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

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King_Haart wrote:

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meventus wrote:

If anyone could take a look at my build and give me some guidance that would be great.

I just passed 10K ES, most of it comes from gear. I did get lucky with 1 ring that has +96 ES which translates to around 700 ES. I also have Arcane Focus on the passive tree which is around 400 ES. ES stacks somewhat exponentially due to the multipliers, so once you put together a few seemingly smaller increases, that adds up to more than the individual parts.

Where you are missing the most ES:
- Helm, look for at least 250 ES (preferably 300+), this is probably 1K ES or more.
- Body - you want ES+EV, Carnal Armour or preferable Sadist Garb due to the extra ES we get from EV on Chest due to Escape Artist ascendency node. You can probably pick up over 2K ES here if not 3-4K. And get a % increase Int Crusader (or Shaper) chest which is better than flat int (though both is ideal, with crafted +6% attributes).
- Astramentis isn't BIS anymore with the Mirror amulets, but depends a bit on trade.
- Look for mirrored rings.

Finally, try to level to at least ~92, so you can get a few more nodes on the tree which helps a lot. This build scales a lot with each passive point towards 100 because the masteries each give +3% MORE damage.

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meventus wrote:

I was looking at mirrored rings with high int. and high one stat resist, but I'm unsure on what negative stats to look for. Would -accuracy, -evade, 2 to 20 damage taken, be the negative stats I should be looking for?

-Accuracy and damage taken is OK, but you don't want -evade (unless it's really small) because EV is a big part of this build's tankiness. As discussed in the last page or so of this thread, EV is so big in this build that Int+EV Split Personality jewels are arguably better than Int+ES in some cases (esp. considering the cost!).

To that end, spend 15c to switch out your Int+Armour SP for an Int+EV one. The small Phys Red from the little Armour we get isn't worth as much. Say the EV one gives you +5% evade chance and the Armour gives +5% PR - but your existing EV Chance is 50% and PR is just say 5%. Well that means that the armour takes you to 10% PR which would 'feel' 5% better, but the EV chance would take you to 55% which would 'feel' 10% better. If that makes sense. :)

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meventus wrote:

Thanks a lot. I didn't realize how much ES I was missing from my helm and body armor. I'm going to jump on that ASAP.

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WinterHiko wrote:

With that said, I haven't been able to squeeze in aspect of the spider yet. I'm down to 83 mana with all four auras, which seems low. Unless I'm mistaken, I believe there's a free gem slot in the PoB in the auras link. I might put an Enlighten in there to free up some mana. Is there a reason it's not included in the build? There's a free slot and it's great QoL even if not mandatory.

EDIT : just realized I didn't allocate the energy shield mastery node, which would increase Discipline efficiency. My question still stands about Enlighten and QoL, but that node does help quite a bit with the mana. Plus, Englighten taking care of mana issues frees up that mastery for an additionnal 400-500 ES with "3% of max mana as ES".

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WinterHiko wrote:

Holy crap why did I click increased life reservation efficency? Thanks for the heads-up, I'm going to change that ASAP for that 32% increased damage (8% per aura).

Empty jewel slots are waiting for the forbidden jewels I'm saving up for. I got 7div and the set costs 13div right now. Instead of filling them up, I'm just waiting for that upgrade.