[2.6] The Curse Whisperer - Tri-Curse CI Whispering Ice Elementalist - Viable for Everything

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iDeeps wrote:

Is CWC better than Selfcast then ? and also what tool tip are you looking at while CWC in comparison to self-cast mine seems considerably lower but none the less still enough.

Switching the build from self-cast to CwC would be stupid if it was worse, wouldn't it? ;)

I'll post the stats from the 2.6 league when I get to the endgame. Can't say for sure what tooltip damage is enough for the endgame with the latest changes, until I see it myself.

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ichbinwerichbi wrote:

First i cant see the any ground effects. so if there are flame or frost bearers sometime i check it only when i die. And to look after ALL blue packs what they are is really anoying.

Second if i hit a mob with corrupting blood, i collect so fast charges that i sometimes see it when i am dead.

Third. Sometimes indoor i cast scorching ray but there is no icestorm and if i dont move really fast i am dead. What happens then. Is there a min distance or something or is it a bug.

1. Just move a bit more often. The ice storm continues to persist and leech for you for several seconds.

2. Make sure you have a flask of staunching on hand, and learn to hit it quick when you see your ES drop quickly. It also helps NOT to move too often (despite what I said in #1 above.) Generally, your leech will keep you alive even with multiple stacks of corrupting blood on you.

3. There has to be line of sight from you to where your cursor is to get the icestorm coming down. It's easy indoors to clip a corner and not get the sight line.

Hi :),

I'm a starting player (played last two weeks of breach) and i like the sound of this build, but my questions is if the "leveling Guide" still works? And because we drop the pyre ring (if i understand correctly?) do we need to get to Avatar of fire earlier?

Hope someone can help me :)

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ferable94 wrote:

Hi :),

I'm a starting player (played last two weeks of breach) and i like the sound of this build, but my questions is if the "leveling Guide" still works? And because we drop the pyre ring (if i understand correctly?) do we need to get to Avatar of fire earlier?

Hope someone can help me :)

This thread has [2.6] in its title and says that it's updated for 2.6 in the very first line. It is current, including the leveling guide.

Is the wise oak flask a good flask?
, if fire is your highest resist you get 20% free fire pen

My current gear in breach, DPS sitting at around 4k, cruising through 7-9 maps right now, done atziri without curse set up easy mode one shot all phases, feelsgood

I've seen several set ups now, should we use Elemental Focus or Controlled Destruction as our 5th or rather 6ths damage slot ?

What are the pro's and cons of each ?

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Relivator wrote:

Is the wise oak flask a good flask?
, if fire is your highest resist you get 20% free fire pen

I have found it pretty useful and cheap myself.

Though with this flask if I have all my uncapped ele resistances at the same number does that mean that i get 20% pen of all elemental types and 10% damage reduction to all elements?

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iDeeps wrote:

My current gear in breach, DPS sitting at around 4k, cruising through 7-9 maps right now, done atziri without curse set up easy mode one shot all phases, feelsgood

How much you paid for that chest?

As for the setup:

I'm playing SR, CWC, FirePen, Leech, Cold To Fire and Elemental Focus.

EleFocus vs Controlled Destruction:
EleFocus has higher more and better overload trigger rate (~9-10% critchance with icestorm).
CD seems similar. It has slightly lower more and with just 5% crit ignite is not much, but theoretically it could be similar dps.

Conc has more dps but reduced area. Against single target it is an advantage, I don't know how to factor in how much dps you gain from overlapping. Against normal map bosses it's not needed to swap gem because the other setup already melts them ;-).

As for cursing: I'm using Orb Of storms with curse on hit, is cwtd ball lightning better? CWTD does not proc Mastermind of Dicord I think? so i still need to put down my (unlinked) Orb of storm?