Full resonance Trinity with Archmage: is it possible?

I'm running CoC Comet and decided to try out Trinity as I have the spirit to run it.

The problem is that archmage gives so much added lightning damage that it causes any spell to only trigger lightning resonance.

Cold resonance is easy to solve for with Emibitter, which converts all that added lightning to cold.

I have not been able to find a solution for fire resonance. Occasionally I get little bits of it, which I think are from Explosive Impact which shouldn't get the added damage from archmage. Unfortunately the 5% chance to trigger isn't enough to sustain fire resonance.

Oddly, the only time I really capped out fire resonance was with a gloom shrine. I run blackflame covenant, so maybe the chaos damage from the shrine effect is counting toward fire resonance.

So I need either something that will convert or reduce the lightning damage on one specific spell, or something that will cause enemies to explode on death causing fire or chaos damage that won't get the added lightning from archmage. Sadly Palm of the Dreamer is not an option as it doesn't have enough spirit.

Any ideas?

EDIT: Another possibility would be some source of triggered/automatic fire (or maybe chaos) damage from hits that isn't a spell. Explode on death is the only example of this that I can think of off the top of my head, but there may be others.

Painter's Servant may work but in this case isn't worth it due to added suffix strain and loss of IIR.

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silversurfer022•5 months ago•1

Painter's Servant does not affect extra damages.

anotherthrowaway469•5 months ago•1

If you're not mana stacking probably. But you'd need to get high tier extra damage for fire and cold on your staff or wand, and maybe runes too.

Keep in mind that trinity scales with roughly the rate of hits where one is max, so even if you have a good amount of fire hits, if cold and lightning is hitting 2x more, it won't fill. Also keep in mind the roll ranges.

You could try Mana Flare, maybe? You could also experiment with living bomb or firestorm in a trigger (especially spellslinger or coc). If you're CI the Extraction support can give you some chaos/flame, too.

Full disclosure: I gave up on it because mana stacking with Archmage + rathpiths and CoC Comet felt much stronger. Especially since I was mostly using lightning spells anyways.

ricmoon9000•5 months ago•1

I used firestorm as main skill with archmage, trinity, and ele conflux. I maybe can get 50% uptime of 250+ resonance.

On spark coc comet, you may want to try using the spellslinger + any fire skill with the mouse trick. Also add living bomb on your coc (if not yet).

Greedy-Gap-1634•5 months ago•1

I’m in a similar boat, trying to maximize Trinity. I’m on oracle. Cold and light resonance are always maxed so that’s 200 with 8% per 30 yielding about 48% increased elemental damage.

I did some testing vs the alternative of using elemental Conflux which is 78% increased damage but of only one element at a time. I really only looked at comet dmg as that’s my main dps. Because of archmage and just how my build is set up, comets are doing a mix of all 3 elements each hit (even before fire infusions) so the 48% elemental increase from Trinity outweighs the single element 78 from Conflux since elemental dmg sort of “triple” dips. So using Trinity is still best, even if not fully optimized.

However the min maxer in me wants to squeeze out that additional 32% elemental damage and skill speed that I’m leaving on the table (300 resonance vs 200).

Unfortunately my tree uses blackflame covenant keystone (since I’m passive node stacking for time lost jewels) and converts all fire damage to chaos lol so I think it’s impossible for me to create enough pure fire damage without sacrificing the rest of my build.

If you discover any support gem tech solution, let me know!

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