[1.3] Torment: Low life Ice Spear, 400+ iir

Going with iir gear makes the game way more challenging. If hardcore isn't an option for you because like me you play drunk way to much, iir is a nice way to make the game much harder and still rewarding. I personally don't like builds that use silver bullets like regen/curses. If you run unid maps for the hell of it, beeing vulnerable to as little map mods as possible is key. This build should be able to run any map mod, though I haven't tried bm and ele reflect yet. For me, getting lots of loot is the reason to play grind games like this. I don't actually care about having insane stuff, so I have given away like 15 exa worth of stuff on torment so far.

Pro
-fun
-high iir (currently have 420/19 with flask)
-rediculous damage for a mf culler
-can perma freeze high lvl bosses
-solo 78 maps

Con
-move speed stinks
-kinda squishy unless you have insane gear. I have only 5k es and 81/81/82 res (CI is pretty tanky though, and compared to most cullers you are a god).
-you have to aim = no 3 min gorge crap
-in large partys you are reduced to a totem casting slave.

it is a low life build, no explanation needed.


These are amazing. Low-lvl-item = very easy to roll 4r (took me litarally 1 chrome, lol). 60% crit multi is crazy good since we have 95% crit chance in second form. Once I get my shav's 6l, I might craft some high es 30%+ iir gloves for the hell of it, but for dps maligaro's and facebreaker are king.


Crit multi, or gtfo. Flat + %ES is nice, res/stats and as much iir as you can get.


My rings are going to change once I stop beeing lazy and actually sell stuff instead of just giving it away. BiS would be 2 gold rings with es + % es from master craft, enough stats so you don't need any from tree, some res and dragon's + excavation for iir.


high es and iir, res is a bonus


This is one of the reasons why this build is so much fun. Ppl are just selling insane wands rediculously cheap (near BiS wands go for as little as 5c). Again, crit multi or gtfo, cast speed and as much cold spell damage as you can still get. Crafting 1% leech is huge, so having a free prefix is necessary. As a rule of thumb, 3% cast = 10% cold damage = 6% crit multi. I made an excel sheet that can calculate the exact ratios for you, if anyone is interested.


We are an iir char and this is BiS for that. The 10% move speed sucks, but thats what it is ;(


I just like this way to much, could switch to perandus if you want to go full mf, but I decided it is not worth it for me.


There are several options here. With better rings you can go with a high es shield or rathpith and run 1 bm aura. You can also go with saffel's. It should be good, but haven't tried it yet. I went with prism because I was to lazy to fix my res after the transition from CI. It gives you 2 more auras and nice all res, though the low es really punishes you.

Flasks:
Pretty standard stuff

Main attack: ice spear - cold penetration - spell echo - gmp for normal clearing, lmp for hard bosses - PoC
add ele prolif, crit multi or faster casting for a 6l (haven't tested these yet)
Culling totem: iir - flame totem - culling strike - lmp/gmp convenient for switching with ice spear :)
Cwdt - enduring cry - immortal cal - duration or any skill like vaal haste you want. Duration isn't rly needed, since immortal call is just for burst damage (looking at you devourers)
Auras: herald of thunder/ice for dps, discipline for es and what ever floats your boat after that.

https://poebuilder.com/character/AAAAAgMAVa5Eq4-mghDfsCycBUJBltD1rrNMs1Aw214RD0wtF1QigZ6hVkqOPK-bEFjDbVxrhEj316yY34rpAkuuGyXZW20ZEVA1uacrf8YRlg5IY0Nd8nDVidNwUo9Gm6GOZB0Utvr3prFC8xFxhcAaZp760rcxjHaePJ8BdFVfKkV-Dlxq-iL0bAsNjRzc2rlG1-w4gpspT1eU1aaFfewY0NCP-uv1wwm5k_IdL2_ZE3C7N4Hk67QMkycNfOq6V8nGnhB_DH2Cxyj6X2rb50cGSVHw1SSwFy9Co4Cke9fBxQ==
That is my current tree. I wanted to try inner Force and it turned out greate. It gives you res, es and dps - everything you could ask for. Be careful with taking out freeze duration nodes like I did. If your dps is to low, you will not perma freeze. A quick and painful death against hard bosses like crematorium will be your punishment ^^
For me having above 300 mana makes using potions efficent. If you need more mana, get rigtheous decree on the templar side.

