[3.9?] Sidefx Frost Blades - Hyped for Support +

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tirrorex wrote:

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CottonSwabs wrote:

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Flat phys is always preffered

Is there a reason why it's added cold over melee physical damage then?

No answer on this?

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Sidefx06 wrote:

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CottonSwabs wrote:

After messing around, I've determined that Lightpoacher is absolute crap on our build. We don't scale phys spell damage, therefore the projectiles do small pitter patter damage. I'd pick up a Starkonja's or Rat's Nest instead.

I'm pretty much at a loss atm. I've mostly stuck under t7 maps because of my low HP pool (3.3k). I picked up ToH and will probably take Acrobatics keystone just to have a few more defense layers. Currency farming wise, this build is pretty good. Being a general all rounder even at the lowest tiers is... more questionable. Dying to a lich at a t1 map multiple times made me sad.

I'll probably regret this toon into a wanderfinder simply because the currency investment seems to scale better as well as a more cohesive defense strategy (stacking evasion).

I took the liberty of making a poe.trade search for abyss jewels.
http://poe.trade/search/akutugotonasin

The helmet is for the heal not the projectile, and for me the projectile is still shattering/exploding mobs so thats a + also stuck on t7 maps? how I just did Elder and his guardians with 4k hp. I dont know how some people shred and some people cant do anything. I have yet to find in comparison to each other what the issue is. honestly I think its play style some people have it some dont. Also thank you for the abyss jewel search :)

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Kimbroslice wrote:

Have to say I am in love with this style of a build. I have played tons of variants ranging from pure molten striker, to molten striker with frost blades for aoe clear, and pure frost blades using frost blade threshold jewels. I have tried out tons of items including the lightpoacher helm and both wasp nest's and touch of anguish for weapons and I loved every bit of it. I'd like to say thanks to the OP and everyone who has added useful information to the thread!

Currently this is the gear setup that I have settled on. I am running red maps with a 5.6k life pool on a 6l belly. This build just steam rolls almost every map mod. This is my current gear.

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CottonSwabs wrote:

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CottonSwabs wrote:

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Flat phys is always preffered

Is there a reason why it's added cold over melee physical damage then?

I've done some additional testing on PoB. At level 20, melee physical support has a 2% increase over added cold. This is more obvious if we get an additional jewel socket for The Watcher's Eye w/ Hatred, additional 25-40 phys to cold conversion. Add Taste of Hate on top of that and melee physical damage support just can't be beat.

At the highest tiers of abyss jewels, flat phys damage wins. Flat cold laggs behind only by a small 0.5-1% so it's no fuss if you're not planning to scale heavily with end game accessories.

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tirrorex wrote:

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CottonSwabs wrote:

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tirrorex wrote:

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Taste of Hate is a damage mitigation tool. It gives you an extra 6% of cold resist and any incoming physical damage is converted to cold damage at a 20% rate. I'm not too sure on the exact percent of the mitigation, but it's a decent number.

If you mean the damage portion, this doesn't pierce reflect. I'm not sure how you interpreted it that way? You get extra conversion from phys to cold.