[3.28] Ice Dancing God - Icestorm/Cyclone/CI - Viable For Everything

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Kelvynn#6607 wrote:

About imbued gems

Get lv 20 Cyclone imbued with Increased Critical Strikes. You get ~25% MORE damage while mapping, and it's cheap.

The same effect can be obtained with Cyclone imbued with Increased Critical Damage or Hypothermia (replace that gem with Inc Crit Strikes).

You can get ~36% MORE damage if you get Cyclone imbued with CwC or PCoC. But those are very expensive. For mapping it's not a reasonable price unless you are constantly doing very hard maps.

Get lv 20 Punishment or Frostbite imbued with Hextouch. You can then replace Hextouch with Hexpass to curse hexproof enemies and disable enemy crits. That's very nice for rippy maps, simulacrums, etc.

What about Frostblink imbued with more duration? We sacrifice about 0.2s of Immortal Call buff but free up 1 gem slot which we can add Cooldown Recovery Support. Is it worth the trade off?

I was lucky and got a cyclone with PCoC, but what should I put instead of it? Increased Critical Strikes 20/20?or is there something better?

Per his twitch channel, Kelvynn has retired from this league, having finished 40/40 and fully gearing up, so looks like we're on our own for now.

Looks like I missed out on the top upgrades, as Reflecting Mists are for sale at 20+ div only face to face (so I suspect the prices are fake), and there are zero Kalandra's Touch rings for sale.

I should have focused on Alva temples a lot earlier. So, for posterity, the way to do them is to limit to 3 temples (not 4) on the Atlas tree (but have all the other ones selected per Kelvynn's example.) Then do them in a 2-3-3-3-1 order. That is, do 2 temples only first time. You can minimize your cost by using Incursion Scarab of Timelines only when you have a connected corruption or jewelcrafting room. The reason for the 23331 pattern is to get an extra chance for tier 3 rooms from Timelines.

Now that I've experienced explody, I don't know if I can ever go back...