[3.9] ICE NOVA GUARDIAN. INSANE DPS. INSANE DEFENSE. BUILD OF THE LEAGUE.

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Ace_007 wrote:

Been slowly progressing with this build, and it's been going quite well. What do you think I should save for next? There's definitely room for improvement on most of my gear, but I'm looking for what would give me the most bang for my buck. I have roughly 11-12ex, but will continue to save :D

Character: Everywitnessneedsanorgy

Corrupted blood immunity on something that's not Frozen Trail (you want corrupted blood for sirus but you dont want frozen trail)

Awakened added cold (lvl 5 only) instead of hypothermia
Start leveling awakened cold pen
Awakened AOE is some extra dmg for clearing
Gmp quality for cast speed
Faster casting quality
Watcher's eye
Fix Resist/STR so you can use Cyclopean Coil instead for perma shock immunity.

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maddognils wrote:

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Ace_007 wrote:

Been slowly progressing with this build, and it's been going quite well. What do you think I should save for next? There's definitely room for improvement on most of my gear, but I'm looking for what would give me the most bang for my buck. I have roughly 11-12ex, but will continue to save :D

Character: Everywitnessneedsanorgy

Corrupted blood immunity on something that's not Frozen Trail (you want corrupted blood for sirus but you dont want frozen trail)

Awakened added cold (lvl 5 only) instead of hypothermia
Start leveling awakened cold pen
Awakened AOE is some extra dmg for clearing
Gmp quality for cast speed
Faster casting quality
Watcher's eye
Fix Resist/STR so you can use Cyclopean Coil instead for perma shock immunity.

I do have a backup jewel with corrupted blood immunity that I swap out for Sirus. Ring and gloves will need to be changed for Cyclopean, so I'll start shopping for those. Thanks for taking a look, and thanks for the guide.

Love the build so far. This was exactly what i was looking for. I was running a variant of the "perfect ice nova Heiro" 50% mom corrupted soul version but this is exactly what I needed. I would gladly give up 4k eHP and about 2million per ice nova POB DPS (overkill DPS you need for nothing in the entire game) for 38k Armour and stun immunity.

Playing with the gear with one more level and getting some 28% qualities from Jun I should break 10k ES without the clarity eye and am over 2million DPS per nova still without frost bomb applied.

Looking at jewels rather than the extra ES which is no doubt huge I am also curious to try out the discipline ES on hit. That seems like insane sustain. Has anyone tried that out?

Gear for reference linked below. Not home so cannot take out jewels to link but pretty much in line with what was suggested. I wasn't sure about it buit did end up going with unnatural instinct because otherwise there was no way to make 10k ES happen without the clarity eye. Loving the build so far about 1 day in post respec from heiro.

Oh one thing I did do. I really like mapping with both faster casting and faster/slower proj so I went with a curse on hit frostbite ring. It is working out so far well but did take some work to still break 10k es without jewel.

One more edit. Coil can be qualitied for another 4% inc attributes and dream frags can be qualitied for mana both of which can be pretty nice upgrades in you have the money. Just figured Id mention as they did not jump out to me as would work with quality and its not always obvious what would and would not work.

Does tailwind add a lot of smoothness to the build? I feel like I'm stopping way more than I'm going compared to the gameplay videos here and as far as I'm aware I only lack cast speed from jewels.

Another thing I'm curious about, I never play es chars so excuse my ignorance, where does our es leech come from? Just that small node under ghost reaver?

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S03 wrote:

Does tailwind add a lot of smoothness to the build? I feel like I'm stopping way more than I'm going compared to the gameplay videos here and as far as I'm aware I only lack cast speed from jewels.

Another thing I'm curious about, I never play es chars so excuse my ignorance, where does our es leech come from? Just that small node under ghost reaver?

Considering our damage is high and multiple layers of nova's, we leech a good amount.
If you feel you need more leech, which I'm certain you don't, but you can sacrifice damage to take the Heart of Ice annoint instead of Crusader, but again, i don't think you need it.. Move around and every few seconds you get a massive ammount of ES regen from our Ascendancy!

I'm playing hc so you can never get enough leech! I'm using some cheap annoint for cast speed since I can't afford crusader and also I just realized that I haven't done uber yet...

what're we meant to use if we can't get cannot be ignited dream fragment ring? as it seems pretty rare to find it, I've only seen one on the market.

thanks

After sinking something to the tune of 100ex(not including HH) into this build i decided i've achived everthing i wanted with it and will be moving on. This is a summery of my time with this build of sort.

This build is good, very good, if u sink enough currency into u practically become unkillable (10.5k ES, 24k armor with max res) with a very high DPS (just abit above 2mil for ice nova alone using increased aoe if POB is to be belived).
i've compleated every endgame boss deathless - uber elder/sirus 8.
now abit abit about the negatives-
clear speed is a meh, its not horrible but it aint amazing, its about a "B" at the best of times and a "C-" on some maps.
This build just kills FPS, really, on certains maps its abit of a pain.
this is a HUGE currency sink, while the OP isnt wrong and u can get it going at ~15ex (i started out this build with 21ex) the build wont feel good untill u get atleast 10k es (around 9k if u dont suck like me) and that will be very expensive.
Bottled Faith, Tailwind boots and Culling strike+unnerve gloves are all amazing for dps and kinda a must if u wanna do endgame content without falling behind.
The watcher's eye is probably the single best ES boosting item in this build and i really do recomend getting it asap (it is very expesnive doe, was around 36ex when i bought it afew weeks back)

Anyhow, this build is great, one of the best ones i played in awhile, had a blast with it!
EDIT: on a side note, i've never stopped using a mana flask with "Full mana dosent stop flask effect" just coz i felt that without the casts are much slower thus dropping my dps.
(My PoB if some1 wants it for refference: https://pastebin.com/3d8eFpQf)

Any suggestions?

Hi guys. Really enjoying the build and was able to do Awakened 8 Sirius deathless with ease, however, I feel as Im lacking some heavy DPS (compared to video). Can you kindly suggest if anything obvious seems out of place?: