[3.21] ShakCentral's Cold DoT Elementalist For Everyone

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General_Drogonov wrote:

Thanks for the clarification! What about the Watcher´s Eye mod "Adds XX to XX Cold Damage when affected by Hatred"?

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Fourlis wrote:

If I'm playing CI (don't have the cash for LL yet), is there something I'm missing about why I should go Profane Bloom? The PoB doesn't use any curses, so would profane bloom provide any benefit at all? It looks like it only triggers on cursed enemies, and unless my CWDT triggers enfeeble, nothing will be cursed.

Does it make sense for me to go Forbidden Power instead until I get LL and can fit a blasphemy setup in?

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Roselan wrote:

My turn to have a question. I love my CI (and my vaal regalia), but I want to use the Kiloava lethal pride.

Can you please confirm that placing it in the slot under Minion instability keystone transforms it (or Avatar of Fire) to Glancing Blows?

You will have no regrets!

ty

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Roselan wrote:

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Fourlis wrote:

If I'm playing CI (don't have the cash for LL yet), is there something I'm missing about why I should go Profane Bloom? The PoB doesn't use any curses, so would profane bloom provide any benefit at all? It looks like it only triggers on cursed enemies, and unless my CWDT triggers enfeeble, nothing will be cursed.

Does it make sense for me to go Forbidden Power instead until I get LL and can fit a blasphemy setup in?

Witchfire Brew flask curses enemies around when active, allowing profane bloom to trigger.

In section 3.8 you will notice that vile bastion is speced out in favour of Malediction when we switch to LL. This grant us one more curse.

One of the PoB option runs blasphemy with temp chains and enfeeble. (but you can run one curse with blasphemy and rely on witchfire brew if you have mana issue). You my run out of the flask during boss fight, but then you don't care about the final boss exploding or not.

That said, I have to say the guide is not the most easy to navigate. There is so much stuff that I don't know how I would do it anyway :D

hope this help

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ShakCentral wrote:

I'm hoping that some guide updates will help with more clarity, but I'm not sure how I could make it any easier to find things. I don't even know of any other guides that literally have a Table of Contents and number every sections. I would be happy to hear suggestions for more clarity - I want it to be as easy to navigate as possible in the future

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Roselan wrote:

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ShakCentral wrote:

I'm hoping that some guide updates will help with more clarity, but I'm not sure how I could make it any easier to find things. I don't even know of any other guides that literally have a Table of Contents and number every sections. I would be happy to hear suggestions for more clarity - I want it to be as easy to navigate as possible in the future

This is my take on it:

Short sexy introduction
The good, the bad and the ugly

skill gems
- vortex
- cold snap
- etc

skill tree
- LL
- (CI)
- gif, pastebin and poe.party link
- ascendency, bandits, pantheon

gear
- armor and weapons
- jewels
- flasks


Leveling
- new league
- full guide link
- Trees at 10, 20, 40, 80 (gif format)
- swapping to LL

Mechanics and explanations
- "Part 1"

Resources (video, pastebin, trade)
- pastebin
- videos
- Trade searches
- other guides
- fluff
- change log
- todo
- about


There are several ways to use a guide but I doubt lot of people read them like a book. When I was using one (in 3.5) I came back to it regularly to check something. I like direct access to what matters: gems, tree, leveling.

Another thing, don't use small spoilers but BIG ones. When you want to search with ctrl+f, you don't want to open 50 subsections (as search won't work with collapsed folders). With this you have 6. The bullets should be titles, not spoilers.

It's a hot take and I'm pretty sure not everybody would like it. But I feel I'm not alone to have troubles navigating the guide right now. That said, It would be a lot of work to cut the guide and re-stitch together, for a unpredictable result. I'm not sure it's even worth to try. I mean, the guide is good!

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Hell1986,

Could you give me an example? Don't forget that penetration is different from lowered resists. Things like the -9% Cold Resist on a helmet is not penetration and works with our DoT damage.