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My Approach To Making Lightning Tendrils In POE 3.20

Mar 04, 2023

I wanted to play a skill that is barely played in the current meta, which is Lightning Tendrils. Was I able to make it work and, even more important, is it fun to play? 

Core Setup

Defensively, this is not a very easy to build to play because having to stand still is very dangerous in POE. To not die to enemies while channeling, we scale armor and we also combine life gain on block with cap blockchains. 

Besides that, we also get a lot of life regen from our gear and the Inquisitor Ascendancy itself. We also split damage into lightning damage and cold damage with Call Of The Brotherhood to chill and freeze enemies because Lightning Tendrils hits quite hard.

Offensively, we invest a lot into caspi to property stronger poles every four pulses quickly. We also get a lot of crits to make inevitable judgment work and we scale a lot of increased area of effect to make the skills smooth for mapping.

Last but not least, we also use Righteous Fire for 39 more spell damage. 

POE Lightning Tendrils Inquisitor

How To Gear?

There are no mandatory items for the build but you want to get your hands on the Call of the Brotherhood to split your damage into cold and lightning damage for it to chill and freeze the enemies, which is quite nice defensively.

The Shimmeron Tornado Wand is a very nice item for the build as it synergies very well with it since we’re scaling 5 power charges anyway for crits, the item grand, base spell crit, crit multi and additional chance to block spell damage, which is very nice.

However, we must outreach in 6 times 200 lightning damage per second that still goes through lightning resistances but adds a lot of degen on top of Righteous Fire.

If you want to add substantial damage to the build, you would use a Bottled Faith Sulphur Flask and also a Hunter Redeemer’s chest (Dread Jack Saint’s Hauberk) with friendly charges on hit and base spell crit damage.

The helmet (Loath Horn Zealot Helmet) is fully devoted to mana reservation efficiency. You want to get one with an enchant for either Zealotry, Wrath or Determination. Also, add the reservation efficiency implicit and also the suffix, which is needed to squeeze in all the auras.

Other than that, focus on life resistances and, importantly, life regenerated per second. 

Life Regeneration

Wait! Why do you need life regenerated per second? We have a lot of degen coming from Righteous Fire and also the Shimarron Wand to reach a net life regeneration. 

You want to have life regeneration sources basically anywhere you can get them. This includes flat Life Regen, from rare items, passives on Cluster Jewels, Watcher’s Eye, Vitality mod, boot enchant, Inquisitor passive and also passive nodes in the skill tree. You can see that with all these things, you can get a Net Life and Net ES Regen of roughly 500, which is quite comfortable.

Elemental Immunity

The build is also Elemental immune. It uses the same setup as I was using in my Sweep Berserker build, which is Stormshroud plus a Foul Globe Ghastly Eye Jewel with chance to avoid being shocked and boots (Rapture Dash Crusader Boots) with avoid Elemental Ailments and avoid being shocked implicits. 

You can skip this setup if you want because Stormshroud is quite expensive at the moment. That means you should invest lots of POE Currency. but it really adds a lot to your defenses if you are elemental immune.

Passive Tree

Did you know that there are more ascendancy nodes than Pirate’s Path and Inevitable Judgment for the Inquisitor tree? 

Well, it turns out that there is called Instruments of Zeal, which gain Fanaticism for 4 seconds on reaching Maximum Fanatic Charges. Fanaticism grants spells to cast yourself 75 more cast speed, 75 reduced cost and 75 increased area of effect, which synergies well as you can imagine with lightning generals. 

If we proc Fanaticism in this build, it almost doubles the damage. Best way to practice is to use an attack movement skill in our case gear charge. The build also uses on a Glorious Ranity Timeless Jewel with Doryani to get the Corrupted Soul Keystone needed for the Righteous Fire setup. If you don’t use this Keystone, you will have a negative net Energy Shield Regen but a higher Net Life Regen, which is not what we want.

The build also uses two big cluster jewels (Honour Joy Large Cluster Jewel & Plague Cario Large Cluster Jewel) and the most important node on here is Snowstorm. You also want to have one on his lesson node and one Stormrider node on either jewel.

There are four medium cluster jewels (3x Brood Splinter Medium Cluster Jewel & 1x Carrion Spark Medium Cluster Jewel)that go into the large cluster jewels. They are your major source of AOE scaling if you use fast power and Towering Threat on them.

Other than that and some of the block nodes, the tree is pretty generic for an Inquisitor.

Skills

POE Phantasmal Lightning Tendrils

The build uses two movement skill setups: one is Shield Charge for procking Fanaticism and applying Assassin’s Mark on hit and the other one is Lightning Warp if you want to go really fast.

Stone Golem and Molten Shell on low-level casts when damage taken help a lot with survivability and Decoy Totem and Frost Shield will serve you much more often than you think. They would might also be worthwhile to try Phantasmal Lightning Tendrils for more damage on these stronger pulses. But I haven’t tried it yet. 

Critique

So, is it worth playing the build right now? 

The build performs very well on regular maps and can also do some bosses, but don’t expect to clear rare invitations or even Ubers with it, like Nintendo’s is a fun skill to play, especially if you invest into some area of effect.

But even though there is such a high investment in AOE in this build, it still feels abysmal to many other meta skills, like Spark Explode, PV or any of the both skills. 

Its survivability is decent but you have to get all the bits and pieces together to make it work and even then you rely on Decoy Totem and Frost Shield to not die too often.

All in all, I would say I had some fun with the build.

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