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

I finally killed UE! Thanks you for the build Kel!

Congrats! Did they drop any goodies?

Just managed to kill Uber Elder from first try with only 1 death (yeah i know my skills suck) in Flashback event also with relatively average gear and "only" ~10 K ES and ~1830 intelligence

Also got to level 95 so i hope when they extract the event prizes to get at least 1 of those fancy mtx-es !

Screen of the kill + my char in Flashback (TheBoxIsMine) stats:





Leveling to 95 in just 10 days and getting some gear in Flashback event was not that hard since maps were flooded with Beyond + Harbringer + Breach + Perandus mods

Legion emphasizes movement speed I suspect, because we may want to search the "breaches" for the best mobs to release.

Looks like a great expansion!

It'll be interesting to see if Winter Orb gets nerfed. I hope not as I think we will still want the defensive bonuses of the cold build.

Also, it'll be interesting to see if the startup lag for WI gets affected due to the melee changes.

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Graiaule wrote:

Legion emphasizes movement speed I suspect, because we may want to search the "breaches" for the best mobs to release.

Looks like a great expansion!

It'll be interesting to see if Winter Orb gets nerfed. I hope not as I think we will still want the defensive bonuses of the cold build.

Also, it'll be interesting to see if the startup lag for WI gets affected due to the melee changes.

Even if WInter Orb will be nerfed to the ground nothing will affect the power of Ice Storm, would probably still use Winter Orb to channel Ice Storm even if the clear speed will be affected a little.

Remember the previous full cold to fire variant when Scorching Ray was used as a channeling skill. Besides lowering enemies resistances it was doing almost no damage and still the build was able to do entire content only based on Ice Storm damage.

This is an Ice Storm build not a Winter Orb one :)

Hi Illi

mostly youre right. BUT the wo dmg made the mapping way faster. I played all variants from this build and the clearspeed is the best with wo.

i hope the new league has not a similar problem as synthesis. It sound really good but i can think many issues which can destroy fun. the most annoying thing in synthesis was decay in indoor rooms.

I hope its not like you free the monster and then your can only look how your chrar dies as the lag of monster activating is like bertrayal encounters. Also to find the really good enemies could be a pain.

Will see how it works. From gameplay i think its good for the build since you can precast icestorm and free the monster so you leech from the beginning of combat.

the only issue can be the movement speed. If the clicking on the monolith and then running in 4 corner to free the valuable monster it can feel like incursion that you are allways a moment to late.

We will see. Bevor synthesis i was hyped for every league. Now i am really frustrated from having such a great contend (synthesis) and doing nearly all things wrong to make it enjouable.

lets hope legion will be better

from yday announcement:

cyclone is now a channeled skill, so in theory we could use it to move and drop ice storm under us, interaction could be really fun + 5L cyclone (i know it has it's damage from weapon, but still) could improve clear speed

LOL

what a scurile idea. I played cyclone in days it was one of the best scills i ever played. but it was scary and i died often :-) a little rock or some vegetation and you dont move anymore.

when i think icestorm with spellcascade AND cyclone that would be really scary. but verry funny idea

also the wo option without nerf is my preferd version :-)

As ichbin said, I was thinking of WOrb's clearing ability in a 6L staff.

Huh, cyclone and icestorm. Wow. We might be giving up some defense to do that, though.

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SasoriOtoko wrote:

Congrats! Did they drop any goodies?

A terribly-rolled Indigon. Should be making another attempt soon though I was really hoping to flip over one more level first...