LIGHTNING VORTEX

BUILD

SHOWCASE
Blade Vortex
Main source of damage. Ethereal blades spin around you for a duration, repeatedly  damaging enemies they pass through.
Orb of Storms
It will trigger Arcane Surge for more spell damage and cast speed. Above all it's also linked with Culling Strike, this means that it will instant kill enemies with 10% life or lower.
Warlord's Mark
A curse that grants life and mana leech. It will be casted automatically when you take a certain amount of damage.
Immortal Call
Gives you physical damage immunity for a short duration. It will be casted automatically when you take a certain amount of damage.
Flame Dash
Great movement skill to dodge heavy attacks.
Clarity
Aura that increases your Mana Regeneration
Summon Ice Golem
Ice Golem boosts your critical chance.
Vaal Grace
Temporary aura that grants a huge amount of chance to dodge attacks and spells. (use it on bosses)
Wrath
Aura that grants extra lightning damage.
TREE
ASCENDANCY
  • FIRST LABYRINTH
- ​Righteous Providence
  • SECOND LABYRINTH
- Inevitable Judgement
  • THIRD LABYRINTH
- Augury of Penitence
  • UBER LABYRINTH
- Sanctify
  • STEP BY STEP
- ​Check the steps here
PANTHEON
  • MAJOR GOD
- ​Soul of Lunaris
  • MINOR GOD
- ​Soul of Garukhan 
JEWELS
  • RECOMMENDED ATTRIBUTES
- ​Lightning Damage
- Spell Damage
- Area Damage
- Maximum Life
- Critical Multiplier
  • UNIQUES
- Watcher's Eye with Physical to Lightning conversion grants you a 100% Lightning Blade Vortex, it's not mandatory, but it's also not very expensive.
- Watcher's Eye with Physical as extra Lightning and Conversion is perfect for you, but this one is expensive.
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BANDIT CHOICE
  • HELP ALIRA
- ​Help Alira and get 20% critical multiplier, 15% to all elemental resistances and mana regeneration.
LEVELING
  • LEVELING SKILLS 
This build has a very easy leveling process. You can start using Spark until level 12, then already change to Blade Vortex. For auras and detailed leveling setups click here. 
  • LEVELING ITEMS
-​ Elreon Jewelry are in my opinion the best items to level any build, imagine goes all the way until lvl 50 ~ 60 without needing to spend one single Mana point. It's very cheap and you can start using already at lvl 1. I like to use 2 or even 3 of them for leveling
- Lochitonial Caress for gloves, mainly because of it's cast speed buff. (equipable at level 1) 
- Asenath's Mark is an offensive helmet, gives you even more cast speed. equipable at level 8)
- Goldrim is a defensive Helmet, gives you more elemental resistances (equipable at level 1)
- Wanderlust for movement speed and frozen immunity (equipable at level 3)
- Tabula Rasa is a great body armour for leveling, it provides a 6 Linked starting on level 1, not so cheap though. (equipable at level 1)
- Lifesprig is awesome to level cast speed characters, use two of them. (equipable at level 1)
- Axiom Perpetuum is totally awesome for leveling up this build, ig grants elemental damage, cast speed and a LOT of critical chance. (equipable at level 10)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

SUMMARY

CLASS: Templar

ASCENDANCY: Inquisitor

HEALTH TYPE: Life

MAIN SKILL TYPE: Spell

COST: $$$$$

DIFFICULTY: 1/5

STARTER VIABLE: Yes

BEGINNER FRIENDLY: Yes

GAMEPLAY: Here

THIS BUILD'S FAQ
  • Is there a good place to buy unique items?
- Not only for unique items, poe.trade or pathofexile.com/trade are great websites for trading your items.
  • I'm lvl 40 and I'm dying a lot, what can I do?
- Please take a look at your Elemental Resistances, they are really important for your survivability. After lvl 40 try to keep at least 50% of each. The meximum is 75%, try to reach that when on end game.
  • I don't have as much HP as the gameplay shows and I've followed the Skill Tree step by step. Can you help me?
- Look for more HP at your rare gear. You can have ''+89 to maximum life'' on your helmet for instance.
  • You say the build is cheap, but a 6 Linked body armour is expensive. How?
- 6 Linked body armour is not mandatory for this build to work. Maximize a build with the best possible items and 6 Linkeds takes a good amount of currency. Start using 4 Linkeds on low tier maps in order to farm currency to upgrade your gear.
  • Why Cast When Damage Taken  at level 1 and Immortal Call at level 3?
- Cast When Damage Taken can only support spell gems that have the same required level or lower.  At level 1 the required level of Cast When Damage Taken is 38, the same as Immortal Call at level 3. 
  • Cast When Damage Taken cannot trigger Vaal skills, why do you put them on the same setup?
- Vaal Grace is not there to be triggered by Cast When Damage Taken, but to be supported by Increased Duration. 
  • Why Arcane Surge level 8?
- Arcane Surge needs mana spent to be triggered, level 8 is a good balance between Buff Power and mana spent needed.