[3.14] Cospri's Malice CoC Ice Nova Inquisitor - League Starter.

This post might end up being quite long, be warned XD

I have played this build for more than a month now!

I don't really remember how I stumbled on this build, but I think my man had just wrote it and I came across it while browsing the forums, it was at the time, just bare bones, I think just 2 pages worth of comments.

I replied, asking if he would add a leveling section, and he did! He even added a leveling tree in the POB. This was gonna be my second character. I had farmed up some currency with my League Starter Blade Fall/Blast Chieftain, a really solid build as well tbh but a lot of stop and go mechanics.

I had made some currency at this time, I was sitting on 8ex and 200 something chaos, so I thought why not, OP was replying to almost every question others were posting and the build guide was taking shape day by day.

So I got on the Templar train and wanted to see where it would take, and it took me to places that I've never been.

This really isn't a league start build, it can get expensive but everything you put it into it, makes things just so much smoother

I am a lousy bosser, if I knew half of the mechanincs of boss fights then things would have been faster, but even my half assed face tanking and (sometimes) dying playstyle got me thru the fights, esp Maven, you can leech and facetank her for most of the fight, anyway here are some videos, some are really bad deaths tho :( be warned, can get cringey. Some of these are shortened/edited.

Update: Just did a9 sirus!!

Shaper w/ Maven - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDqSSeWY3Q0
Elder w/ Maven- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpG6xfamtM0
A8 Sirus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm5VE0zEFxk
Maven - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZiR1kIy2ns
A9 Sirus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88ziCl_v14w
The Formed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_smoinURGs
Hydra w/ Aid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyIhsjpfBgs

I have 2 sets of chest pieces, I guess it was cheaper for me since I had slready had the -mana/explodey chest from my previous build, i use the explodey astral plate with -15 mana cost for mapping with HH, and a Vaal regalia with crit strike chance and high life and 10% Life as ES craft for bossing plus a Life and Res belt.

I also ended up running 2 Level 3 Enlighten Supports.

My gear could be better, it's nothing top tier, I have a max power charge crown in my stash that I'm working on. I just upgraded my gear little by little over the course of the league when the need arose or if I had extra currency.


For Mapping/Map Bosses



For tougher bosses



Flasks

You will encounter mana issues with cyclone until you are able to get it low enough or have a lot of Mana leech or carry an Enduring mana flask.

It's caused by getting the aps buff which makes your cyclone aps shoot thru the roof and you end up being a giant that cant move at all, esp if you live in Canyon, farming Harbies XD

I got around this by using -15 mana cost explodey chest. minus mana ring might work as well, but it's a dps loss if I remove Circle of Fear from the setup, and I dont really mind switching chests for bossing :)



I use that for mapping (and map bosses) and I use another high life + crit strike chance chest for dedicated bossing (maven, sirus, etc.)

This was a bit confusing for at first because OP said 100% Ailment Immune ALL the time, then I saw that it's only when you're on Consecrated Ground that you are Immune, It took a while for things to click into place for me so this might help someone out.

How to have 100$ ailment immunity all time, you just need to proc CG and it will linger for 4 seconds.

1. When you stop to change directions while cycloning, you proc CG. or
2. When you use a movement skill- Flamedash/Dash even Frostblink. or
3. When you use a sulfur flask or bottled faith. You create CG

All of which you will be doing at one point or another in the course of mapping/bossing so you are Ailment Immune all of the time.

I did not enjoy leveling this build at all tbh, I have never played a templar before so I just ended up leveling with freezing pulse until I could switch to the Cospri's.

Having said that, a couple of Youtube guides came out after I was done leveling. One is the same as this build, a CoC Ice nova Inq, and the other is Esoro's Mjolnir build, some good references if you are looking for additional info on levelling. I just powered thru with Freezing pulse with a Tabula XD

At least I know how to level this properly next league :D

-Respect the upgrade order

I got stuff as they were recommended in the upgrade order, I did my first Sirus a8 and Maven without awakened CoC and it was fine

-It's a really REALLY fun build to play

You clear fast, you kill bosses fast, you are hard to kill. Even an idiot like me can right click thru all content with this build.

-It just works!

From ailment immunity to damage mitigation, to life and ES leech, everything just works and works well. The build is very tanky. With my bossing chest and belt, it's 10k+ ehp

First time I've been able to do a8 Sirus ever and the some of the other "deadly" bosses XD

Don't get me wrong, I die, I die a lot, but that's because I try to facetank everything XD which actually works 95% of the time!