That's a great build! I've been blasting with it and it is very satisfying and it has good synergy. Problem is with bosses as you don't have much room for error there as I feel squishy. Do you think in the best case scenario with best items equipped it can push more than 300 corruption? I am already struggling at 200 (not full bis though)
this isn't best version of it. this version was LAST season's best version of shaman melee. the new version is a lot different. So the way new version works is like this. Avalanche has new node in called stormcaller. every boulder has chance to create 1 storm stack. There are idols that say "For every melee attack, you have chance to summon a boulder". So what is the idea? you melee, boulder fall, you gain 1 stack of storm bolts then you use friend of tempest node to generate other 15 stacks. You press "Howl" to expand storm stacks since Gathering of the storm has some nodes where every time you use your companion skill, you lose 4 stack per wolves(12 stacks). The defences are also much different. Shaman got new passive node. this node says that for every point of attunement, you gain flat health regeneration. This allows shaman to exploit a specific relic called Vessel of strife. This relic convert your health regeneration in which you will have 600+ health regeneration into ward regeneration. To build int, you build strength from a relic called "Cleaver solution". You run swipe, you convert swipe to Lightning, you take everything at bottom of swipe tree. you have your wolves which are lightning wolves. Since each Spirit wolve is a counted as melee attack, it counts towards each hit becoming boulder hit. This is new lightning version of the build. It is more hybrid ward build now. Your main stats are Strength, Attunement and Health regeneration. Health is like 4th stat but you don't care too much about it since you should have massive ward generation from Aspect of Panther. the -dr that used exist in season 1 for aspect of boar can now only be acquired through red rings so that is like main nerf but since E-hp for ward is so high for new shaman, it doesn't matter as much. I think main problem is that shaman still doesn't do a whole lot of damage since its main source, GS doesn't have any good base scaling. you can have tier 7 melee lightning damage on both Tempest maw and Clever solution for like nearly 400 base which converts into spell damage from GS tree which is like 150 base damage +100 attunement which is another 100 damage but since it is 100% base, it is not exactly doing as much damage as other last epoch classes builds
Great write up, this guide isn’t fully updated for this cycle as I didn’t have time to play this out as well. Pinned the comment so everyone can hopefully see yours dodang
you can still play tempest strike shaman but it is VERY different from wolves shaman. there is new unique in the game called stormbreaker. it is two-handed mace that has conditon "For every 10 mana spent, chance to cast storm bolt". there is also 2x2 Idol that has this stat where you cast storm bolt if your melee skill is 10 mana or more. the stats that you focus on offensively is Lightning damage and Mana regeneration. Since each melee costs 10 mana for tempest strike. I'd explore that stormbreaker unique if you want to play shaman tempest strike melee.
@@Mdntech3000 Another option that i am currently exploring is Aftershock earthquake with Aftershock idols. since str+attunement scales earthquake, it works as trigger condition for wolves. you would abandon idea of storm bolts for this build and just go for swipe+wolves+earthquake+leap+warcry. There is also ideas to trigger aftershock for avalanche boulders which trigger avalanche boulders which allow you to trigger earthquake consume gathering of the storm bolts but i haven't went that far into that realm. I just don't like tempest strike on shaman because main problem with it is that it mainly focuses on buff "Minions" like Lightning wolves storm bolt but your not beastmaster to use it and it focuses storm crows which also your not beastmaster to use it. The other aspect it favor is using storm totem to use thunder tempest+storm bolt consumption but i found that when i was using storm totem, it wouldn't generate enough stacks so only play is to use thorn totem convert into ice and than convert Ice gathering storm but than you can't use tempest because it is lightning spell.
I rarely writing comments but thank you thank you I was desperate searching for someone who playing shaman dualwield and lightning because its so unpopular shaman no one streaming or playing shaman so I need to repeat it myself thanks a lot Negon!🙏
I was building my own Enhancement Shaman build, but newbie to Last Epoch so wanted to do a sanity check. Appreciate the video. Other than a few points, this is pretty much where I’m going.
FINALLY a proper shaman build - thank you! My current skill setup is very similar, but I've been using Warcry and Tornados instead of Wolves and Gathering Storm. My biggest setback currently is trying to get Tempest Maw, but I've had no luck when using Ascendance Runes on 1-handed axes.
I’ve found a bunch of them…I didn’t think they’re that rare maybe I’m just lucky. Glad you enjoyed I had to do so many experiments to figure this out lol. Hope you find them!
@@LurkinPT I've been using it with Gust of Renewal and Swift Wings maxed out. They reduce the mana cost and improve your mana regen. Without those, it can definitely eat up your mana without any mana regen elsewhere. It's not a primary source of damage for this build, but I still find it useful if I need to damage something when there's a modifier for enemy health regen and it's a dangerous pack to stay too close to when my Fury Leap and Battlecry are on cd.
@@rapidloving I would love to see that Tornado passive without being forced to lose pull strength in order to get it. It's already at a disadvantage as soon as you unlock it, but in theory, would be fantastic to bring enemies into your melee range much quicker as utility.
Hate to double comment on on this, but I finally decided to just swap over to this build entirely, and the damage output is insane for enemy packs. The only major drawback is that it seems to have trouble maintaining the storm stacks in single target scenarios. I opted for more health by focusing on % health where possible on gear and you can get your HP pool up to over 2600 since this build utilizes so many flat health passives. Shaman does seem to have a bit of survival issues in dangerous packs with empowered monoliths, so that huge bump in health is a major game changer in progression on its own.
