TS or unsyngergized Lightning?

[Freezing Rain]

I'm making a pure energy ES build. Possibly 75 in vitality though. My question is should i go with a max ts/tm build, (My friend told me it maxes out at 26k damage, but i HIGHLY doubt it.) Or, should i go with (instead of TS), maxing Lightning, with the rest of my point in chain? (I'll only use a lightning build, got my griffs already) So, i have no idea. I'm going to have 115 FCR, so my plan was to use a max TS build with an infinity merc, and constantly teleport around my opponents to 1. Piss them off, 2. Do damage without ever getting hit, 3. To piss them off. Anyone have any ideas? (I could go nova too but i hear its very weak in 1.10.)

[Epsilon Eyez]

With maxed out Energy Shield and Telekinesis, there is hardly any room for a poweful attack. Thunderstorm/Mastery is stronger with 40 points, does around 700-1111 damage, whereas Lightning/Chain Lightning (or Mastery, even) for that matter come around 3-1000 damage.

But, with your circumstance, 40 points are drained into non-attack spells. Thunderstorm is merely a complement to spells, mainly timered spells and hard to aim spells.

I think that doing Blizzard and dumping the rest into synergies is a very powerful and best option. Frozen Orb could be another option, as you won't have to get all worried about aiming like with Blizzard, but it is weaker.

Meteor could work, but the skill isn't that fast and its hard to aim. Fire Ball is powerful, but not worth the slow big hitter (though Meteor is seriously powerful) I'd rather go with Blizzard, since its a cold spell, it would slow enemies down thusly fulfilling the point of your build -- not getting hit.

[Freezing Rain]

I'll go with TS then. I'm all PvP, and i already have the light gcs. (and griffons)

[Quietus]

TS = ez sorb, gg.

*Coughs* Sorry, leet moment there. If you're doing pub games, prepare to have your Tstorm absorbed - however, if you're going with a pure lightning build, I'd say you could go with one of two options.

One, of course, is your TS. The other - charged bolt! If you go with the minimum into Esheild (You only need 7 points into it if you have perfect prebuff gear... 10x skillers, +1 anni, +3 es ormus, +3 light circlet/ammy, +9 memory staff [+3 inherent], 2x sojs, +1 arach is 32, +1 from cta's battle command is 33) then you should be able to get 95% absorbed, with full TK, as well as a maxed out charged bolt. It'll still get absorbed, but it'll work for an entirely different sort of play style.

IMO, if you want to play chicken, go with TS. If you want to try and kill melee'ers, go CB - and with CB, you'll kick amazons easily. Dodging 24 bolts at a time is fun!

[Freezing Rain]

I do not have perfect gear. I have level 39 tK/ES with my +skills at the moment.

[Superhal]

you might be able to get some decent damage with lightning with that much +skills.

[Freezing Rain]

I'm using a skill calculator atm, will edit this when i figure out what to do. I'll aim for level 85

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With a total number of 97 skill points used at level 85 with full quests completed, i come out with (If i max TS) 2223-2799 TS damage. If i max lightning, and put 12 points in chain lightning i received a total lightning damage of 12-9920 damage, and with my level 1 TS i get 1006-1053 damage. I would much rather have the Lightning damage, since i have a decent amount of FCR in my build anyway, so i have decided to go Lightning. Thanks to those who helped me!