One thing you have to learn, is that tool tip dps is a joke. It can be a guideline to compare similar setups, but other than that it is pretty useless. Tooltip dps is actually one of the main reasons players make terrible decisions like running crit multi gem over cold penetration (see explanation below). That beeing said, here are some screenshots:







As you can see, I have no crit chance on gear. Thats why my tool tip is so low. With powercharges and second form crit I go from 29% crit to capped 95% crit chance. In effect my actual second form dps is around 3 times my tool tip dps. On top of that I have around 40% cold penetration (41% with lvl 20 gem) and another 25% increased damage against frozen/shocked enemies (the effect this has on total DPS is kinda hard to calculate. The way I understand it, it will give you 25% more DPS for every attack after the first hit unless you are using other "incresed damage against" modifiers like "shocked" or items like berek's grip). So with lmp we have around 35k dps per spear. Large bosses like second form merveille can be hit by 2-3 spears at the same time, giving you over 100k dps with 40% penetration.

That image is with 3 resist flasks and divination distillate active. Normal res are 81/81/80 (will be 81/81/82 with lvl 20 purity of lightning). Since I have the flask skill points from witch tree, I go to 94% res with flasks. Distillate gets you to 101%

I got very lucky on this server and had it drop for me on day 3. Since I allready had it, it was cheaper to 5l it and get pain attunement than buying a 6l es base and crafting it. Low life basicly gives you an additional link and some iir since you can use andvarius and wondertrap instead of goldwyrm. A 6l CI is actually tankier (a lot more es) and has the same DPS. 6l's are only a few exa and you can craft them to around 500 es very easy (just roll high base es and master craft % es. Lucky regals can get you to 600+). You still have very good iir and a very strong character. If you want to be super cheap, you can also buy a 5l es and craft it like this
That will cost you 5-10c. The skill tree is very similar, here is an example:

Feel free to use clarity :) I love not having to rely on regen. It makes using divination distillate that much easier, and no regen/half regen easy map mods.

I hate them, don't ask me why. The whole point of this build is to perma freeze bosses with no curses. It works. if you want to curse: Elemental weakness is the best curse for dps, followed by assessin's mark

It reduces max res after capping. That basicly makes +75% cold res a free mod. Any boss that allready has 75% cold res now has 150%. You can hit that boss with as many crappy curses as you like, it won't matter. Yet, our 40% penetration (5% from tree, 36 from gem) applies after capping, so the boss only has 35% res for us. That more than doubles our dps (65% damage instead of 30%). Basicly if you can freeze a boss with no curse, you can freeze him with 75% added cold res too. No other link can ever beat that (assuming you have 400% crit multi (thats kinda low, I have 490) , the crit multi gem will add 120% at 20/23. Even with 100% crit, that is only an increase of around 27% dps. So, even with no resist, the 36% extra damage from penetration is much better). Don't get fooled by tooltip dps. Best to just ignore it.

I am playing on a laptop, so recording makes me lagg like hell. For now I have a gorge run that I recorded to show that no regen is not an issue. This was my first recording ever, so it sucks. Sry :S If anyone wants to run maps with me and record it, you are my hero.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzS4x3B3WUo&feature=youtu.be

Made a quick video of normal dominus as a DPS benchmark. Dominus is the hardest boss for this build, since you have no power charges on second fight (you can see me trying deodre's elixir, but need power charge duration from tree to make that work).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsiyqRDyOOU&feature=youtu.be