@@Mdntech3000 Still seems like crossed threads - how does "Aspect of the Boar" help maintain "Storm Bolt" stacks? This may be a difference between wolves and crows, as I am using crows, but *so often* I am at 0 storm stacks, which means I have to stop smacking things to throw down Gathering Storm, then sit around and wait while everything is trying to eat my face for stacks to build. Then I blow through them and am back at 0 again. I never see you get below ~13-14 stacks. What am I missing?
Thanks, for the guide. I tried too to build a shaman dw shaman, but more frost oriented, with mixed results and i'll give this a shot when i'll get the axes. It's a pity we have few options, talent that don't sinergize so well with each other and not many to encourage dual wielding.I hope the devs will look on this on the future
@@Mdntech3000 My first concern is mostly for TS, to make it usable you have to literally renounce to it's main effects. And I would love to see the character stike his foes while casting chilling tornadoes
@awayman86 you could definitely do a physical focused tempest strike build forgetting storm stacks and relying on tornados, that’ll work too but it’ll be built a lot differently than this. I like the idea of a 2h axe tempest striker proving tornados!!
Try switching Wolves and Leap for Warcry and Maelstrom. Warcy can generate 4 maelstrom stacks every 4 seconds so you generally get to 6+ stacks easily, (and it has talents that make it rain lighting bolts within maelstrom if you have 6 stacks - which can be lowered to 3 min depending on how many talents you waste for it), that way you can keep maelstrom off your bar to still be able to use an emergency Leap. But who knows if it's worth it in the end. Hybridizing damage is nice and all but you no longer get full benefit from %Lighting Damage and gotta use %spell damage and % elemental damage instead if you want both lighting and cold to benefit. Tho I'm leveling my 2nd werebear druid just to see if a cold melee bear or DoT frostbite bear are any good compared to my ol' lighting bear. Probably not, since Lighting bear demolishes monos by merely walking at brisk pace lol. The Ice bears would have to hit the whole screen at once to even come close to OPness of Lightning bear
*sigh* tried to make my own melee shaman and just went with what felt right. Ended up slow and squishy with mediocre DPS. Followed this guide and now I'm fast, fairly tanky and carve through the hordes like a hot knife through butter.
I have almost same build.. But I use Axe and shield (later maybe 2handed axe) So my gathering storm is little difference. I have points on Jolting Strikes and Tempest weapon. Your version is maybe better, but I wanted to make Viking character, so that's why axe and shield :D Very nice video, good job! 👍
you mentioned in one of the comment below "Tbh, I would recommend just going Beastmaster / tempest strike (Gladiator of Lagon buffs) and scaling minions that way...Storm Crow focused build is probably nuts" i was going to do shaman totem then once im bored with it ill do your shaman god of thunder.. but now you saying beastmaster is better for this god of thuner build? comeon before i choose mastery haha
Beastmaster is better for a Pet focused build, specifically Storm Crows since storm crows with int stacking (from the axe that gives int from str) and gladiator of lagon is prob nuts. This is a completely different build from mine…as mine I consider more of a proper shaman build that deals the dmg itself.
Really nice idea, i really would like to do a cold version of this, BUT when you change your thorn totem to cold and gathering storm to cold friends of the tempest doesn't give storm stacks, that's too sad, i hope they fix it soon.. Also i think a scepter with an axe is so much better than 2 unique axes, in a scepter you get more melee dmg and more spell dmg by itself and also you can get Flat spell lightning damage + lifeleech with lightning spells, or more attack speed, more lightning spell damage and also lightning penetration as a suffix.
Ah damn…that really sucks..hopefully they fix that soon I really want to test out cold too. I think cold could be really insane especially with maelstrom.
Must be a skill issue, but I can't get this thing to work. I am both extremely squishy and very low damage. On top of that - my Storm Stacks keep falling off, so I have to stop all the time to just cast Gathering Storm 2-3 times, my wolves keep dying and overall it just feels bad.
Probably a gear issue tbh. Need a bunch of attunement and make sure to copy my skill tree for abilities to a tee. You should be able to see in the video I have no issues maintaining stacks. For defensives, it's super important to get into melee and make sure you have your resist capped plus crit avoidance or crit reduction. Ursine Strength passive plus Aspect of the Boar give 46% reduced dmg taken from nearby enemies which is huge!
@@Mdntech3000 Thanks for the reply! I will try again. I did copy everything, and I am all deff capped, tho only have a bit of crit avoidance and reduction. Might just be that I need to grind out more levels to get all of the passives in the beastmaster tree.
This ones rough leveling - at least as a first character. about to hit 30 and its been slow; but the motivation is there cause i wanna do this so bad xD
My friend. Can i ask you, how you generate Storm Bolt stacks ? I mean...im trying to use Gathering Storm, but i' ve got a problem to stack them...i lose stacks before i can do something. Is it a tip for that ?
You use gathering storm 1 or two times, then wait a second or two (literally sometimes just a second) and then your wolves plus storm totem will keep your stacks up.
Tempest strike doesn’t give you stacks, your pets do. Cast storm totem then let wolves and totem go off for one to two seconds then go to town spamming tempest strike.
Maybe it’s because I’m missing those two axes or I’m only 77 and missing a lot of passive points but compared to my lightning sorcerer this build does not seem to be THAT strong. I die quite a lot and the damage does not seem that big (bosses take ages). Also I don’t know how you can retain the gathering storm bonus this long, I have to press it constantly and hit stuff. Sad shaman :(
Might be an overall gear issue…this isn’t a super powerful build, can comfortably play at 300 corruption but it’ll be painful after that. Single target def a bit lacking, hopefully we get some Buffs next patch
The mapping looks smooth but how well does the build do on bosses? I am currently running a frost shaman with malestrom&avalanche and it is great for mapping but bosses oneshot me with every single ability. Even mapping sometimes I die very fast. Also, on my build I run storm crows with teleport but sometimes I replace it with leap for bosses because the crows die when I need to teleport :/
This is definitely a better mapper than bosser. TBH bossing as a melee just feels...eh, so many bosses I lose dps / stacks of lagon and ramp time which make bosses take longer. With more defensive investment, spefically aspect of the boar effect on idols and gear this build would do MUCH better as it can facetank a bunch of ability (at least around 200 corruption). Still have to improve gear a lot.
