[3.21] ShakCentral's Cold DoT Elementalist For Everyone

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roselan wrote:

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Daerkenn wrote:

Hello, any tips on what I could do to improve my damage? I kinda struggle against map bosses.

My POB just in case: https://pastebin.com/BPZZvTuK

You PoB looks scuffed to as it looks like you didn't start from a new blank one, but did import your char into shak pob.

Plus your pob shows you only did 2 labs...
Do your third lab
Take frigid wake
a 5L
you will have enough ES to transition to CI short after

but it's hard to trust the PoB you gave.

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LawsonGD wrote:

@Roselan I'm fascinated by your changes to the build. I really want to reduce the number of active buttons (having to manually cast storm brand, orb of storms, and frost bomb is a bit much). I notice you swapped Vitality for Flesh and Stone. I was curious what Frostbolt was for in the CwC setup? Is that to reliably crit in place of orb of storms? How's the playstyle felt to be using CwC Cyclone in addition to vortex? Do you mostly play as a melee build, ignoring Normal cold snap and just dashing from pack to pack?

As a note, looks like you could move the Frost Bolt Jewel down by Soul Thief and add the Large Thread of hope to free up some passive points and get a second cluster setup.

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As a note, looks like you could move the Frost Bolt Jewel down by Soul Thief and add the Large Thread of hope to free up some passive points and get a second cluster setup.

For the Thread of Hope, I like to drop it myself. Out of principle.

For the aura gems, I swap a lot as I like to test thing around. This is the response to the fact that I was killed by shotgunning packs, not by degen. The enchant of my 2 first flasks solved most of my degen issues (I keep a mana flask of dousing around, that I equip just for the enslaver) (mana because more charges).

my keyboard layout is qwertz. I map cyclone on q, vortex on w and my enduring mana flask on e. I keep both kw pressed down when in pack or in hairy situations. I usually press e when entering packs. In addition, vortex is mapped to left click too. I find it extremely smooth to play.

Cyclone has inbuilt phasing, so it helps a lot if you have no phasing flask, plus it's linked to fortify. But the main advantage is the "pseudo spelllinger" setup, thank to a frostbolt (or gmp when you have elder fortify boots). It shots tons of frostbolts for your vortex to snatch on.

This has two advantages, vortex are cast a bit in front of you, making it is safer. It *covers* the full area in circles like ultimatum, ritual, delve. It's even more impressive with the vortex cooldown helm enchant. However, it can be annoying to to snipe a single target if your forget to stop cycloning.

Against bosses, I tend to uses cyclone - cwc - curse 1 - curse 2. This allows me to replace my curse on hit ring with a mark of the shaper. It casts each curse every half second of and on your cursor. This is massive as it's where you are travelling. Curses on a trigger wand will be cast at your feet, it's way less effective. But this league it consumes a shit ton of mana.

You need a scepter, some str, and as LL a shit ton of gem slots . We are already sevred in LL, and now you need four more slots. that's why unset ring, curse ring, fortify boots help so much. When I get rid of Rime Gaze, I krangle my cold snap setup. I just keep it around as a 2L to apply bonechill.

This technique allowed me to reach 1500 delve depth in metamorph as CI. It was born as my dislike of shield charge to apply fortify.

The good thing is that costs nothing to try it out. A bunch Lv 1 gems (cyclone - frostbolt - cwc) and a frozen trail. But's it's acquired taste, as it's not zoom zoom at all.