[2.2 Whispering Ice, Lowlife, Pure Unique wearer 1900+ Int, updated]

would hypothermia work against most bosses since they're hard/immune to chill?

and if you don't crit, how do you freeze/shatter mobs (herald of ice) ?

Not looking at doing Atziri and stuff the moment I'm working on testing other gem setups. I used a couple hundred chromes to make the staff 3 green so I could try using added cold gem instead of increased aoe. Still unsure about if that improves speed but thats what testing is for. Will probably swap back at some point though as it does mean you can't swap into conc effect

I also swapped increased duration for Iron will since the build has almost 200 strength from items. This is definitely better for mapping as increased duration doesn't improve clear speed while iron will adds a fair chunk of damage. This also has the added benefit of having no mana multiplier which allows me to swap my gloves into

Which proves about the same damage as the old gloves but tops my ES total to 8.5k for a bit more safety.

Swapping to these gloves has made me want to try the crit version. Hard to sacrifice Int for crit though since Int gives such good bonuses

@Kaz2ndchance

All the bosses I've fought so far get chilled. Havn't checked on Atziri but should pay more attention to that.

For shattering you have 5% freeze chance from tree, 10% from hypothermia and the base crit chance of 5% to make a rough total 20% chance to freeze. With each mob getting hit by several hits there is plenty of shattering going on.

Converted to this build on my 82 witch after my ci icestorm scion died in tempest.

From my perspective the clear speed is really great, the control is nice as well. Concerns are the low leech amount without vaal pact. I could (and have) slot life leech instead of increased duration/iron will/item quantity when things get sticky... But I'm currently working towards vaal pact now to see if the .2 from belt can sustain me in all but the toughest maps. I plan on using another brute force solution to convert all the int along the way.

Currently working on a secondary set that's used for mf. It will greatly impact the total int, but I'm hoping it will still be quite quick in sub-74s.

Edit: reflect can get deadly quick, so I'd strongly suggest using vaal discipline.

You can curse atziri, but I do believe she's immune to chill

Why not grab the increase duration cluster left of scion?

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CA_Jukes wrote:

Why not grab the increase duration cluster left of scion?

It's pretty much wasted points since you get such a large increase to your duration from intelligence any way.

Glad to hear you are enjoying the clear speed Okanitu I'm suprised to hear you are having trouble with reflect though. I just pop my cold flask and with 90% cold resistance my ES barly goes down before they die.

The build defeintly has room for Vaal discipline and I've been suggesting it some people who PM'd me asking what I would run if I wasn't just leveling gems. I would run it for atziri but don't find it needed against anything else.

I was running the increased duration when I made this tree so those duration nodes would have been total overkill. Even now I've swapped it out I don't feel its needed the storm is 5.6 seconds with only the increase duration from Int and thats plenty. Getting more ES and damage is a higher priority

crit tree alternative
https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwMABUINfA5ID8QRDxFQEZYTcRZAFy8bJR0UHaoksCo4LJwtHy9vNbk7fD1fQZZGcUbXSVFLrkyzUDBSU1XWVylYrlxrXIpd8l6lX2pfsGSdZOdmnm0Zb55wUnC7cNVxhXIPdwd713_GgKSDCYRIhX2HE4nTjHaOZI9Gj_qTJ5Ugl5WX9Juhm7WcpKEvoqOnK6yYrrOxQrQMtvq3MbjKvorBxcHzwzrDbcpKytPQ0ND12RPZW9q5217fit-w4YjpAuq66_XsGPDV8h33pvfX-tL-SdAf7-s7DaIuUEKMNoTFwwm5kw==

Gear
Whispering Ice, Shavs, 2x perandus signets, astramentis, voidbringers, bated breath or cold doryani's, rainbow strides, the vertex.

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lDantonl wrote:

crit tree alternative
https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwMABUINfA5ID8QRDxFQEZYTcRZAFy8bJR0UHaoksCo4LJwtHy9vNbk7fD1fQZZGcUbXSVFLrkyzUDBSU1XWVylYrlxrXIpd8l6lX2pfsGSdZOdmnm0Zb55wUnC7cNVxhXIPdwd713_GgKSDCYRIhX2HE4nTjHaOZI9Gj_qTJ5Ugl5WX9Juhm7WcpKEvoqOnK6yYrrOxQrQMtvq3MbjKvorBxcHzwzrDbcpKytPQ0ND12RPZW9q5217fit-w4YjpAuq66_XsGPDV8h33pvfX-tL-SdAf7-s7DaIuUEKMNoTFwwm5kw==

Gear
Whispering Ice, Shavs, 2x perandus signets, astramentis, voidbringers, bated breath or cold doryani's, rainbow strides, the vertex.

That tree contains no mana or mana regen so wouldn't be able to support selfcast icestorm. Without frostwalker in the tree your cold resistance won't be capped and would have trouble with reflect and all sorts of incoming cold damage, same problem with using bated breath instead of doryani's is that it undercapps your resistance in the other elements. your build gets 12% more reduced mana reserved that is uneeded for running the auras this build runs so those nodes don't really do much for this build. It also misses out on some of the best Int nodes in the tree while also getting less ES nodes which would really cut down your ES total to concerning levels.

I would do something more like this if I wanted to go crit and vaal pact in this build

http://poedb.tw/us/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwMABAcFQg18DkgQWBFQEZYTcRcvGmwbJR0UH8cksCepKU8qOCpTK3gsnCymLR8tiy9vNAo1uTdmPAU9X0GWRUdGcUuuTLNQQlF0UilSU1XgWFpYrlxrXIpd8l6lXypfal-wZJ1mVGjybRlvnnBScLtw1XRVe9d8S3_GgKSCm4MJhEiExYV7idOMNo5kjumPRo_6kNaTJ5UglnSX9Juhm7WdrqEvoi6io6aZpwinK6yYrrOvm7JwtAy1BLaGtvq-isBmwcXB88M6w23KSsrT0NDQ9dWm2RPZW9-K37DkIukC6rrr5Ov17BjsOO0g73zyHfem99f60g==

How about empower on the staff?