I don’t I’m sorry…they would be very similar you would just switch out lightning affixes for cold or physical on gear and the tree. Then make wolves physical and use thorn totem.
I'm trying out this build and I'm still getting all of the pieces but I'm struggling with mana... level 87 and 276 mp. Where does the mana regen come from? I think I'm just missing it
@@Mdntech3000 Ahhh! Yeah I did - I had additional points and thought that would be good! Great callout! I love this build but for the life of me couldn't figure out why I was so oom so often... Thanks!!
I was doing something similar, but i was hoping the unic relic storm caved testament when it was trigged to summon storm totem spaw storm sprites from tempest maw, but it didnt spaw
Yo! Currently playing a similiar ice version of this but i cant understand why im not generating any Storm Stacks like you do? I use wolves and totems with 99% the same tree as you, trigger the stack with gathering storm but im just not generating close to fast enough. Any ideas?
Thank you alot for that cool build. Im nów lvl 87 with it, running this build from lvl 34 and i just lvld solo ez in dungeons with it to skip the campain. 2 questions. Does Int scale with stormbolts, and did u tried Uzenius Sphere?
Do you have a loot filter for this build that also isnt a loot filter for acolyte at the same time. I notice i get a lot of gear for acolyte with the loot filter you provided for this build. The one in the google docs. Thanks!
No your skill use gathering storm. I’d replace fury leap with maelstrom. Convert both to physical through the tree then try to get the idol that gives thorn totem on hit.
I have a whole section dedicated to this. I don't think storm crows are viable unless you have heavy investment in minion defensives. Tbh, I would recommend just going Beastmaster / tempest strike (Gladiator of Lagon buffs) and scaling minions that way...Storm Crow focused build is probably nuts.
This is what I've been looking for! A melee, lightning setup that leaps around the map! Thanks so much for sharing. Quick question... how far into corruption have you been able to push this?
I stopped at 93 at 200+ corruption to level more characters. The build can be pushed a ton with the only real weakness single target dmg imo. Will revisit this soon.
Thank you, I eventually figured it out after I commented. I did originally comb your video though and there are many times that you don't show your skill trees for different abilities or your passives which was a little frustrating. Great video though, thank you!@@Mdntech3000
Is there a reason you don't have Two Eyed Storm passive on Gathering Storm? Seems like it would 2x the Storm Bolt damage, but I am finding myself seriously mana drained with this passive enabled, so maybe that's why you didn't take it?
Don’t use the passive, it helps with clear but clear isn’t a problem with us. It massively hurts single target dmg as it doesn’t target a single target enemy an extra time, just a DIFFERENT enemy again. The mana drain is too much which hurts excited bolts as well, this passive is just all around not worth it tbh.
There’s zero mana issues. Even if you have HUGE packs and storm bolts expend your mana you get it right back with 0 cost tempest strike that generates mana back to you.
If Crows is better, wouldn't it be better for us to go beast master instead of shaman? I mean we do lose storm totem but the crows are huge. I'm new to primalist so only asking
It’s absolutely better! Beastmaster crows with cleaver item / stacking str for the int bonus is crazy. But that’s not the point of the build…I hate “power gaming, min maxing”. I like making fun, thematic builds in games that I can really get into. A lightning melee shaman fits the build so I stick with that!
@@Mdntech3000 I quite like the lightning theme I was wondering if somehow we can make a hybrid between the two. The storm crow's single target and the lightning shaman's aoe clear would be nutts
I think I mentioned it though in other comments…drop storm totem for thorn totem and grab the idols that give thorn totem summon on melee hits. Then go maelstrom as well with phys conversion with focus on phys gear!
@@Mdntech3000 Love it! Thanks!! Any thoughts on changing weapons with the phys build? Maybe something like undisputed or something else or is Tempest maw still for that as well?
Could you possible record skill tree progressions on the build planner to help with leveling? also is there a loot filter for this? Thanks for the build, I love enhance from wow and this got me interested :D
I’d have to do some more in depth work on it but I think I have the google doc loot filter not sure. To level just use a combination or gathering storm / tempest strike and spec for wolves or storm totem as well.
@@Mdntech3000 Thanks! And cool build. Just started the game so going for something like this as i level up and hope it will work out though the campaign and then into endgame.
Phys version is probably better! I would drop storm totem for thorn totem and then grab idols that proc thorn totem on melee attack. I would still use wolves or a different physical pet maybe to help keep procs up.
Tbh this is hard to perfectly replicate as a beast master…if I was a beast master I would honestly focus more on pets and go all in on storm crows or lightning wolves and go tempest strike - buffing them with Gladiator or Lagon stacks. Theres probably a bunch of other stuff you can do too.
You need tempest strike, its core to the build in enable to dump storm stacks. You can drop fury leap for maelstrom though and that works even better tbh.
I'm considering buying Last Epoch and I was looking for an interesting melee build that was controller friendly (because I mainly play WASD), I was wondering if there was a level guide for your build?
I apologize but I don't have a leveling guide...the way I leveled was just focused on tempest strike (lightning focused) and had wolves / storm totem help with dps. You could probably just do gathering storm leveling up and it'd be really good with friends of the tempest. I'd spec gathering storm / wolves / storm totem early to lvl.
