High Budget Storm Brand Inquisitor Gear, Jewels, and Flasks

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Gear Summary / TLDR

This is a High to Extreme Version Variant of the Storm Brand Inquisitor to help you push out the highest DPS and defensives possible! So this gear will be expensive!
Our recommendation:

Item Slot Item Name
Head Rare Blizzard Crown Blizzard Crown with Specific Influenced Mods
Amulet Rare +2 amulet with Wrath Reservation
Chest Incandescent Heart Incandescent Heart
Gloves Rare Gloves with Influenced Mods
Boots Rare Fugitive Boots Fugitive Boots with Tailwind, Onslaught and Elusive
Belt Mageblood Mageblood
Ring 1 Call of the Brotherhood Call of the Brotherhood
Ring 2 Amethyst Ring Amethyst Ring with specific mods
Weapon The Annihilating Light The Annihilating Light

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Armour

Chest

We use the Unique Body Armour Incandescent Heart Incandescent Heart for both Offense and Defense

Due to this Body Armour we want to get our Chaos Resistance capped as much as possible

Head

We use a Blizzard Crown Blizzard Crown with Shaper and Elder Influences so we can have a Pseudo 7 link for our Storm Brand the modifiers you want on it are:

  1. Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 20+ Concentrated Effect/25% increased Area Damage (Influenced Mod)
  2. Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 20+ Hypothermia/20% increased Effect of Cold Ailments (Influenced Mod)
  3. Socketed Gems deal 30% more Elemental Damage (Essence Modifier)
  4. Socketed Spells have +3% to Critical Strike Chance (Influenced Mod)
  5. +1/2 to Level of Socketed AoE Gems/10% increased Area of Effect
  6. + to Maximum Life

The recommended enchant is:

  1. Storm Brand Deals 40% Increased Damage

Gloves

A pair of Rare Incursion Gloves with Warlord influence:

  1. Increased Spell Damage (Influenced Mod)
  2. Culling Strike (Influenced Mod)
  3. % Cold Resistance/increased Damage with Hits against Chilled Enemies (Incursion Mod)
  4. + to Maximum Life
  5. [Uncapped] Resistances

Boots

A Rare pair of Fugitive Boots Fugitive Boots should be used.

  1. % increased Movement Speed
  2. 10% chance to gain Elusive on Critical Strike (Influenced Mod)
  3. % chance to gain Onslaught for 4 seconds on Kill/10% increased Attack, Cast and Movement Speed while you have Onslaught (Influenced Mod)
  4. % increased Effect of Tailwind on you/You have Tailwind if you have dealt a Critical Strike Recently (Influenced Mod)
  5. + to maximum Life
  6. [Uncapped] Resistances

Weapon

We Use The Annihilating Light The Annihilating Light for it’s Triple Damage Explicit and to be able to take advantage of the busted Staff Crit Nodes on the skill tree, It also allows us to run 2 6 link setups combined with our Body Armour so we can have a 6 link Aura and 6 link Utility setup

Accessories

Amulet

We use a Rare Crusader Influenced amulet Qualitied with Life and Mana Catalyst prioritize stats as follows:

  1. +1 to Level of all Skill Gems
  2. +1 to Level of all Lightning Skill Gems
  3. Wrath has % increased Mana Reservation Efficiency (Influenced Mod)
  4. % increased Cast Speed
  5. + to maximum Life
  6. Attributes as needed

Rings

Call of the Brotherhood Call of the Brotherhood Damage, Conversion and 100% shock against Frozen Enemies Mandatory for the build.

A Rare Amethyst Ring Amethyst Ring Crusader Influenced ring is used to get much needed Chaos Res prioritize stats as follows:

  1. Gain x Life per Enemy Hit with Spells (Influenced Mod)
  2. Non-Channeling Skills have -7 to Total Mana Cost (Betrayal Mod)
  3. Strength / Intelligence
  4. % increased Cast Speed
  5. +# to maximum Mana
  6. [Uncapped] Resistances

Belt

Mageblood Mageblood, Need I say more? Ok so Mageblood Mageblood lets us always have 4 of our flasks active which basically completely breaks the game and lets us use some very overpowered flask modifiers and enchants to get greatly increased permanent effects on our character.

Jewels

Unique Jewels

  1. Forbidden Flesh Forbidden Flesh and Forbidden Flame Forbidden Flame with Allocates Sign of Purpose
  2. Watcher's Eye Watcher's Eye with some of the following mods:

Offensive:

  • +(20-30)% to Critical Strike Multiplier while affected by Precision
  • +(40-60)% increased Lightning Damage while affected by Wrath
  • +(10-15)% increased Cast Speed while affected by Zealotry

Defensive:

  • +(30-50)% to Chaos Resistance while affected by Purity of Elements
  • Gain (20-30) Life per Enemy Hit while affected by Vitality
  • (0.8-1.2)% of Damage leeched as Life while affected by Vitality
  • (8-12)% of Physical Damage from Hits taken as Cold Damage while affected by Purity of Elements
  • (8-12)% of Physical Damage from Hits taken as Fire Damage while affected by Purity of Elements
  • (8-12)% of Physical Damage from Hits taken as Lightning Damage while affected by Purity of Elements

Cluster Jewels

The Large Jewel Sockets can be used to fill out Cluster Jewels. The bases to look for are Added Small Passives Grant:

  • 12% Increased Lightning Damage

We have opted to use two so we may have 4 Medium Cluster Jewels. Less passive skills is better. You do not have to talent into all the small passives on the cluster jewel if you have better available options.

Large notables that are worth acquiring:

  • Snowstorm
  • Sadist
  • Widespread Destruction (only to as the 3rd)

Medium Cluster Jewels

The Medium Jewel Sockets can be used to fill out Cluster Jewels. The bases to look for are Added Small Passives Grant:

  • 12% Increased Brand Damage
  • 10% Increased Effect of Non-Damaging Ailments

We want 3 Brand Damage and 1 Non-Damaging Ailments

On the Brand Damage Jewels we want the following Notables:

  • Grand Design
  • Remarkable

On the Non-Damaging Ailments we want the following Notables:

  • Overshock
  • Stormrider
  • Calamitous

Standard Jewels

Prioritize stats on your Jewels as follows:

  1. % Increased Maximum Life
  2. % to Critical Strike Multiplier with Lightning
  3. % to Critical Strike Multiplier with Spells
  4. % to Critical Strike Multiplier with Elemental Skills
  5. % Increased Global Critical Strike Multiplier
  6. % Increased Lightning Damage

Abyss Jewel

You will want at least one Abyss Jewel with the following mods

  1. +X to maximum Life
  2. +X to X Added Spell Cold Damage while wielding a Two Handed Weapon
  3. +% increased Cast Speed if you’ve dealt a Critical Strike Recently
  4. +% chance to Hinder Enemies on Hit with Spells

Flasks

All of our Non Unique Flasks will need the Enchant 70% increased effect/Gains no Charges during Effect and the Alchemist’s or Abecedarian’s Prefix

Utility Flasks

  1. Ruby Flask Ruby Flask of the Order (Regen Life Craft)
  2. Silver Flask Silver Flask of the Order (Reduced Mana Cost Craft)
  3. Bismuth Flask Bismuth Flask of the Rainbow
  4. Amethyst Flask Amethyst Flask of the Horsefly

Unique Flasks

  1. Bottled Faith Bottled Faith: Critical Strike Chance, Consecrated Ground, and Increased Damage Taken by Enemies on our Consecrated Ground, Yes it is insanely good for us

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