[3.26] ShakCentral's Cold DoT Witch For Everyone

Malediction ist now on the skill Tree but just for +1 additional curse the ascendancy point seems not good enough? Maybe we could go on Elementalist?

I really want to play Wintertide Brand as my league start. Eagerly awaiting what folks think about this. I'm hearing whispers that Trickster might be much stronger now?

Thanks for the very detailed guide.
Have you consider making Trickster variant as well?

could you do trickster variant and pro/cons?

phreak is recommending Elementalist and tytykiller is recommending Trickster, have we looked into alternative ascendencies?

Hmm... it is interesting if Trickter is worth?

I see a lot of people playing Creeping Frost or some other spell as supplemental skill instead of Wintertide Brand. What are your thoughts on Creeping Frost or some other cold skill to replace Wintertide Brand? Do you still recommend Wintertide Brand going into 3.20 based on what we know with partial patch notes? I'm trying a play through with Wintertide right now and it was smooth to level with but wondering if an alternate would be better once getting into tougher maps. Would switching to another cold skill free up some passive tree points? Another cold skill may also allow for curse on hit enabling Profane Bloom.

What about thoughts on alternative ways to apply curses with the new league? Still recommended to use Bane to apply multiple curses?

i'll try this! thanks for the amazing POB job <3

Hi! I was wondering if you could have a more indepth section on how you should prioritize your casting order to maximize clear speed. This could include suggestions on hotkeys with the skills and stuff? I havent played these gems and it may be much easier than I assume but may be helpful for new players :)

Honest question - since you are not taking Profane Bloom for the explosions, what's the point of running Occu over Ele?

Occu gives you
+1 curse, which is -~30% cold resistance after the nerfs and bane curse effect reduction
15% more cold damage
-20% cold resistance
Freezeimmunity
Stunimmunity
A little bit of ES recovery

Ele taking Heart of Destruction, Mastermind of Discord, Shaper of Storms gives you
19.5% more damage from guaranteed shock (30% increased from the minor before shaper of storms, 20% from divine judgement)
-25% cold resistance
60% AoE for clear, 15% more damage for bossing (average)

So you loose ~-25% coldres, but gain 19.5% more damage - loosing even less if you now selfcast frostbite instead of Bane-ing both curses. Freezeimmunity can be crafted on boots anyways.

And then either Shaper of Winter for 40% slow from Chill from Vortex (you hit the 40% cap from the guaranteed chill alone), which also equates to ~4.6% more damage from bonechill),
or Bastion of Elements for a bunch of eHP against elemental hits.

You can also get the extra curse back for 4 passive points as you're pathing by Whispers of Doom anyways.