Def viable for leveling. You can level purely tempest strike, or if you want this playstyle go for storm totem / crows to trigger friends of the tempest early on.
Mentioned it a few other times but can do 200+ easily...I have to push 300 plus to see how it is, but with improved Aspect of the Boar effect pushing corruption shouldn't be too bad.
That's not bad at all, keep us posted on how the build is progressing ❤️, I will try it as soon as I finish with my falconer, also I'm looking for a beast master version of this build with lightning procs on wolves but I found only old builds for it, maybe in the future you will morph this build into a beastmaster version. Thank you for the build, can't wait to try it.
Have you considered replacing Leap for Upheaval (totem) for more survivability (Frailty stacking) or Avalanche for dmg and cc? and then putting points into Stormrider (Storm totem) to replace moveability, also have u given Swipe a try?
Fury leap is not mandatory at all and you can really replace it with anything you want. Those are all cool ideas…I haven’t given swipe a try. I tested swipe a bit when I was trying to be a pure melee shaman but it’s a better skill with beast master I feel.
Okay, I tried to shift some points around in the spells and talent tree and replaced wolves with Thorn Totem (Grove mind) and talented into Ascendant Circle (Shaman talent) and I deleted bosses with it but I know u want to keep the lightning shaman archetype, just some feedback if u wanted to try something else @@Mdntech3000
Idk how anyone plays this game when crashes out or dcs literally every single time I try to do anything. Like the worst game I've ever experienced with this shit.
@@graceypatrick not Blizzard.. Activision killed it.. The Original Blizzard was a way better Company than that bull**it now.. Maybe Microsoft will rescue IT somehow
That's a great build! I've been blasting with it and it is very satisfying and it has good synergy. Problem is with bosses as you don't have much room for error there as I feel squishy. Do you think in the best case scenario with best items equipped it can push more than 300 corruption? I am already struggling at 200 (not full bis though)
this isn't best version of it. this version was LAST season's best version of shaman melee. the new version is a lot different. So the way new version works is like this. Avalanche has new node in called stormcaller. every boulder has chance to create 1 storm stack. There are idols that say "For every melee attack, you have chance to summon a boulder". So what is the idea? you melee, boulder fall, you gain 1 stack of storm bolts then you use friend of tempest node to generate other 15 stacks. You press "Howl" to expand storm stacks since Gathering of the storm has some nodes where every time you use your companion skill, you lose 4 stack per wolves(12 stacks).
The defences are also much different. Shaman got new passive node. this node says that for every point of attunement, you gain flat health regeneration. This allows shaman to exploit a specific relic called Vessel of strife. This relic convert your health regeneration in which you will have 600+ health regeneration into ward regeneration. To build int, you build strength from a relic called "Cleaver solution". You run swipe, you convert swipe to Lightning, you take everything at bottom of swipe tree. you have your wolves which are lightning wolves. Since each Spirit wolve is a counted as melee attack, it counts towards each hit becoming boulder hit. This is new lightning version of the build. It is more hybrid ward build now. Your main stats are Strength, Attunement and Health regeneration. Health is like 4th stat but you don't care too much about it since you should have massive ward generation from Aspect of Panther. the -dr that used exist in season 1 for aspect of boar can now only be acquired through red rings so that is like main nerf but since E-hp for ward is so high for new shaman, it doesn't matter as much. I think main problem is that shaman still doesn't do a whole lot of damage since its main source, GS doesn't have any good base scaling. you can have tier 7 melee lightning damage on both Tempest maw and Clever solution for like nearly 400 base which converts into spell damage from GS tree which is like 150 base damage +100 attunement which is another 100 damage but since it is 100% base, it is not exactly doing as much damage as other last epoch classes builds
@@dodang_9147 damn thank you for your deep dive on that!! I will adjust accordingly
Great write up, this guide isn’t fully updated for this cycle as I didn’t have time to play this out as well. Pinned the comment so everyone can hopefully see yours dodang
you can still play tempest strike shaman but it is VERY different from wolves shaman. there is new unique in the game called stormbreaker. it is two-handed mace that has conditon "For every 10 mana spent, chance to cast storm bolt". there is also 2x2 Idol that has this stat where you cast storm bolt if your melee skill is 10 mana or more. the stats that you focus on offensively is Lightning damage and Mana regeneration. Since each melee costs 10 mana for tempest strike. I'd explore that stormbreaker unique if you want to play shaman tempest strike melee.
@@Mdntech3000 Another option that i am currently exploring is Aftershock earthquake with Aftershock idols. since str+attunement scales earthquake, it works as trigger condition for wolves. you would abandon idea of storm bolts for this build and just go for swipe+wolves+earthquake+leap+warcry.
There is also ideas to trigger aftershock for avalanche boulders which trigger avalanche boulders which allow you to trigger earthquake consume gathering of the storm bolts but i haven't went that far into that realm.
I just don't like tempest strike on shaman because main problem with it is that it mainly focuses on buff "Minions" like Lightning wolves storm bolt but your not beastmaster to use it and it focuses storm crows which also your not beastmaster to use it. The other aspect it favor is using storm totem to use thunder tempest+storm bolt consumption but i found that when i was using storm totem, it wouldn't generate enough stacks so only play is to use thorn totem convert into ice and than convert Ice gathering storm but than you can't use tempest because it is lightning spell.
I rarely writing comments but thank you thank you I was desperate searching for someone who playing shaman dualwield and lightning because its so unpopular shaman no one streaming or playing shaman so I need to repeat it myself thanks a lot Negon!🙏
Glad you enjoyed it!!!
