Witchhunter’s Judgment unique staff grants Brandsurge skill. Talking about how it works, some tricks and build ideas.
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It may be usable if brands can be charged multiple times before exploding
i'm messing around w/penance brand of dissipation and brandsurge. feels good. tho i pair it with a herald of thunder focused setup to help clear
Is there a point to brandsurge wintertide brand?
This is the problem with POE. A perfectly cool looking skill with no damage… so many skills do NO DAMAGE. It's boring I hope they are 25 Skill gems and 50 more supports.
I have a proposal for WUATU, about Badge of the Brotherhood, Replica Three-step Assaul, max Elusive effect and crit multy from Nightblade Support gem that is incresed by Elusive effect, and resteing elusive buff with Withering Step. I think you can get arund 600 crit multy from using daggers and assasians ascendantcy just from stacking eluseive effect.
With this staff, you sacrifice brand duration for extra DPS while they last: 3 sec duration for 0.7 sec worth of extra damage. All but storm and armageddon brand have less than 5 sec base attached duration. If you recast your 10 sec duration brands every 4 seconds with Brandsurge, you add only 1.4 sec worth of damage every 4 sec, which is 35% increase: extremely low for a 2h weapon.
The only good ideas I saw in comments (if it works) used weaponswap gimmicks.
I used it with penance brand. It helps to gain energy stacks very fast.
i think arma brand is just bad tbh.
penance brand felt pretty good a while back (with alot of investment), full cold conversion, brotherhood jewelry, max crit… only issue is the penance brand becomes the better skill, so no reason not just run a good wand and sheild for more damage. kinda sad cuz the visual of the brandsurge is really impressive and satisfying.
Honestly, I think we need a new brand…
In my eyes brands are useless
3:27 yo dawg, l heard u liek brand surge. so we brand surged your brand surge so you can brand surge while brand surging.
For WUATU suggestions, the reowkred Ralakesh's Impatience could be a good one, since the interactions between minimum/maximum/consuming charges aren't immediately clear to newer players. Black Zenith gloves could also be interesting. They have a weird interaction where adding Spellslinger into the glove link setup results in the cooldown recovery rate applying to the entire 4s cooldown granted from the glove, as one example of an odd interaction they have.
I will say that there exist some weaponswap shenanigans with brandsurge as it seems to calculate damage when the brands explode. I was toying around with an ignite chieftan version where you'd only need to cast 1 (or 2 with the keystone) arma (or wintertide if using cold to fire and avatar of fire) brands which can attach to the enemy, brandsurge then weaponswap to a disintegrator (because of the massive flat added phys), but couldn't get the damage high enough since it would basically be a bossing only build.
Go ethereal knives on a brand with brand surge also as a brand and get the brand mastery to attach to a new enemy ever 0.3 seconds and then wear a gloom fang and stack %phys as extra elemental to benefit from the extra chaos damage from gloom fang.
I think this build would need some cdr to feel good
If I understood correctly, I definitely never want to use this staff.
ah i love your content, i'm currently using the Staff with an Forbidden Rite Arcanist brand setup with Searing Purity forbidden jewels and 10 Absorption charges. Trying to scale brand duration since mine got 100% brand duration. with alot of duration you can get high stacks of brandsurge sometimes my brand cast 10 FRs per second befor i die, still have to fix my resistances ^^. Also using CwDt for brandsurge and brand recall. (brand recall triggers your brands too dont know if it was always like that but brands wording states activates while attached)
What is an Oshabi?
I have tried going ignite with it for consistency and chieftain for phys as fire gain
Didn't care about brand itself, level 1 is good enough
For clear I used fireball in Cane of Kulemak
For bosses cast brands, swap to Witchhunter's Judgment, cast Brandsurge and swap back before detonation to Cane of Kulemak for extra dmg mods
If you put a brand skill + arcanist brand in the staff (linked) it will cast multiple brands before detonating. The other option is a double coc setup: one with revenge to cast brandsurge and other on chest to cast brands. The problem with this is that if you cast to many brands they overide the old ones.
I would like to just play 2 months in league and quit until next one just to not burn down from poe
I tried to build with this Staff this League, but I didn't have the Currency to make something big out of it.
The Objective was to stack as much Brand Duration as possible, making it proc the Brands several tens of times per second. It was a two button build and cleared nicely. (Arcanist's Brand sucks with it though, because you use mana for each cast.) My Brand of choice was Penance Brand (very high damage multiplier), although Stormbrand felt better sometimes (damage of PB was higher, felt less though because there's a short "damage downtime"). I just wanted to play with penance Brand
Oh yeah no I can see Arma brand+full ignite+prolif with that amount of flat damage. That’s a Lot of flat damage.
wintertide brand maybe
Elementalist ignite? Maybe getting some ignite prolif form Berek respite would make this build more fun. You could put a lot of utility on arcanist brand like curses and Weave of conviction with culing strike while getting easy exposure. Dunno about what numbers you could get from that, but utility gain would be massive.
How does this interact with Penance Brand? Or is the duration reduction too big?
Because to me, it sounds like Swift Brand Support, but without needing to give up a socket for it.
Would like to see a build which Converts light radius to something useful <3
Thank you for this. This staff is bizzare as all hell so having more knowledge about this is helpful