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

Trying to figure out how y'all are getting these crazy Int and ES numbers. Is it just from getting as many +6% Int corruptions as possible? Level 91, I have 1630 Int and 8100 ES. 13.6k POB DPS (multitarget, 26k single-target).

https://pastebin.com/Jack162j

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Kirian42 wrote:

Trying to figure out how y'all are getting these crazy Int and ES numbers. Is it just from getting as many +6% Int corruptions as possible? Level 91, I have 1630 Int and 8100 ES. 13.6k POB DPS (multitarget, 26k single-target).

https://pastebin.com/Jack162j

I am at 2462 int. That comes from the following:

1. I have 75% increased int to your 51%.
2. I have 1407 base int to your 1082 base int.
3. I have 5 Brute Force jewels to your 4.
4. I have the Pure Talent jewel.
5. My two rare jewels average 22 int each.
6. My tree is a bit different from yours.

My POB DPS is around 54k (the default settings.)

I'd go get a 16% to all Three Rat Talisman to start with.

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lilianmarius wrote:

Best combo is % increased intelligence % increased attributes on chest. So my advice is to go "all in": imprint the chest, pray to Kuduku and try to annul the fire resistance.

But if you think your luck is shitty and you are short on currency (you may read "poor as fuck") keep the T1 resistance :)

Woohoo, my luck was good! Got it on the first annul. Now to divine it 50 times to get 12% Int...

After reaching level 97, switching some skill tree nodes, killing 10 Uber Elders and dropping a LUCKY Watcher's Eye with 2x Anger mods (crit multi/penetration) which i sold for 17 exalts, managed to buy myself a 3x mods Watcher's Eye with Clarity (Maximum Mana as Extra Maximum Energy Shield)/Discipline (+Energy Shield gain for each hit) and Purity of Ice(%Physical Damage from Hits taken as Cold Damage - very, very useful in Uber Elder/Aul fights)

With this jewel and almost all my armor pieces upgraded to 28% with Hillock in Fortification managed to reach 15.693 ES and 2.831 Intelligence

The body armor (without % Attributes and T1 Fire resistance) i bought it incredible cheap for only 2 exalts, one of the best deals i made this league. Crafted % Attributes on it and lucky free slam the T1 Fire resistance from Leo in Research.

Here is the screen from PoB with damage values for IceStorm (single target) and 5l-Winter Orb in clearing staff:



The second screen shows what you realistically have to check in PoB before posting an IceStorm single target(Shaper) AverageHit value (also don't check Vaal Righthouse Fire or any damage flasks, these sources of damage multipliers are contextual and are not available all the time).



Now i only need to get to 40 challenges for the remaining of the league, it will be a tedious experience but not impossible.

Weird thought: Intuitive Leap.

We no longer use Might of the Meek in that top jewel slot. But what about Intuitive Leap? We could get:

Alchemist (10% inc damage plus 10% flask buffs)
Blast Radius (20% inc damage, 10% inc AOE)
Enigmatic Defense (15% inc damage, 5% attack *and* spell block)

That's 45% increased damage and a lot of random boosts, all for the loss of a rare jewel (and 3 points).

If you want to go crazier, we can get Mysticism--yeah, we don't use wands, but 10% chance each of Frenzy/Power charge on *block* is neat. We could also "save" two points by dropping the two points leading to Utmost Intellect. That's two more points to reach for things elsewhere, though the payoff has to be greater than 30 Int.

Thoughts?

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Kirian42 wrote:

Weird thought: Intuitive Leap.

We no longer use Might of the Meek in that top jewel slot. But what about Intuitive Leap? We could get:

Alchemist (10% inc damage plus 10% flask buffs)
Blast Radius (20% inc damage, 10% inc AOE)
Enigmatic Defense (15% inc damage, 5% attack *and* spell block)

That's 45% increased damage and a lot of random boosts, all for the loss of a rare jewel (and 3 points).

If you want to go crazier, we can get Mysticism--yeah, we don't use wands, but 10% chance each of Frenzy/Power charge on *block* is neat. We could also "save" two points by dropping the two points leading to Utmost Intellect. That's two more points to reach for things elsewhere, though the payoff has to be greater than 30 Int.

Thoughts?

Your idea is kinda bad because:

- first, loose 3 skill points that can be used for at least 3x 10 intelligence nodes which with endgame gear translate into ~60 intelligence because of %intelligence multipliers. You can get even more intelligence from 3 skill points if you couple them in a str/dex convert into int jewel area. And more Intelligence means more damage/more ES/more mana-->more ES (especially when using Watcher Eye with % of mana as % extra ES.

-second, we loose 1 jewel socket that can be used to socket one good rare jewel with + intelligence/% increased spell damage while wielding a staff/% increased cold damage/% increased spell damage/% increased area damage/% increased damage
In this socket i have Pure talent jewel and i only have 1 rare jewel in another socket but even that can be replace with Emperor Mastery for example , if you gather that much currency.
All the other jewels socketed are Fertile Minds/Brute Forces/Watcher's Eye/Emperor's Wit which you wont drop to socket that shitty Intuitive Leap jewel.

- third, % increase area of effect is not always a good bonus, for bosses average hit is lowered with every % increased area of effect.

So in my opinion socket-ing an Intuitive Leap in that jewel socket is a bad idea, but i talk about min-max gear when i expose my motives.

So Im trying out your build and Im liking it a lot, but as I play HC Im leary of CI as Ive never played a CI build, or this Witch ascendency. So for leveling Ive added a Cold Golem and AG for meatshields and it seems to be ok so far heading into act 7 at lvl 53. Im wondering if I can play a life version of this build instead of CI ?? HC and CI seems like a bad match Imo but Im game to try it if its safer than trying for a life build. I only read the first 25 pages and he last 10 or so and didn't see anyone asking about a life build. Thanks - its fun and Im hoping I can make it to maps by the end of this weekend...

ES scales with int, so switching to life rather defeats the purpose of the build. Not to say it's impossible, but it's hard to imagine it's great.

I guess Ill keep leveling and getting more Int items, just rolled into act 8 last night before logging out. I was still using a tabula so thats why my es is around 500. Switched to 5 os armor and its now 700 but still need to find or get a better regalia armor..

AHh just read the CI section on the leveling guide.. Makes sense now..