I was building my own Enhancement Shaman build, but newbie to Last Epoch so wanted to do a sanity check. Appreciate the video. Other than a few points, this is pretty much where I’m going.
Awesome man hope you enjoy!
FINALLY a proper shaman build - thank you! My current skill setup is very similar, but I've been using Warcry and Tornados instead of Wolves and Gathering Storm. My biggest setback currently is trying to get Tempest Maw, but I've had no luck when using Ascendance Runes on 1-handed axes.
I’ve found a bunch of them…I didn’t think they’re that rare maybe I’m just lucky. Glad you enjoyed I had to do so many experiments to figure this out lol. Hope you find them!
I can't incorporate the tornados without being out of Mama constantly.
@@LurkinPT I've been using it with Gust of Renewal and Swift Wings maxed out. They reduce the mana cost and improve your mana regen. Without those, it can definitely eat up your mana without any mana regen elsewhere. It's not a primary source of damage for this build, but I still find it useful if I need to damage something when there's a modifier for enemy health regen and it's a dangerous pack to stay too close to when my Fury Leap and Battlecry are on cd.
@LurkinPT if you take the node that binds it (tornado) to you, it adds a cooldown so it doesn't proc more than the cd allows.
@@rapidloving I would love to see that Tornado passive without being forced to lose pull strength in order to get it. It's already at a disadvantage as soon as you unlock it, but in theory, would be fantastic to bring enemies into your melee range much quicker as utility.
I leveled using this build and it was super fun, thanks!
Great to hear and glad you like it!
Hate to double comment on on this, but I finally decided to just swap over to this build entirely, and the damage output is insane for enemy packs. The only major drawback is that it seems to have trouble maintaining the storm stacks in single target scenarios. I opted for more health by focusing on % health where possible on gear and you can get your HP pool up to over 2600 since this build utilizes so many flat health passives. Shaman does seem to have a bit of survival issues in dangerous packs with empowered monoliths, so that huge bump in health is a major game changer in progression on its own.
Yea absolutely and def invest into hopefully some aspect of the boar effect it makes a huge difference.
@@Mdntech3000 How does aspect of the boar help to maintain stacks? I am also having difficulty with stack maintenance.
@ytgg405 invest into getting a spec of the boar when you hit…then it’ll almost always be up
@@Mdntech3000 Still seems like crossed threads - how does "Aspect of the Boar" help maintain "Storm Bolt" stacks? This may be a difference between wolves and crows, as I am using crows, but *so often* I am at 0 storm stacks, which means I have to stop smacking things to throw down Gathering Storm, then sit around and wait while everything is trying to eat my face for stacks to build. Then I blow through them and am back at 0 again. I never see you get below ~13-14 stacks. What am I missing?
Thanks, for the guide. I tried too to build a shaman dw shaman, but more frost oriented, with mixed results and i'll give this a shot when i'll get the axes. It's a pity we have few options, talent that don't sinergize so well with each other and not many to encourage dual wielding.I hope the devs will look on this on the future
Yea I’m still surprised they haven’t bug fixed frost version because I really think that and the phys version would be CRAZY good with thorn totem.
@@Mdntech3000 My first concern is mostly for TS, to make it usable you have to literally renounce to it's main effects. And I would love to see the character stike his foes while casting chilling tornadoes
@awayman86 you could definitely do a physical focused tempest strike build forgetting storm stacks and relying on tornados, that’ll work too but it’ll be built a lot differently than this.
I like the idea of a 2h axe tempest striker proving tornados!!
2:17 Bless you! 😊
LMAO! I was like what is this comment until I looked at the timestamp
Try switching Wolves and Leap for Warcry and Maelstrom. Warcy can generate 4 maelstrom stacks every 4 seconds so you generally get to 6+ stacks easily, (and it has talents that make it rain lighting bolts within maelstrom if you have 6 stacks - which can be lowered to 3 min depending on how many talents you waste for it), that way you can keep maelstrom off your bar to still be able to use an emergency Leap.
But who knows if it's worth it in the end. Hybridizing damage is nice and all but you no longer get full benefit from %Lighting Damage and gotta use %spell damage and % elemental damage instead if you want both lighting and cold to benefit.
Tho I'm leveling my 2nd werebear druid just to see if a cold melee bear or DoT frostbite bear are any good compared to my ol' lighting bear. Probably not, since Lighting bear demolishes monos by merely walking at brisk pace lol. The Ice bears would have to hit the whole screen at once to even come close to OPness of Lightning bear
*sigh* tried to make my own melee shaman and just went with what felt right. Ended up slow and squishy with mediocre DPS. Followed this guide and now I'm fast, fairly tanky and carve through the hordes like a hot knife through butter.
So happy you’re enjoying it!! Thanks for comment!
I have almost same build.. But I use Axe and shield (later maybe 2handed axe) So my gathering storm is little difference. I have points on Jolting Strikes and Tempest weapon. Your version is maybe better, but I wanted to make Viking character, so that's why axe and shield :D Very nice video, good job! 👍
That sounds awesome! Honestly I want to make a similar build but with a 2 hander…a super strong pure melee a real “berserker” lol
Yeah....visually perfect. Thanks for build...
No problem brother! Hell ya glad you enjoyed it
you mentioned in one of the comment below "Tbh, I would recommend just going Beastmaster / tempest strike (Gladiator of Lagon buffs) and scaling minions that way...Storm Crow focused build is probably nuts" i was going to do shaman totem then once im bored with it ill do your shaman god of thunder.. but now you saying beastmaster is better for this god of thuner build? comeon before i choose mastery haha
Beastmaster is better for a Pet focused build, specifically Storm Crows since storm crows with int stacking (from the axe that gives int from str) and gladiator of lagon is prob nuts.
