[3.19] Ice Dancing Queen - Icestorm/Cyclone/CI - Viable For Everything

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Catemonster wrote:

What kind of anointment should I look for on the boots? I saw in the Scion version of this guide that Mystic Talent is good to pick up, but there's a pair with +int that has Storm Weaver allocated that I saw and was wondering if that was better. I know you can actually get Storm Weaver on the tree, though, so I'm kinda torn. :S

For the Ascendant version Whispers of Doom makes the most sense to save skill points on the 3rd curse.

The Occultist version takes Whispers of Doom already for the blasphemy aura, so I'm currently using Light Eater on the boots. But may go with Heart of Ice later in the cluster version.

Yeah, I checked and saw you had Light Eater :D I guess it just comes down to whether it's worth saving points on the tree or going for Mystic Talents, since you can't get it otherwise.

Why the build feels squishier in the endgame in 3.16?

1. Massive nerf to Blind (Flesh and Stone). 50% evasion is gone.

2. Massive nerf to Fortify. 20% damage mitigation is gone.

3. Spacing changes in the tree. This build Was definitely one of the targets when they moved a number of nodes further apart to take away overlapping stat conversion and easy connections via Thread of Hope. This is equivalent to losing at least 10 skill points. The new masteries are not even close to compensating for that.

Overall, we received a huge nerf in 3.16. But this league is all about farming low tier maps. For that purpose the build is more than fine. Can farm that crap on a 0 ex budget.

well yeah but still you want more...and after all nerfs build not dead but in worse than ever situation imho. less dmg(5 storms cap, our solo/jumping boss not so great), less surviability etc

Still i think gona next league start again whispering ice but meh, we needs buffs!

You guys are certainly dedicated! I tried the self-cast version of Icestorm many leagues ago but didn't get very far; this is the farthest I've gotten with it and I'm enjoying it quite a lot. Overall the leveling was very smooth with a couple of rough points during the gear and CI transitions. Keeping an eye out for a pair of Stampedes and a nice new hat for now.

I managed to solve the squishness problem. but now other problem appear... the damage!

I did simulacrum until wave 30, than 2 bosses spawn at once and i cant handdle so i didnt finished wave 30.

Maven is a pain to do, the feared too.

I'm pretty sure if i got int% rings / gloves, and a nice amulet i'll be able to do.

But, i dont know if worth the effort.

Each ring is about 20EX, just the base, and a nice ammy must be around this value too.

I'll keep playing this build trying to improve. But i dont know.. too expensive to do all the content like before.

This is my POB: https://pastebin.com/dnPSnJ4g

You guys can check my char on poe.ninja, there are a history of my changes from non-cluster, to cluster.

That's why we petition GGG to change the Icestorm on the staff to level 10...

On second try, i managed to do the Simulacrum wave 30

Sumary and how i achived:

Map layout was Hysteria Gate

Wave 29 spawned Kosis and Omniphobia... I splited them, killed Omniphobia first than Kosis.

Wave 30 spawned Kosis and Omniphobia... I splited them, killed Omniphobia first than Kosis.

I used the "map clear setup" with freeze, to clear all mobs, than swaped to Boss setup to increase the damage and do the bosses.

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Kelvynn wrote:

Why the build feels squishier in the endgame in 3.16?

1. Massive nerf to Blind (Flesh and Stone). 50% evasion is gone.

2. Massive nerf to Fortify. 20% damage mitigation is gone.

3. Spacing changes in the tree. This build Was definitely one of the targets when they moved a number of nodes further apart to take away overlapping stat conversion and easy connections via Thread of Hope. This is equivalent to losing at least 10 skill points. The new masteries are not even close to compensating for that.

Overall, we received a huge nerf in 3.16. But this league is all about farming low tier maps. For that purpose the build is more than fine. Can farm that crap on a 0 ex budget.

Hi Kel

Is there a trick to get the nice ring with %int and res. You had it last league and have it now. I never got something similar and had a lot of orbs last league so it corrupted over 500 good rings. Nothing was nearly good as yours ? Is there something i dont know ?

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ichbinwerichbi wrote:

Is there a trick to get the nice ring with %int and res. You had it last league and have it now. I never got something similar and had a lot of orbs last league so it corrupted over 500 good rings. Nothing was nearly good as yours ? Is there something i dont know ?

You mean a non-synthesized %Int ring?

That's a product of Temple corruption. Ever since they added Maven/Atlas passives, farming the Temple for any rooms you want is trivial.

Glennach Cairns, do the first 3 Maven invitations and take all Incursion nodes. Use Titanium watchstones with increased chance to find Alva. Favorite some nice and easy map layout in that region (in 3.16 that's Plateau).

That's how people make double-corrupted rights and belts. Of course, it still requires some luck.