100M DPS no crit Spark Archmage

Focus on getting 4 support slots for Spark and for Orb of Storms asap! You can do that by using 1x Lesser Jeweller's Orb and then gambling with Vaal Orb. It might take some time and eventually you will have to get another set of these abilities as we will need to unlock 5th slot as well, which cannot be done after the gem was corrupted. But 5th slot won't come online for a long time! Unless you are lucky with drops to buy it early.

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We are gonna use Pierce as our support gem of choice on Spark early on to maximise on clear.

Personal recommendation for first 3 support gems on Spark, for a mix of AoE and Single Target DPS, is Arcane Tempo, Persistence and Pierce. You can also choose to get 5x Emeralds with 20% projectile pierce and/or megalomaniac diamond with Piercing Shot ( very expensive ) or later on reroll into Branching Bolts instead, which is mandatory to do after we instill Lightning Rod as we will need to use Controlled Destruction on our Spark.

Then we get either Inspiration for better mana sustain or Acceleration for more damage as our 4th slot. With the other one of the two being our 5th. Early on I recommend Inspiration to be used on Mana Tempest with Culling Strike and Premeditation as we usually won't have enough mana and stats for Archmage to come online. And DPS gem on Spark plus mana conserving gem on Mana Tempest will grant you the highest DPS.

You can choose to go Branching Bolts immidiately for chaining over piercing, in which case you would replace Pierce with for example Rising Tempest while still using Flame Wall.

Once you get Lightning Rod it is of UTMOST IMPORTANCE! to replace either Pierce or Rising Tempest with Controlled Destruction to remove the possibility to crit from Spark !!!

You can shuffle a lot of gems around, further explanation in the video guide. 🥰

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For our Orb of Storms, we want to get Lightning Exposure asap with Strip Away and Overabundance. I recommend asking in trade or looking online for Uncut Support Gem 3 to unlock Exposure as they go for like 0.01 exalted orb these days and you can get them right at the beginning of the game. Or ... almost.

If you cannot get your hands on them, then definitely go for Font of Mana for better mana sustain instead. Which will later become either your 4th slot or 5th slot depending on whether you need extra mana regeneration or whether you just wanna do more DPS through Overcharge. Magnitude of shock is very important as our goal is to reach 2x 100%!

For that reason, we want to be able to eventually sustain mana without Font of Mana and instead use Conduction.

As I previously stated, we are gonna start with Cast on Shock as it is much easier to get rolling and in combination with Voltaic Mark it procs all the time even after the nerf letting us one one shot bosses/priority mobs. Once we have enough stats to start using Archmage, we will remove it till later, when we use it again.

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To better sustain mana, we are also using Mana Remnants early on with Clarity, Cannibalism and Vitality before we start using Mind Over Matter. And will continue to use MR with Clarity untill we can slot in Cast on Shock. Before you slot in Eldritch Battery, I suggest using Grim Feast over MR with the same support gems.

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Early on, we will also use Flame Wall to further boost our damage. Later, we will replace this with Blink for better mobility during fights, playing Breaches or just collecting gear faster. We will also move Ingenuity from Sigil of Power to Blink so we can use it more often.

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Once we have enough stats and sustain in our build with items like %mana on kill Jewels, we will remove Mana Remnants and put Cast on Shock back in to further increase our, mostly single target, damage. For that reason, get 170 spirit combined on amulet and chest to be able to also use Clarity on our Archmage.

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Archmage + Lightning Mastery +1 skill from corruption and 20% quality (high risk high reward of corrupting after maxing out quality) is the BIGGEST DPS INCREASE we could ever get as it will exponentially scale with our mana.

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This build focuses on curses to get extra survivability ( Enfeeble ) and reduce enemy resistances ( Conductivity ) combined with applying Lightning Exposure using Orb of Storms to make enemies take ungodly amounts of lightning damage with no way to protect themselves against it. Combine this with Scouring Winds that increase the base exposure from 20% to 40% and we are looking at more than -100% lightning resistance on enemies combined!

Our curses also gets further boosted with passives like Master of Hexes, Lingering Whispers, Impending Doom, Fated End and Zone of Control making them extremely potent in our build.

Conductivity will also spread on enemies thanks to Hex Bloom and thus we won't have to keep recasting it while chain pulling or in big pulls in general. In super endgame, you will use this pretty much only against bosses or when your gear ain't high enough yet to one shot everything with just Spark.

Eventually, Enfeeble will be able to cover half of the screen and provide a super long lasting 40% damage reduction!!!!

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Chaos Inoculation is not recommended before you have ~3000 mana, maxed out elemental resistances, good mana regen and a jewel with %2 mana per kill for sustain.