[3.28] Ice Dancing God - Icestorm/Cyclone/CI - Viable For Everything

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ichbinwerichbi#6654 wrote:

Thats really sad. Is it a challenge to get such a ring or makes it a big difference in getting that amount of int. i have only normal helical rings and it works not as well as last league but it works. I die more often so getting 100 will be a grind what last league no problem was.

Heya! You can grind to 100 with no issues if you avoid dangerous maps LOL!

Unmirrored helical rings max out at 98 int and 2x70% resists, or 125 int and 1x70% resist. We need ~85% resists so 3 helicals at 98int/27all/70% resists still leaves you to get 15% to all resists somewhere.

The mirrored rings max out at 137 int and 40% to all elemental resists, so arguably these are the ones you should get, and not helicals! They come up for sale from time to time at a reasonable price.

Hello everyone,

I understand that I haven't fully completed the build yet, but at the current stage, both survivability and damage feel rather underwhelming — especially survivability. I'm also not sure how to effectively scale them further.

Could you please take a look at my character FunctionIce and share your advice?

Thanks in advance!

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SecretSequence#1394 wrote:

Hello everyone,

I understand that I haven't fully completed the build yet, but at the current stage, both survivability and damage feel rather underwhelming — especially survivability. I'm also not sure how to effectively scale them further.

Could you please take a look at my character FunctionIce and share your advice?

Thanks in advance!

Well, first of all, your skil tree pathing is off. Follow the correct path and put a fertile mind jewel in the jewel socket would boost your int by a lot. Pick up all the +1 maximum power charge. Drop the mana circle in the center. Pick up the 30% defense while wielding a staff mastery in the staff circle, and 50% ES added to stun threshold mastery in ES circle near the center. Drop the critical cicle on the right if u dont have enough point.
Secondly, I'll quote Kelvynn, "Once you kill The King in the Mists, replace Heartstopper with Toad's Pride / Unseen Hand to gain the 3rd ring slot (and become unable to use utility flasks)." After that, add the 3rd mirrored ring. Get yourself a shrine belt with Gloom shrine effect.
Thirdly, get a cyclone skil gem with imbued increased critical strike. Punishment with imbued hextouch, replace hextouch with hexpass. Those are really cheap for a 7th link.
Keep following the gearing guide closely and u should be fine.

Cool league, got 40/40 first time. Never thought I'd be one of these players.
Crafted a ring I'm proud of:
Using clusters with Unspeakable Gifts to free the belt slot. These cost 25 and 30 div.
Discovered weird tech with auto-casting icestorm if you don't move: https://i.imgur.com/vYZJP6u.mp4.

i usede unspeakle gifts the leagues bevor. BUT it has only 10 % exploding chance and the belt with gloom shrine has 40 ! %. Thats a big differnce.

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Only 10 %. Thats a big difference.

I used 2 of these, 20% is OK. It's honestly similar, packs blow up.

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yngvarrr#6048 wrote:

Do you know how to craft these? I assume Recombinator is used here, since Unspeakable Gifts can only roll on the Chaos base. Then there is a 1/4 chance to Fracture that mod. Then alt spam CttC or BS. Imprint it. But after that... The chance of regaling the other prefix AND exalting another useful suffix looks very low.

A new league in PoE 2 is coming. And for the first time since the start of Early Access, that game looks like something interesting. They really put some effort into the endgame.

As far as WI goes, some of the changes in 0.5 affect it:

1. General nerf on ES (and especially ES recharge). It will affect the Invoker less than other classes because he still has Meditate and uses Darkness Enthroned instead of the tree nodes for recharge. You will just need a better chest in general. But with all the new crafting I think it will be easier to obtain.

2. There is a 5% nerf on Comet damage, but also a bugfix for its broken quality that will give you 10% more damage. Overall it's a 5% buff.

Other than that, Invoker should still be great for WI (Frostbolt / Icestorm / Comet). The biggest issue is still the same: you have to level to 75 before you can start using it.

They added to the 0.5 patch notes:

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Lesser, Greater and Perfect Jeweller's Orbs can now be used on items with skills on them to increase the number of sockets on the item's granted skills.

This is MASSIVE! Finally, can craft 5 sockets on WI in PoE 2! Adding another support should amount to 20-25% more damage.

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Do you know how to craft these?

I'm not sure. I do think the chance is low as I only saw 3 of these on trade during my play (2 of which I bought).

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WI in 0.5

Wait, WI exists in PoE2?