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

What gems are prioritized to put quality on first?

Also, do you really need the mana nodes and the jewel node up at eldritch battery? I feel like taking those three points and putting them into thief's craft would be better since you'll gain an extra 10 int from fertile mind there... What do you think?

@EnragedDirehorn I wouldn't change much to make the tree scion. Just swap the starting witch nodes into the spell damage start of scion. It would have quite a bit less ES though

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deadbyt3 wrote:

What gems are prioritized to put quality on first?

Also, do you really need the mana nodes and the jewel node up at eldritch battery? I feel like taking those three points and putting them into thief's craft would be better since you'll gain an extra 10 int from fertile mind there... What do you think?

Quality

High Priority
Cold to fire > Faster casting > Herald of Ice

Mid priority
Spell ecco and Fire penetration

Meh might as well priority
Life leech, hypothermia

To compare the nodes in the tree:


Top nodes next to eldritch battery for 4 points gives
54 Int (30 Int from physique and 24 Int from Brute force jewel)
16% mana

Thief's craft route would be 3 points and gives
40 Int (10 Travel node and Thief's craft)
10 Dex (Pointless)

So the question would be if you'd spend a point for "14Int and 16% increased mana" which is the difference between the two.

At that late point of the build its all little differences but so far the top jewel still edges out for me.

Thanks, I figure getting the mana is better too since I have no way of running empower in the vertex as it stands now...

With the drop of Avatar of Fire u still using Cold to Fire and fire pen on stafF?
Really fun build to play with ^^

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mayanrm wrote:

With the drop of Avatar of Fire u still using Cold to Fire and fire pen on stafF?
Really fun build to play with ^^

avatar of fire or not is a personal choice in either case I would run fire pen though.

cold to fire converts half and then adds an additional 30% so 75%-85% of your final damage is fire (depending on how much pure fire scaling you have). Fire penetration is less than fully effective but is still a massive boost to damage where it matters (bosses)

The only gem I would consider swapping it for is increased duration as they both are suited for boss killing. Its impossible to math out which is exactly better for that purpose though and my bias is towards penetration as it speeds up kills on everything and is less situational then duration.

Feel free to mess around and see which you like

Hello, I'm interested in your tree but when I copy and paste the link it say's its been removed? Is their another way to look at your tree?

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Romulas19 wrote:

Hello, I'm interested in your tree but when I copy and paste the link it say's its been removed? Is their another way to look at your tree?

I checked and they work for me. Make sure you are copying the entire link from start to finish

hello i did your build on my witch lvl 94 a week ago when i finish all the spec i went to malformation map and died to the boss i was one shoted 6 times... i quit the game for a week and i'm back to know where is the problem... ty for your help :)
my gear :

Hi, having an 83 witch to respec (now that I have my warbands whispering ice too), I've been looking at your build and BaalorLord's one and I see he took the alchemist node, explaining that it is really strong (he seems to imply reaaaallyyyyy strong). What's your opinion about that ? It seems it would be easy to fit in your build too (though I don't know what parts of the tree I should cut to get those three points).

I'm following your build rather than BaalorLord's cause a friend gave me a nice Shavronne's wrappings and I want to try it sooo much for a low-life build !

@aekreda

The malformation map boss is more about mechanics then anything in a build. You should never get hit by her orbs or beam as with a movement speed flask you can dodge all she shoots out. Immunity to bleed flask should also be active through all the fight and not just after you see a bleed appear. There is also some map mods like cast speed that make her even more dangerous. You shouldn't really jump into high level content on a build you just made but should be practicing the mechanics of how the build works for a while in lower maps until you have a good feel for the mechanics

Increased duration vaal discipline lasts quite a while and using that in the right situation is also important for doing really high tier stuff

In terms of the gear there is quite a bit more ES you can squeeze out to give a higher total. Remember its not just the stats on the item but the roll. Your bated breath has a minimum Int and implicit roll, your boots need quality and you're not running empower on discipline

@Pingouinmalin

Alchemists is really really strong for those who are using their flasks alot. My build can't use health flasks or aziri's promise due to being energy shield and avatar of fire so the flasks that are used are used more for things like "immunity to freeze/bleed" which can't be improved. Increasing max elemental resistances would also be a reason for a normal build but this one already gets absurd max resistances from its boosted purities so thats not as good either.

My current flasks are generally situational ones and not ones that are spammed all the times and between packs like in most builds so I don't feel cutting valuable ES or damage from the build is worth getting the nodes even though they are normally darn good.

If I had a taste of hate I would start being very tempted though. That flask is killer