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

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LiNGeN wrote:

Just tested this to Act 5, it works well. Although you'd have to drop something out of the Spellslinger such as Wintertide Brand because of the new 30% mana reservation override.

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Oldern365 wrote:

So just to reconfirm: is awakened GMP a no-no?
Should not it increase the total number or projectiles in the storm?

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SkylerOG wrote:

Hmm, I just realized with the duration changes, it's going to be difficult to even hit the 25 ice shards example I used earlier.


I'm looking at my char in game right now and it's got a 5.70 duration with 2,837 int.

We're losing .5s base duration and it's going from +.15 per int to +.10 per int.

This means after the patch I'd be sitting at around 3.84s per storm duration.

3.84 / 0.2 per shard impact rate = 19.2 shards.

Is that right? Am I only getting 19 shard impacts per storm??

So basically I get 95 ice shards (19x5), and then the 96th one overwrites the 1st?


Gezuz, this is even worse than I thought.


Or am I missing something?


And, if this is correct, then wouldn't adding things like Potency of Will and Exceptional Performance and an Increased Duration gem be the only way to get additional ice shards before they begin overwriting each other?

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SkylerOG wrote:

Hmm, I just realized with the duration changes, it's going to be difficult to even hit the 25 ice shards example I used earlier.


I'm looking at my char in game right now and it's got a 5.70 duration with 2,837 int.

We're losing .5s base duration and it's going from +.15 per int to +.10 per int.

This means after the patch I'd be sitting at around 3.84s per storm duration.

3.84 / 0.2 per shard impact rate = 19.2 shards.

Is that right? Am I only getting 19 shard impacts per storm??

So basically I get 95 ice shards (19x5), and then the 96th one overwrites the 1st?


Gezuz, this is even worse than I thought.


Or am I missing something?


And, if this is correct, then wouldn't adding things like Potency of Will and Exceptional Performance and an Increased Duration gem be the only way to get additional ice shards before they begin overwriting each other?

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ultra_super_hyper wrote:

My understanding is that we will be limited to to 5 storms in total irrespective of of how they are cast.

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SkylerOG wrote:

I just ran a ton of maps with Frostbolt as that additional spell.

5-linked my WI staff with Cyclone + Awakened CWC + Awakened Ele Focus + Awakened Controlled Destruction + Frostbolt. And then Conc Effect on it's own.

Then added Frozen Trail jewel in the socket NW of EE (need 40 int in radius to trigger +2 frostbolts), so with 3.33 trigger rate, I'm getting around 10 Frostbolts per second on top of my ice storms.

Then I moved Vortex to 6L body with Bonechill + lvl 14 Arcane Surge (which is just 2 vortex casts to proc) + Awakened Swift Affliction + Awakened Controlled Destruction + Conc Effect.

Then moved Elemental Weakness + Frostbite + Enfeeble to a 4L with Bane to apply all 3 curses in one very quick cast on a huge AoE radius.


You don't even need Spell Cascade for clearing. The Frostbolts are flying everywhere and Vortexes are dropping all over the place with ~3 second duration and quite potent cold DoT's.

You can literally hold down Cyclone and Vortex together seamlessly with zero interruption or slowdown to ice storms.

Give it a shot. It works and is tons of added DPS between the Frostbolts and the Vortex DoT's. Your entire screen fills up with them.