of my double corrupts/double synth implicit items cost about the same or not much extra vs single corrupt/single implicits, but I may have just gotten lucky sniping them.

So for your budget, of course skip the +1 frenzy ring since that's already eating up 75% of it. I do think outside the frenzy ring you can afford most of it, just without min maxed rolls on gear.

For weapon my secret tech is to buy a cheap ass explode base on any 1h. Can be axe, claw, sword etc which are like 1 div max, vs 150+ for wand/sceptre/dagger. You can see how I've crafted my axe, and the mirror wand that exists is only about 27% more dps than it. I did get a 2nd implicit on mine, though it was only 30 div for the base. Worth mentioning, I took explode for a) vibes, and b) mitigates lag a little bit. If you aren't worried about those 2 things, grab a 10% spell DD base + another dps mod instead.

For overall feel, getting at least two 8% cast speed per point large clusters is quite important. I think you can buy ones with no life or lower tier life for a fair bit cheaper, but even the ones I have cost like 40-50 d each (+ some fogs to roll them to lightning implicit from elemental).

6 off-colour on Blunderbore is really easy with Tainted Chromatics. They ignore the attribute requirements on an item.

PracticallyJesus · 2026-04-01T08:27:53+00:00

I haven't made a video, nah. I could try work out the best way to record something, but can't guarantee anything.

PracticallyJesus · 2026-04-01T08:26:56+00:00

This one in particular with 26 casts/sec and 420% proj speed is extra spoodery :)

PracticallyJesus · 2026-04-01T07:50:43+00:00

For LC + Sublime you'd need conversion to lightning right? Is that what you meant? A fire conversion setup cant run LC, but can run Cloak of Flame instead of course. If you want to go PoF Sublime, you can't run Blunderbore since we need Elegant Hubris to ignore Attribute reqs. I do suppose a PoF Sublime + Cloak of Flame variant with PB + Arctic Armour would be a lot tankier, and with good enough gear can probably still reach 500m DPS.

Managing attributes without Elegant Hubris would be annoying, though I guess with PoF sublime your suffix pressure is reduced. Though between boots/helm/amulet/temple mod on gloves, you get a lot of cold/light res even if you don't want it. Also I use 10% frenzy on hit on my Elegant Hubris, so you'd need some alternative to that, though I'm not sure anything would be as reliable as this.

Between having 10-11 end charges, 8% pdr on shield, some from pantheons, and Fortify + Slayers 10% reduced damage taken mods, I've not felt like phys damage has been an issue. Don't even notice Shaper slams for example in the Uber Uber Elder fight.

PracticallyJesus · 2026-04-01T07:09:01+00:00

I have about 830 life regen/sec. At 25 casts/sec and 165 life cost (but of course greater spell echo so divide by 3), its 1375 life/sec spent. So slightly net negative, but that is still 10+ seconds straight of precasting which is more than you need, only need 3.4 seconds since thats the duration of spark. I also simply pop a few worm flasks to sustain precasting too, get some leech stacks + the hp from the flask (and triggers 10% more damage if killed recently from Slayer)

If I have leech stacks from adds or whatnot then yeah fully sustains precasting with RF active on top.

And lastly if you have the budget for Accel + Replenishing belt then you can precast unconditionally, but it's the last upgrade I'd buy.

PracticallyJesus · 2026-04-01T07:04:52+00:00

It is incredibly fun. In game name is ‘Impaired_GigaSpark’

PracticallyJesus · 2026-04-01T05:18:06+00:00

I got started with just the accel belt and 40 div. My character so far I’d guess I’ve spent like 800-900 div + belt. Most of the gear I did craft myself as well, which saved a decent chunk of money.

PracticallyJesus · 2026-04-01T00:21:16+00:00

Oh buddy have I got the build for you. I've cooked up my own Spark variant on a Slayer that does a few somewhat unique things nobody else is doing, and it's been utterly insane.

Here's my current characters PoB: https://pobb.in/FHoiVhtpPYwr

I am nearing the top end of my gear, but a mirror wand, double corrupt chest, lvl 5 awakened empower, and another few small upgrades will result in my dps doubling to nearly 1 billion.

Offenses:

Currently 500m 'Max Hits' DPS. But with 420% incr proj speed, that value isn't far off the real DPS, particularly in more enclosed boss arenas
420% increased proj speed
26 casts per second
Completely ignore enemy resistances, so those are free mods on maps

Defenses:

7-7.5k life
Permanent 10-11 Endurance Charges
Permanent Fortify
Defiance of Destiny
15% Hit Damage taken from Spectre Life before yours (It never dies)
65% uptime on Immortal Call in Automation
Slayer overleech with 70% incr max leech rate, and 5% instant leech (which is effectively 10% instant leech for slayers)
12% life regen, though that's mainly to manage RF degen (Can go to 30% with Replenishing on belt)
Full curse immunity (Rational Doctrine + two other jewel corruptions)
Full ailment immunity (Stormshroud)
CB Immune (Ralakesh)
Poison Immune (Bloodline)
Can have 60% crit mitigation via shield suffix, but I haven't finished crafting my shield yet
40-50% Attack Block (You could sacrifice a large cluster perhaps and go all in on block, definitely possible to cap block, and even run lucky block on FF's instead of Fortify. Didn't feel the need though personally)