This is a completely different build from mine…as mine I consider more of a proper shaman build that deals the dmg itself.
Really nice idea, i really would like to do a cold version of this, BUT when you change your thorn totem to cold and gathering storm to cold friends of the tempest doesn't give storm stacks, that's too sad, i hope they fix it soon.. Also i think a scepter with an axe is so much better than 2 unique axes, in a scepter you get more melee dmg and more spell dmg by itself and also you can get Flat spell lightning damage + lifeleech with lightning spells, or more attack speed, more lightning spell damage and also lightning penetration as a suffix.
Ah damn…that really sucks..hopefully they fix that soon I really want to test out cold too. I think cold could be really insane especially with maelstrom.
This build is so good!
Glad you’re enjoying it!
Must be a skill issue, but I can't get this thing to work. I am both extremely squishy and very low damage. On top of that - my Storm Stacks keep falling off, so I have to stop all the time to just cast Gathering Storm 2-3 times, my wolves keep dying and overall it just feels bad.
Probably a gear issue tbh. Need a bunch of attunement and make sure to copy my skill tree for abilities to a tee. You should be able to see in the video I have no issues maintaining stacks.
For defensives, it's super important to get into melee and make sure you have your resist capped plus crit avoidance or crit reduction. Ursine Strength passive plus Aspect of the Boar give 46% reduced dmg taken from nearby enemies which is huge!
@@Mdntech3000 Thanks for the reply! I will try again. I did copy everything, and I am all deff capped, tho only have a bit of crit avoidance and reduction. Might just be that I need to grind out more levels to get all of the passives in the beastmaster tree.
This ones rough leveling - at least as a first character. about to hit 30 and its been slow; but the motivation is there cause i wanna do this so bad xD
Yea just keep grinding it’ll get smoother or just focus on tempest strike.
My friend. Can i ask you, how you generate Storm Bolt stacks ? I mean...im trying to use Gathering Storm, but i' ve got a problem to stack them...i lose stacks before i can do something. Is it a tip for that ?
You use gathering storm 1 or two times, then wait a second or two (literally sometimes just a second) and then your wolves plus storm totem will keep your stacks up.
For some reason Tempest strike does not sustain my storm stacks, in fact they expire way too fast
Tempest strike doesn’t give you stacks, your pets do. Cast storm totem then let wolves and totem go off for one to two seconds then go to town spamming tempest strike.
Maybe it’s because I’m missing those two axes or I’m only 77 and missing a lot of passive points but compared to my lightning sorcerer this build does not seem to be THAT strong. I die quite a lot and the damage does not seem that big (bosses take ages). Also I don’t know how you can retain the gathering storm bonus this long, I have to press it constantly and hit stuff. Sad shaman :(
Might be an overall gear issue…this isn’t a super powerful build, can comfortably play at 300 corruption but it’ll be painful after that. Single target def a bit lacking, hopefully we get some
Buffs next patch
Sick build, not bad.
And we’re getting buffed for next cycle! Can’t wait
@@Mdntech3000 nice, these are good news.
Hands down the best builds
Thanks so much!! Really appreciate it!
Love the aesthetic
Thanks Shina!!
The mapping looks smooth but how well does the build do on bosses? I am currently running a frost shaman with malestrom&avalanche and it is great for mapping but bosses oneshot me with every single ability. Even mapping sometimes I die very fast. Also, on my build I run storm crows with teleport but sometimes I replace it with leap for bosses because the crows die when I need to teleport :/
This is definitely a better mapper than bosser. TBH bossing as a melee just feels...eh, so many bosses I lose dps / stacks of lagon and ramp time which make bosses take longer.
With more defensive investment, spefically aspect of the boar effect on idols and gear this build would do MUCH better as it can facetank a bunch of ability (at least around 200 corruption). Still have to improve gear a lot.
i wish this build planners have progress points of the skill point. so i know which point to go first
Sorry not sure how to do that on the build planner.
So I got 2x tempest maws with 1lp each. Which stat should I try to slam on them? Crit? crit Multi? Lightning damage? Thanks
Increased lighting #1 then either crit or crit multi
My biggest problem with this build is I always expend an insane amount of mana, even with 23 mana regen per second. Something's off.
Are you speccing into expending extra stacks while dual wielding?
Do you have a build guide for the cold or physical variants?
I don’t I’m sorry…they would be very similar you would just switch out lightning affixes for cold or physical on gear and the tree.
Then make wolves physical and use thorn totem.
I'm trying out this build and I'm still getting all of the pieces but I'm struggling with mana... level 87 and 276 mp. Where does the mana regen come from? I think I'm just missing it
Do you have the dual wield node? That consumes a bunch of Mana. If you follow my skill tree and passives you shouldn’t have any issues.
@@Mdntech3000 Ahhh! Yeah I did - I had additional points and thought that would be good! Great callout! I love this build but for the life of me couldn't figure out why I was so oom so often... Thanks!!
I was doing something similar, but i was hoping the unic relic storm caved testament when it was trigged to summon storm totem spaw storm sprites from tempest maw, but it didnt spaw
Ah damn that would have been nice if it worked.
Yo! Currently playing a similiar ice version of this but i cant understand why im not generating any Storm Stacks like you do? I use wolves and totems with 99% the same tree as you, trigger the stack with gathering storm but im just not generating close to fast enough. Any ideas?
From another person in the comments supposedly the ice conversion is bugged…which sucks big time
@@Mdntech3000 Ow... Well thats a bummer! Ill go lightning then until its fixed. Ty for quick answer!
