[3.5] The Blinding Blizzard - Whispering Ice CI Elequisitor - Viable For Everything
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I think whispering ice is going to be my starter for the 4th league in a row now. It's just so reliable and easy. The fact that we finally have a cold channeling skill now is definitely going to spice things up! Thank you for keeping this updated. Let's hope winter orb is fabulous!
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" All I want out of spoiler season is Winter Orb details, and they're not giving it me :( If it does turn out to be garbage, do you think L1 scorching ray will still work as a "free" way to trigger it? Or possibly something like Lightning Tendrils for the crit chance or Blight for the hinder effect? |
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" Starting with WI will be easier than ever, since you are going for cold right away. Freezing Pulse + Frost Bomb won't lose efficiency for a lot longer, so you can continue with them and Heart of Ice easily until at least Act 6 where you can quickly farm The Incantation in the Western Forest if you still don't have the staff by then. Chill and freeze are totally OP for leveling. And we already know that Winter Orb will be a decently strong leveling skill, as seen in that reddit video. | |
" SR won't be good for the cold version because it doesn't hit and doesn't crit. Any other channelling skill that can hit and crit will be better when you don't need the -fire debuff. Blight and Wither don't hit and don't do anything else for us, so those 2 are out. Lightning Tendrils are too short range, they only hit targets near you. That leaves Storm Burst and Incinerate. But I don't see them being better than Winter Orb in any case. Even if WO is not really good, it will still hit and do something cold-themed. GGG tend to overtune new skills first to generate more hype and adjust them later. I have high hopes for WO. | |
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Good day everyone !
First, thanks to all of you for this build, posts and multiple answers over the few pages. Special thanks to Kelvynn for the build and all your follow-up. With your frost build, how do you sustain mana ? Storm Burst costs 21 mana, when SR only 5. THe 20% regen from Coldhearted node is enough ? Or could Clarity be a good levelling skill instead of Purity of Ice ? Thanks and have a nice day! Oillah | |
" Due to discussion, it was generally about using warlord's mark. I think that considering so many multiple hits, we can get off with just some "gain mana on hit by spells" on rings. I don't know about clarity, because our int so high, that our mana pool is equally high, so is our mana regeneration. Base mana regeneration is 1.75% of mana pool, then it means we have natural mana regeneration of atleast 32 mana/sec. Considering some of ours additional mana regeneration nodes like coldhearted, and bonus 0.5% mana regeneration from arcane surge - i actually think that we will not have any mana problem regardless. Well, ofcourse only if map don't have regeneration hindering. Need testing, so hard to say right now. Last edited by Med1umentor on Nov 26, 2018, 8:08:49 PM
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I haven't checked my damage numbers other than my hideout which shows about 14k. Shaper was pretty easy. Used 4 portals on my first try and got him. Anything you'd change here? Any tips or recommendations? My ES is 8900 and INT is about 1730. Also does anyone know if unique flasks count towards the 3% INT gain on my ring? Oh and thanks for this awesome build again Kelvynn. I used the tri-curse WI some time ago and it was awesome then. Just had to change a few things when I came back.
https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Kahnloc/characters Last edited by Kahnloc on Nov 26, 2018, 9:57:08 PM
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" Flasks and jewels don't count as "equipped uniques" in perandus signet. Both of those rings are rather bad. Now that we have access to corruption +6% int, perandus signet isn't really worth their slot. Le heup here is strange thing in any way, corrupted or not. Helmet should probably be changed to just high ES one with 50+ int, and if possible with "-9% fire res to nearby enemies". Boots only 15%, for a build that don't use movement skill for actual movement, it's rather bad. Try to corrupt your cyclopean coil for additional 6% int (same with rings) Considering absurd ES of your chest i will not say to change it, but now it's kind of part of the basic course, that when you have enough money - you buy shaper chest with 12% int on it. Also, astramentis rather lacking. Not only it's on lower roll side, it's not corrupted too. Truth be told, i don't know what to say in the first place, because i don't know your budget. Every single of your equipment tells that it's "starting pack", when you only start to form a character. And then i see that chest with several tens of exalts worth, flask that worth in exalts too. Do you have money, or you don't? :) P.S. Also, can i ask something? Why do you have +30 str node in the bottom? If you have astramentis equipped, pretty sure that it's enough to get all requirement for gems. Last edited by Med1umentor on Nov 26, 2018, 10:25:15 PM
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I've gotten a lot of help from a friend that's been playing for a while. Some of the items and suggestions he helped me with and the rest was my doing. I still have a lot to learn for sure. Most of the stuff is leftover from when it was tri-curse. The strength node was probably leftover from when I needed it. That chest was the biggest currency sink I've ever had. Noob question but if I vaal the items you were talking about can it ruin them? Or just add an undesirable mod? Thanks for the suggestions.
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" There is another channeling skill, i have tried. You can try to master the unpredictability (is this a word?? sorry english isnt my native language) of charged dash. Biggest point against using it, icestorm only drops in the path where you will move after releasing. I thought this could be usefull for map clearspeed, but i didn't like the playstyle with it. Last edited by ninuvas1977 on Nov 27, 2018, 2:14:09 AM
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