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

Wow that is some really great advice, thank you Kelvynn! I have implemented some of these already and I have gotten some good gains out of it. I also spent my last 12 ex and picked up Emperor's Wit, spending the points gained from dropping Sovereignty to get the jewel socket near Pain Attunement, sitting pretty at 3010 int!

I'm gonna run some Temples and try to get a good belt, also saving up the 50 or so ex I need to upgrade my body armour.

I did dump around 10 ex worth of Deafening Spite essences on an ilvl 79 base but all the rolls were poo poo.

I am really enjoying the gear chase at this stage of the league.

My current POB : https://pastebin.com/wka1PHkG
9.9k ES 2.7k Int

Hi guys, currently doing pretty well with this build, got lucky this league and have been able to earn much more then most leagues so I began to really invest into this build atm, was wondering why my DPS is much lower compared to the original POB in the build guide, looking at the numbers, I almost have half the DPS and not too sure whats the big difference here. Obvious upgrades that I know i need to get.
Getting more levels
Fixing res, so far not too much survivability issues despite not being res capped, but obviously something to work on. Maybe rolling some res passives on a cluster.
More flat int on chest and helm, but probably hard to justify trading out these pieces, planning to push these upgrades back later.
Curse cluster jewel is something I am crafting ATM.
Gems, got a vorici in jun missions, so will likely attempt to white socket my single target whispering ice to swap in the arcane surge gem (for now i have a low level one with vortex)
Overlevelled CWC is something i know is wrong, but working to 20 to quality it.
Wrong corruption on my belt, yeah also working to get a good corruption going.
Lastly, looking to upgrade my gear pieces, what should pieces should i be aiming for right now?

New player (first season) unsure what to reallocate to go to cluster jewels. Yes I know I'm a Templar/Inquisitor. I hope that isn't the root of the issue here.

Pastebin for my current skill tree and items: https://pastebin.com/Qg2epuYe

So I've got some good large and medium cluster gems (included in PoB data), but in order to use them I need to reallocate at least 12 skills points, 14 would be better, and I'm struggling to see more than 4 I'd be willing to let go of. I hate to ask for help but I've spent forever in PoB just not really getting anywhere trying to figure out what to get rid of and which trade off has the most value.

Any input at all from the seasoned wizards of the world would be vastly appreciated

cheers

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Clueless24 wrote:

My current POB : https://pastebin.com/wka1PHkG
9.9k ES 2.7k Int

Hi guys, currently doing pretty well with this build, got lucky this league and have been able to earn much more then most leagues so I began to really invest into this build atm, was wondering why my DPS is much lower compared to the original POB in the build guide, looking at the numbers, I almost have half the DPS and not too sure whats the big difference here.

Did you remember that you have aoe staff in slot1 and single target staff in slot2? If you looking only your aoe dps numbers, your single target dps is double the aoe dps.

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enjoi_uk wrote:

New player (first season) unsure what to reallocate to go to cluster jewels. Yes I know I'm a Templar/Inquisitor. I hope that isn't the root of the issue here.

Pastebin for my current skill tree and items: https://pastebin.com/Qg2epuYe

So I've got some good large and medium cluster gems (included in PoB data), but in order to use them I need to reallocate at least 12 skills points, 14 would be better, and I'm struggling to see more than 4 I'd be willing to let go of. I hate to ask for help but I've spent forever in PoB just not really getting anywhere trying to figure out what to get rid of and which trade off has the most value.

Any input at all from the seasoned wizards of the world would be vastly appreciated

cheers

Being Templar surely doesn't help with it. Big reason we moved from Witch to Scion is, that Scion gets so many more passive points from ascendancy.

Big point saver is Thread of Hope.
For ascendancy points, I don't think Instruments of Zeal/Virtue are that good. Zeal only really gives mana cost reduction and Virtue is for attack damage, not spell damage. I would go Inevitable Judgement instead.

I would start with something like https://pastebin.com/mAcU1EdU

You need couple more levels to get all that stuff, but shouldn't be too hard, and you need to look for resistances.

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enjoi_uk wrote:

Yes I know I'm a Templar/Inquisitor. I hope that isn't the root of the issue here.

Of course it is.

You are not immune to stun, you don't have +1 curse. That's 2 major issues right there. Not even counting the loss of skill points and tree pathing problems.

You are lv 89. At this point it's far easier to just level a new Scion and follow the guide than to try making it work for a wrong class.

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Clueless24 wrote:

My current POB : https://pastebin.com/wka1PHkG
9.9k ES 2.7k Int

Hi guys, currently doing pretty well with this build, got lucky this league and have been able to earn much more then most leagues so I began to really invest into this build atm, was wondering why my DPS is much lower compared to the original POB in the build guide, looking at the numbers, I almost have half the DPS and not too sure whats the big difference here.

Did you remember that you have aoe staff in slot1 and single target staff in slot2? If you looking only your aoe dps numbers, your single target dps is double the aoe dps.

Yep, i do remember that. That said, my aoe dps is like half of the guides pob, while my single target is 50% less. I am short a few things, that could be the reason. Likewise, would still like any suggestions for the next few upgrades.

Where to find savings in mana. Unfortunately, the enchant change is taking a long time, is there another place where I can make a change to regain points from Sovereignyta?

Trying it on hc, but it seems it's a bit more squishy than anticipated.

Was anyone able to successfuly bring it to red maps/kill some end game with it? Any tips on mods of the original build?

Was thinking to go Glancing Blows and perhaps try to pick up a few more block nodes (not sure Rumi's make sense, might be low uptime). It's not necro so no offering cheese, but it could end up with at least capped attack block...

Other ideas
- Blast Freeze cluster,
- Smite?
- Vitality?

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4nthraxx wrote:

Trying it on hc, but it seems it's a bit more squishy than anticipated.

Was anyone able to successfuly bring it to red maps/kill some end game with it? Any tips on mods of the original build?

Was thinking to go Glancing Blows and perhaps try to pick up a few more block nodes (not sure Rumi's make sense, might be low uptime). It's not necro so no offering cheese, but it could end up with at least capped attack block...

Other ideas
- Blast Freeze cluster,
- Smite?
- Vitality?

First of all, i am NOT a hardcore player, so i cant say anything for sure.
Personally, in the mapping setup, i almost never die in t16 maps, except on specific bosses and guardians, most of the deaths were me being dumb and tanking a slam (and i wasnt capped on res till earlier) ele prolif with inc aoe in the mapping staff feels good enough to perma freeze the screen. Going for glancing blows probably helps with defenses, but i think having more flat HP would be better as most of the time you don't die from many hits you die from a big hit (at least for me)

Regarding your suggestions
Blast freeze cluster -> ele prolif in mapping staff already does the same thing, no reason to get it
smite -> not sure how this helps defensively, and probably not worth offensively either
vitality -> at max level, vitality is 250ish HP regen per second, once again i do not think its worth it as you are not stacking any regen on the build, apart from the conc ground effect giving us life regen.