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

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Mantux31 wrote:

At level 39, do you think it's worth replacing tabula to icetomb?

if not, what 6link should I run, assuming I have the full 6S 2L staff

Ofcourse it worth it, if you are talking about 39 lvl, when we changed to Whispering ice staff.
Tabula is great for leveling, but if you use whispering ice, then it means that sockets will be used from WI-staff, and tabula would be totally useless.
6 cocket setup that you should run stated in the guide on 1st page.

Got lvl 75 just now and am into maping - survivability is awesome (sometimes getting one shot buy syndicate tho...), but I feel like I am lacking some damage. Could you guys check my gear and tell me what to upgrade ASAP?

Quick update: uber atziri down as well. Insanity.

However, there is a slight risk in the clone phase if you left some icestorms in the middle, and you did not immediately stop casting upon her disappearence. That is a guaranteed suicide in many cases :P

(And it was not that big of a waste economically, I got 5 red maps out of it, 2*t14, 2*t11 and a t13..

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iSiarra wrote:

Got lvl 75 just now and am into maping - survivability is awesome (sometimes getting one shot buy syndicate tho...), but I feel like I am lacking some damage. Could you guys check my gear and tell me what to upgrade ASAP?

Your gear is decent enough for now I think, but from what I can see on my phone (can't scroll the passives tree), you're missing two Fertile Minds. One goes just below the Scion by the "+% cold/fire/lightning resistance" nodes and the other is between the Shadow and Ranger starts with some +Dex nodes. Those two jewels will give around +100 Int from node conversions alone, along with I think another 50ish(?) From their combined implicits.

Edit: Those two jewels will also make it easier to get your stats in Int>Str>Dex order, which causes the Cyclopean Coil to make you immune to both Shock and Ignite instead of Shock and a second Chill+Freeze immunity we already get from the Occ Ascendancy.

Fairly new to the game and looking for a build, this looks really interesting but does anyone have video of any map clears they could upload to show the build in use? Super curious what it's like and if it would be a good fit for me.

Hi, I need a second opinion on the blood rage mechanic.
Is the following thinking correct?

1. I get hit for well over 2000 damage (high level CWDT).
2. Blood rage procs, it's level 1 so it is active for 7 seconds, I start taking physical damage over time.
3. Immortal call procs, stops blood rage for 0.4 seconds the Arakaali Pantheon condition kicks in for 4 seconds (keyword Recently).
4. For the next 4 seconds both Blood Rage and 50% increased ES recovery rate are in effect, the next 3 seconds only Blood Rage.
5. If I keep killing, Blood Rage keeps renewing itself so the DoT debuff will keep hurting me, but if I don't get a strong hit again, the Arakaali buff won't trigger again.

If this is logic is correct, #5 above is concerning and makes this experience a poor one, at least so far. But - I don't have Vile Bastion yet. Does Vile Bastion make it much better?

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Jadran wrote:

Hi, I need a second opinion on the blood rage mechanic.
Is the following thinking correct?

1. I get hit for well over 2000 damage (high level CWDT).
2. Blood rage procs, it's level 1 so it is active for 7 seconds, I start taking physical damage over time.
3. Immortal call procs, stops blood rage for 0.4 seconds the Arakaali Pantheon condition kicks in for 4 seconds (keyword Recently).
4. For the next 4 seconds both Blood Rage and 50% increased ES recovery rate are in effect, the next 3 seconds only Blood Rage.
5. If I keep killing, Blood Rage keeps renewing itself so the DoT debuff will keep hurting me, but if I don't get a strong hit again, the Arakaali buff won't trigger again.

If this is logic is correct, #5 above is concerning and makes this experience a poor one, at least so far. But - I don't have Vile Bastion yet. Does Vile Bastion make it much better?

Somewhat, but not really. You just need to man up, and get over it :)
50% increased recovery isn't helping you with bloodrage mitigation anyway, since 0% regen times 1.5 still 0%, unless you have additional regen like watcher's eye "% ES regen if affected by discipline".
What i want to say, that if you are leeching, then you will mitigate bloodrage anyway, without those 50%.

But don't underestimate those 50%. When you will face actual big damage, like guardians, shaper, elder etc - it will help you tremendously... and that inconvience with manually turning off blood rage (or just letting it hurt you) is the price.

P.S. Blood rage will vanish the moment you take out blood rage gem out, and place it back.
Also, if you didn't take a big hit, then you don't need arakaali. That's the reason why it's not on cwdt 1 lvl setup. And on boss that need that arakaali, trust me, that thing will be active entire battle... that's the way of leech tank characters :)

Thank you for the answer, I am manning up :)

Hey, I've been playing your build for about a week so far (with a few minor edits); and I'd just like to say that it's awesome tanky & really fun to play! ~ Ty for the awesome build fam! ^_^

Thank you for the build.
Doing good, although sometimes i'm dying in huge breach or tough syndicate crowd.
i have 8500 en and 1300 int.
i'm using 3 fertile mind jewels but i'm not sure if 3rd is placed correctly, it's socket on the right side of scion tree - harrier/+6%spell/+6%spell/socket - it gives me 50 int is it worthy 3 points?
my gear is below, i'm looking for suggestion what can i improve.
some gems are not socketed correctly (no immortal call with cwtd) cuz it's hard for me to make 2 red gems and i don't have it in bench yet.
anyway, build is best i ever had, but point me what should i improve next.
i'm 88lvl atm.