[3.23] Lk's Cold DoT Ele [League-start to over 40m DoT] (Wildwood Primalist Update)

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OnrahTheMysterious wrote:

https://pobb.in/z_4R5_JTKpS3

This is the highest I've ever reached but I'm a bit stuck. I enjoy the Cold DOT elementalist and would really like go the distance. I have about 4 div to spend. What can I realistically do to improve my character? Also which maps should I run to level.

Hi there,

I had a look at your pob and the first thing that stands out is the lack of life you have. I would focus on that first. Your chest has no life on it, nor does the stygian. The amulet could have much more life on it as well. The shield could be changed as well for something with life and resists as its not great. The jewel in the stygian is doing nothing for you either and needs changing. Flasks need rolling as per the guide or you will struggle.

Secondly, look for a devouring diadem on trade. Put Grace, determination, malevolence and tempest shield in it. You can now run 4 auras. You can then spec out of Eldritch battery and you have 3 spare skill points to re allocate. Speaking of which, more levels will really help, but focus on the basics first.

I have some items you can have if you want. They are just sitting in my stash doing nothing and will help you massivly. They served me well and got me to late maps. Hit me up in game: @LuxuryElite

Edit: Just saw you are running cast when damage taken and molten shell way to a high a level so its not working as it should. CWDT should be 1 and MS should be 10.

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OnrahTheMysterious wrote:

https://pobb.in/z_4R5_JTKpS3

This is the highest I've ever reached but I'm a bit stuck. I enjoy the Cold DOT elementalist and would really like go the distance. I have about 4 div to spend. What can I realistically do to improve my character? Also which maps should I run to level.

Congrats on breaking new records :)

I'm travelling without access to POB. I concur with Dope. Also, get lvl 21 vortex, creeping and vaal cold snap >> 14% overall dot dps boost. I think you can get a better weapon for 50c or less (+1 cold with dot/cdot multi).

How many voidstones do you have? You should run maps that you can comfortably complete in 2-4 mins.

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DopeOnWax wrote:

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OnrahTheMysterious wrote:

https://pobb.in/z_4R5_JTKpS3

This is the highest I've ever reached but I'm a bit stuck. I enjoy the Cold DOT elementalist and would really like go the distance. I have about 4 div to spend. What can I realistically do to improve my character? Also which maps should I run to level.

Hi there,

I had a look at your pob and the first thing that stands out is the lack of life you have. I would focus on that first. Your chest has no life on it, nor does the stygian. The amulet could have much more life on it as well. The shield could be changed as well for something with life and resists as its not great. The jewel in the stygian is doing nothing for you either and needs changing. Flasks need rolling as per the guide or you will struggle.

Secondly, look for a devouring diadem on trade. Put Grace, determination, malevolence and tempest shield in it. You can now run 4 auras. You can then spec out of Eldritch battery and you have 3 spare skill points to re allocate. Speaking of which, more levels will really help, but focus on the basics first.

I have some items you can have if you want. They are just sitting in my stash doing nothing and will help you massivly. They served me well and got me to late maps. Hit me up in game: @LuxuryElite

Edit: Just saw you are running cast when damage taken and molten shell way to a high a level so its not working as it should. CWDT should be 1 and MS should be 10.

lux, drop the +10 int node, and the cold mastery node, and the coldhearted calculation node. those are not point efficient. grab the aura effect in the sovereignty wheel, the 16% ele dmg above frost walker, and curse effectiveness above whispers of doom. those will give you the best dps boosts.

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OnrahTheMysterious wrote:

https://pobb.in/z_4R5_JTKpS3

This is the highest I've ever reached but I'm a bit stuck. I enjoy the Cold DOT elementalist and would really like go the distance. I have about 4 div to spend. What can I realistically do to improve my character? Also which maps should I run to level.

ok, from your POBB, you are a fairly new player. so the suggestions I will be giving here are to adjust the build, to fit what we have for the guide. I will not be discussing on the differences of maxroll/tripolarbear vs our version, you can read here:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3362183/page/2#p24936007

1. change your helm to DD (socket the correct auras - find in guide)
2. change your wand (look for +1 and dot multi and spell damage, take whatever fits in your budget, there should be many options for 1div)
3. change your shield (look for spell dmg, life, resists)
4. change your unset ring (look for life, resists)
5. change your belt - find the cowards legacy belt.
6. change your jewels:
6a. watcher's eye with not affected by vulnerability while affected by determination
6b. jewel with 2% mana reservation effciency.
7. change your gems and gem links, start following the guide:
7a. run defiance banner
7b. all other gem changes - such as curses, movement skills etc.
8. change your flasks:
8a. follow flasks in guide.
8b. if you're afraid of the freeze/chill, take the pantheon that gives you immunity to freeze, dont use kiara's flask.
9. for your other rares - chest, gloves, rings, amulet, change what you can to get life/resists. if you have too much resistances, then you can find a shield with more spell damage/+1 to gem level.
10. take 15% increased max life life mastery as your chest has no life modifiers. (unless you changed it).
11. your passive tree is very messy, you are pathing to too many notables without completing them, creating a very inefficient situation where your current character is not making use of any of the notables. we're going to unallocate all spell suppression nodes first, eldritch battery, and the arcane sanctuary wheel. follow the guide POB to have an idea of the notables to take. it is difficult to give you a specific lvl 90 tree, so the best idea is for you to follow the guide, and leave out maybe 5-6 sp, and then we can re-assess again what you should allocate.

