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

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Mindhandler wrote:

Agree to disagree then. My belt is a 7% increase from a standard cyclopean coil with 18% attributes. And a 2.2% increase over a cyclopean coil with perfectly corrupted rolls. So the one you are using would be anywhere from a 3-5% dps loss for me while costing more than a rare belt. Rare belts with %int base cost 50-70c. You can hit something useable within a few essences so the belt cost is about 1ex. Being cheaper would not classify it as a "late game option."

Yeah, I would get a 2.7% damage increase using your belt at the cost of losing shock and ignite immunity as well as some stats. It comes down to preference I guess, but I never struggled with resistances personally and would rather keep with the cyclopean QoL myself. I also didn't realize the cyclopean coil was that expensive now.

Damage boost from swapping amulet is huge, though, and doesn't need to be too expensive. They've gone up in price somewhat, but you can still get a decent one sub-5 ex.

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Oliversrensen wrote:

Now, this Megalomaniac is good! PM me if you're interested in buying it :P

It's good for sure, but once again you're aiming way too high; no way you'll get 100ex for it. Been 2 of em listed the past week for 50ex and 60ex.

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Oliversrensen wrote:

Now, this Megalomaniac is good! PM me if you're interested in buying it :P

It's good for sure, but once again you're aiming way too high; no way you'll get 100ex for it. Been 2 of em listed the past week for 50ex and 60ex.
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Oh yeah I'm for sure not getting 100ex, but I don't need the money right now, so I'm just collecting offers :P Highest is 45ex atm, and he's trying to get more xD

Ugh. Kitava wrecked my resistances (As expected). Didn't find good gear along the way and I spent the little currency I had to buy stuff to get going with this. But I've filled the sockets that I have with 3 grand spectrums to temporarily get my resists maxed until I've got enough currency to get some decent gear. Transitioning out of Astramentis will be rough.

I've got 3,3k ES right now, which isn't too much. The build itself is fun and all, but I don't know, I feel like I need lots of currency to get decent gear because I suck at crafting X.x

So I'm currently level 85 with this build and starting to struggle. I'm trying to do red maps and even without mods many just take too long to kill or punch through my ES from 100%. My current PoB is here https://pastebin.com/8wvQ6046 so if someone could tell me what I'm doing wrong it would be a huge help! I really enjoy the build but don't want to shelve it for not figuring out my problems.

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BadwithMicro wrote:

So I'm currently level 85 with this build and starting to struggle. I'm trying to do red maps and even without mods many just take too long to kill or punch through my ES from 100%. My current PoB is here https://pastebin.com/8wvQ6046 so if someone could tell me what I'm doing wrong it would be a huge help! I really enjoy the build but don't want to shelve it for not figuring out my problems.

One easy fix that will be immediately helpful for basically no cost is flasks. Run a granite flask of warding/staunching and a basalt flask of warding or staunching in your 4th and 5th flask slots. Those 2 flasks will give you 44% physical damage reduction instead of 0. Extremely useful in maps.

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One easy fix that will be immediately helpful for basically no cost is flasks. Run a granite flask of warding/staunching and a basalt flask of warding or staunching in your 4th and 5th flask slots. Those 2 flasks will give you 44% physical damage reduction instead of 0. Extremely useful in maps.

So run a granite and basalt instead of my forbidden taste and silver flask?

Sorry if this has been asked previously, but why not use Herald of Ice?

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BadwithMicro wrote:

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One easy fix that will be immediately helpful for basically no cost is flasks. Run a granite flask of warding/staunching and a basalt flask of warding or staunching in your 4th and 5th flask slots. Those 2 flasks will give you 44% physical damage reduction instead of 0. Extremely useful in maps.

So run a granite and basalt instead of my forbidden taste and silver flask?

Yes

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Audience_Cat wrote:

Sorry if this has been asked previously, but why not use Herald of Ice?

If you need a 25% mana reserved damage aura use aspect of the spider. Herald of ice does roughly 1/4th of a full stacked spider, and it will stack up fast on bosses. Skitterbots and hatred are both better damage aura options but cost more mana res.

Hi again, I would really appreciate some advice from someone experienced with this build (looking humbly at Mindhadler).

I feel I got to the very late gearing phase, I have all jewels, switched to amulet and belt, still working on my 5% int gloves and looking for some rings if the price drops to a reasonable level again (25+ ex for garbage rings with only one useful stat, that is pure greediness).
However, after switching from perfectly rolled and corrupted unique belt and astramentis, I feel a bit squishy... My damage skyrocketed by 20 percent but I do not feel so safe when running t16 maps now (I have switched because I got owned by chimera and managed to accumulate enough ex to buy me the amulet, then I sold my old belt because the other guy seemed to need it much more than I did, stupid, I know, but hopefully philantropic :) ).
I am pretty sure I am doing something wrong, but for the life of me I can’t get to the bottom of this. I am not using flasks so often, because I can’t play piano, if you know what I mean... Maybe that is my problem?

Anyway, I would be really glad if someone can point me in the right direction, I would love to grind to level 100 at least once, but it is difficult dying here and there...

Thanks a lot for reading such a long post :)
Cheers
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P.S. I have 13,8k ES and Icestorm in-game tooltip shows 54,5k damage, resistances are 81/83/78 (I do not know how I will manage after switching to rings, though)