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

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Hemzokuken wrote:

I would love some solid theory around what auras we should be taking end game and why.

For us to increase our boss damage what do we need?

Hatred vs Herald of ice. (18% cold vs flat cold damage added)

Flesh and stone (is this worth having endgame or is something better for bosses)

Discipline is a must.

Are skitterbots that beneficial when vortex and icestorm are already chilling??

Please theorycraft....

why nobody reads first posts anymore, huge amount of build theory is described in there (including auras)

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adambog wrote:

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Hemzokuken wrote:

I would love some solid theory around what auras we should be taking end game and why.

For us to increase our boss damage what do we need?

Hatred vs Herald of ice. (18% cold vs flat cold damage added)

Flesh and stone (is this worth having endgame or is something better for bosses)

Discipline is a must.

Are skitterbots that beneficial when vortex and icestorm are already chilling??

Please theorycraft....

why nobody reads first posts anymore, huge amount of build theory is described in there (including auras)

And new league hasn't changed any of this????

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Hemzokuken wrote:

I would love some solid theory around what auras we should be taking end game and why.

For us to increase our boss damage what do we need?

Hatred vs Herald of ice. (18% cold vs flat cold damage added)

Flesh and stone (is this worth having endgame or is something better for bosses)

Discipline is a must.

Are skitterbots that beneficial when vortex and icestorm are already chilling??

Please theorycraft....

I am currently playing an Inquisitor and going crit, obviously. Running Discipline, Flesh and Stone, lvl 1 Clarity and last but not least - Enfeeble with blasphemy, which I would like to replace with Aspect of the spider.
To run all of these I had to take Sovereignty tho.

I have cracked 2.5k intelligence :D

Got 2 x split personality with only int...no int and es exist yet. (They were 25c ea)

Hit my 2 large clusters with 8 passives by alt spamming and got 2 x 6% int rings. (Bases 10c ea and spent about 50 alts total getting both finished)

This league is great and cheap!! Rings were 10c ea!

Check out my gear and tree to let me know what I can change.

I started this build yesterday. Act10 Kitava done.
When I try mapping. Even a white tier map, I still feel really weak.
Died 4-5 times. I know it's because a budget gear with just 2.5k ES.

Is this could be better with an entire ES gear?
How many int, gem progression, level that enough to get into red map?

Yeah 2.5k es might be a bit too low for mapping. I'm at A10 and I currently 2.8k es (with shitty gear) but I still feel unsafe. I think capped res and around 3.5k es should be good for early maps.

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_O_German wrote:

I started this build yesterday. Act10 Kitava done.
When I try mapping. Even a white tier map, I still feel really weak.
Died 4-5 times. I know it's because a budget gear with just 2.5k ES.

Is this could be better with an entire ES gear?
How many int, gem progression, level that enough to get into red map?

You can easily get to 6k es with budget gear...most of the things are 1c ea but the passive tree and fertile minds/brute strength jewels make it a lot easier.

Just a quick question,

would it be bad to use CWDT + IC + Blade Blast + Enduring Cry?

Enduring cry now Regens life instead of giving flat Life, and we have Z Oath node.

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Hemzokuken wrote:

I would love some solid theory around what auras we should be taking end game and why.

For us to increase our boss damage what do we need?

Hatred vs Herald of ice. (18% cold vs flat cold damage added)

Flesh and stone (is this worth having endgame or is something better for bosses)

Discipline is a must.

Are skitterbots that beneficial when vortex and icestorm are already chilling??

Please theorycraft....

I would think Herald of Ice + Wave of Conviction = more damage than Hatred. Unless you have enough flat cold on your gear to proc -cold exposure on WoC already. Then Hatred is surely better.

Discipline and F&S are staples you can't go without, IMO.

AA is a waste, IMO.

And the shock level from Skitterbots is like 17-19'ish on white trash mobs and goes down drastically from there. To the point I doubt it's even reaching the minimum lvl 5 threshold on most bosses, and certainly not on bigger bosses (Conqueror's and up). And you're already chilling mobs, so that's moot. So basically, endgame, it's a 15% increased damage modifier on bosses(because can't really shock), and a fair amount more on trash mobs(because can shock)... for 35% mana reservation.

I would go for Aspect of Spider over Skitterbots (which is 10% less mana reservation, too) for practically the same 15% damage increase, but also the big movement speed hinder debuff.

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Hemzokuken wrote:

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_O_German wrote:

I started this build yesterday. Act10 Kitava done.
When I try mapping. Even a white tier map, I still feel really weak.
Died 4-5 times. I know it's because a budget gear with just 2.5k ES.

Is this could be better with an entire ES gear?
How many int, gem progression, level that enough to get into red map?

You can easily get to 6k es with budget gear...most of the things are 1c ea but the passive tree and fertile minds/brute strength jewels make it a lot easier.

Thx. It's now okay as you said when change to rare ES gear.
I focused too much on unique gear for early leveling.