Thanks for all the replies. I really am a noob. Great to have a community that puts effort into their replies.

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OnrahTheMysterious wrote:

Thanks for all the replies. I really am a noob. Great to have a community that puts effort into their replies.

welcome. for now, the easiest is to follow instructions to get the build running. once it works, and you have a better idea of why we make certain decisions/give those advice, then you can start tinkering with different variations and their trade-offs. or ask about more in depth questions on the motivations behind some of the decisions.

Hey everyone, I can't believe I totally forgot to enchant my DD! Anyways...

I'm not really doing bosses, focusing mainly on deli maps, is it still worth it to get the curse enchants? I rarely use them tbh, maybe I should use them more, specially because I'm using arcanist brand. Or for mapping it would be better to get the vortex enchants??

Thanks in advance!

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Yan_n wrote:

Hey everyone, I can't believe I totally forgot to enchant my DD! Anyways...

I'm not really doing bosses, focusing mainly on deli maps, is it still worth it to get the curse enchants? I rarely use them tbh, maybe I should use them more, specially because I'm using arcanist brand. Or for mapping it would be better to get the vortex enchants??

Thanks in advance!

so, i would suggest getting used to casting arcanist brand on rares/uniques that are tankier - like bosses or essence mobs, and if you're doing simulacrums, even more so, because the area is smaller, and there is a lot of value in casting curses (AOE) in a small map.

for mapping, i would still say curse effectiveness gives the greatest utility.

vortex/creeping frost enchants, such as AOE/duration/spreading speed/cooldown reduction are quite trivial as when we scale with gem levels, and with our passive tree, or with our movement and clear speed/dps, we dont quite feel the effects of this.

vortex/creeping frost dmg is also not ideal as it only affects 1 out of 2 or 3 active CDOT skills we use.

we already have good damage for normal mapping, and thus would want the dps boost for tankier mobs, which is why curse effectiveness would be the most useful.

even without an enchant, the build feels sufficient. so even that is not a requirement. you may even consider corrupted implicits such as 80/90% mana reservation, or even + levels to aura gems etc, if you feel the aura boost is more desirable compared to enchants. (i dont recall finding a 80% mana reservation + curse effect helm on market yet, and i think the closest was a 90% reservation + curse which was 40-50d).

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OnrahTheMysterious wrote:

https://pobb.in/z_4R5_JTKpS3

This is the highest I've ever reached but I'm a bit stuck. I enjoy the Cold DOT elementalist and would really like go the distance. I have about 4 div to spend. What can I realistically do to improve my character? Also which maps should I run to level.

Hey,

even if there are already some changes, I've also took a short look on your char. Here is what I noticed:

First of all, you got a watchers eye on the left side of the tree with no fitting aura effects. that one could be replaced by a rare one with life + cdot multi (should be just a few chaos).

Then all your gems are lvl 20 and lack quality. For most of them, the quality offers you some benefits. Besides that, use your secondary weapon set in order to level some more gems you're using. The gems in your secondary set will get exp, while you're using your primary set. That way you get some food for vaal orbs and are allowed to gamble for lvl 21 gems without risking your current setup.

Your Wand also lacks a crucible tree. Mine also isn't perfect, but it should give you a hint, why it's interesting to work on them:

(the red lines are crucible)

For your gloves, replace the eater mod with cdot multiplier. Since you don't have a that big budget and the gloves aren't that great at all, I would reccomend taking smaller or maybe bigger eldrich for it. grand (or even exceptional) would be a waste of currency.

Then a small nut pick: your armor has a crafted mod for + es. Since it's a hybrid armor, the +armor & es mod would be more useful.
Besides that, I would reccomend to check PoB for the following alternatives:
a) keep armor + es and skill the life mastery for "increased life while your body armor has no life"
b) replace the armor & es mod with physical damage taken as fire/lightning and pick the mastery
c) replace the crafted mod with a hp one

OK I have made a lot of changes per your suggestions. Next up is getting quality on my gems. I'll need farm some more currency for my body armor. Any other suggestions? Got about 1 div left. https://pobb.in/Kx10jLUFa3Uo

Also thanks for everyone offering items. Problem is, looks like we are in different time zones. I'll keep trying.