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Stat stick nerf is really bad for me, I was planning to play with a shield, and even pretty mediocre 1-2ex shaper stick is worse then divinarius 4c unique dagger

The non chaos as chaos shield mod seems great!

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Is there a reason not to go for the Spiritual Aid talent?

Go for it!

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Quick question:

I’m using cwdt frost bomb for -% cold resist, frost bite and cold pen support. Correct me if I’m wrong but if frost bomb is -25% cold resist, frost bite -50%, I would potentially have -75% cold resist. Will that make cold pen kinda useless if there’s no resist to penetrate? I do know that curse effectiveness against harder bosses like Shaper is a reduced. Just wondering in general. Was thinking of swapping cold pen out for hypo and only cold pen during bosses.

PS: Apologies if this has been asked and answered already previously.

I think bonechill support with Frostbomb might be on the table as well. This is some interesting insight and am interested to see how people are approaching res. As you guessed the -resistances is mainly for bossing as trash is no problem with this build as it stands.

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Hello guys.I have a big dilema..
I have decided to buy tukohamas shield for my offhand since i believe +1 total totem and +40% totem damage is perfect.
My question is this..i got the money to buy Doryani's which looks nice or should i buy a rare main hand with these stats that the guide suggest ??
Thank in advance

Path of building is perfect for questions like these because you can take all your current stats (by importing your character) and seeing which item effects your DPS the most.

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Path of building is perfect for questions like these because you can take all your current stats (by importing your character) and seeing which item effects your DPS the most.

hey i did exaclty this and i have come to the conclusion that doryani's is a lot more dps for me.But i dond know this.for me totem GC better is attack speed or cast speed on the weapon roll ? which one affects the GC ??

I was wondering if this build was a reasonable one to play if I am aiming to play a more Energy Shield focused Build - especially since that means I'd lose Soul Mantle for Shavronne's or have to grab CI.

I have never successfully played an ES build and would really like to try one, but I also really like the idea of GC totems.

HOw did you deal with "Inflict random 20 curse when totems died"?, especially when you kill bosses and do not reload flasks and you don´t use kikazaru?... Thanks in advance...

And then, what weapons you recommend in 3.5? stat stick or not?...

Hi :),

The build has been fun so far but i feel like my damage is lacking a bit. I know i need upgrades bad but could you point me to the worst of my gear to focus on? Currency has been a bit slow this league for me. Although i did manage to six link in 8 fusings (all my rng gone haha).

Much appreciated!

P.S.

I got the 40% enchant last night so that is why i am still using the 2 winter jewels i will replace those with max life damage jewels when i log on later.

Thanks,!

Great build Thien and grats on the success with it.
Got a few easy questions, sorry in advance I've read the build top to bottom:

I see on the POB so many different skills at level 19 instead of 20. Is that just because you were trying new things or you are recommending that for level? I saw in the written part to only have Arcane Surge as the low leveled one aside from CWDT/IC.

Where are we generating Endurance Charges from? Seems I might be missing something here.

Why do you have both Flame Dash AND Whirling Blades on the POB? Noob question but never seen that.


That's it for now, loving the build so far just started clearing the entire atlas (Up to T5 now). Thank you for your help!

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hey i did exaclty this and i have come to the conclusion that doryani's is a lot more dps for me.But i dond know this.for me totem GC better is attack speed or cast speed on the weapon roll ? which one affects the GC ??

faster casting - GC, attack speed - whirling blades/shield charge

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HOw did you deal with "Inflict random 20 curse when totems died"?, especially when you kill bosses and do not reload flasks and you don´t use kikazaru?... Thanks in advance...

And then, what weapons you recommend in 3.5? stat stick or not?...

Couple ways to deal with curses, flasks or Kika rings. I'd use stat sticks.

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Hi :),

The build has been fun so far but i feel like my damage is lacking a bit. I know i need upgrades bad but could you point me to the worst of my gear to focus on? Currency has been a bit slow this league for me. Although i did manage to six link in 8 fusings (all my rng gone haha).

Much appreciated!

P.S.

I got the 40% enchant last night so that is why i am still using the 2 winter jewels i will replace those with max life damage jewels when i log on later.

Thanks,!

In general the biggest DPS upgrades will be from extra links to your skill gem.

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Great build Thien and grats on the success with it.
Got a few easy questions, sorry in advance I've read the build top to bottom:

I see on the POB so many different skills at level 19 instead of 20. Is that just because you were trying new things or you are recommending that for level? I saw in the written part to only have Arcane Surge as the low leveled one aside from CWDT/IC.

Where are we generating Endurance Charges from? Seems I might be missing something here.

Why do you have both Flame Dash AND Whirling Blades on the POB? Noob question but never seen that.


That's it for now, loving the build so far just started clearing the entire atlas (Up to T5 now). Thank you for your help!

There are quite a few setups you can go with. This patch a Cold Snap - Curse on Hit - Frostbite - Bonechill Support would probably be VERY good!

Endurance charges are not being generated but immortal call doesn't need them. Endurance charges simply makes it last longer than the .4 seconds


Flame Dash is for gap closing. Whirling Blades/Shield Charge is for general movement and getting Fortify.

Thanks for the reply! I'm actually going to give that Curse on Hit setup a go. Never used anything like that on a build. You didn't mention what levels though?
I just switched from Arc at level 60, so it's been a rougher transition than if I had just leveled in the from the beginning.

How much of a DPS increase in Cold Penetration support? POB says it's a downgrade in DPS compared to every other gem, but I assume it's different because of resistances?

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warlord13179 wrote:

How much of a DPS increase in Cold Penetration support? POB says it's a downgrade in DPS compared to every other gem, but I assume it's different because of resistances?

Cold penetration support scales with the monster’s initial resistance. You’ll also have to factor in -% cold resists like frostbite curse and frost bomb. My theory is that -% cold resists is deducted first before penetrating whatever resistance is left e.g. 75% resist mob -25% cold from frost bomb = 50% which is further penetrated by cold pen(let’s just say 20% pen) so you’ll be dealing with 30% cold resistance. Some bosses like shaper have curse effectiveness reduced by x% (80% for shaper) so if frostbite does -50%, you’ll effectively be only reducing 10% resist. For context, shaper has 40% all resist iirc. There’s nothing on shaper with regards to penetrating resists so I’m assuming that’s where cold pen willl shine as it won’t get scaled down too much.

PS: this is based on my own logic towards how this whole cold pen vs -% cold resists work.


TLDR: cold pen for bosses and hypothermia for anything else could be the way to go since both are green gems.