The Cold Shower (Crit-Cascade) [1.3]

interesting in trying out this build but would it benefit or hurt to use a taryn's shiver staff??

I'm not entirely sure. You lose a lot of crit, but the staff has many nice stats to it. Also with a 5-link you could dual-curse with Herald of Thunder. I don't have one in my stash to test it out.

1.3 Discussion: So far, this patch has been a mixed bag with more nerfing than buffing. You can find the nerfs in 1.3's patch notes. One good thing though is that the Templar start area is now more accessible. This makes it easier to get additional spell damage, elemental damage, AoE, and life regen.

The changes to the tree has made more options and choices. I tinkered with the old tree a lot, and this new one is harder to get it just how I want it.

Why don't you use icespear / lmp / pcoc to keep up the charges or are you fine without?

I've noticed a couple unsupported skill tree nodes taken.. 1.3 changes not accounted for in the link?

I'm interested in making something like this work. Seems really fun.

The tree is not 1.3 updated as of now. With the rework to the templar area, porting the old tree directly may not be the best. I'm going to try this.

Currently running a build with Cascade. planing my tree to be something like this

Might switch out spell damage from witch start to Regen nodes instead

I'm always surprised to come back to this guide and see that anyone cares.

I don't use GMP Ice Spear PCoC because Assassin's Mark alone can keep my charges up better than I expected. Go for it if you want; I would encourage experimentation and personal preference.

I haven't settled on a 1.3 tree yet. I'll just update to the one I've got right now. I lost about 14% increased life but gained more AoE and the ability to run Purity of Ice full time thanks to Sovereignty cluster. Still feels like I need a little more mana, because I had to drop the mana nodes in the Shadow start area. I also miss having the flask nodes.

Celestial Punishment is tempting, but I'm not convinced the pathing investment is worth it with Glacial Cascade being only part elemental. And the "increased damage against" doesn't function like the mod on Taryn's Shiver (an increased mod that acts like a more multiplier, because it increases "damage taken").

Hi

Is this ok if I always choose pasive points from bandits?

Does it lower much my DPS?

DPS probably won't be much less. Life might be a little lower.

Glacial Cascade can only hit 2 times the same mob, never more.