[3.6] The Blizz Sorc - Icestorm/Winter Orb CI Occultist - Viable For Everything

So there is a new Watcher's Eye mod for Zealotry

180% increased Maximum total Recovery per second from Energy Shield Leech while affected by Zealotry

Even though that Aura doesn't do much for the build.... that mod is totally broken if I'm reading that right.

Like, full near instant leech constantly while face-tanking broken.

My math might be off, but with that mod, the 50% from the tree, and Ghost reaver, you are looking at 66% ES/Second recovered. That's before Blood Rage Procs, or additional ES recovery from the Discipline watcher's eye mod. Would be a giant trade-off for that aura, but may be worth it.

Yeah, it's been very instructive playing without CI in Alva's Incursions. I just never noticed that before!

OK time to go buy an orb of regret and fix that.

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Graiaule wrote:

Hmm. Am I missing something? Is CI actually required (other than being chaos immune)? I accidentally ran out of respec points before I hit CI, and oh look this char is playing just fine...

And I'm losing life sometimes even when I'm at full ES. Still trying to understand what is going on. Presumably if I actually had just 1 life, I'd have been dead already?

(A weekend of grinding sure screws up your brain...)

Might be chaos damage which would cause you to lose life even when you're on full ES

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Graiaule wrote:

Hmm. Am I missing something? Is CI actually required (other than being chaos immune)? I accidentally ran out of respec points before I hit CI, and oh look this char is playing just fine...

Well, CI's only (current)function is to make you chaos immune, so... yes?
Without investment in hp and chaos res, chaos damage will kill you. Just try doing high-level incursions with many vaal constructs or rare chaos-spamming mages. Also, going CI will free at least 1 flask slot. Or, in your case, three.

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LadyLoriana wrote:

Might be chaos damage which would cause you to lose life even when you're on full ES

Actually, there are only 2 other things that could make you lose life while on full ES. One is "lose life when X" effects (example: Gloomfang, caustic mana flask), another is using Corrupted Energy jewel and being hit by phys damage.

I should have taken a screenshot then. In an incursion, no visible icons indicating anything going on, full ES (2400), zero life. With CI turned on, this character is finally feeling like the WI chars of old.

Guess I spoke too soon. T2 incursions are cleaning my clock at 2600 ES and 4500 damage/hit (1108 int). Looks like I need to farm more gear to get my ES up.

Ah, right, of course. The mob damage is fixed but the leech is a % of your shield. So the higher your shield, the tougher you are. I'm running into this for the first time because of unavoidably crappy gear, meaning every other league I've been lucky enough to find valuable loot/currency while levelling so I could get good gear from the start when I switched to CI.

You know, that's a bit like the effect white privilege gives you... you just have no idea what it's really like without it.

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Breken wrote:

So there is a new Watcher's Eye mod for Zealotry

180% increased Maximum total Recovery per second from Energy Shield Leech while affected by Zealotry

Even though that Aura doesn't do much for the build.... that mod is totally broken if I'm reading that right.

Like, full near instant leech constantly while face-tanking broken.

OMG it works look:



with watcher's eye (sidenote, got little lucky 2ex in day 2 - extra cheap watchers eye for 1ex)


as for zealotry, had to turn off HoI and AA, so not that good of a deal, zealotry gives more damage (from tooltip) but loosing that much mitigation could be not worth it + shatter explotions from Hoi.

using mana calc i came up with AA + Disci + Zealotry + enlightnen lvl4 to barely make it to 96% reserved, but DAMN that leech/s is HUGE

ps. as a high lvl option one could use Sovereignty (4points), or even right away on 93 at a cost of 54 int (fertile mind + 30dex node), at 90 you already should have enough int/es to take on all content without problems (i killed uber elder with 10k ES, 1.7k int at 85lvl last league deathless), incorporating hude ES leach gain im thinking shaper barage :)

Awesome, my math was exactly right... another few years and I'll understand the mechanics of the game!

One decent thing about that aura is that it spews out concentrated ground when fighting bosses.. you know in case your regen wasn't enough. It also boosts crit chance.. useful for procing EO.

Expect the cost of those jewels to start rising once people clue into this. I haven't heard anyone talking about it yet, but 66% ES/Second is no joke.

What are y'all using in whispering ice in place of spell cascade? I've been using conc effect since I don't really feel the smaller aoe

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ChasingGravity wrote:

CwC + ES Leech is currently broken.

No, it's not.