For more experienced players: are all spell skills “viable” for T15s/Pinnacles given enough +all skills from items? Not ultra fast clearing, just viable?

I ask this because I’ve recently rolled a Tornado Shaman just to test what it could do and it became one of my most fun chars ever. With a level 34 tornado and a cheap 30 divs investment in gear it deals like; 35k physical dps, 80k fire/cold/lightning. I paired it with a cheap The Coming Calamity for 0 enemy resistance + alpha’s howl for double presence area and it’s great.

Juiced T15s and pinnacles are a breeze, I’m extremely impressed and its potential is bigger if I stack more +skills on it

Would all other generally “weak” spells also become viable if you get enough levels? I’d love to use some weird stuff just for fun.

Euphoric_Reading_401

3 | 8 hours ago

All skills in game are viable with enough investment, but also yes, endgame content is kind of a pushover right now

Yanatis

2 | 7 hours ago

Yes, just some spells are more than others with the same investment.

subcuriousgeorge

3 | 6 hours ago

My partner is currently running a lightning sorceress and had basically add a “flicker strike mage” using lightning warp and ball lightning with other shenanigans. Very fun to watch and play with. I think it all depends on how you focus the build, but I think any skill could be crazy powerful with the right investment and thought.

t0rchic

3 | 3 hours ago

Tornado is a bit of a standout right now because The Taming is so insanely strong and it doesn’t scale the same way as other spells. Most spells take a lot more investment because they don’t have a unique that gives them 150% extra damage and another 60-90% increased as a bonus, lol

Askon [OP]

1 | 3 hours ago

That’s a good point, I also only tried it out because of The Taming, I would never bother with manually creating ground effects otherwise… If other individual spells (without tons of setups) can get to the same power level (even if they need more +skill levels) I’ll be pretty happy. I’ve mostly played Attack chars since 0.1.

PoE_Acronym_Bot

1 | 8 hours ago

I noticed some Path of Exile keywords in this post:

DPS - Damage per Second

^(I am a bot.) ^| ^(All acronyms) ^| ^(Suggest)

revanstone47

2 | 4 hours ago

V-i-a-b-i-l-i-t-y f-o-r q-u-i-r-k-y b-u-i-l-d-s

Spell viability for quirky builds?