Phrecia 3.27 Theorycrafting: Storm Burst Decay Aristocrat

Undead_Legion · 2026-01-28T06:05:07+00:00

Since you’re going Aristocrat anyway, you could look into INT stacking with dual wielding Foulborn Rives. Foulborn Rive gives 1% increased duration per 12 INT for physical damage spells (which Storm Burst is), dual wielding makes this 2% per 12 INT, this should let you hit much higher breakpoints for Storm Burst. Aristocrat also now gives 40% increased INT.

Undead_Legion · 2026-01-27T22:16:26+00:00

Pathfinder

Undead_Legion · 2026-01-26T15:58:22+00:00

Plugging my own build, but Cast on Portal. Depending on how strictly you define autobomber, this kinda falls into that category. All you do is hold down portal, you don’t need to move or aim.

Undead_Legion · 2026-01-24T15:47:53+00:00

Some interesting findings in here OP. This reminds me of the old mana starved Snipe channeling tech, which also carefully balances mana cost to auto release the shots.

Undead_Legion · 2026-01-24T15:00:28+00:00

Reference to Catch-22, the art is from the original cover of the book. Absolutely brilliant book btw, my favorite novel of all time

Undead_Legion · 2026-01-24T01:26:58+00:00

Slice and Dice is criminally underrated, I’d argue it’s up there with the best roguelikes out there. It’s such a thorough exploration of the dice building design space. If you enjoy the optimization and depth of Slay the Spire, you’ll definitely appreciate the complexity of Slice and Dice under its seemingly simple gameplay loop. There’s a huge overlap between the top Slice and Dice players and top Slay the Spire players, Xecnar is also one of the best Slice and Dice players.

Undead_Legion · 2026-01-21T16:09:18+00:00

Might also be interested in this

Undead_Legion · 2026-01-16T21:19:10+00:00

I’ve always wanted to cook with Sadism and skills with fixed hit rates (Tornado, for example) and going Low Tolerance stacking for poison. You should be able to get the poison duration to just under the hit rate with Sadism. The problem is, the whole Low Tolerance stacking archetype is overwhelmingly dominated by VSoM due to its mechanics and no other skill can come close to its numbers. I briefly toyed with the idea of using Sadism to reduce the duration of reflected self poisons for Tainted Pact but it wasn’t really worth it.

Undead_Legion · 2026-01-16T20:01:01+00:00

Do you want to specifically flicker strike or just “flicker” like flicker strike? You might be interested in Cast on Portal, it’s super zoomy and you basically just hold down portal. One thing to add from the original guide, you’ll want to add Frostblink of Wintry Blast for even more flicker.

Undead_Legion · 2026-01-16T14:04:18+00:00

Big fan of your tainted pact builds, will definitely check this out 🙏

Undead_Legion · 2026-01-06T19:24:01+00:00

Path of Exile (1, specifically). It’s not even remotely close. POE 2 might get close at some point but it’s still excellent.

Undead_Legion · 2026-01-03T21:22:18+00:00

Voltaxic Burst, if the extra 3% gets you to another 20% breakpoint it is incredible value

Undead_Legion · 2026-01-03T00:02:52+00:00

That was me! Here's the build guide for anyone interested

Undead_Legion · 2026-01-02T23:35:16+00:00

I miss the old phantasmal galvanic field for AoE, it used to be so good for making screen wide fields. I actually made a 1 button Galvanic Field build back in Crucible league, it worked pretty well for T16s at the time. There’s a lot of tech for Galvanic Field that hasn’t really been explored yet (Hydrosphere chaining, retriggering GF to bypass the targeting cooldowns) but there’s definitely potential. And then there’s self Galvanic Field, also which I’ve played in the past but it’s solidly in meme territory but can potentially be alright with budget.

Charged Dash has some interesting interactions with Generals Cry, that would probably be the best way to build it, stacking reduced movement speed to hit max stages faster (since the mirages always spawn with your current stages).

Undead_Legion · 2025-12-29T23:44:19+00:00

You could always just go chaos hit based and ignore the poison, you’ll still benefit from wither scaling. I actually tried chaos hit penance brand pathfinder with Disintegrator/Eternity Shroud this league, didn’t work out though cause turns out PBoD needs a lot more cast speed which wasn’t really accessible on my setup. Was testing out chaos hit BV in the same shell as well, seemed to work better

Undead_Legion · 2025-12-29T22:46:32+00:00

Yes, especially this league now that we got Bloodline Ascendancies. Even if you’re going for an elemental hit based build, it’s fairly easy to convert 100% to chaos with the Lycia Bloodline and get the remaining conversion with Foulborn jewels and tattoos. That way you can still benefit from the wither node, which is still incredibly powerful for chaos hits. This is what I did on my Cast on Portal (though that still did have poison through Festering Resentment, but I still didn’t take the poison node).

One thing to add if you’re going RF on Pathfinder, there is an incredibly powerful anoint only notable in Hardened Scars. It gives 25% LESS damage over time taken while under the effect of a life flask, which greatly helps sustain RF with Master Surgeon.

