[2.5] Fabulous Frank's Festive Fern Raider/Pathfinder - Tulborn Freezing Pulse

Tree

Ascendancy Points:
Quartz Infusion
Gives us some Dodge Chance and most importantly provides us with phasing on Kill, While we have Onslaught and While we have maximum Frenzy Charges.

Avatar of the Veil
Gives us Extra l Damage as well as Increased Movement Speed, Spell Dodge and Immunity to Elemental Status Ailments while we are phasing.

Rapid Assault
Gives us Onslaught on Kill

Avatar of the Chase
Doubles the effect of our Onslaught.

Tree

Ascendancy Points:
Nature's Boon
Makes us slightly less vulnerable to elemental damage, passively generates flask charges and has a chance that our flasks don't consume charges.

Master Alchemist
Gives us immunity to Elemental Status Ailments, Increased Elemental Damage and 20% chance to freeze all while using a flask.

Veteran Bowyer
Gives us more Cold Penetration as well as allowing us to gain additional flask charges from frozen enemies.

Nature's Adrenaline
Extra movement speed from Flasks.

Main Hand


We are using Tulborn to add a large amount of flat cold damage based on our power charges and to also generate said power charges, since most of our flat damage comes from power charges Tulfall does not seem like a good idea.

Off-Hand


An Energy Shield, Spell damage + Catarina crafted cast speed can be substituted for extra energy shield since we do not have as much energy shield as the Trickster Variant.


You can also opt for a 2nd wand if you feel you have enough ES still.

another Tulborn was the best option for me


however one may consider a Void Battery for what was(for me at least) a very small damage boost fully buffed


Or a rare wand to help us have extra damage when our charges are down.

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Helm

We use a hubris circlet with Energy Shield and Resists as well as a Leo crafted chance to avoid stuns. Any freezing pulse enchant will help us but wont be necessary, our freezing pulse already does a decent amount of damage at the edge of the screen so while projectile speed is nice it is not mandatory.

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Chest

We use a standard high energy shield chest with some resists

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Gloves

We use Surgebinders for up to 98% increased damage to our freezing pulse, the most important rolls are Elemental Damage Per Frenzy Charge, Spell Damage per Power Charge and a low roll of Reduced charge duration. It is worth noting that these can be a pain in the neck to search for on Poe.Trade and I recommend setting a minimum buyout of 4 or 5 chaos just to filter out bad rolls. cold spell based enchants are best.

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Boots

Decent energy shield, high movement speed Sorceror Boots are used, we can also consider Skyforth if we can afford it. This is one of your best locations to fill out resists and I have prioritised those over high energy shield. For enchants leech is best.


although when we have all sources of leech it is interesting to consider +1 frenzy charge corrupted boots.

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Amulet


We use the Aylardex as its low value makes it easy to corrupt +1 frenzy charge. It also gives us an extra power charge and makes our power charges last exponentially longer which helps for bosses. The mana regeneration doesn't hurt either. Since we are not scaling crit and are using Elemental Overload the reduced crit chance per powercharge doesn't affect us.


An interesting alternative here is the Pandemonius(Upgraded Tul Amulet) this gives us some more cold penetration, blind and increased cold damage, for bosses you will either have to selfcast your Vortex or stand near the boss so that he is constantly chilled from the vortex.

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Rings


For Early mapping we use 2 Snakepit rings for the extra cast speed, damage and most importantly the extra projectile


Later on when you can afford it, using a Green Dream jewel may allow us to drop Ice Bite for Greater Multiple Projectiles letting us remove the Snakepits for Opal Rings crafted with Essences of Hatred.

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Belt

[RAIDER/PATHFINDER]I like Doryani's Invitation here for the extra damage, a bit of leech and the extra freeze chance while using a flask, this becomes practically mandatory if you drop Ice Bite on the Raider.

[PATHFINDER] A Rare belt with reduced flask charges used for better flask sustain if you find yourself having trouble with flask uptime.

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Flasks

We are using Atziri's Promise for extra damage and leech

I like the Overflowing Chalice for increased damage and flask charge generation when needed

We then use an array of flasks to help with weaknesses such as bleeding or freeze immunity, these can go on your preferred utility flasks


If you can afford it Dying Sun is a great help as it increases the radius of our blasphemy and grants us 2(3 for Pathfinder) more projectiles if we are using Snakepits.