Liobal wrote:Stormfront Amazon is really promising, because there's good itemization and passive synergy for it. My Build is 117 atm, and while it suffers against lightning absorbing monsters, the damage is massive - I finished my session yesterday with an on-level 10-20 second Azmodan kill @3projectiles. I'm not sure how it scales into late-lategame, but I don't see anything that would prevent it from being close to Bloodwitches in terms of overall power if you commit to it.
A lot prevents it from working in late game. I´ve done extensive testing on SF Amazon while IncognitoMan was doing the same testing on Druid as we were both interested in the skill and how it scales. First of all you need to get it to lvl 75 to get your 4th bolt as the skill scales badly prior to that. Once you have 4 bolts and start playing around with it, you will notice cast directionality problems. In addition, if you are trying to kill an uber like Astrogha with this build, Darklings will walk between the beams and eat your face if you just cast straight so you have to mass-cast with small randomized movements to each side in order to hit whatever small enemies are around. Casters like SF ama usually try to kill tanky ubers like astro by dealing massive dmg in a short period of time. SF´s damage however seems to be done as instances over time, so once the boss gets hit by the first instance, the boss blinks and your remaining dmg instances goes to waste (or at least that´s how it looks like to me).
All in all, you can farm places like dunc with it easily. Heck, you can even do Fautz or bremm. But in terms of boss killing, this build is below average. However, it does look cool af!