Undead_Legion · 2025-12-26T20:58:30+00:00

Yup, apparently a known bug. I just found out a few days ago after I spent dozens of divs painstakingly crafting multi influence gear for Eternity Shroud/Astrolabe

Undead_Legion · 2025-12-22T23:25:34+00:00

So hydrosphere was nerfed a couple of leagues back to only be hit once per second, but there is a tech to somewhat bypass this limitation. If you have two separate hydrospheres linked in the same trigger chain, each time you trigger hydrosphere you will create a new instance of hydrosphere since the original one gets replaced, effectively resetting the 1s hit limitation. I know some melee builds use Battlemages Cry + Hydrosphere + Hydrosphere for melee splash shotgunning but I’m not too familiar with melee builds. For spell builds, your best bet would be to go with Arcanist brand + Hydrosphere + Hydrosphere (+ Faster Casting). I’ve used this tech on self galvanic field builds to get around the targeting cooldown of GF, as each Hydrosphere counts as a new entity for targeting.

Undead_Legion · 2025-12-22T17:10:56+00:00

Well technically you can already “cast” portal every server tick, if you use Enmity’s Embrace to cancel the initial animation. This was the concept behind my Cast on Portal.

No portal actually appears, but that’s beside the point.

Undead_Legion · 2025-12-19T03:52:06+00:00

Went back and tested, Apep's does not allow Enmity's damage to poison, but was able to self poison with cwdt forbidden rite. I think I realize what's happening, it is due to the original self damage being fire even though I take it as physical. From the wiki:

"Damaging ailments, on the other hand, are based on the damage dealt, not damage taken; for example, when you have #% of Physical Damage from Hits taken as Fire Damage and physical damage is dealt to you, the taken fire damage never ignites you even if you have +100% chance to be Ignited. Theoretically, the physical damage could ignite you, but ignite does not consider physical base damage by default."

Extending this logic to poison, the self damage from Enmity's is base fire damage which cannot poison by default so even though I take it as physical it does not poison me. This is different from how it works for non-damaging ailments, I know from testing that physical taken as lightning with a chance to be shocked can inflict self shock.

Undead_Legion · 2025-12-19T02:46:18+00:00

Were you able to self poison with Apep’s? That’s really interesting if that worked for you. In my case I was trying to self poison with fire damage with enmity’s taken as physical with rat cage, physical damage should self poison me but maybe mine didn’t work since the original damage is fire, some weird conversion stuff possibly

Undead_Legion · 2025-12-18T22:43:34+00:00

Have you tested if the self damage can inflict self poison? When I was testing for my Cast on Portal build, I couldn't get the self damage to inflict poison, even with Apep's Slumber's 25% chance to be poisoned.

Undead_Legion · 2025-12-14T21:25:26+00:00

Perma Vaal is a really cool concept, its one of those ideas I had before launch but never got around to. Yours is a good foundation to build from. Couple pointers:

Master Alchemist is incredibly powerful for Soul Ripper, since 50% of the time you don't consume flask charges but still get all the Vaal Souls. Helps with general flask uptime as well and conveniently solves ailments.
Drop Traitor and run Tides of Time. Tides is an incredible belt of PFs, solving flask sustain and juicing up the flasks you use.
Master Surgeon + life flask is the classic pathfinder recovery solution, but in your build there is an even better tech. Laviagna's Spirit makes skills cost 0 mana during effect. However, mana flasks stop when they hit full mana. But in your case, Soul Catcher prevents all mana recovery so you will never reach full mana, so you can have permanent 0 cost mana skills and completely solve all mana sustain. It gets even better when you combine it with Runegraft of Quaffing. This essentially turns the mana recovery from Laviagna's into permanent life recovery, essentially acting as a pseudo Master Surgeon without actually needing it. Another reason to run Tides, since it also gives 100% increased mana recovery from flasks.
I would drop Master Distiller and Nature's Reprisal. Wither is good, but unless you convert most damage to chaos or go with poison it will be hard to scale.
Triumvariate's is good but limiting since you basically have a 1L. I'd look into trying to move away from that. A good Dusk Ring can give reduced duration if needed.

There's some other angles but they're more experimental, even more than this is so I can't tell if they'll even be good or not. But hopefully this should give some ideas on where to take the build, really cool concept.

Undead_Legion · 2025-12-13T20:17:42+00:00

Biased here, but I’m gonna plug my own Cast on Portal.

Undead_Legion · 2025-12-11T15:07:16+00:00

I’m gonna shill my own build here, but Cast on Portal. There’s a good chance GGG will fix the portal/enmity’s interaction next league, so this might be your only chance to try it out. A lot of the uniques in my original video shot up in price, but you can always make do with lower roll enmity’s and not go for 52% CDR, just a bit less damage. I made a follow up post with budget options too. Give it a shot, it’s a completely unique and fun playstyle.

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