[3.21] ShakCentral's Cold DoT Elementalist For Everyone

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Hainsy wrote:

Hi,

Thanks for the updates to your build guide!
Been playing for a few leagues now and this will be my first league as Vortex!
Super pumped, just have a quick question regarding the use of Prism Guardian with CI?

I understand that you want to get to 76% mana reservation reduction in order to make the auras 0% cost of your life? I just cant see via the PoB how you achieve it, unless im mistaken on the required amount of Reservation %?

If you wouldn't mind a quick breakdown that would be wonders! other than that i super confident and your guide was perfect!

Cheers

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mattyjack wrote:

Hello all, Normally i have been running some sort of summoner build but have messed with caster builds way back when.

I am thinking of Vortex this time but am a little intimidated with the leveling process. Are people planning on vortex(Occultist) the whole way or Elementalist than doing the switch?

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ShakCentral wrote:

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mattyjack wrote:

Hello all, Normally i have been running some sort of summoner build but have messed with caster builds way back when.

I am thinking of Vortex this time but am a little intimidated with the leveling process. Are people planning on vortex(Occultist) the whole way or Elementalist than doing the switch?

I'm still undecided. I'm trying to choose between Penance Brand + Heralds with a very large respec, or Wintertide Brand until Vortex and go cold DoT from the start. Either one should be fine. Penance Brand will likely be faster upfront, but you'll pay for your time in regret orbs

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mattyjack wrote:

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ShakCentral wrote:

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mattyjack wrote:

Hello all, Normally i have been running some sort of summoner build but have messed with caster builds way back when.

I am thinking of Vortex this time but am a little intimidated with the leveling process. Are people planning on vortex(Occultist) the whole way or Elementalist than doing the switch?

I'm still undecided. I'm trying to choose between Penance Brand + Heralds with a very large respec, or Wintertide Brand until Vortex and go cold DoT from the start. Either one should be fine. Penance Brand will likely be faster upfront, but you'll pay for your time in regret orbs

Thanks for the reply,
Wintertide looks interesting. If i was to go that route would i just follow your vortex tree, still use cold snap and whatever else fits in?

Thanks again, all these changes can make leveling hard to understand for noobs like me.

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Unshiftables wrote:

First - thanks for the recommit to updating - I was looking at this as a possible starter while everyone sorted out the best way to slam - and now after patch notes - it's definitely the starter.

As a non-racer / league start master I'm probably levelling vortex. For comparison - I will probably not be past Act 10 and solidly into maps with 4 labs until saturday night at best or sunday sometime. Ignore remainder of comments if you're much more efficient than me.

it's already ~40 respec points - the freebies to switch from vortex levelling to ci. Add in more + a lot more for ascendency change (10 a pop per point if I recall correctly) - that's a lot of regrets to need for early league. I would typically do something like that more mid-league when I had a whole bunch wasting away naturally.

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Xaithai wrote:

Hi ShakCentral. Thank you for making this great guide, I did it a long time ago and it remains the highest level character I ever did and one of the best feeling ones too. I am trying to be a bit more serious about it this time around, I want all the challenges and I want to woop some ass.

Now that we see all the gem and tree changes, I was wondering if Stormblast Mine is really that crucial for leveling quickly vs. sticking with Freezing Pulse or even Fireball now. I just really suck at mines, I admit it.