~Glitch
Lightning Heart Elementalist
~Glitch
Is this for staff and what are you trying to accomplish with it?
Assuming it is for staff, they are more effective ways to do what you are doing. I can understand lightning rod but there is no reason to get stone heart when you are using a staff.
This is an mmo forum, if someone isn’t whining chances are the game is dead.
I said above it can be modified for staff. it is meant for DD small scale roaming / havoc. I am utilizing 2 of the new GM and accomplishing great things.
btw although your response is appreciated, you have added nothing to the post other than spread negativity. no real insight or reccomendations. please be constructive and have a nice day
~Glitch
You can take my comment as negative if you want, but it doesn’t change the simple fact that this build would be terrible for staff. It makes no sense for a staff, it seems you are taking a bunch of things to make a Frankenstein monster type of build.
Also your OP did not make any mention on what you intended to do with your build, it was only in your response that it became apparent you wanted to use it for havoc or small squad, which makes it worst.
Lightning rod is only really effective when they are too many people to notice your interrupts on the staff. In a small group all your interrupts become obvious and easily avoidable. Also lighting rod doesn’t do enough damage to make a build based entirely on it.
The lightning hammer you lose all your skills for only 5 mediocre ones while doing mediocre damage. and the potential stun on it is on a long CD.
The point being you are better off going the usual fresh air ele because most of the weakness aka being defenseless if you miss your rotation can be covered by the other players with you. This build doesn’t do anything better that other builds don’t already do.
This is an mmo forum, if someone isn’t whining chances are the game is dead.
I respect you opinion and agree i should have been more clear. The build revolves around more than just lightning rod. Stone heart is pretty awesome. The only downside to it is that it is only useful while in earth. By running a conjure or two you can stay in earth longer maximizing the effect of stone heart. There are 3 possible interrupts with lightning hammer, You spam them then drop the conjure. ( this also allows your main skills to come off cooldown)
As far as being in a roaming / small grp scenario, i also disagree. The damage is not bad due to the might stacking and you are rendering enemy crit damage useless for a good amount of time. You can say the build is bad and there are better builds but you have not tried this (im assuming) so its a bit presumptuous to call it a monster and to say its bad. This is also in a testing phase and i have not put too many hours into it so i’m sure there is room for improvement.
ps. sorry i wrote that you can modify for staff, as it was misleading. not so much for staff
~Glitch