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

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Fixed a bug where non-channelled movement skills that were used while channelling a skill would be used twice.

Hurrah! Now, just need a fix to 'flame dash sometimes goes backwards when a lot of stuff is going on' please.

Finally got to 40 challenges! It was probably easiest and quickest try for me to get 40 challenges!

Last end game grind - kill 200 factions, farmed last 150 of them alone in a 2-army battle (karui and eternal empire - cheapest ones) and i can say i got back my money spent on stones :)

Cost of 150 stones (8 chaos average/stone): 1200 chaos ~ 7 exalts

And now the big drops :

1x Headhunter Card - 18 ex
5x Exalts
1x 21/23 Increased Duration - 3.8 ex
3x World Eater card (Starforge) - 2.4 ex
1x Rigwald Quills card - 1.1 ex
7x Divine orb
3x Annulment orb

4x Lethal Pride
3x Elegant Hubris

Tons of currency, fossils, incubators, quality gems, essences, other decent cards, prophecies, veiled items, scarabs, etc.

So definitely it was a very good decision to farm alone this challenge on a 2-army battle (karui and eternal empire)

As average i killed around 8 bosses during 2 minutes fight with this build which is not made to farm these fights :)

Congrats on 40!

I don't think I'll bother with 40, but I'll get to 39. Doing 2x empire grinds seems fun though, I did a few 5-ways with guildmates. Well, they all stood in the middle except a headhunter cyclone that killed the entire map, while I killed one general over and over.

in misc i see only 0.2% energy shield leech from cold damage and nothing from spell damage it's ok ? in tree i have 1.5% from spell damage.

You should be fine, judging from your tree. Do you have the right skill selected under misc?

For those passionate with numbers, if Path of Building is not enough for you to calculate your real DPS of IceStorm for your character, you can use this Firestorm/Whispering Ice 2018 damage calculator to see the real damage you can output based on your stats and based on the mob you hit (normal mob, boss).

Firestorm/Whispering Ice 2018 Calculator

Save a local copy of it and edit the following fields with values from your build (taken from PoB):

Average Damage per hit - enter your from PoB
Skill Duration - enter your value from PoB
Casting time - enter your value from Cast of Channeling gem socketed in staff, for example for level 20 Cast on Channeling the value is 0.35)

Enemy Radius - Default value is 2, bosses are normally 3 or even higher if the boss is a a big one (example: crab boss from Reef map) but normally 3 is an accepted default value for bosses

Skill Area Radius - enter your value from PoB
Impact Radius - enter your value from PoB

For me after 8.7 seconds of IceStorm casting (my current IceStorm duration) the DPS value is 4.189 million which is the maximum DPS i can output over a target if all my Ice Storms hit the target after a 8.7 seconds precast.

Sadly the calculator does not appear to consider cold penetration.

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Graiaule wrote:

Sadly the calculator does not appear to consider cold penetration.

How you end up to that conclusion?Cold Penetration multiplier is integrated already in the Average Shaper Hit value (calculated in PoB) and used as entry data in this calculation

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lilianmarius wrote:

How you end up to that conclusion?Cold Penetration multiplier is integrated already in the Average Shaper Hit value (calculated in PoB) and used as entry data in this calculation

OK, your comment motivated me to look for the penetration damage calculation, and I finally found it. I have to hover above the Skill Hit Damage/Cold/Effective DPS mod entry to see it, which is why I did not see it before. Thanks.

By the way, how do you change the skill gems in the WI staff in POB? As far as I can tell, you can only import an actual staff but you cannot change the gems.

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Graiaule wrote:

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lilianmarius wrote:

By the way, how do you change the skill gems in the WI staff in POB? As far as I can tell, you can only import an actual staff but you cannot change the gems.

Easy , go to Skills->Socketed in Weapon 1 or Socketed in Weapon 1 (Swap) depending on which weapon you want to change skills and add the skills you want by just typing their name in empty box and un-check Enable for existing those that you don't want