[3.16] g00fy_goober's Winter Orb Occultist (Easily clear all content)

Would you recommend this build if I'm just starting this league now?

Or would you recommend to start as another build? If another build, what would you recommend?

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Ralfium wrote:

Would you recommend this build if I'm just starting this league now?

Or would you recommend to start as another build? If another build, what would you recommend?

Just switched to this build myself like 2-3 days ago. I would highly suggest gathering up a bunch of gear/gems/clusters and such first.

I personally leveled as bane occultist and it went amazing, super easy to do, very cheap, and can easily clear all content.

You should add hydrosphere to your build, it makes the single target good by forcing your projectiles to shotgun bosses (unless they removed this since Ritual).

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loldongues wrote:

You should add hydrosphere to your build, it makes the single target good by forcing your projectiles to shotgun bosses (unless they removed this since Ritual).

So I have not played around with hydrosphere very much and it definitely has it's uses but on winterorb and this build it does almost nothing.

First, we alrdy have a -exposure from frostbomb which gives -15% which is higher than hydrosphere.

Second, winter orb projectiles for all intents and purposes already shotguns. Projectiles target the mobs or the ground in essence and the explosions overlap. So single target is not really an issue.

Third, hydrosphere interaction with winter orb does almost nothing. It just counts the orb as ONE possible thing to hit and most projectiles fire at something else. This also works the same even in hideout with no other targets around.

Can you make a tree for life base instead of ES base? I have some mirror'ed gears in standard but life based

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khachavippoe wrote:

Can you make a tree for life base instead of ES base? I have some mirror'ed gears in standard but life based

No. But you can very easily.

The build guide itself is great, but I think Winter Orb is a dead skill. Standing still to charge up just takes too long for what it gives you in return.

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ValfaderTV wrote:

The build guide itself is great, but I think Winter Orb is a dead skill. Standing still to charge up just takes too long for what it gives you in return.

I mean I definitely feel mechanically it can be improved for sure, but most skills you still have to stop and click to use. Whether melee or ranged or bow or spells or attack. This one just gains "frequency" when you stand and channel which is great for single target when you don't really care but for clear you basically end up channeling for a second or less everytime you run into mobs.

Kind of the same as running into mobs and stopping to shoot 1-3 times with w/e skill and then moving on.

That being said I would definitely LOVE to be able to have winterorb be an instant skill that doesn't stop ur char from moving but we all know that will never happen.

How do you see this in 3.17 with the buff?

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apotropaiko wrote:

How do you see this in 3.17 with the buff?

Played it the last 2 leagues and was still pretty legit for the things. Though I wish I didn't have to stop and channel a bit per screen mostly.... but still pretty fun build.

Seeing the patchnotes with the flat dmg buff and buff to frequency while channeling makes me think it will be even more powerful which is great.

Might end up being 3 leagues in a row I end up making it my end game build. Takes quite a bit of gear/currency to feel good though.... Will have to see.

Regardless, it was nothing but buffed so I would say it will be nothing but better than before.