[3.24] Frostbolt/Ice Nova Hierophant | 100m DPS | All Content

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Criiq wrote:

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feigenstaub wrote:

Now I saw your endgame pob and it goes off. I see you didnt went into widespread destruction. May I ask why you want it on the jewel then?
Or do I miss something else?

Essentially, large cluster jewels are most efficient when we only have to take the two notables on the way to our jewel sockets. The notables on the large cold cluster jewels (with the very important exception of Blanketed Snow) are not generally worth two extra skill points to access since our tree is super tight.

What that means is we want our two best notables (Blanketed Snow + one other) immediately to the left and right of the starting passive on the cluster rather than directly across. That allows us to only take 5 passives on the entire cluster (including our 2 jewel sockets) and ignore the final notable entirely.

Generally speaking, players (OP and myself included) would like Prismatic Heart as the other taken notable besides Blanketed Snow since it's decent for damage and gives us a little bit of flexibility with our resists elsewhere. The problem is, in order to get both Blanketed Snow and Prismatic Heart positioned directly to the left and right of the starting passive in the cluster, we need to have Widespread Destruction as the other notable. Some factor I am not aware of (name maybe?) determines the order of the notables in a cluster and Widespread Destruction happens to be the only one that positions Blanketed Snow and Prismatic Heart the way we want.

Now, if you're willing to use a notable alongside Blanketed Snow besides Prismatic Heart, your options for your third notable open up quite a bit. OP rightly suggests Corrosive Elements or Sadist as decent alternatives to Prismatic Heart. In both of their cases, instead of just Widespread Destruction, Doryani's Lesson and Disorienting Display will position your notables as desired.

This means the "Blanketed in Snow/Prismatic Heart/Widespread Destruction/2 jewel sockets" cluster jewel is going to be far rarer to craft and far more expensive to buy. I purchased mine for 5 and 4ex which felt pretty good given OP's estimation of it costing 5-10ex to craft yourself. If you're willing to go with either Corrosive Elements or Sadist instead of Prismatic Heart, however, you should be able to get it for much less. Alternatively, if you're willing to "waste" the two skill points and hit up all 3 notables on the cluster, you can probably craft something yourself fairly easily with chaos rather than bothering with exalt slams. Entirely up to you, OP was just offering the optimized path.

Hopefully this helps!