CI+ZO Ice Shot Templar (2 versions: GMP+Pierce vs Burn damage!)

Finished normal difficulty, so far the build has worked as a charm :). Switched from Poison Arrow to LMP+IS+Pierce at around lv26, then to GMP at lv31. It clears pretty quickly and it's insanely safe despite my mediocre life+es with the chill effect+ice patches, kiting is just super easy. Using Burning Arrow for single target damage (around 280 dps at lv30).

Also, planning to add an other version of the build, that is essentially the same, but instead of GMP+pierce, it uses cold to fire with elemental proliferation for crazy burn damage :D.

please updated us on how things went later on. I want to make an ice shot build as one of my next characters.

I doubt the burn damage will be "enough", rather kill them with raw damage. Atleast 2k top fire damage causes mediocre burn if any at docks and has both, res and casual mobs.

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SEOINAGE wrote:

please updated us on how things went later on. I want to make an ice shot build as one of my next characters.

Build works as intended, I stopped in Merciless act 1 for now, because of the new uniques (got a new burn build running for now). Didn't reach CI yet, but have points reserved in the nearby life nodes, because of the high regen, it has decent survivability.

The burn actually does VERY good damage, can be compared to poison arrow degen at low levels.
The reason it is better than burning arrow, is that cold to fire actually converts a higher percentage of the total damage to fire, and it's also an AoE burst, so has a higher chance of proliferating. It's a stronger burn than fireball builds, because you don't have to reduce the damage with LMP/GMP, and Weapon Elemental Damage support is just way too op.

A build that could to comparable/higher burn damage (besides molten shield/corpse explosion) would be an Ice Spear + crit mult, low life and Righteous Fire build with Cold to Fire support.

Hey man just found your build and im really interessted how things went on after that!

Also how does the next "evolution" of your build look? i hope you still use IS?

Really old thread i know but wiht ranger area changes coming up in the tree i was thinking about IC Ranger build

Great concept! :)
The fire version looks really awesome, same as the main version.

I'm just worried that the damage and survivability will be too low.
Why no RT?

I'm afraid this could work much better as a Ranger with Crit, but I like thi concept here much more. :)

Heh, I was toying with the idea of CtF on mine. Clearly the idea is not new.

IS GMP LL/LoH WED...added fire, CtF. I'm a crit ranger. Unfortunately I have not a 5L in suitable colours to play with it.

Conc.e, proliferation. Lose the GMP since we're focusing on burn.

Might work. I'll see what I can do about that.

I'm just glad to see someone using the skill reduction nodes. This is similar to a sweep build I am making with 7% life regen, BM and 55% skill reduction.

How is this build once you're doing maps?