[3.1] The Blinding Blizzard - Whispering Ice Berserker - Viable for Most Everything

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srl785 wrote:

couldn't find this addressed anywhere else.. What about using these? With Perandus ring you also get additional 2% intel on top of spell damage boost?

50% increased spell damage is roughly the same as 1 jewel socket. But you lose way too much compared to a good rare. 20 Int is way too low, no Life, no resists. Not worth it.

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Graiaule wrote:

Do we get any benefit from "% increased elemental damage from attack skills"

Nope. Icestorm is a spell, not an attack.

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xerofite wrote:

I'm not sure if we're supposed to go Doom whisper for the 2nd curse? Are we not supposed to run warlords mark on a blasphemy + CWDT Enfeeble? The blasphemy constantly overwrites the enfeeble whenever I get hit, so it seems pointless.

WM is not needed for the Berserker. He has enough leech without WM.

TC would be OK but not really needed with the Life version. Blind is an excellent replacement for it.

The skill points are better spent on Life than on Whispers of Doom. And you can get more out of the ring slot than Doedre's Damning can give.

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LastMagus wrote:

i think my goal will be to just drop astramentis. losing 15-20 int from a perfect rolled one, in favor of life or extra res on a rare amulet seems worth it for the life build.

What amulet do you have in mind? It needs to give a comparable amount of Int and better Life (remember that Astra's 100 Str = 50 Life?). And if we are talking high end, also remember that Astra is a unique and Perandus will give you 2% increased Int (from everything, not just the amu) with it.

I haven't seen anything better than Astra except the super rare Talismans that are almost impossible to get even when the Talisman mod is available.

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ichbinwerichbi wrote:

Is astramentis really worth it. I have

and there will be much better ones. So the strg bring us life and int is mandatory. So i loose
with this strng but get life and i dont think the dex is worth it to use astamentis?
Or do i oversee something?

That's a nice amulet. It can definitely be OK instead of Astra, for a while. But you need 98 Dex for AA and Purity of Ice, and FA to get Fortify faster is good too.

I do hope to use Perandus Signet eventually, although it's not necessary.

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Pantsomancer wrote:

from the CI Version (tri-curse) of this Build:

CI version doesn't work in 3.0. We use different mechanics now with the Life version.

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ichbinwerichbi wrote:

If we look for an leather belt with int, we only can use a essence to get one? or is there another trick to get int on a belt. So i have the idea to try with essence to get high int and life and then with anulement try to get the worthless mods removed and then mastercraft it.
but that would be verry expensive. Is there another way to get a perfect belt.

And the last question
Are inyas boots with life int and movementspeed worth it? 8 % int seem really good. But is it
from basic int or 8 % on the top. And 70 life is not that much but seems ok.

Thanks for answer

There is no way to get Int on a rare belt other than the Spite essence. Orb of Annulment, aka the 'Reverse YOLO' is way too random. It's just as likely to remove your Int mod :)

Inya's Epiphany looks promising, but not sure yet. 8% increased Int is additive with the other similar mods. However, it's a unique, so Perandus will add another 2% on top of that.

The problem is losing 70-ish life and two resist mods. You already want Kaom's Heart for T16/Shaper. Maxing resists without boots will be a bitch. Maybe there is a solution somewhere between a super nice belt, Alira, rings and perhaps even a non-Astra amu. But I don't see it just yet.

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Mirkocrocop wrote:

Spoiler

Think I'm doing pretty good so far. I believe after standing still for 4 or so seconds my physical dmg is reduced by 36%. My resists are pretty much maxed (if I remember right I need like 4 more cold to be maxed). Intel was over 1400 but I scaled back for more health on the tree so at just over 1300. Life is around 3500 I believe and mana around 2500 with ES at 1200ish.

Any1 have any recommendations? Currently at level 82 and there's no skill tree really after this level so it appears its all just health nodes?

I'll say it again: awesome build and thank you!

You will need better boots and gloves. Yours got good resists, but you need more life. And that's what you add after lv 83 too.

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Should I drop 100% pyre in favor of AoF and a rare ring?

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H3avyM3tal wrote:

Should I drop 100% pyre in favor of AoF and a rare ring?

No. If you are in Standard and have the legacy 100% Pyre - use it. It has good resists and you save 3 skill points on AoF and use a stronger gem than CtF.

My dark Pact Berserker didn't work out too well but this seems to have that same kind of gameplay but work much better so far. The only downside is I had to rebind searing ray to my E key because on right-click it killed my wrist to swing it around the screen with the ice storms :)

What about a well rolled pair of Repentance gloves for Iron Will (like 1% spell dmg per 5 str or something like that), so you can benefit from all the strength you path through on the left side of the tree? I'd load it up in path of building, but am unable to for the next few days.

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tsunny wrote:

What about a well rolled pair of Repentance gloves for Iron Will (like 1% spell dmg per 5 str or something like that), so you can benefit from all the strength you path through on the left side of the tree? I'd load it up in path of building, but am unable to for the next few days.

The 306 STR requirement makes this a non-starter (as the build converts a lot of STR nodes to INT.)

Any Recommended flasks for this build?

Just got one weird idea. Will it be good to use Queen of The Forest and Shaper's Touch (getting a lot of evasion from QoTF and boost it by your Int with ST)? Path of Building says i'll have 57% Evade Chance on lvl 100 / 78% against Blinded enemies (with my current gear it is 15% / 58%). I can keep resist with these replacements, but not sure about health (PoB says 4636 at lvl 100, 4848 for current gear but i have no Kaom's Heart or smth like this).

So i suppose Kaom's Heart is much better as you will have at least 6k life with it, but its price compared with Shaper's Touch + QoTF... ~360c in Harbinger versus 5-7c. Can it be at least good budget version of gear?:)