[3.11] Aquarism's Ice Shot [All Content]

"

greenimp77 wrote:

Over the weekend I hit 36/40 in MSC SSF. ~15 days /played.

Finally killed Sirus on my 5th try. Got him on farm now.

This was the first bow build I've played. I usually play tanky melee. As a result it took a while to get used to actually having to dodge stuff. As a result I have over 2000 deaths... by far the most I've ever suffered through.

But after endless tweaking this is now 100% the most fun build I've ever played.

I've deviated from Aqurism's build quite a bit at this point, but I still want to say thanks for the inspiration.

Some of the biggest changes I would recommend exploring:

1a. Go Raider. Way of the Poacher frees you from having to get the quiver enchant.

1b. Phasing from Quartz Infusion is really strong. Being able to move through mobs is critical for bow builds that must constantly be moving. It's really strong in Delve too.

1c. Immune to Ailments from Avatar of the Veil is a massive defensive buff. No more shock, chill, freeze or burning - which can be deadly from the Metamorphs. -15% exposure and 15% less accuracy to nearby mobs is again a huge defense.

2. Galvanic Arrow + Barrage support is a better ~single target skill for non-major bosses (ie. Conquerers, Shaper, Elder, Sirus - use Barrage for these). It's a small single target dps loss, but for packs of rare mobs and metamorphs, it just plows through them with the aoe + shock.

3. For clear - Ice Shot, Chain, LMP, Elemental Damage, Damage on Full Life, Mirage Archer. I've thoroughly tested all combinations (Fork, GMP, Hypothermia, Ice Bite, Inspiration, etc.) With +3 arrows (bow, quiver) the additional arrows from GMP don't make up for the dps loss (vs. LMP). One tap of Ice Shot is a full screen clear.

4a. A medium ring Thread of Hope in the jewel slot beside Golem's Blood provide a massive DPS boost and saves several skill points. The biggest bonus here is Disciple of the Unyielding. Having endurance charges allows you to use Immortal Call a lot more effectively - which has saved me a lot more often than Steelskin. Plus the end charges give a huge phys. damage reduction and the extra res helps on ele weakness maps).

4b. Picking up Harvester of Foes adds 15% attack speed while leeching (which we always are due to mana leech).

4c. Also grab the life nodes around Bravery, Fury Bolts, Disciple of the Unyielding, and Attack Speed per Frenzy charge for lots more dps.

5. Arborix instead of Death Opus. For the 8 of the 16 seconds you have Iron Reflexes you are doing about 30% more dps than Death Opus. For the other 8 seconds it's just slightly less. Since we're already in bosses' face it's a no brainer for me.


My gear is far from optimal (I'm still hoping to get a Hyyri's Ire, and I've been waiting forever for another Shaper quiver to drop), but in SSF you gotta take what you find :)

Thanks again for the great build, Aquarism!

"

domepro wrote:

"

sejintsume wrote:

Where would 20ex land this build?? Could I have a pretty good clear and run going on? I've gathered this can be a league starter but I find myself a little bit past that.

I'd imagine 20ex you could do everything with, even though some things might be a bit annoying/hard like vaaled juiced T16 metamorphs and A8 Sirus (unless you have a lot of exp doing Sirus on a relatively squishy char)

I've failed A8 Sirus twice in a row now - but that's because I'm a garbage player and get offscreened in last phase and then annoyed and triggered by getting offscreened going back to the fight in the last phase, not because it's undoable. I did him on A6 pretty easy when I didn't fuck up in the last phase with about 20ex invested, in the meantime I went for a bit more damage and specced out of like 3-4 life nodes which I'll spec back into before doing him next time :D

"

niksxs wrote:

So, i did ulab today. I think i got the wrong enchantment. But i think it is still worth a bit ;)

maybe someone can help me price check it.

my actual gear:

"

Zeratul_PL wrote:

Hello. I've created separate topic, but was adviced to post my questions in here. I hope that someone could help me with it, as i have almost no experience on bow-style characters and i was using a mix of Odealo Ice Shot Raider + was tring to copy some of the poe.ninja top dmg builds.

So, here is the original post i've made:

Spoiler

It's my 1st league as archer (previously was using only Enk Arc Witch in few leagues).

My character tab should be public, and i'm open for all possible advices, how to improve this character.

Main issues:
1) My clear speed is pretty nice, but single target seems to be sometimes amazing, sometimes therrible
2) Deaths. I have over 700 deaths this league. I know that Evasion-based champs are harder that multi-defensive ones like i've played before. But this is therrible score, i got stuck on lvl 92 and can't even reach 50% of exp.
3) Sirius - i got a feeling that i still should be able to handle him myslef, but i have no chances vs him (rest of guardians on awaken lvl 8 aren't any kind of issue)
4) Weapon of choice. As you can see on my tab, i'm using Death Opus. Great bow according to +2 projectiles. But i was able to craft my 2nd bow which can be found in 2nd slot (cold dmg per 10 dex, flat cold dmg and cold res penetration, crafted int is just temporary for using auras when changed slot). How should i multimod the 2nd bow to use it? And what kind of gear should i addjust to have better dps on this one? (yea, i know i will have to add GMP support for ice shot instead one of the gems to have same clearspeed)
5) Maybe i should re-spec into deadeye instead of raider?

I would appreciate all kind of advices, as i fell this character to be "strange, and difficoult even when i invested a lot of cash in it).

If someone have some time and experience, i would really appreciate any help/ advice what to change (have some spare currecy, about 4,5 or 5ex if some investment would be needed, re-spec isn't an issue as well).