@CreamyFluffySQL no prob! But yea if it’s not working for you too then it’s most definitely a bug. Hopefully a patch fixes it soon.
Thank you alot for that cool build. Im nów lvl 87 with it, running this build from lvl 34 and i just lvld solo ez in dungeons with it to skip the campain.
2 questions. Does Int scale with stormbolts, and did u tried Uzenius Sphere?
Haven’t tried that yet and no don’t go int.
Do you have a loot filter for this build that also isnt a loot filter for acolyte at the same time.
I notice i get a lot of gear for acolyte with the loot filter you provided for this build. The one in the google docs.
Thanks!
Not at the moment, gonna probably make a video soonish on how to create a proper loot filter.
would you remove storm stacks with physical build? If so what do u recommend replacing gathering storm with? Thanks for the vid
No your skill use gathering storm. I’d replace fury leap with maelstrom. Convert both to physical through the tree then try to get the idol that gives thorn totem on hit.
Why not storm crows isntead of wolves?
I have a whole section dedicated to this. I don't think storm crows are viable unless you have heavy investment in minion defensives.
Tbh, I would recommend just going Beastmaster / tempest strike (Gladiator of Lagon buffs) and scaling minions that way...Storm Crow focused build is probably nuts.
This is what I've been looking for! A melee, lightning setup that leaps around the map! Thanks so much for sharing. Quick question... how far into corruption have you been able to push this?
I stopped at 93 at 200+ corruption to level more characters. The build can be pushed a ton with the only real weakness single target dmg imo. Will revisit this soon.
@@Mdntech3000 hope you do want to see a high corruption version lvl 100 of this build
Finished up my void knight then gonna come back to this!
@@Mdntech3000 good casue im sure you can make it even better
How do you have three wolves? I can't find any passives to take it from 2 to 3.
Look at my skill tree you get three that way.
Thank you, I eventually figured it out after I commented. I did originally comb your video though and there are many times that you don't show your skill trees for different abilities or your passives which was a little frustrating. Great video though, thank you!@@Mdntech3000
Is there a reason you don't have Two Eyed Storm passive on Gathering Storm? Seems like it would 2x the Storm Bolt damage, but I am finding myself seriously mana drained with this passive enabled, so maybe that's why you didn't take it?
I was also wondering this, only other reason I wouldn't take it is because you can probably swap to a shield offhand to scale defensive better
Don’t use the passive, it helps with clear but clear isn’t a problem with us. It massively hurts single target dmg as it doesn’t target a single target enemy an extra time, just a DIFFERENT enemy again.
The mana drain is too much which hurts excited bolts as well, this passive is just all around not worth it tbh.
What corruption can this get to?
How do u get ur purple Items? I cant buy this on trade...
They start dropping around lvl 50 from enemies
hey how do you avoid mana problems with this build??
There’s zero mana issues. Even if you have HUGE packs and storm bolts expend your mana you get it right back with 0 cost tempest strike that generates mana back to you.
@@Mdntech3000 Excited bolts is bugged and uses 1% of total mana, instead of current mana, causing mana issues.
If Crows is better, wouldn't it be better for us to go beast master instead of shaman? I mean we do lose storm totem but the crows are huge. I'm new to primalist so only asking
It’s absolutely better! Beastmaster crows with cleaver item / stacking str for the int bonus is crazy.
But that’s not the point of the build…I hate “power gaming, min maxing”. I like making fun, thematic builds in games that I can really get into. A lightning melee shaman fits the build so I stick with that!
@@Mdntech3000 I quite like the lightning theme I was wondering if somehow we can make a hybrid between the two. The storm crow's single target and the lightning shaman's aoe clear would be nutts
Any chance you'd be able to release the phys version of this? I'm curious to see how my gear / build would work with it
I haven’t had a chance to I’m sorry.
I think I mentioned it though in other comments…drop storm totem for thorn totem and grab the idols that give thorn totem summon on melee hits.
Then go maelstrom as well with phys conversion with focus on phys gear!
@@Mdntech3000 No worries! I was just curious if there was somewhere I could look at it! Thank you again for the response!
@@Mdntech3000 Love it! Thanks!! Any thoughts on changing weapons with the phys build? Maybe something like undisputed or something else or is Tempest maw still for that as well?
feels good to play with high attack speed, but there is no damage :(
My dmg feels fine tbh, maybe once you get Tempest Maws with 1 to 2 leggo potential it takes off a bit more.
can u share wt to do during leveling ? prioritize whichh spell first etc?
I just used tempest strike but I’d focus gathering storm wolves and tempest strike together
thanks!@@Mdntech3000
Could you possible record skill tree progressions on the build planner to help with leveling? also is there a loot filter for this? Thanks for the build, I love enhance from wow and this got me interested :D
I’d have to do some more in depth work on it but I think I have the google doc loot filter not sure. To level just use a combination or gathering storm / tempest strike and spec for wolves or storm totem as well.
Finally!!
What is the role of this Gathering Storm in the build??
Gathering storm is core as we don't get any storm bolt stacks without it, it is a must have ability.
How do i get zero cost tempest strike. You never show the skill tree
Copy the skill tree from last epoch tools from the link.
@@Mdntech3000 Thanks! And cool build. Just started the game so going for something like this as i level up and hope it will work out though the campaign and then into endgame.
I really enjoy the build ! I want to try the phys version dop you believe its worth and if yes what i should change in the build?
Phys version is probably better! I would drop storm totem for thorn totem and then grab idols that proc thorn totem on melee attack. I would still use wolves or a different physical pet maybe to help keep procs up.
if you ever try the phys version i would love to see that also ! if i drop storm totem for thorn what i should drop for the maelstorm?@@Mdntech3000
Where is the build in a planner please
Link in description!
