POE 3.6 Elementalist - Two Popular For Beginner Friendly - Strom Brand Builds

[PoE 3.6 Elementalist] Storm Brand League Starter Build

Storm Brand Elementalist offers excellent clear speed and capable boss damage. I used it as my league starter for Betrayal league, and it exceeded my expectations.

Gameplay is smooth thanks to the instant cast nature of brand recall, as well as the instant damage from Storm Brand (as opposed to Armageddon Brand). Brand elementalist (Elementalist 3.6 Builds)is a popular build, with several streamers running something similar. My take on the build is fairly defensive, with an eye towards being able to do all map mods and all content, including safely farming uber elder.

PoE 3.6 Update:

1) Damage loss isn't that big of a deal

2) Crit change means it is harder to keep up elemental equilibrium with controlled destruction. I recommend getting the "crit chance if you haven't crit recently" boot enchant from lab, and using something other than lab enchant for your mana solution (several mana solutions are discussed in the gear section). Without the boot enchant or any other source of crit, you'll have 2.2% crit, which may be a bit low (but warrants testing).

3) A wave of conviction for elemental exposure would be a good addition to help boss damage. It could be linked to curse on hit elemental weakness as well, since curses aren't completely useless on bosses now. It does NOT need to be supported by phys to lightning, the added lightning damage on our weapons will make it do more lightning than fire.

Bandits:

Killing all the bandits for that sweet +2 skill points.

Pantheon: 

we're not stun immune, so brine king. Whatever you like for minor. Flask refill can be nice, so can poison immune.

Ascendency:

Starts with Shaper of Desolation -> Beacon of Ruin. Beacon of ruin is our power node, and the entire reason to be an elementalist. Prolif and 20% min shock (with increased shock effect, ~33%) is simply amazing.

Gems Setup:

Storm Brand + Concentrated Effect + Controlled Destruction + Added Lightning + Hypothermia + Lightning penetration

Lightning Spire Trap ( Lightning Spire Trap Builds ) + Controlled Destruction + Added Lightning + Lightning Penetration + 

CWDT + immortal Call + Enfeeble + increased duration

Flame Dash + Faster Casting + Arcane Surge

Brand Recall + Empower + Enhance

Vaal Grace + Vaal Clarity + Vaal Righteous Fire + Increased Duration

Video:

PoB Link:https://pastebin.com/BVY5eRZe

Skill Tree:http://tinyurl.com/yybog2qy

[PoE 3.6 Elementalist] Vowel's Crit Storm Brand Flaskless Uber Elder Build

This build is budget and friendly to play - gearing up requires knowledge of multiple facets in the game. The purpose of this build is to do all endgame content on a budget. Including Shaper, Uber Elder, Hitting Level 100. As a result, this build needs speed, damage and survivability.

Pros & Cons:

+ Super Fast

+ Very Tanky (enough to tank Shaper Slam)

+ Variety of ways to gear

+ Lots of ways to improve gear/build

+ Easy to start up on a budget

+ Very good Single Target DPS with Lightning Spire Trap

+ Excellent AoE DPS with Storm Brand

+ Brainless

+ lexible

- Storm Brand needs LS to help Single Target when not geared.

- Lightning Spire Trap can sometimes not activate if a mob moves.

- Not invincible

Gems Link:

Storm Brand - Controlled Destruction - Elemental Focus - Added Lightning Damage

Storm Brand - Controlled Destruction - Concentrated Effect - Lightning Penetration

Storm Brand - Controlled Destruction - Concentrated Effect - Lightning Penetration - Faster Casting - Added Lightning Damage

Ascendancy:

- Shaper of Desolation

- Beacon of Ruin

- Pendulum of Destruction

- Mastermind of Discord

Bandits:

Kill all for the 2 Skill Points

Pantheons:

Soul of the Brine King and Soul of Shakari for mapping

Video:

PoB Link:https://pastebin.com/a89peFib

Skill Tree:http://tinyurl.com/y4t7v4y5