Path of Exile: Spark Character Build and Gameplay Insights

Ray class offers a challenging yet rewarding experience for players who enjoy duo builds in Path of Exile.

### Advanced Spark of the Nova Build Guide for Path of Exile
* 👥  This is a duo character build designed for advanced players, requiring **two characters** and a high budget of around **100 divine orbs each**.
* 🔧  The build focuses on **Spark of the Nova** with heavy duration stacking, achieving **3 million DPS solo** and up to **134 million DPS with the support character**.
* 🛡️  The support character provides **significant damage boosts**, allowing for **much higher damage output** in an ideal scenario.
* 💰  The build is not highly profitable, with most profits coming from items like **Split Personalities and Voices**, making it more of a **fun duo farming experience**.
* 🎮  The creators, Zen and Embu, have been inspired by older support builds found on PoE Ninja, **adapting and optimizing them for their own playstyle**.
* 📊  The main gear includes **double Nebulous jewels**, a crafted **seven-link chest**, and specific cluster jewels with **repeater and streamlined modifiers**.
* 🧪  The creators have experimented with various gear and gem setups to **optimize damage and survivability**, making adjustments based on **close calls and challenges encountered during gameplay**.
* 🌟  The build is designed for **high-end content like the Simulacrum**, requiring a **dedicated support character** to reach its **full potential**.

Ray class is a cursed land. You have to be mad to settle here. Hi, Zen here, and this is going to be a video about the spark character that I'm doing with Embu. So, this is a duo character. It is not meant to be solo, and we'll talk more about that later. It is a very high-budget character as well, so this is not going to be a build guide so much as just explaining what I'm currently doing for those that are interested in it. I don't generally make guides for, well, there's two things here that are very difficult for a lot of people. First off, you need a friend, and the two builds cost roughly 100 divines each. And if you can farm 100 divines, you might not be able to have farmed a friend, so there are some problems here. So yeah, I will just be like going through what we've been doing, and um, it'll be a bit more of a video for advanced players that already will understand some of the concepts, so if

you're a new player. It might be an interesting video to watch, but you will not really learn much here. So here you can see the config for the build on one hit, and we can put on max hits as well. I'm not sure max hits is entirely correct either because it's a little bit hard to calculate how many of my Sparks will be hitting. But uh, so let's look at one hit for now. So currently I'm doing 3 million DPS solo, and I have 60, 47, and 29 lightning RIS. So just a very whatever build. Now let's plug in U and see what that does. Import cool. I now have 909090 and 33 million damage, and in an ideal scenario, 134 million damage. So that illustrates a little bit of the power of support builds in Path of Exile. And I want to like go through what we're doing at the moment, and uh, yeah, well we'll talk a little bit about it and show you. So it started with me and U just trolling around on peee ninja looking at Old

support builds and like Duo characters that kind of already worked and found this one which was uh sort of a lot of our early inspiration for what we were going to do and a big problem we were thinking are we going to go for a bus killer are we going to you know how are we going to profit we wanted to play together um and a big thing that we were running into was uh Fizz mitigation on support right now was kind of difficult so when M was PE being his support a problem we were running into was he dies to a lot of the Uber abilities no matter what so we were thinking are we just going to go for an absolute glass Cannon like you know when you go for 2.2 billion damage and you just snap the boss out of existence before the fight even begins and we were like that's such a large budget to get started on so it's it's hard for us to have that as a money-making strategy but then we found this and we we started looking and we've

copied a lot of this actually by just like looking through things on pee ninja and seeing what other people were doing um two or three years ago um so here you can see like this is quite old um this is like anomalous things yeah I I'll go through what we're currently doing so obviously we're spark of the Nova and uh we're doing a lot of duration stacking. We could do a little bit more by grabbing the second wheel but it's it's been a little bit hard um especially with me not doing suppression. Initially, we were doing very similar where we were even doing Glor's find of Doriani but we actually found a better way with using Burden of Truth because we found that the maxit was a big problem in the build and we are doing some elic room so there is a lot of chaos damage there and we ended up having like five six close calls and we were like we need to stop doing this go back to the drawing table uh and figure out how to make it safer because

