Best Single Target Elemental Spell? [Witch]

[Kotodama]

Hello everyone, I wanted to ask a question for those know the game well.

I am trying to look for a Single Target DPS spell that I can use and spam for Boss Fights. Currently my clear is Fantastic (using Cold Damage). However, Ive notice that my boss clear times are rather slow. I noticed this the most on the Molten Vaults Boss where I nearly lost because there was no more space left to go.

So i wanted to ask the community here on what is the best single target DPS spell currently for spellcasters? Of course I am talking without ascendancy because Sorcerer will probably be the best in that regard with their tornado procs.

I'd love if anyone could help me out with finding this out.

[Kotodama]

Bumping this topic.

[Disco]

I'd like to know this too.

[vinnygunnz]

I couldn't even finish the Molten Vault Boss battle on cruel right before endgame. I was a Sorceress, level 50's. Tried many times and didn't have the dps. Went back later maybe in my 60's and still couldn't do it. Just made level 80 this morning but I'm halfway to 81 now and don't want to lose progress. I might try it as soon as I level again though. I think they need to adjust his health down or something.

[polky27]

But its a witch, why not use minions? And use a Sorceress for more direct magic attacks. If your using ice why not use cast on freeze or minion death with ice meteors or something?

[Donew]

Originally posted by polky27:

But its a witch, why not use minions? And use a Sorceress for more direct magic attacks. If your using ice why not use cast on freeze or minion death with ice meteors or something?

Infernalist Witch is almost entirely focused on direct magic skills, so is blood mage. Why wouldn't someone use direct magic spells? There isn't a minion witch ascension in the game yet. The strongest Witch builds are all pure spellcasters. The fact that Witch gets a passive to have infinite mana and can convert almost all dmg taken into fire dmg is pretty huge for a caster build. Minions are mediocre at the moment. They're annoying to use, their ai is brandead, and their damage is subpar outside of just using them as detonate dead/corpsewade fodder. Not to mention demon form doesn't even work with minions at all. You can't stack minion level or spirit in demon form, so it's pretty much locked into a pure spellcaster build.

[Donew]

There are 3 valid answers to this depending on play style. Greater lightning bolt, hexblast, and comet. Greater Lightning Bolt can be converted to ice dmg using the unique ring. Hexblast is basically locked to chaos dmg builds. Or if you wanna be cheesy and abuse some unintended mechanics you can do borderline infinite dmg by using ice wall + the unique boots that do 30% overkill dmg. Detonate the walls with greater lightning bolt or something and it'll start an infinitely scaling chain reaction to delete anything in the game. It's obviously a bug, but it won't be fixed until the new league anyways, as it's crucial to tons of builds and they already said they won't nerf something that builds depend on until the big balance patch like a month from now.

[CrappyBark]

Originally posted by Donew:

There are 3 valid answers to this depending on play style. Greater lightning bolt, hexblast, and comet. Greater Lightning Bolt can be converted to ice dmg using the unique ring. Hexblast is basically locked to chaos dmg builds. Or if you wanna be cheesy and abuse some unintended mechanics you can do borderline infinite dmg by using ice wall + the unique boots that do 30% overkill dmg. Detonate the walls with greater lightning bolt or something and it'll start an infinitely scaling chain reaction to delete anything in the game. It's obviously a bug, but it won't be fixed until the new league anyways, as it's crucial to tons of builds and they already said they won't nerf something that builds depend on until the big balance patch like a month from now.

To add to this, I would suggest the other two options over hexblast. You have to aura a curse to make it not a pain to setup, and it does less damage than most single target abilities, and even if you get the passive that allows you to apply two curses, hexblast consumes both curses but does damage only for one curse cuz it's broken right now

Edit: also, hexblast is not elemental so there is another reason to look elsewhere

[Estrella]

So, not exactly a single target spell, but i'm running Spark+Arch-mage+Sigil of Power and absolutely Melting. One thing that really helped me was having Electrocute and freeze buildup running to allow me to sit and spam to my hearts content.

[Donew]

Originally posted by CrappyBark:

Originally posted by Donew:

There are 3 valid answers to this depending on play style. Greater lightning bolt, hexblast, and comet. Greater Lightning Bolt can be converted to ice dmg using the unique ring. Hexblast is basically locked to chaos dmg builds. Or if you wanna be cheesy and abuse some unintended mechanics you can do borderline infinite dmg by using ice wall + the unique boots that do 30% overkill dmg. Detonate the walls with greater lightning bolt or something and it'll start an infinitely scaling chain reaction to delete anything in the game. It's obviously a bug, but it won't be fixed until the new league anyways, as it's crucial to tons of builds and they already said they won't nerf something that builds depend on until the big balance patch like a month from now.

To add to this, I would suggest the other two options over hexblast. You have to aura a curse to make it not a pain to setup, and it does less damage than most single target abilities, and even if you get the passive that allows you to apply two curses, hexblast consumes both curses but does damage only for one curse cuz it's broken right now

Edit: also, hexblast is not elemental so there is another reason to look elsewhere

Hexblast does more single target dmg than almost any spell in the game. It not being elemental and needing blasphemy are fine criticisms, but it's probably #2 for single target dps out of every spell currently in the game. The dps is massive. Hexblast builds can kill t18 arbiter in 1 hit lol.

[SomewhatSolo]

If your already using Frost to clear, Frost Bomb + Spell Echo + Biting Frost+ Fast Forward has a heck of an impact. Frost Wall is also very very powerful if set up properly, especially during Cruel.

Two different games. Most Starter Builds are using unconventional set-ups for campaign and respecing at Mapping. For example, using Monk Passives and weapons to level a Blood Mage to 58 before taking your first ascendancy into Blood Mage. The Synergy is there to make it work.

[♥BlackSun♥]

there's a build that 1 shoot pretty much every single boss in game, it's a BM with a crossbow.

Weird u asking questions like this here, just go to maxroll and look at builds, is that so hard?