2.3 - The Frost Nuke™ - Crit Vortex + Herald - Full screen explosions

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sysfortune wrote:

Why do you put added cold damage in ur 6Link ?
Isn't inc crit damage better ? :)
thanks for the answer

Best regards

Didnt feel like recoloring my chest since its corrupted lol




@Everyone else: I'm discontinuing this build as of 2.4. I actually made 2 different builds on the same witch since I made this thread lol, but in 2.4 this just doesn't do what I want it to do, so no point keeping it up.

Hope whoever played it had fun! If I think of a new interesting build, I'll post it! :D

Sorry for the question, but why do you combine herald of ice and increased critical strikes?
The secondary effect of Heralds doesn't crit afaik.

I played a similiar build, just with cold snap. Was very fun. The combination might also be very interesting with the "new" Ice Spear and Arctic Breath.

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Bananaplasm wrote:

Sorry for the question, but why do you combine herald of ice and increased critical strikes?
The secondary effect of Heralds doesn't crit afaik.

I played a similiar build, just with cold snap. Was very fun. The combination might also be very interesting with the "new" Ice Spear and Arctic Breath.

Crit strikes gems gives a base crit chance to the skill. This also works for incinerate btw if you're ever interested in making a crit assassin incinerator.

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Simplesim45 wrote:

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Bananaplasm wrote:

Sorry for the question, but why do you combine herald of ice and increased critical strikes?
The secondary effect of Heralds doesn't crit afaik.

I played a similiar build, just with cold snap. Was very fun. The combination might also be very interesting with the "new" Ice Spear and Arctic Breath.

Crit strikes gems gives a base crit chance to the skill. This also works for incinerate btw if you're ever interested in making a crit assassin incinerator.

Thanks for the answer.
It does give base crit. I was just wondering if the tradeoff would be worth it compared to other "more* multipliers. Because the critical strike chance is so low for heralds. You'd need ~1,2k crit to match a 1.4 multiplier gem with +500 increased multiplier. Even then the crit chance would be ~ 20%.

This build still works for me, and it keeps freezing everything. I rarely managed to fullscreen explode though, just like before.

Only went up to t11 maps though.

Edit:
Just noticed, but I don't have ice spikes poping outta the ground. Is that a skin?

Edit2:
And for some reason it seems to work better :/ Could be placebo though...

So, except for nerf to chain-shattering anyone is doing this build? What's your dps?

Would this build still be viable as high-dps vortex build?

I still didn't go beyond T11 maps, but I'm doing pretty much the same. It still freezes, but becasue my dps is only 80k+, I still struggle to get multiscreen explosions. I do explode packs though. regularly.

And I have yet to unlock the end game lab for the final nodes.

Great, as long as packs explode, or at least freeze which should happen before explosion should be alright.

I was clearing t15's with around 30-50k with shield charge, so those maps seem to be doable with dps you mentioned. At least i hope ;)

I'm playing this build in the new league, currently at level 76. My gear is junk, but it's been fun so far.

To be less squishy with my current gear, I'm using dual-curses. I replaced HoT with Blasphemy/Enfeeble, and now use Curse on Hit with Frostbolt. Once I get better gear, I'll go back to HoT. I'm not sure how this will fare in higher tier maps with the changes to Elemental Conflux, but it's been a good league starter for me (leveled with a Bitterdream).

EDIT. I meant to thank you for the build, but forgot to write it. So, thank you, Simplesim45!

Same as Aneku here, been playing this build in the new league, and I have been able to cruise through the game with junk gear until Merciless (mainly using Frost Nova until Vortex got big enough AoE). Then I started dying a bunch. So I spent all my money on a 5 slot Carcass Jack, but didn't have enough to get a 4 or 5 link. But just getting the Carcass allowed me to clear Lake runs by myself, and only dying on reflect mobs. Having a 4 link Carcass would be a tremendous help I think, because right now there is no way I would survive any of the boss battles with my lousy gear.



Plan right now is to keep grinding till I can afford better gear. I also need to 4 link my Carcass, but that costs 150 fusings, so it will be a while. 5 link would be a dream. I don't put in enough time to get that kind of $$.

Thanks a bunch for this build, I've really enjoyed playing it!