Lightning Tendrils and Orb of Storms

Could someone please explain to me if there could be an interaction between orb of Storms and Lightening Tendrils and if so how ? Is OoS supposed to be linked with LT along with Cast while Channeling?

"Orb of Storms can now trigger lightning strikes from channeled skills.

Lightning Tendrils has been reworked. It is now a channeled skill, and deals more damage on every 4th pulse. It has also received a visual overhaul. The new version hits slightly less frequently than previously, but has higher sustained damage overall."

thanks.

The way I understand it, oos will be a pretty nice damage boost for lightnin tendrils.

You don't need to link OoS to LT.
You cast an OoS and stand in its radius and then cast (or channel, as it were) LT. OoS will then do its usual stuff.
Only before the change to OoS it would not, because you needed to cast a lightning sṕell (dunno it it worked with lightning attacks). Since LT now is a channeled lightning skill, it wouldn't have worked with the old OoS anymore. With the change they mentioned it does.
Should now also work for the bubble blast aka Storm Burst.

What I'm interested in is whether it will work on every Storm Burst bullet or just every time mana is consumed. I've been wanting to play 6L OoS for ages, but the damage has never been enough. If I can get 20 procs per second, it's an entirely different story.

Though if LT is placed at the same frequency as before (0.8s for 4 hits), I can comfortably get 8-10 hits per second anyway. I can probably run LT + FC + ICS + PCoC for a nice damage boost, or swap in Storm Barrier for ICS.

If this interaction in fact works like this with one of the skills, it'll probably end up being my second character for abyss.

Though I do also want to try out a Touch of Anguish Ancestral Call Frost Blader, but it's not something I've been wanting to do for as long as OoS.

After that it's the Corpse interaction builds, SR CwC Bodyswap RF, "looks like Vaal DD"-miner, Bodyswap totems, Bodyswap mines with Tremor Rod, and Corpse on Damage takener with Unearth, Spell Cascade and Offerings.

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DER_PSYCHOPATH a écrit :

What I'm interested in is whether it will work on every Storm Burst bullet or just every time mana is consumed. I've been wanting to play 6L OoS for ages, but the damage has never been enough. If I can get 20 procs per second, it's an entirely different story.

Neither, the burst fires orbs in salvos so you will get a zap every salvo, which is every 0,65s by default cast time. Currently the best spell for triggering OoS is Storm Call, as the fastest lightning spell in the game, but that may change when new Tendrils are released.

I've made an Orb build in one of the previous leagues, it worked as a decent AoE extender for Shrapnel shot but the damage still isn't exactly amazing and the mana cost in 5-6L is bonkers.

Just saw the changes, gonna play totems so wondering will Tendrils spell totem procc extra OoS bolts?

Extra powercharges and dmg from OoS would be nice.

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Kaosmo a écrit :

Just saw the changes, gonna play totems so wondering will Tendrils spell totem procc extra OoS bolts?

Placing the totem will trigger a bolt, but totem's casting will not.

OoS is a great curse dispenser and Culling Strike applicator. Damage isn't really what makes it shine. That it now works properly with channeled skills only makes it more widely usable. In fact, its behavior fits well with the need for standing still of channeled skills.

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raics a écrit :

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DER_PSYCHOPATH a écrit :

What I'm interested in is whether it will work on every Storm Burst bullet or just every time mana is consumed. I've been wanting to play 6L OoS for ages, but the damage has never been enough. If I can get 20 procs per second, it's an entirely different story.

Neither, the burst fires orbs in salvos so you will get a zap every salvo, which is every 0,65s by default cast time. Currently the best spell for triggering OoS is Storm Call, as the fastest lightning spell in the game, but that may change when new Tendrils are released.

I've made an Orb build in one of the previous leagues, it worked as a decent AoE extender for Shrapnel shot but the damage still isn't exactly amazing and the mana cost in 5-6L is bonkers.

Each Salvo is the channeling thing which consumes mana, which was in fact my other assumption.


And since I don't know how to quote single lines, this is from the patch notes:
"Orb of Storms can now trigger lightning strikes from channelled skills."

And this is an image of the new Lightning Tendrils:
http://webcdn.pathofexile.com/public/news/Bex/LightningTendrils.jpg

With base cast speed, Lightning Tendrils will trigger OoS 4.5 times per second (it would be less, but I'm going with the assumption that the tooltip 0.23s cast time are rounded up from 0.225). Since LT is a channelled skill, it can't be supported by Spell Echo, but it can be in Essence of Insanity gloves. It's not going to be my league starter, but I'll try to max out cast speed for LT and damage + AoE for OoS and see how it goes. Sadly, the base damage is less than half of LT, but that's compensated by being able to focus entirely on cast speed with that.

If it really doesn't work, I'll use OoS to clear the large normal packs while concentrating LT on single target dps, which should work well enough.

Just a last note to compare Storm Call to LT: LT cast speed is 4.5 (4.35 if it's not rounded cast speed) per second whereas SC supported by lvl 20 Spell Echo is 3.4, so LT is definitely the new fastest spell to trigger OoS.

As far as the mana cost of a 6L spell with 28 base mana cost goes, since it only has to be cast once every few seconds (let's say 1 to 5 depending on how fast you move and how strong the packs are) it's pretty much neglegible. I can only laugh if I compare that to my miner build that had to go LL to make use of panicked flasks.

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DER_PSYCHOPATH a écrit :

Just a last note to compare Storm Call to LT: LT cast speed is 4.5 (4.35 if it's not rounded cast speed) per second whereas SC supported by lvl 20 Spell Echo is 3.4, so LT is definitely the new fastest spell to trigger OoS.

If the gem isn't changed before release - sure, and hands down because skill repeats with spell echo or multistrike don't trigger OoS. That's the main reason I ultimately went Raider with The Tempest bow, it gave me the highest number of triggers I could reasonably get at the time because Quill Rain didn't have mana on hit yet so sustaining it was a bitch.

The thing with Orb is you can get good coverage with Chain because the beam splits and then chains so it can do a lot of hits but I don't think it can do good single target, it lacks the punch. I'd probably sooner mod OoS for clearing and Tendrils for bosses than the other way around, but keep an open mind and have a spare set of gems to try the other option too.