[3.20] Ice Dancing Queen - Icestorm/Cyclone/CI - Viable For Everything
Yes, I'm aware of Kelvynn's recommendations.
I was specifically talking about the wave of conviction discussion plus alternate skill gems.
I'm fully aware of the lvl 95-ish Hatred-specific tree with cluster jewels for extra damage. I haven't put that through PoB yet to see how much it got nerfed.
I've been using the 3.10 Delirium tree for my build and only just realised that Split Personality is limited to 2 now. Is there a better version of the tree that accommodates for the nerf or should I just stick with it and aim for regular jewels Int/Cold dmg etc jewels.
I've been using the 3.10 Delirium tree for my build and only just realised that Split Personality is limited to 2 now. Is there a better version of the tree that accommodates for the nerf or should I just stick with it and aim for regular jewels Int/Cold dmg etc jewels.
Check out my modified build from Delirium: https://pastebin.com/N1ibLSEb . It's been fixed to use only 2 split personality jewels. Note this is a hatred build.
Gear is not top tier, so only 12070 ES and 2826 int. I was running around 15K ES and 3700 int with my 11 split jewels -- the good ol' days.
I've been using the 3.10 Delirium tree for my build and only just realised that Split Personality is limited to 2 now. Is there a better version of the tree that accommodates for the nerf or should I just stick with it and aim for regular jewels Int/Cold dmg etc jewels.
Check out my modified build from Delirium: https://pastebin.com/N1ibLSEb . It's been fixed to use only 2 split personality jewels. Note this is a hatred build.
Gear is not top tier, so only 12070 ES and 2826 int. I was running around 15K ES and 3700 int with my 11 split jewels -- the good ol' days.
Check out my current league tree for a split personality build
I've been using the 3.10 Delirium tree for my build and only just realised that Split Personality is limited to 2 now. Is there a better version of the tree that accommodates for the nerf or should I just stick with it and aim for regular jewels Int/Cold dmg etc jewels.
Check out my modified build from Delirium: https://pastebin.com/N1ibLSEb . It's been fixed to use only 2 split personality jewels. Note this is a hatred build.
Gear is not top tier, so only 12070 ES and 2826 int. I was running around 15K ES and 3700 int with my 11 split jewels -- the good ol' days.
Check out my current league tree for a split personality build
Looks long and winding. Cheers. Do you intend on getting a Megalomaniac at some point and do you have it planned out to ~lv95?
Last edited by Tsplodey#3323 on Sep 24, 2020, 6:24:38 AM
and here's the problem with it:
48-72 cold damage
51-76 fire damage
Those are the numbers at lv 1, but the proportion stays the same at any level. The alternative quality converts only 20% of the phys damage to cold, as opposed to 25% fire. And even if it converted 25%, the random spread makes it too unreliable - you can't guarantee that cold will hit harder than fire on any particular hit. Without Hatred or Herald of Ice that is.
Now, the question is: can the same target be affected by both Fire and Cold Exposure at the same time? If yes then it's not too bad. But if no then it's not good at all.
Sorry, but this is absolutely not the case for you since you have Heart of Ice. That's +109% cold damage on top of 6% cold penetration.
But even before this, as long as the AltQ WoC is being used, anyone who is running bonechill with vortex is getting at minimum a +14% (up to +30%) cold damage on chilled enemies.
And, on top of this, once Frostbite procs, the next WoC proc is absolutely the cold exposure.
On top of all this, Wise Oak flask would also add 10-15% cold penetration and ensure WoC procs cold, too.
Also, a cheap way to make WoC proc cold early on would be to grab Frost Walker, or even just the single 12% node leading to Heart of Ice, while having just some # to # flat cold SOMEWHERE on any piece of gear.
And this would be the case without Herald of Ice or any # to # cold dmg to spells on any gear, too if the Alt Quality Phantasmal WoC gem is being used.
20% + 12% > 25% fire/lightning.
But right now, Kelvynn, since you have Heart of Ice and the AltQ gem, you definitely should be using WOC instead of Frost Bomb. There is zero doubt your WoC would proc cold exposure 100% of the time. You have way more +cold damage than the +25% fire or lightning.
I mean nobody should be settling for 1 Frost Bomb proc(2.5s cooldown) vs potentially 10 WoC procs (0.25s cooldown due to CWDT) in that same 2.5 seconds. That's silly.
Those are my actual numbers from equipping the gem. I'm sure they already include all cold damage increases except penetration.
The problem is in the variance. Each hit will deal a random amount of cold damage between 48 and 72, and a random 51-76 fire damage. Sure, the actual amount of cold will be higher, but it's still quite possible for the random fire amount to end up higher than cold. Bonechill won't work for targets not near you since Vortex is cast on you.
Hence the question: can the same target have BOTH exposures at the same time? Fire from an occasional unlucky proc and cold from most 'good' ones?
Hence the question: can the same target have BOTH exposures at the same time? Fire from an occasional unlucky proc and cold from most 'good' ones?
Why don't I go and check? Haha. I went to Act 10 and manually cast WoC on some mobs. In about 1/3 of the cases they became Vulnerable to Fire instead of Cold. However, when I then dropped Frost Bomb on them they became Vulnerable to both Fire and Cold!
That means the Exposure debuffs can stack. That's all we need! WoC can proc almost as often as CWDT itself. Meaning that against a persistent source of damage it will proc multiple times and guarantee that Cold Exposure will get applied.
I'll play with this Phantasmal WoC and see how it goes.
