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

Looking for a hardcore version of this, doing hybrid life and ES. Was thinking of elementalist over occultist as well, since I wouldn't be LL. What do you think of this tree?

With elementalist, I can also spread around my freeze/chill in a larger radius for more survivability.

Any suggestions/tips would be appreciated, this would be for the HCP league. Thanks.

why u don't uze vaal pact?

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Papech wrote:

why u don't uze vaal pact?

ghost reaver and vaal pact was in the old version of the build and still viable but means using the life leech gem.

I was enjoying trying out the surviveability that comes inherent in the occultist with their ES regen on kill and not being interrupted by damage.

If you prefer leech its not that hard to change but you do lose damage

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Edzilla wrote:

Looking for a hardcore version of this, doing hybrid life and ES. Was thinking of elementalist over occultist as well, since I wouldn't be LL. What do you think of this tree?

With elementalist, I can also spread around my freeze/chill in a larger radius for more survivability.

Any suggestions/tips would be appreciated, this would be for the HCP league. Thanks.

Hybrid seems like a bad idea to me as the main advantage of whispering ice is that Int scales both ES and damage. If you don't fully utilise that then firestorm or ice nova will be have better damage then icestorm.

feel free to try it but your build plan has really really low Int for a whispering ice build. you are getting damage nodes that give less damage then more Int would and things like breath of Rhyme which just in general don't tend to get picked up much since they are quite inefficient for point value

With some of the new additions and subtractions to the passive tree, where should I start investing points into the passive tree as a Witch? (left side first? right side first?)

I'm level 23 at the moment and I saw someone ask this question a year (or two) ago on the very first page and I don't know if it's still true today.

So glad that you are continuing with the build. I might continue my journey once I'm bored with Perandus (My whisperer is in standard).

Anybody has some stats of this char on Perandus? Since you cant get the legacy ring I would guess you would be on around 1,5k int? Still viable with those stats or is it too weak? Considering that its a great investment of currency I'd like do think this through.

I respecced a level 80 witch on SC. Currently at 1481 int, feels as powerful as my Mjolner did a couple patches ago.

skill tree

So yes, it's viable at 1500 int.

haha I had a moment of "are they insane?" seeing one of the jewel rewards for racing being 4% increased Int on a jewel before I saw the "limit to 1" on it

I'm interested to see how these will be priced, definitely worth picking one up for the build but it will probably take some time for enough to be in the market for them to not be overpriced

Thanks WaffleT for sharing this excellent build.

I have a few of questions and not sure if you can help.

1. What will be str and dex requirement at end game.

2. How did you manage the stun avoidance. only 55% while casting + 50% when have ES? I am thinking to get Eye of Chayula amulet to get stun immunity which will endup loosing 90ish int from the gear, but we can rework the tree a bit to save a few points and spend somewhere else to get some extra int from the tree. Is this a good idea or not.

3 I also try to modify the tree for Eye of Chayula amulet. I will loose 55% avoid interupption from stun, 20 str, 20dex. then get 20 extra int and 1 extra skill point plus immune to stun. Can you see any issue with this? or do you think this change will worth it.


thanks for your advice.

Regards