[3.6] The Blizz Sorc - Icestorm/Winter Orb CI Occultist - Viable For Everything

i know its markov chain text but i have a baaad feeling about this

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Kelvynn wrote:

Thanks for all the kind words! Making me blush :)

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AnubixcZ wrote:

It could help a lot. Buff for WO and Ice Storm + 4% addin phys reduction is so sweet.

4% phys damage reduction is the same as the Chaos golem and 50% of Tukohama (when you are tanking a boss). Damage with channelling skills means WO only, and it's just 15%.

I wouldn't spend any points on that.

That's why I will never be a good build creater :)

Uuu The Whispering Ice will get the change. 25% more dmg, 25% less dmg, we will see :)

HOLY JESUS.. Damn, I'm going to have to play this build again now aren't I... *sigh*

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adambog wrote:

i know its markov chain text but i have a baaad feeling about this

Ouch... I'm crossing my fingers, but with global spells being rebalanced, and how nice this build was, we may be in for a damage nerf. I would have rather seen no mention of Ice Storm at all, and just ran with the ES spell leech changes... *smirk*

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Breken wrote:

Ouch... I'm crossing my fingers, but with global spells being rebalanced, and how nice this build was, we may be in for a damage nerf. I would have rather seen no mention of Ice Storm at all, and just ran with the ES spell leech changes... *smirk*

Let's stay positive! Maybe they're addressing the poor performance optimization of the spell.

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Solax wrote:

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Breken wrote:

Ouch... I'm crossing my fingers, but with global spells being rebalanced, and how nice this build was, we may be in for a damage nerf. I would have rather seen no mention of Ice Storm at all, and just ran with the ES spell leech changes... *smirk*

Let's stay positive! Maybe they're addressing the poor performance optimization of the spell.

It looks like it will be something like "won't apply Chilled ground where projectiles land", looking at other texts there.

from the manifesto:
Unique Nerfs
We've made some adjustments to a few unique items that were problematic. Details will be in the patch notes tomorrow.

Whispering Ice is for sure one of the mentioned uniques :/

well those splashes and chilled ground from WI may be a cause of poor performance, so they might cut it out, from my understanding it wont affect build that much, neglectable

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Energy Shield has a lower cap on maximum restored per second than Life Leech (10% of maximum energy shield per second), but the dedicated Energy Shield Leech passives will let you increase this number. Ghost Reaver now doubles your maximum energy shield per second in addition to turning all Life Leech into Energy Shield Leech and lowering your shield recharge rate.

Seems like there isnt any reason now to travel for the VP.

Edit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/axcd00/how_do_you_calculate_the_cap_for_es_leech_with/eht7xpe/
Seems like 0 reasons.

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pda898 wrote:

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Energy Shield has a lower cap on maximum restored per second than Life Leech (10% of maximum energy shield per second), but the dedicated Energy Shield Leech passives will let you increase this number. Ghost Reaver now doubles your maximum energy shield per second in addition to turning all Life Leech into Energy Shield Leech and lowering your shield recharge rate.

Seems like there isnt any reason now to travel for the VP.

Edit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/axcd00/how_do_you_calculate_the_cap_for_es_leech_with/eht7xpe/
Seems like 0 reasons.

this could be a huge blow, as i understand it, previously we've got 20% base life leech, doubled by vaal pact to 40% and converted to ES leech by ghost reaver, now we got base ES leech at 10% ("Energy Shield has a lower cap on maximum restored per second than Life Leech (10% of maximum energy shield per second)" - from manifesto) doubled by Ghost reaver ("Ghost Reaver now doubles your maximum energy shield per second"), they do mention additional nodes to increase that cap, but still sounds like bad news