We don't want to die ever, so now we're having very few close calls. As you can see, like, all the max hits are really high. Even the fist max hit is enough to tank roughly a shaper slam, so we're in a pretty good state right now. And obviously, fist max hits are usually like one-offs. You're not repeatedly getting big fist max hits for the most part, so that worked really well. So we actually have no Legion Jewel at all now, and I have a lot of tattoos. I've gotten prod speed on every single thing. I even like pathed to a three-point Jewel just to get more Pro speed. Eight passive is blast freeze, Storm Rider, and widespread destruction. Widespread destruction and the getting blast freeze there, which people normally don't use, let us get that without using proliferate on the gloves. So I'm actually using a seven-link CL. These were surprisingly easy to craft: glyphic fossil, etheric fossil, shuttering fossil, and I can't for the life of me remember the last one.

have been jagged or something to block, but either way, they were like, even though they might look like something that might be 50 to 100 divines to craft, they were closer to like 10 on average to craft. I think it cost us 20, and we were a little unlucky. So, this is where I have my spark. So, this is obviously we get the foring from the gloves and then faster Pro, faster casting with base crit and crit multi, and have a crazy chest which also gives crit chance as well. So, it's very easy for me to crit camp on this build. So, that's been very nice. We're using double nebulous. They're not perfectly divined, but you know, we're doing so much damage right now that it's kind of okay. So, with this, I'm getting 1,200 increased damage right by being 90 maxus. So, getting that from both of these. So, it's very nice, a large amount of damage, and that's why we always try to go for crit multiplier.

wherever else we can because we've already gotten all the increases we possibly need from the nebulous, so they are very strong. We have okay implicits. We were thinking about going for the Templar Jewel where it turns your power charges into 30% more damage, but you lose frenzy charges. So since we aren't using Ric cash boots, it's a little bit rough there. There is maybe a scenario where I manage to fit Ry cash boots as well. That would be kind of cracked actually. Maybe I have some more chaos resols. Okay, that'd be spicy. That'd be even more damage. So maybe we can fit that. All the jewels. So I made this myself actually. I had loads of the like reroll watch eye thing. I just bought a triple watches eye for like two or three divines. That's what like garbage bones cost. And then I rerolled it a few times and I got this, which is, it's kind of neat. It's basically a triple side for my build because the

chaos resist I absolutely need or we cannot fit the build the second one per device we are running and that just helps a little bit against penetration and stuff like that. Something penetrates My Fire or lightning damage. Some of that is taken as cold, so the pen doesn't go through there. Uh, and lightning damage obviously just more increased damage is nice. Everything else is uh crit multi. We try to get Triple or quad crit multi basically. I don't think you have quad crit multi, but we have a lot of those Jewels. So I basically bought crit multi fractured, and there were one Divine each, so they weren't too expensive. Um, we have a split personality with strength and dexterity. Uh, I mostly needed the strength just to get my crit up. I don't need that anymore. I'm discovering so many things by making this uh video about my build. Um, I no longer need that. I do need the decks though, but I could maybe use like a deck and energy Shield or deck and life. So I'll uh, I'll look into changing that. Uh

We are using Nature's patience and was like, Why don't we use this? And I was like, That's a great idea, because we're doing some alms anyway. So, we're standing completely still. I'm never moving, as you can see, uh, you know, the footage of me playing. I'm standing completely still, and everything is just vaporizing. So, this gives us 10% damage mitigation and 20% double damage. Really, really good. All the Clusters are repeater and streamlined. These are pretty easy to craft with, um, shuttering and the Deft, whatever the fossil that's like more attributes, because I needed so much Dex and strength. And the character is called Zarin Spork in my profile if you want to see and see any updates and progress and stuff. This was is pretty okay to craft. I basically just elevated the spell crit, which took four or five attempts, and then awakened orb with endurance charge, hoped that the prefixes weren't breaked, and then just did suffixes cannot be changed, reforge fire. The boots are pretty whatever, like it.