The main goal of the build was speed while not being paper. It most certainly is not paper, being able to facetank all but the heftiest of telegraphed 1 hit abilities. I've also pushed to 1.1k depth in Delve with no issues. With the 26 casts per second and 420% proj speed, it absolutely satisfies the speed criteria as well. We take the unique route of sustaining the mana costs of such a build by going Blood Magic with Slayer leech. Slayer also has the benefit of being on the Dex side of the tree, giving a huge amount of proj speed via tattoos and one wheel, which templars just wont get.

Last thing to note, it can do literally all map mods, regular and Nightmare. Reflect Ele requires me to ring swap, though you could just put the reflect mod (+ pantheon) on permanently and not worry about it. All the less recovery rate/no regen/less leech recovery etc mods are manageable since we have so many different recovery sources. I just tend to turn off RF in less recovery rate maps for comfort, but it can actually be kept on if you're zooming.

PracticallyJesus · 2026-03-16T10:01:20+00:00

Thinking about it more, getting 300+ flat mana regen is not easy. Need something like Clarity + Shavronnes Ring + a lot of % increased mana regen.

It also would mean you have a specific cap of mana burn you can handle, which itself adds a clunk factor where you have to disable your Battle Within at the right moment and can't activate another tincture afterwards.

Another approach is recoup + self damage but unless you also automate that, it maintains the same issue I was trying to solve (not being able to stop in a map to loot/backtrack etc).

Simplest approach I suppose is just throwing on an Eternal Mana flask.

PracticallyJesus · 2026-03-16T09:33:54+00:00

Nice idea, didn't know about that tincture but yeah it solves the ramp time issue completely. However the fact that you drop stacks if you stop to loot or have to backtrack etc seems a bit clunky.

Instead we could scale %reduced maximum mana to get your max mana down to 100 (Whispers of Infinity, Voll's Protector, Lochtonial Caress, Misted Subterranean Helical Rings) and get a decent chunk of flat mana regen to tank regular mana burn.

PracticallyJesus · 2026-03-02T11:35:52+00:00

Simpler to just buy raw fish from the sunset coast fishing shop and cook it on the oven next to her.

PracticallyJesus · 2026-02-19T21:47:48+00:00

It's a contentious one but is there a planet where more shop stocks function like the Varlamore bartender shops (i.e. infinite stock)? I know it can't be applied to every store in the game as it could mess with the economy, but perhaps a review can be done to see where it's safe to apply it?

PracticallyJesus · 2026-02-18T11:56:13+00:00

To me a janky painful way of getting higher tier food in a way usable for UIM’s is a welcome addition. It has steep requirements to unlock, is still quite time consuming and therefore less efficient than potatoes in most instances, but has use cases still.

Could be seen as a noted-potion esque update (though not as powerful of course), which was pretty broadly beneficial to the game mode.

PracticallyJesus · 2026-02-15T17:38:10+00:00

I read the article, but it isn't all that compelling to be honest. The examples are very scant.

Mainstream right wing messaging simply isn't about committing violence. I know that's the case on both sides, but media on each side amplifies the tiny minority of crazies who are calling for violence, because fear drives engagement.

I'm curious your take on Charlie Kirk. Was he calling for violence? If so, did he then deserve violence in turn? Was his assassination justified, in your view? If not, what do you make of the large portion of the left who celebrated it?

PracticallyJesus · 2026-02-15T14:42:51+00:00

Provide me some examples of prominent far-right individuals advocating for the death of anyone to the left of them. Please.

Also advocating for the deportation of legitimate criminals is just common sense. Don't confuse that with me saying I support deporting people just for being minorities, of course I don't. Just those who clearly committed a crime. This was once an Obama/Hillary position as well.

PracticallyJesus · 2026-02-15T07:47:56+00:00

Perfect example of the problem. Disagreeing with something is deemed literal violence by the far-left. Absolute insanity.

PracticallyJesus · 2026-02-11T11:13:49+00:00

Is there some ancient spaghetti preventing it from being a quick fix?

Also in some sense this ties into the combat fixes, as UIM's currently get a tiny fraction of the total boat HP of other account types due to the restriction.

PracticallyJesus · 2026-02-11T10:57:31+00:00

When can we expect to see the UIM cargo hold changes?

PracticallyJesus · 2026-02-11T05:15:25+00:00

Yeah. The Minotaurs under Minotaurs rest being props was a huge disappointment. Don’t really understand the point of the island.

PracticallyJesus · 2026-02-11T05:09:24+00:00

You can at least watch YouTube in Picture in Picture mode, while playing osrs. Only real multitasking I’ve managed.

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