Finally!

[frdnwsm]

Heh, my Lightning Conjurer finally got all 5 pieces of the Ulthos set. OK, it's "only" the level 75 version, not the levell 94, but it will do for now.
https://www.grimtools.com/calc/62amOKb2
Note: He's on Elite right now, not Ultimate.Set difficulty to Elite to get actual resistances. Also, when facing poison using critters, I swap the boots out for Venomspine Greaves.

[+|A.O|+]

GJ, gratz for the 1st stem into a functional build realised of your own accord!

[Matthew]

[frdnwsm]

First time I filled out a 5 piece set of gear. Before that, my record was the 4 piece Empowered Marauder set for my DW Purifier.

Getting this full set took some doing. A boss dropped the cuirasse, another the blueprint for the hood. Eventually I had 4 pieces, but the damned spaulders wouldn't drop for anything, I finally cheated. I went on the FG Transmuter quest, crafted an extra hood, then blew 8 Eldritch essences transmuting the extra hood until I finally got the spaulders. Whew!

[+|A.O|+]

It ain't cheating if you use the game's provided NPCs

[frdnwsm]

Originally posted by +|A.O|+:

It ain't cheating if you use the game's provided NPCs

I was being facetious. Using the transmuter isn't cheap; eldritch essence doesn't grow on trees

[gNuff!~©~gNom3™]

congratz man, that right there is a pretty deadly combo of items :ccthumbsu:
and don't worry so much about the lvl 94 variant, the lvl 75 version should carry you well enough into lvl 100/Ultimate if you tweak with components and augments if/where/when as needed

now you just gotta get hungry for SR 50 so you can get tons of "free" eldritch essence per character in the barn

[StreamWhenGuy]

ok

[frdnwsm]

OK, as long as I am on this topic, I note that my Skyfallen Storm Halberd actually is rated for about 9K more DPS than the Stormseeker weapon, despite the loss of the complete set damage bonus. The big difference with using Stormseeker is the 50% chance to proc Ultos' Wrath upon scoring a critical hit. I'm sort of debating which weapon to use.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2258181167
I guess it pretty much depends on what I am fighting and the chance of a critical hit. Little or no critical hit chance favors the Skyfallen; decent critical hit chance, I should use Stormseeker?

[gNuff!~©~gNom3™]

whyyy are you using seal of destruction, you're needlessly converting Primal Strike dmg to fire
even the 94 Ultos doesn't hold up against a perfect affixed MI/Stormhalberd, what you are after is the bonuses which will be more noticable on the lvl 94 set, for straight up raw dmg it's hard to compete against the stormhalberd, specially when it suddenly takes away +8 PS on top of everything else (losing +8 to primal strike will be less influential when you are hardcapped "as is" with PS without the halberd)

[frdnwsm]

>"whyyy are you using seal of destruction, you're needlessly converting Primal Strike dmg to fire"

I'm not using it for the small fire damage, I am using it because that Seal also adds 50% to Lightning damage. I compared it to the component I was using before, an Atttuned Lodestone, and the total damage went up.

[gNuff!~©~gNom3™]

so does seal of skies, which you linked in your build - which also converts phys to lightnign, which is what you want

[frdnwsm]

Originally posted by gNuff!~©~gNom3™:

so does seal of skies, which you linked in your build - which also converts phys to lightnign, which is what you want

OK, conversion of physical damage in this case is almost irrelevant; I am doing a whopping 20 physical damage, which is essentially nil. Mind you, I am still tweaking this character, so I might pop the Seal of Skies back in for comparison.

As part of the tweaks, I just replaced Focused Rage with the Glyph of Sudden Strikes, which adds a hefty 300% to weapon damage. IMO, this favors the Skyfallen Halberd.

I'm swapping around a lot of stuff ... rings, leg/hand/foot armor, augments ... tying to find a good balance between offence and defense/resists.

[gNuff!~©~gNom3™]

not sure where you're getting your 20 phys dmg, i'm counting 50%(halberd/ultos doing 40%conversion, then amulet another 10%) - and either way, converting 10% phys dmg to fire is a complete waste, specially when phys dmg is over 1/3 of primal strikes dmg, like, there is no "debate" about it, you'd be better of using amber than seal of destruction, and obviously, as in your link, seal of skies is the optimal choice - you want as much lightning dmg as possible, not converting part of it to useless fire.

[frdnwsm]

I'm confused now. Just now, I looked at Primal Strike, and yes it does a lot of physical damage. But when I look at page 2 of the character sheet, it lists physical damage as only 3-24. Why is this? It's not counting the physical damage from Primal Strike at all? Perhaps it has somehow all been converted to elemental? I have 2300% Lightning buff and 1400% to electrocution, but that isn't the same as conversion.

Also, why do you say Amber is better then Destruction? Amber only adds 25% to Lightning and electrocution, destruction adds 50%.

[gNuff!~©~gNom3™]

because amber adds 10% phys-lightning conversion, which is more valuable than a mere 25%dmg - at your stage 25% bonus dmg is nothing, it's a fraction of a fraction of your increase
^again seal of skies is what you want, no idea why you had it in your uploaded build but switched it in game, seal of skies was the correct choice

and the reason you are seeing 3-24 phys dmg is you are looking at page 2, on grimtools, not ingame - for whatever reason; grimtools is unable to account for your slotted skill and its dmg, and will only ever show you basic weapon dmg breakdown. that's why you always have to look directly ingame of an assigned skills dmg breakdown