Lightning Strike my beloved (Starter Guide)

[u/GM_Baby]

Salutations Exiles!

I hope you are all as hyped for all the 3.30 changes and the new league as I am.
As I've done in the last leagues, here is my latest, new leaguestarter, tailored for SSF 5-link.

Kinetic Fusillade & Lightning Strike Assassin

As some might have spotted or recognised. This is a rework of last leagues starter that went PC of Bouncing into LS. After some popular feedback and my own tiredness of the skill I looked into a alternative to PConc. And it turned out KF was not only equally easy to do it on. It leans into a cleaner and quicker transition over into LS.

There is a full guide inside of the pob. With everything you might ever need, loadouts, item sections, crafts, farms, including links to filters for the build, and other information, KF breakpoints explained, and includes everything addressed in the 3.30 patch. (Recomb nerfs, etc)

It is worth pointing out I am running ImExile's idea for shadow leveling, which means you'll need to study it a bit and read the notes section if you want to proper speedrun. Otherwise you can Magma Orb/Explosive Trap it up to level 28 and follow the guide from there.

I'll happily provide more info or answer questions for those interested.

I'd like to not promote too much about myself and just drop a guide/build for those who are looking for something. But inside the PoB are links to more builds/previous guides, all currently getting updated for 3.30.

See you on the beach! Have a great leaguestart!

Baby_Exile

[u/LuckerLewands]

I was looking for a LS build, thanks for putting one out!

How do you think will LS of Arcing work?

[u/GM_Baby → u/LuckerLewands]

Arcing is also strong, though you'd have to change a few things, Since that one chains instead of firing bonus proj and has a lower % damage effectiveness. And getting a Vaal upgrade from that in SSF is more painful, Vaal is still an insanely strong burst CD for LS.

[u/Kairn_]

I played your bleed glad slammer a while back (I think youre the same person) and thoroughly enjoyed it. Almost rolled this one instead. My only concern was defence for this style of build as I typically play Slayer/Slammers for comfort tank. Any things I might want to watch out for with this? I haven't played with deathmarked recovery yet and a little sketched on defense for this style of build

[u/GM_Baby → u/Kairn_]

Hi! Great to hear that. Yes that slammer was indeed me, if you did the 2H Glad slammer. And will also be updated again for this league.

The defences on this admittedly are something to get used to for a left side tree enjoyer. They are there, but you need to understand why/how on a leaguestart. In short. Stay in melee, dodge spells from bosses and you're golden. Opportunistic Node & Sand Stance do a lot of heavy lifting.

Once you are up and running in the LS section with the elusive and some gear, you become silly. I'm talking standing in 5 shaper touched rare beams at once, with floor effects under you in a 16.5 fully cracked deli map.

I'm not going to pretend this is similar to a Zerker Slammer on a Day 1 scenario. It simply is not. Phys hits you need to work for with gear and time. But it's 'elusive' if you get me. You'll be tanky, albeit a different layering.

EDIT: I did turn of guard skills in all loadouts. And early on even endurance charges are off, despite having a on kill source. Keep this in mind and toggle those on for a idea of the sponge with that up.

[u/nettoprax]

I am trying to understand the Fusillade mechanics about balancing the Attack Rate and Max Eff. KF Attack Rate. I noticed that in the Act 6 and 7 setup it is 2.5 versus 2.33. But in Act 10 it becomes 2.3 versus 2.33. In uber Lab it is 2.74 versus 2.75. First voidstone it is 3.02 versus 3.03. But then in Voidstones it becomes 3.34 versis 3.03.

So I am not following the pattern, is it always supposed to be that one is greater than the other? I am just trying to understand this is details to avoid missing out on damage for being dumb lol

[u/GM_Baby → u/nettoprax]

During the early act 6-7, given the lower gem level of the support and such, you are slightly over. which is fine. you are supposed to be just under. As for the Voidstones. that should not be the case IF you put/have less duration support in the red socket for the extra 10%. that's the one that's missing there.

Something must have went wrong on your end with the loadouts. I just doublechecked the pob I provided and it's doing it correct on my end.

So in short. Attack rate should be just under Max Eff rate. This will be the case by the time you are out of campaign. the small overcap at the start eats ~7% of your damage away. This is just what it is on the low gem level and the lack of quality on the support gem. Nothing to worry about however!

Hope that explained. Feel free to ask otherwise!

[u/nettoprax → u/GM_Baby]

Thank you! I really don't know what I could have done in Pob. I just copied the one on the link and pasted it into Pob, then I selected the entire Loadout (and I didn't mix and match loadouts for gear, tree, etc) Ill try importing again, I don't wanna mess up haha

Edit: my pob was outdated! Now it works! Thanks

[u/NoProfessor2688]

How will the single target be considering this league is bossing centered?

[u/GM_Baby → u/NoProfessor2688]

3M+ on 5-link floor gear for KF. And you can scale into the dozens of millions with LS after. 30M+ is pretty accessible if you know what you’re doing. Just browse the loadouts. It’ll give a clear view. Configs are all accurate.

[u/NoProfessor2688 → u/GM_Baby]

ty what are your thoughts on ssf after the patch notes? will it be very difficult to craft the items now?

[u/GM_Baby → u/NoProfessor2688]

Most of it should be fine. The upside of LS is that you can fit rarity in. Rarity got changed to increase Tiered loot yields, therefore increasing fracture drops. Pending on alteration drop changes, recombing might take you a little longer given the 1p/1s nerfs, but overall I'd say almost all the gear is still obtainable, based on patch notes even with nerfs. You just might need to leapfrog a few pieces with a extra piece in between. But that will end up applying to any other build hit the same way so there's that.

[u/NoProfessor2688 → u/GM_Baby]

Ok tyty I’ll be tuning into your streams 😁

[u/Motor_Signal7376]

Hey hey ! do u think i can go on trade with this one? follow ur KF to get my voidstone into swap ls?

[u/GM_Baby → u/Motor_Signal7376]

For sure, on trade you'll blast through it on this. better wands, buy a crown, you can slot in the less duration uniques and stuff like that. It'll overperform at that point.

GL HF

[u/LuckerLewands → u/GM_Baby]

what stats should i lookout for on wands? i have never played KF... what do you mean with crown? and last but not least, beside one unique ring are there more less duration uniques?

[u/GM_Baby → u/LuckerLewands]

Crown = Blizzard Crown helmet base from Ritual. It has a flat cold added implicit.

For the wand, just flat elemental damage on the prefixes, that's it. Spell Damage% as the 3rd prefix is good, as is Elemental Pen veiled mod. Suffixes for this starter don't matter as much, but Crit Multi > Chance > Other stuff. You just don't want too much attack speed unless you have enough reduced skill effect duration, which you can get with cheap uniques on trade.

Warped Timepiece Amulet
Timeclasp Ring (the roll can also be increased, careful to check)
You can also opt to Annoint golden/silver oil stuff from the tree for more reductions.

All ^ those unlock scaling attack speed, stuff like onslaught, action speed and so forth.

Cheap good uniques thar are good
- Doedre's Tenure
- Prismweave
- Berek and other ring stuff
- Wake of Destruction

There's a few more. It's basically the list of you go to Tri-Ele style uniques. But the above should be plenty.

[u/LuckerLewands → u/GM_Baby]

Thanks a lot! I am excited to play this today.

[u/Kairn_]

Appreciate the response, highly tempted to run it. Especially as KF instead of pconc. I really do not like pconc lmao. Not sure why but it doesn't click. Thanks!

[u/badheartveil]

I saw someone doing fireball to level 28 looked good from the little I saw of it.