[3.21] ShakCentral's Cold DoT Elementalist For Everyone
" Mopstah is correct. The trigger wand will cast Storm Brand, but hextouch won't proc the curse linked. In order to use Hextouch you need to self cast a spell linked with the curse or just remove Hextouch from the wand and the wand will trigger Storm Brand and Enfeeble Last edited by donbrawler#1981 on Feb 14, 2021, 8:21:53 PM
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I have a question about switching to CI.
I'm a fairly new player (I've been playing for a week now), and I'm lvl 85. I got some baller hand-me-downs from someone I met and have 3.7k shield and my resistances are all capped (except chaos). He also gave me a trigger wand. My skill points are exactly what are in the act 10 PoB, including EE and a str node to equip my shield. I have 10 free right now. I would consider myself to be decent at dodging damage and staying out of bad (the bulk of my experience coming from running level 100+ grifts in D3). That all being said, I have yet to fully fill in all my watchstones (I have 12 right now). The CI talents afaik bulk up energy shield, so I don't feel it would be unrealistic to say I would have 5k shield if I swapped to those talents. My question is two-fold: am I on the right track with that assumption, or am I falling into a noob trap? If my assumption is wrong, then will completing my atlas and farming t14/15/16 (or maybe lower) maps give me the gear I need to be able to swap over to CI? I appreciate the help. Last edited by Cronawrs#3728 on Feb 15, 2021, 4:09:07 AM
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" I'm in the same boat, I hate the Chimera fight. :) As someone has already said, you have to walk through all the smoke as quickly as possible but it's easier said than done, even with the quicksilver flask on and flame dash to shorten the distance. That is why I still have not done the Maven fight with Shaper guardians. I think I can guess how that fight would go thanks to my friend Mr. Chimera... :) If anyone here has any better advice, please share. |
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" Two things: 1) In the maven 4-way chimera fight there is no smoke phase, all the maven invitations cut out intermissions of all kind. 2) I never really had an issue with Chimera, i always kept vaal Discipline and defensive flasks ready for the smoke phase, Pop flasks, when I got hit once or twice I popped vaal disc, during which I am invincible, once that runs out I have another round of flasks and if I still fall low I can logout and use that to refresh flasks and ES. Additionally high DPS helps with skipping smoke phases. |
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Beat maven! Used all portals cause I made a number of missteps, but happy to have beaten her.
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" Thumbs up and congrats! Did you use the CI or the LL version? What was your DPS and ES at least approximately? |
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https://pastebin.com/8BmJ62Bj Thanks Shak for a great build. It's insanely strong and had a great progression curve, kept me coming back to PoE almost every day. Also thanks to everyone for posting nice suggestions. Could you help me figure out is there anything more I can do to upgrade? Currently sitting at 9.6k ES. It's very comfortable in T16 maps and up to around 40% delirium. However it fares pretty mediocre in invitation boss-fights tried The hidden (breachlords) and The formed (shaper guards). Was one-shotted 3-4 times by minotaur and 2-3 times by cold breachlord. I'm wondering if it's just my shitty bossing skills or if there is something that I'm missing and could be done to improve bossing performance. I keep running out of flasks and vaal Discipline is not charged in those invitations. Otherwise I see no way of enabling aspect of the spider in the current setup. 2-curse just reserves too much mana. Tried experimenting with Self-control cluster but it would make me lose quite a bit of ES while at the same time leaving me with around ~60ish mana which is not enough for me |
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I can't speak to delirium maps because I don't do them, but my current setup feels very comfortable with all invitations except the one w/ Cortex & co. I've only tried it once and failed, but I didn't know mechanics and have since upgraded gear and expect it'd be fine.
Use storm brand + hextouch for curses to open up some mana, and get a socketed ring. Maybe drop Immortal Call + CWDT if you need sockets. I've really enjoyed the Flesh and Stone + Vitality + Aspect setup and don't feel a need for defensive curses. Drop your Vortex, storm brand from far away to maintain curses and kite when needed. Tons of kiting for maven invitations. With 8.7k ES I feel fine and have plenty of regen. |
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"you have energy from naught clusters? with 2 of them and the rest of my clusters i'm sitting at 9k es (was just over 9.9k but i dropped some ES for an extra cluster),160 mana unreserved,running 7 aura's and 2 curses. Last edited by Valkirth#3069 on Feb 15, 2021, 8:35:28 PM
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Working my way to switch from CI to LL.
About that ring, can i craft it(alt spam) or harvest craft it? Some of the good rings are ridiculously expensive ! And those boots with Es, multiple resists are expensive aswell ! Should craft them too? |
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