[3.20] Ice Dancing Queen - Icestorm/Cyclone/CI - Viable For Everything

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WaywardGoomba wrote:

Quick question. As somebody who currently uses flat INT on gear instead of %+, would I be justified in using Might Of The Meek (4 nodes) at Scion start instead of Coldhearted Calculation (3 nodes).

That's taking into account that I'll have a throwaway passive point soon.


Unless I'm miscalculating, this would be the difference:

Coldhearted Calculation:
40+ INT (50 with the throwaway passive point)
12% Spell Damage
20% mana regen rate

Might Of The Meek:
12.5+ INT
30% Spell Damage
0.5% life regen per second
9% Elemental res


I just want to make sure I'm not overlooking anything important.

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lilianmarius wrote:

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ichbinwerichbi wrote:

still verry unhappy with this bullshit league mechanic. Sometimes all things go smooth and also with 2 bosses there is no problem with the pump. Sometimes there are no mobs near the pump and suddenly the pump dies. There is for me no control in this mechanic. I hate things like this. The only guys i saw with no problems are the minion guys. And (in groups i join to see how other people deal with the mechanic)also there sometimes the pump dies without any mob on the minimap.

blighted maps i never finish one. mostly in the last 20 sec the pump dies.

i will perhaps end this league as its the most frustrating i ever played. Also the dmg and equip is really good for my situation i have no control.

Let me give you some advices regarding interacting with the Blight events:

You can use 5L Winter Orb + Spell Cascade instead of Cyclone and stay near the pomp and spam Winter Orb in a 360 degrees area. This way you can still upgrade the towers nearby easily while Winter Orb and Icestorms take care of all the mobs in a 360 degree area. That's what i use in Blighted maps since spinning with Cyclone and a lot of mobs make my game running very slow to the point that i can't even click on towers to upgrade them.

Another option to improve your clearing speed of Blight encounters is the use of Rampage mechanic.

I started to use this permanently lately as a weapon swap triggering (Sinvicta Mettle as a weapon in 2nd weapon slot to trigger Rampage) and oh boy when Rampage starts to build up the mobs are melting around like nothing. Also you get a lot of increased movement speed and damage from Rampage stacks and you can move with Cyclone with a very high movement speed.

It's very easy to trigger Rampage, i only socketed a Cyclone in Sinvicta Mettle and at the start of the map or at the start of the Blight encounter i Cyclone for a few seconds while spamming Vortexes in a pack a mobs and Rampage is triggered in just few seconds (my Vortexes do a lot of damage themselves) and after that i just switch to my main weapon and continue Cycloning with Rampage like a boss.

Rampage gives you 1% increased movement speed per 20 Rampage kills stacked and 2% increased damage per 20 Ramapage kills stacked.

At 1000 kills(maximum) you get 50% increased movement speed and 100% increased damage.

After you get Rampage up is just easy to maintain it up to 1000 kills and this even with picking drops while you kill mobs. The damage effects triggered with Rampage when a specific number of mobs are killed are just insane, some of them clear an entire Blight encounter area with hundreds of mobs spawned :)

I never had such a good entertainment with IceStorm as i have now when using Rampage with it.

You should see how godly is Rampage in deep delving together with Cyclone and IceStorm where almost in every encounter you hit 1000 Rampage kills.

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1. Discipline.
2. Flesh and Stone (Sand stance).
3. Depending on what you are doing:
- Arctic Armour for tanking hard hitters
- Summon Skitterbots for extra damage
- Purity of Elements for EW maps
- Purity of Fire/Ice/Lightning if there is too much damage of one type

High level option: Aspect of the Spider is a great addition. It can be found on rings or beast-crafted on any item with an open suffix. You will need to take Sovereignty to have enough mana for it.

My favorite setup is: Discipline, Flesh and Stone, Aspect of the Spider, Arctic Armour.

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Schata wrote:

question about the amulet. If i buy a shaped amulet let's say like this

Rarity: Rare
Glyph Pendant
Turquoise Amulet
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Requirements:
Level: 64
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Item Level: 84
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+24 to Dexterity and Intelligence
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9% increased Attributes
1% increased Damage per 15 Intelligence
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Shaper Item
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can i double mod with int and let's say max ES%? I dont want like to spend 4ex on the amulet and 2ex (i think the multimod is 2ex to craft) to craft stuff then it can't be done... i mean i've a budget atm of 6ex.