Soul Knight Prequel - S3 Stormwarden Ball Lightning Build

Guide to S3 Stormwarden Ball Lightning Build

By Hanae.

This is one of the oldest stormwarden build that dates back to s0. The main skill of the build involve ball lightning and blizzard from the tempest mage tree. The build focus solely on the mage part of stormwarden.

How it works: When dealing shock dmg, 1 icicle will be generated through the skill: Endothermic Rupture. Endothermic rupture (simplified as entho) is the main source of damage for all warden build. Ball lightning deal instance of shock damage every 0.3 sec which makes it an excellent skill to proc entho.

Equipment:

Medusa Focus
Archwizard armor 3x or replace 1 with premium bundle if you have the eidolon
Cryo helheart
Ring of Howling Sleet (optional)

Fatebounds:

Medusa Spirit 3x – Increase damage by 20% per meter away from enemy
Archwizard 3x – Increase Dex Stats which increases your hit rate, hp, hybrid power, and dodge rate)
Multishot 3x – Increase Ball Lightning per cast to 3 (multishot lvl is halved) to proc more entho icicle. Also increase icicle generated from entho to 3.
Heavy Ordinance 3x – Increase damage of ball lightning and entho’s icicles. Also increase duration of ball lightning by 2x and size of ball lightning
Echocasting 2x – Enable double casting of Ball Lightning for spam
Gravitic Nova 2x – Enable blizzard to lock enemy in place
Onslaught 3+hex – Massively increase tick rate of Ball Lightning which increases more entho’s icicle generation
Valiant Strike 2x – Increases Damage by 100% against high hp enemy(>75% hp)

Modifiers Priority:

Extra Cold/Shock
All dmg
Crit Damage
Skill Lvl+1 (endothermic rupture, thunderous determination, ball lightning, tempest aura)
Cooldown (Have atleast 100%)
Bonus Cold
Atk Power
Matk Power
Bonus Shock (not very good)

Chips Placement:

Endothermic Rupture
Thunderous Determination
Ball Lightning

How to Play

Mob Clear

Spam Ball Lightning on every mobs.

Boss

Use blizzard from a safe distance to make sure boss doesn’t go near. On a distance, use Ball Lightning to damage the boss. The skill has innate lock on so all of the, will hit the boss. Using mimicry is also possible to combo with gravitic nova as all the mimic will be grouped together with boss.

Mothership

This might be the hardest challenge so far for the build because normally we rely on blizzard to lock boss in place so it can’t hit us but in mothership, this isn’t possible. Using a mage play style means you are able to move during the boss’ attacks.

During missile attack, run around so that missile hit the mothership core to break its shield. Use Red Heal so that you can tank some of the missile if got hit.
After the shield broke, spam Ball Lightning again while dodging any attacks

Pros and Cons

Pros