This build is so cool. Would I be able to replicate something close to this as beastmaster? Or would I have to reroll shaman
Tbh this is hard to perfectly replicate as a beast master…if I was a beast master I would honestly focus more on pets and go all in on storm crows or lightning wolves and go tempest strike - buffing them with Gladiator or Lagon stacks.
Theres probably a bunch of other stuff you can do too.
i think i will give it a try looks like fun. btw i cant find the loot filter, did you forgot it or am i blind lol
Just woke up gonna add it in a bit my bad!
It’s up in description
I was also trying to make some enh shaman and it looks so nice! I only think that you should swap tempest on mealstorm? Have you think about it?
You need tempest strike, its core to the build in enable to dump storm stacks. You can drop fury leap for maelstrom though and that works even better tbh.
Oh you talk about it, but I unfortunately skipped it :D sorry for dumb question. Again great build
@adammodzelewski4204 all good! Hope you enjoy it!
I'm considering buying Last Epoch and I was looking for an interesting melee build that was controller friendly (because I mainly play WASD), I was wondering if there was a level guide for your build?
I apologize but I don't have a leveling guide...the way I leveled was just focused on tempest strike (lightning focused) and had wolves / storm totem help with dps. You could probably just do gathering storm leveling up and it'd be really good with friends of the tempest. I'd spec gathering storm / wolves / storm totem early to lvl.
@@Mdntech3000 No worries! Really appreciate you taking the time to respond to my question as well as providing some info on your leveling!
just curious is this build viable in 100+ corruption? dope build ether way
no not really
is it more an end game build or is it viable for leveling ? Guess weapons are mandatory....
Def viable for leveling. You can level purely tempest strike, or if you want this playstyle go for storm totem / crows to trigger friends of the tempest early on.
2:16 - bLESS YOU ))
xD thank you lol
Looks cool, what kind of corruption have you been able to achieve with this build
Mentioned it a few other times but can do 200+ easily...I have to push 300 plus to see how it is, but with improved Aspect of the Boar effect pushing corruption shouldn't be too bad.
What would you drop for maelstrom/warcry?
Fury leap
what is causing the lightning orbs to trigger
Those are from Tempest Maw weapons when you cast storm totem.
@@Mdntech3000 awesome cant wait to see you make this build even better your the reason I chose to roll shaman
Build looks super sick. Have you considered using the node Lagon's answer? Due to the high attack speed it should procc pretty often.
Not sure it’ll work with us since it says “direct” spell cast and channel which we never do either.
@@Mdntech3000 after a little testing i can tell you it will procc and it is kinda insane.
@@flunsenking8982i was wondering also, is it proccing from tempest strike expending storm stacks?
@@awasay6649 my testing was pure tempest strike, all nodes were refunded.
@@flunsenking8982 wait so it's making a big difference? should I put 5 points in it?
how much corruption could you reach with it?
200+ easily. I can see me pushing it more with better gear.
Looks fun, how much corruption did you pushed with this build?
Not much, just around 200+ before switching areas. I might push more this weekend but it feels very comfortable.
That's not bad at all, keep us posted on how the build is progressing ❤️, I will try it as soon as I finish with my falconer, also I'm looking for a beast master version of this build with lightning procs on wolves but I found only old builds for it, maybe in the future you will morph this build into a beastmaster version. Thank you for the build, can't wait to try it.
Did u use this for leveling?
Just tempest strike / wolves / storm totem for leveling. I would go gathering storm / wolves / storm totem early for leveling.
Have you considered replacing Leap for Upheaval (totem) for more survivability (Frailty stacking) or Avalanche for dmg and cc? and then putting points into Stormrider (Storm totem) to replace moveability, also have u given Swipe a try?
Fury leap is not mandatory at all and you can really replace it with anything you want. Those are all cool ideas…I haven’t given swipe a try. I tested swipe a bit when I was trying to be a pure melee shaman but it’s a better skill with beast master I feel.
Okay, I tried to shift some points around in the spells and talent tree and replaced wolves with Thorn Totem (Grove mind) and talented into Ascendant Circle (Shaman talent) and I deleted bosses with it but I know u want to keep the lightning shaman archetype, just some feedback if u wanted to try something else @@Mdntech3000
Question, why no Storm Crows ?
It’s time stamped in the video
enhancement shaman OH YEAH
Do you think this is HC viable? Cool build!
Eh prob not..there are so many better builds that exploit Ward stacking that makes HC a breeze.
@Mdntech3000 thanks bro! Sorry new to the game and not familiar with Shaman. Personally, which build would you recommend for HC?
I’m sitting here screaming bc I want this game on console and I can’t play it
Purposely why i chose shaman to figure it out blindly
Same, it took a while to figure out.
@@Mdntech3000 yeah took longer but I did it my wayyyy lol now time to figure out gear yikesss
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What’s a shamen
Idk how anyone plays this game when crashes out or dcs literally every single time I try to do anything. Like the worst game I've ever experienced with this shit.
I never had trouble after the first week…sorry to hear that.
What are the passives though? 😂
There’s a last epoch tools link in the description!
is this WoW?
no lol
Diablo 4 is so bad and this game just makes Diablo 4 look very bad
I feel the same way lol
@@Mdntech3000 blizzard killed Diablo 4 and now it’s officially dead
@@graceypatrick not Blizzard.. Activision killed it.. The Original Blizzard was a way better Company than that bull**it now.. Maybe Microsoft will rescue IT somehow
I wish the items in this game werent so ugly and basic looking
Yes the gear sets and aesthetics are really lacking.
Out of all the ways to pronounce Shaman....ffs man