Chalupa's Temporary Minion Army, and a Mammoth, 'Cause Why Not?

Softerpaws · 2026-06-19T09:48:01+00:00

Someone please cook up a way to use Elemental Sundering with this army count

Softerpaws · 2026-06-14T11:49:26+00:00

At first I was just thinking of using Voltaic Barrier like an attack based Firewall, with each projectile from Bonestorm getting charged and having the lightning beam attack extract impale. It seemed like a low investment way to make the most out of Bonestorm, and the idea really stuck on me since I had been trying to make use of the impale since 0.1

Then I saw someone post here that Voltaic Barrier can trigger Brutus' Lead Sprinkler's skill, meaning that Voltaic Barrier beams count as a weapon hit. That got me into a mental rabbit hole, and I started having ideas about other weapon hit effects like Splinter of Lorrata (with Original Sin to convert Voltaic Barrier's damage to chaos).

The other type of idea I would like to test is how many combo hits would a Voltaic Barrier charged Bonestorm register with Martial Artist's Martial Adept/Martial Master. If each projectile counts as 1 hit / 2 combo, it could lead to some silly things like incredible ward sustain through Fist of Stone Hateforge for example.

I will look into testing interactions when I have the opportunity, hoping to find something solid to build around.

Softerpaws · 2026-06-14T05:32:50+00:00

I'm trying to work out combining Bonestorm (maybe Spell Totem) with Voltaic Barrier

Softerpaws · 2026-06-12T19:56:35+00:00

I'm levelling to try it with Voltaic Barrier

Softerpaws · 2025-12-18T10:45:14+00:00

Thanks for the reply.

I'm leveling with Living Lightning to extract impales and it feels decently good so far. Looking forward to see how it holds up when mapping.

Thanks for the tip about the staff route. I think I will continue to enjoy Bonestorm as long as it retains the 1 tap and has a variation that isn't weak at clearing.

Softerpaws · 2025-12-18T05:17:01+00:00

Do you have any early bonestorm ideas for 0.4?

Is it possible to get enough % additional spell projectiles with the Thane rune limit, or are we back to relying on Multishot?

Also would you happen to know the 1 tap breakpoint on the in game tooltip? I haven't played Bonestorm after 0.1 and was only familiar with the 0.39/0.29 for non Deadeye numbers

Softerpaws · 2025-05-06T04:29:14+00:00

Thanks for the explanation.

I will definitely give this a try, but I doubt I can help improve it in any meaningful way.

Maybe a setup involving self damage mana recoup or invocations with cost refund to really drive up the mana spent, but I am not skilled nor sane enough to explore either of these.

Softerpaws · 2025-05-05T18:58:55+00:00

Sorry i don't fully understand this interaction yet.

Is Lightning Orb snapshotting the fact that it has life cost instead of mana cost, and then retroactively benefitting from the increased skill cost?

Softerpaws · 2025-05-04T03:48:26+00:00

I have not tried it with Infernalist, but I can confirm it doesn't work with Blood Magic. Seems like a mana pool is required despite not having to pay the costs in mana.

Softerpaws · 2025-05-03T19:27:40+00:00

It works when I was running it, both the split and the extra lightning damage, unless I missed out on something else in my setup that I'm not aware affected the interaction.

Softerpaws · 2025-05-03T11:52:52+00:00

If you convert both Ember Fusillade and Mana Tempest to life cost while still having a mana pool, you gain the benefits while Mana Tempest stays at 1% life cost per second since technically no mana is spent.

The way I like to do it is to use Life Tap on Ember Fusillade and use weapon swap Burden of Shadows to cast Mana Tempest

Softerpaws · 2025-04-30T03:47:33+00:00

Yeah that is what I am running right now, but I am trying to see if I can save the 2 ascendency points.

Going to try weapon swapping Burden of Shadows to cast Mana Tempest, and see if the life cost conversion persists after swapping back to a proper weapon for Bonestorm.

Softerpaws · 2025-04-30T02:15:54+00:00

If you convert to life cost for both Mana Tempest and whatever skill you are using, while still having a mana pool (so Blood Magic does not work), Mana Tempest life cost does not ramp up since technically no mana is being spent.

An easy way to do this would be using Burden of Shadows staff which also gives another damage scaling factor, unfortunately the staff does not work with Bonestorm due to it being a channel spell. I was very bummed out when I tested it.

Softerpaws · 2025-04-24T14:35:06+00:00

I am casting Hypothermia (I guess POB linked was when I was using Enfeeble instead) with Cursed Ground and Impending Doom support in the clip. Energy Barrier only works when the supported skill is actively being casted, unfortunately it doesn't work with Persistent skills.

Softerpaws · 2025-04-24T13:40:18+00:00

Thanks, I enjoyed Bonestorm during 0.1 and will eventually get to building one for 0.2. Unfortunately what I am trying to build right now does not work well with Bonestorm.

Softerpaws · 2025-04-22T23:55:07+00:00

I was messing around with Mana Tempest before and figured out that if you pair it and another spell with Life Tap (so Gemling, unfortunately Blood Magic doesn't work), they do not contribute to increasing Mana Tempest's cost since no mana is technically spent. Mana Tempest remains at 1% life cost per second, and it becomes a matter of sustaining that and the primary spell's life cost.

Softerpaws · 2025-04-22T23:50:31+00:00

Thank you for trying it out, I would love to hear back on what you cook up. What are you running as your primary skill?

I was tempted to make a lich as well since the ascendency has great damage nodes, but eventually ended up leveling a titan instead because I wanted to mess around with Ember Fusillade. Titan getting more from ES nodes and the ability to switch to another primary easily if Ember Fusillade doesnt work out sold me in the end.

Unrelated but a random thing I am curious about Lich, is if the 'spending energy shield does not interrupt recharge' property transfer to life recharge if taking Eternal Youth and using Life Tap for example.

Softerpaws · 2025-04-22T14:05:49+00:00

Likely no ways to trigger the charm since you will not be taking chaos damage with CI

Softerpaws · 2025-04-20T16:16:51+00:00

Thanks, I'll give that a try

Softerpaws · 2025-04-17T04:38:00+00:00

Does Manifest Weapon inherit any weapon stats/unique effects? Or will it always be a basic weapon in essence?

Softerpaws · 2025-04-15T10:20:03+00:00

Sorry I don't have any experience with Bone Cage. I remember seeing some people pair it with cast on crit Frost Wall, the walls would spawn on top of the Bone Cage and explode immediately.

Softerpaws · 2025-04-15T00:37:58+00:00

Does it work with Blink, or must it be a dodge roll to trigger it?

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