[3.5] Death by a Thousand Cuts - Frost Blades & Blade Flurry Raider

* Updated for 3.5, no longer use Molten Strike

This is ~8 ex worth of gear (mostly the weapon and Chest) but you should be able to get by with much less. Check the below section for budget or alternate options.

Weapons: High PDPS Crit Claw. Touch of Anguish or Wasp's Nest are good budget options. You can also use The Scourge which is a little iffy on the survivability side but does the most damage out of all the unique claws.

Shield: Lycosidae removes accuracy problems and adds a bit of life & block.

Helmet: The Tempest's Binding for 6L Frost Blades. If in a league where this item is too costly, consider Starkonja's Head or just a rare helmet with %Elemental Damage taken as Phys and/or -%Cold Res to nearby enemies.

Body Armour: Loreweave, The Perfect Form, or a 5L Shroud of the Lightless. Use a rare with life & res on a budget.

Amulet: Rare amulet with a combination of Life, WED%, %physical gained as cold, crit multi, WED.

Gloves: Rare with life, attack speed, and res. Tombfist is actually great here but you need res too much.

Boots: Atziri's Step for great movement speed and some spell dodge. If you're doing Uber Elder, consider Kaom's Roots.

Belt: Stygian Vise with life, res, WED%. Otherwise just get normal rares with missing strength.

Rings: WED%, flat cold/phys damage, life, attributes needed.

Flasks: Life Flask, Atziri's Promise, The Wise Oak, Quartz Flask, Diamond Flask. Use Taste of Hate instead of Quartz if you really want even more damage.

Magic flasks are for anti-bleed, anti-curse, and anti-freeze. Optimally you can try to balance your resistance for the Wise Oak to hit all 3, but prioritise high cold pen if you can't.

You want 1 single Watcher's Eye with Phys Converted to Cold when affected by Hatred.
On your other jewels try to always get Maximum Life %, other good mods are:

* Increased Global Crit Multi
* Increased Global Crit Multi with Elemental Skills
* Increased Attack Speed with Claws
* Increased Projectile Damage
* Increased Attack Speed

For Abyss Jewels, get any of flat life, flat emental damage, attack speed, ele pen, or dodge chance.

Blade Flurry - Concentrated Effect - Elemental Damage with Attacks - Added Cold Damage - Elemental Focus - Hypothermia

Your single target. Get as many multipliers here as possible.

Frost Blades - Elemental Damage with Attacks - Added Cold Damage - Multistrike

Put this into your helm. You can also put in Ancestral Call somewhere, but I hate it so I don't.
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Whirling Blades - Faster Attacks - Fortify - Blood Magic

Our movement skill, very standard. You can also use Whirling Blades if you prefer, and Reduced Mana instead of Blood Magic if you have Alia.

Hatred - Summon Lightning Golem - Herald of Ice

General auras. Use Herald of Purity instead of Herald of Ice specifically for insane single target (pretty much just Uber Elder).

Storm Brand (low level) - Power Charge on Critical - Culling Strike

Power Charge generation.

Frost Bomb (lvl 1)

For single target only.

Cast When Damage Taken (lvl1) - Immortal Call (lvl 3) - Increased Duration

Defensive CWDT setup

Level with Frost Blades and Blade Flurry when you get it. If you have a Tabula you can link these gems with the same supports. Be mindful of your defences and abuse Frost Blades range.

Normal levelling uniques like Goldrim, Lochtonial Caress, Tabula Rasa, and Wanderlust are good as always, get a Seven-League Step if you can afford one.

At 26 get a Ewar's Mirage for yourself. Periodically upgrade your gear with high PDPS Claw once you get to those nodes.