[3.9] ICE NOVA GUARDIAN. INSANE DPS. INSANE DEFENSE. BUILD OF THE LEAGUE.

UPDATE 1:
Cheap Option for Ignite & Shock immune. Also Gives a TON of ES&Mana from int.
Make sure your Strength is higher than dex!


UPDATE 2:
YOU CAN HOLD DOWN YOUR ICE NOVA BUTTON! YOU DON'T NEED TO SPAM IT! (Some people didn't realize this :D)


UPDATE 3:


Great Cheap DPS jewel in

HIT 100 on the build and respecced into more damage! I dont recommend speccing into what I have currently on my character.

UPDATE 4:

Break from league. I will continue to answer questions here

Level 8 Sirus


ALL BOSS FIGHTS + MAP CLEAR (timestamps in video description)

Pledge of Hands

The main item that synergizes well with guardian. 100% increased maximum mana = more tankyness.

Greater spell echo is an additional 2 repeats & damage multiplier to ice nova.



Memory Vault

This item gains us a big chunk of Armor for reserving mana. Also gives us alot of flat mana. Ice nova damage enchant here would be the best. Reservation enchant allows you for a little more breathing room for mana if you have alot of cast speed.



Shavronne's Wrappings

To enable lowlife. Letting us fit zealotry or hatred & 30% more spell damage.
Reserving life as guardian is also important because it gives armor.



Presence of Chayula

Must have for lowlife characters. Gives big ES, big Chaos Res & Stun immunity.

ANNOINT CRUSADER HERE for 20%+ MORE DAMAGE. (2 gold 1 clear)




Dream Fragments

Ignite Immunity corruption (important) & Freeze and Chill immunity. Also gives resist and mana.



Rare Ring

Here we fill out remaining resistances. Get chaos res for sirus & fill stats such as Dexterity or Strength. Mana is always good and Temple %ES or Crusader %ES.


Gloves

Here we try to awakener orb together a pair of Culling Gloves & Unnerve gloves for damage. Or we get a temple %mana mod with high ES for defense. You can fill out dexterity/strength resist here aswell.



Belt

Use headhunter if you can afford it, otherwise use a stygian where you fill out Resists/Stats/Mana/ES/Damage in that order. Cyclopean Coil is a great belt and even provides me with more ES than the stygian I linked. If you balance your stats correctly (STR higher than DEX & INT higher than STR) then you will be shock and ignite immune aswell!



Boots

Try to get tailwind boots with decent movement speed & ES. If you want the budget option, get movement speed temple %mana mod & high ES. You don't need elusive. Best enchants here are: Regen, %mana regen or penetration.



Flasks

Bottled faith pairs amazingly with zealotry and our high hitrate of Ice novas to guarantee that the mob allways has consecrated ground below them. Standing on consecrated ground also provides us good regen.



Switch this in vs Sirus instead of onslaught flask.

Budget version of bottled faith.


Watcher's Eye

Clarity's Mana as Extra ES gives us around 2k Energy shield depending on mana.
Getting a secondary mod for zealotry is not required but helps with damage.



Unique Jewels

These are the jewels we use on specific locations. Corrupted blood on tempered spirit is important vs Sirus. (His beams apply corrupted blood)





Normal Jewels

Here we preferably want x2 Crit multi and x1 cast speed.

Jewel Search



Utility/Misc Items

This can be socketed in instead of a DPS jewel for better clearspeed. You have to take it out on bosses because its a big damage loss.



For no Regen maps. Switch out granite flask. (We completely rely on our high mana regen for our mana)

4L Blood Magic Aura Setup

Clarity & Enlighten 4 not needed until you have Watcher's eye. Enlighten 3 and Blood magic lvl 20 is required to go low life.



4L Aura Setup

Enlighten 3 is required without a helmet reservation enchant. Keep in mind you want to reserve most your mana for ES/armor but still keep enough mana to cast comfortably. Skitterbots are great damage/utility.



4L Utility Setup

Stone golem for 10% more damage with ascendancy & Regen.
Molten shell selfcast/Cwdt is up to you. Keep in mind normal molten shell can overwrite vaal molten shell.



6L Frostbolt setup

Here we have some freedom. Curse on hit with frostbite for damage. GMP is needed for us to get overlapping ice novas. Arcane surge at a level where we get it every cast.



Switch in instead of faster casting for big bosses. (need 1 white)



Switch in instead of faster casting for insane clearspeed in open layouts.



6L Ice nova setup

Awakened spell echo is a great upgrade. Aswell as awakened increased AOE. Awakened added cold is your hypothermia upgrade.





Switch in instead of Inc AOE for big bosses.

Guardian provides us with ALL charges at ALL times and is not to be underestimated in terms of DPS & Defense.

With 8000 mana we get around +4000 energy shield from Radiant Faith.

Radiant Crusade helps us gear with +20% all res and 10% more damage with stone golem close to us. (Currently does not work with skitterbots for some reason)

For the last node I went Time of Need for an occasional spike of 30% regen over one second. This can help if you need to run around for a few seconds if you were in danger.

Bandit = HELP ALIRA

Major Pantheon = Fully upgraded Arakaali. (helps vs chaos & shock)

Minor Pantheon = Fully upgraded Shakari. (poison immune)

SKILL TREE

I leveled with axiom's and a tabula and went crit asap. You can level as anything.

From level 12+ I leveled with the ice nova - frostbolt combo.

Equip spell echo at lvl 38.

Equip Pledge of hands at lvl 68. Go lowlife once you can equip Pledge of hands & Shavs.

These gloves will carry your leveling from level 1. Use a Frigid & Metallic fossil on ilvl 2 gloves.

IMPORTANT

If you don't have localidentity's POB fork.

Untick shock.

Use enemy is taunted = Yes.

Edit "Enemies taunted by you take 17% increased damage" on a piece of gear.

This is to simulate skitterbots.

https://pastebin.com/E4CdaPww