[3.20] Ice Dancing Queen - Icestorm/Cyclone/CI - Viable For Everything

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LiNGeN wrote:

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SkylerOG wrote:

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Not gonna go over this again I already posted at length. I think you misunderstand me anyway. Lets see what happens in 4 hours!

I get what you're trying to say, but understand that any duration over 5 seconds is useless/a waste.

Base duration of 1 second + 3000 int = 4s storm duration.

So taking Potency of Will would be 4 * 1.45 = 5.8.

That extra .8s is thrown out the instant ice shard #26 of each storm impacts.

Yes, you need 5.0 seconds, however, to reach the 25 per ice storm shard limit. 1s / 0.2s = 5 max shards per second * 5 max storms = 25. Meaning 5 seconds to ramp up to this and then the overwriting/storm replacing begins with shard #26.

But with 3,000 int, you only need +0.25% duration to reach that 5.0s cap.

And I'm assuming most of you guys have over 3k int if I'm around 2,800 with my middle of the road setup. I suspect some of you are even around 4k int. Which means you would need ZERO +duration to reach your 25 shard per second per storm cap.

Just ran a T16 Hydra with extra life. Clear felt totally fine using Awakened Increased AOE, although I did have to backtrack once for a tanky rare.

Bossing was much slower, Hydra took at least twice as long as I would expect, but still went quickly enough. (This is with Awakened increased AOE, would be faster with a full bossing setup)

Build is certainly viable at high investment. I'm also hopeful that some fun tweaks will happen as the league progresses.

Anybody has tested ASC yet ? does it count to the 5 storms cap ?

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Tracabulhos wrote:

Anybody has tested ASC yet ? does it count to the 5 storms cap ?

Yeah it counts... ASC is not worth it at all for Icestorm any longer. Kills storm stacking dead.

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Tracabulhos wrote:

Anybody has tested ASC yet ? does it count to the 5 storms cap ?

I just tried my standard character with regular SC, it did look like they count towards it, casting once created 3 icestorms, casting again quickly removed 2 of them from the first cast.

did some delve at 500 deep and its okisch with 3,6 k int and 15 k es. Did aul also was a pain. what i noticed is that i did get much less dmg from mobs. did 5 routes and in all the same. The reggen is much slower but the dmg income also. Dont understand why.

I think it will be for the league in this stage not a good build as i dont think to get 3,5 k int. Last league was best at 2,7k.

But as i played it so long time i give it a try and will see what happen.

No replica Whispering Ice to be found, however there is a replica Stampede, Headhunter, Poorjoy's to be found, no idea what they might do.

There is also a new ring basetype that allows you to have 4 suffixs, and 2 prefixes, with no implicit. Might be nice for sticking an aspect on.

There is a currency that changes the effect of gem quality to try to make getting rare gem quality effects easier.

Weapon enchantment orbs are also a thing so you can get elemental damage on your WI staff.

Have a great league everyone!

LOL, Oak got stealth buffed. Be aware he's difficult to kill since he heals himself to full roughly every 5 seconds!

The creeping frost is definitely superior to freezing pulse on trash mobs, but on bosses it's about as bad. Sigh. Another long slow nightmare of levelling.

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Yeah I had to wait until I hit level 21 before I could kill Oak. Just FYI.

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I've been running heists to level up. I did get a Karui Ward I am using but nothing else. As in, zero other uniques in 5 heists. So it's just random. Or maybe you have to open a particular Smuggler Cache to get the good heist.

did a heist at lvl3 and got lifespring bramblejack 4 fus and a lot of other orbs.
Makes lvl easyer.
seems this time league contend also good while lvling

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ichbinwerichbi wrote:

did a heist at lvl3 and got lifespring bramblejack 4 fus and a lot of other orbs.
Makes lvl easyer.
seems this time league contend also good while lvling

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i got the exact same items :D cheers!