-DPS is 1.2k with 5 link LMP (my link is in gear section) which feels awfully low especially on elemental resists mobs
-I have no idea how to kill ele resist uniques. For example was doing the merci piety and my dmg was barely enough to have keep her ES down, it took literally 30 minutes - I was using frostbite at all time too.
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The only advice i can give you is, go as close as possible to your target to achieve maximum damage from freezing pulse... if you are not as close as possible maybe not all 3 pulses hit the target and in addition freezing pulse is less effective the bigger your range to the target is. But anyways your dps seems to be pretty low... try to replace your gloves, i guess the 20% cast speed reduction lowers your dps more than the spelldamage on it gives to you.
cheers
Last edited by Hulio225 on Mar 26, 2013, 10:25:02 PM
I lvld my witch to 65. Overall it feels great, I only died in act3 cruel ( my death in Hardcore , then about 12 more deaths in that same act,)- and its mainly cause I specced CI too early Really dont go CI if you on HC until you have 5k ES ( i had 1600 ES after CI). Finished merciless now and havent died once in entire merci run
Now the several problems I ran into:
-DPS is 1.2k with 5 link LMP (my link is in gear section) which feels awfully low especially on elemental resists mobs
-I have no idea how to kill ele resist uniques. For example was doing the merci piety and my dmg was barely enough to have keep her ES down, it took literally 30 minutes - I was using frostbite at all time too.
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You could use cold penetration with FP. At lvl 15 it gives a flat 30% damage increase against everything (unlike frostbite that has no effect on monsters with initial cold resistance way over 100%). For more info: http://en.pathofexilewiki.com/wiki/Penetration
Downside: it's a green gem. That screws up the colors on your chest. On the other hand i think you are better off replacing added chaos dam. with cold penetration, as added chaos is unaffected by all the elemental damage nodes you took (chaos is not considered elemental damage by the game mechanics).
You could use cold penetration with FP. At lvl 15 it gives a flat 30% damage increase against everything (unlike frostbite that has no effect on monsters with initial cold resistance way over 100%). For more info: http://en.pathofexilewiki.com/wiki/Penetration
I explained how penetration does and how it works with a mathematical example in the Q&A Section.
Sure it would help him but it will be very hard for him to recolor his chest with 3 greens :-P
Edit: ah hes not using mana leech he just need 2 green sockets, but either way...
but he will need to push his dps with some critical multiplier nodes etc.
Last edited by Hulio225 on Mar 28, 2013, 1:57:23 AM
you can use that, but dream fragments gives you the advantage that it gives you mana and manareg + you have a boot slot where you can have resis and ms and more es
Have you had more success dual wielding wands or using a wand + shield?
It depends what i am doing... in easy maps i do dual wand for the extra damage in hard maps i use a shield for more es and general survability because of block and spell block.
Its pretty similar, there are no big differences. In late end game when you have a lot of passive points you have always stuff you can change for your taste and needs... but in general the concept of those two builds is almost identical... cold crit with ghost reaver and ci....
