- Dropped Herald of Ice. The explosions look nice, but the damage really falls off. Even with moderate gear you are doing 10x more damage in 1 Icestorm hit than with the Herald explosion. All trash is already guaranteed to die to Icestorm with or without Herald.
- Arctic Armour is only a temporary crutch (instead of Aspect of the Spider) until you get an automatic anti-freeze flask.
There is not much reason to run AA after that. Standing still is a really bad idea in PoE these days. And most bosses keep moving too.
- Dropped Charisma since there is no need for the 5th aura. Freed 4 skill points for an extra jewel or just more nice stuff around Thread of Hope.
This leaves you with a healthy chunk of free mana to spend on CWDT. Or to run a Purity aura instead of Aspect if you need resists.
Purity of Ice is actually very useful in the endgame. For some reason GGG considers cold damage to be the ultimate boss thing. The top endgame bosses in PoE are cold-based. Even in this league, the top Expedition boss is cold too.
Updated the cluster trees. The old 3.12 version is officially retired now. The current tree is better in every way, even without Charisma. I compared a few variants of each tree with the same gear, and every time the current one results in better stats.
I'm gearing up, slowly but surely. The market in this league is totally dead compared to how it used to be. It's going to be harder to get to 3k Int. We'll see. So far sitting at 2.6k working on a few more upgrades.
I farmed some Simulacrums. Curiously, the drop rates of the boss loot there seem to have changed. No more vendor trash uniques in 75% of the runs. Now it actually drops a lot of Megalos and Splits. And with AoE freeze it's easier than ever.
Amazing build . Fast acting with it . My question is , since I just started playing this league , do you have any suggestions on a low ( very low ) budget gear ? I feel like I'm to squishy with only 3k ES >.<
god damn it, how do we color the staff? i wasted 80c and still no luck
Depends on what colors you need? Shouldn't be hard. If you need 1 green just use 1g bench craft, if 2, you can use 1g bench to hit 1g5b and then harvest craft non green to green (or change socket into green and blue would have pretty high chance to add green on 1g5b staff too).
Amazing build . Fast acting with it . My question is , since I just started playing this league , do you have any suggestions on a low ( very low ) budget gear ? I feel like I'm to squishy with only 3k ES >.<
Just search for high ES items with Int in them. Finding some with empty suffix and/or resistance is good.
god damn it, how do we color the staff? i wasted 80c and still no luck
Getting 2g4b spamming chromas takes average of 192 chromas (and on average is cheaper than benchcrafting 1g) If you want 3g3b, your best bet is to get 2g4b first and then harvestcraft nongreen to green or try to add white sockets with vorici. Or if you feel lucky use the harvestcraft to change 2 random sockets to blue and green and hope they don't try to change green sockets.