would be nice if they had suppression, but we just wanted life regeneration rate, so that's the main thing we wanted, just to have really good recovery. The amulet was just reforge crit until it hit eventually, and then everything else is uniques, super easy. Oh, and I see when I activate my FL, I have even more damage. So yeah, everything just vaporizes. The only thing that can kill us now, 'cause there is actually something that can kill us, is if we are not paying attention and the blue circle manad drain thing spawns. That is the only thing we're having close calls to right now. And we do have all Clarity to help with that, but if embus oras go off, I die. As far as profitability, and people are always wondering, like, how do you guys split loot and stuff like that, and that's very simp simple. I'm the streamer, so I get all the loot. No, we just split it 50/50. We both have a tub that we keep it in, and then we

Just divide it in two, and then we just split whenever it starts getting full, and just, yeah, cut it in two. Very simple. We are not making that much profit, so this is pretty much only profitable because SRS are only 20 C each, sometimes 15. Most people don't want to run them. They're obviously very Rippy on Hardcore. People are not even really running them Softcore, it seems, so they are not super profitable. I don't necessarily know if they're in a great state because the only two things that you really do get a lot of profit out of is split personalities, which I don't think we've sold the big one yet. We did get a strength and life one, and obviously, Albron is very popular this league, so we're hoping to sell that for 30 divines. And we have had a three-socket voices, which is up for, well, it was up for 50 divines, but now EMB is using it. So profit-wise, it is not crazy profitable. Most of the other strats that I'm doing

uh is more profit than this, but we do get to play together, so we are like we are doing it mostly just to hang out, uh, and have fun. Uh, it's also like U wants a lot of the drops, and they aren't necessarily always for sale on Hardcore. Like, he wants uh Mega maniacs and split personalities and voices, so we kind of got to farm those ourselves anyway. So, is this a fun thing to do to play together? It's uh, I do like that they've done the like wave 15 thing, but I think the drops need to be a little bit spicier, or maybe they don't, maybe they're fine, they're just, they're not great. Either way, it's been really interesting for me. This is um, my first time really farming srum. It is really hard, and you really want like an extreme character dedicated to it on Hardcore because it's just, there's so many things that can get you there. So, it's been fun, and we're going to continue farming it, maybe get a one.

socket voices that'd be crazy. I think it's a 3% chance if a voes drop that it is a one socket three or 5%. It's very low either way. Uh, I will also link U's profile um, so you can see his character and import that and look around at it. I don't know much about support, so it's not something I can really walk you through, but he's giving me just tons of auras basically um, and I leave the supporting to U. If there's a lot of demand, maybe I can ask U to do a second video where we like have U walk over the support character, how it works and stuff like that. But either way, sub if you like the video, but more importantly, try to die less than I do.

Spark Inquisitor Carry for a DUO build! - Build Update

I'm Zizaran, Path of Exile & ARPG content creator since October 2015.
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The Spark character is a high-budget duo, requiring a friend and approximately 100 divines each for the builds.

The character's power is illustrated by a solo DPS of 3 million, which can increase to 134 million with the right support.

The duo's strategy involves tackling Fizz mitigation and aiming for a glass cannon approach to deal massive damage quickly.

The build is focused on duration stacking and has evolved from using Glor's Find of Doriani to Burden of Truth for better max hits.

Chaos damage from elic rooms led to close calls, prompting a safer approach with high max hits now.

The build features no Legion Jewel, multiple tattoos for increased prod speed, and a seven-link CL crafted with affordable fossils, while double nebulous provides significant damage increase.

Optimizing a Build with Unique Jewels and Gear

The build is focused on maximizing damage through power charges and chaos resistance, with a potential fit for Ry cash boots.

The player has created a triple watcher's eye jewel, providing crucial chaos resist and increased damage.

Nature's Patience is used for damage mitigation and double damage, while the character's attributes are being optimized through crafting and unique clusters.

Life Regeneration and Loot Splitting Strategy

The main focus is on achieving a high life regeneration rate for recovery, with the amulet being reforged for crit.

Close calls in the game are caused by the blue circle mana drain, but Clarity helps mitigate that.

Loot is split 50/50 between the streamer and their partner, with SRS runs being the main source of income, although they are not highly profitable.

Farming Together in Hardcore: A Fun Challenge

The speaker and U are farming for specific drops together, making it a fun and social activity.

The drops from the game are not always for sale, so they are working hard to obtain them.

The speaker is finding the farming process challenging and is considering asking U for a second video to explain the support character's role.