[3.6 Video Guide] Beginner Friendly: Winter Orb Elementalist [Uber Elder & Fast]

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I've reached a point where I have too many build guides to keep up with responding personally on each comment as I've always done on my threads in the past. I will obviously continue doing this but on the youtube videos instead. I hope you guys will understand, sadly I'm not a fulltime streamer and for me to keep build guides like this posted this was an inevitable result!

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Ghazzy wrote:

Is this build for you?

1. If you are looking for a Winter Orb build that has good enough single target damage for the end-game!

2. A build capable of competing in the clear speed meta.

3. Boss kill potential despite being designed as a clear speed build.

4. A cheap yet very effective clear speed build.

5. If you prefer a build guide that has a video linked to it.

Thank you for this guide, and a big thumbs up for NOT hiding it behind 47 spoiler tags. Makes it much easier to read, both on computer and phone, especially when checking out a link and going back...

Good to see a 'pure' Winter Orb guide, as others I've come across are mostly using Cast While Channeling. I've gone about things somewhat similarly to your Elementalist, although I've gone crit instead, and have picked up MoM and the leech ascendancy.

Lucky to have a white 6-link drop, so no need to farm Humility cards. I've gone with Hypothermia, though, as it seems like a pretty good fit, and dropped Increased Duration. Other than that it's pretty similar (although I need to fix gear and links, I always postpone it too long). The character plays really well I think. Clearing is fantastic, even without the extra duration and AoE nodes. Syndicates can be rippy as hell, but single-target damage actually feels pretty okay now. Helps to use Orb of Storms and Storm Brands, plus Frost Bomb. Will be interesting to see how this translates into later mapping and their bosses.

Thanks for the nicely laid out video too. Very good work :)

Is inpulsa good for this build?

Are the colors workable?

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Jusupov wrote:

Are the colors workable?

Pretty sure it is, although you have to let go of "Added Cold Damage" in favor of Greater Multiple Projectiles probably. You could use Added Lightning Damage when you use a Flame Golem in your Malachai´s Artifice Ring, but other than that, this seems a pretty neat Armor for the Build :D


On a different Note, i noticed that Ghazzy is using "Vaal Discipline" in this Life based build. Switch that out for Vaal Clarity, which makes more sense in this case :)

I'm trying this build atm, it seems soo smooth. I still have the same weapon since lvl 10, do you recommend any specific one that is easy to get/good, or have any search form for poetrade with the good rolls?
(Sorry for bad english)

@zForbiddeNz

Removed that! Thank you for noticing.

Also changed GMP for LMP due to better actual single target dmg, the spread is too big on GMP.

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Ghazzy wrote:

@zForbiddeNz

Removed that! Thank you for noticing.

Also changed GMP for LMP due to better actual single target dmg, the spread is too big on GMP.

Interesting. I was going to ask about why there was LMP now. Do you not find that clearing is more tricky, perhaps especially the messier syndicate fights and in delves?

I'm using GMP, but perhaps I ought to give the lesser version a go.

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Pangaearocks wrote:

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Ghazzy wrote:

@zForbiddeNz

Removed that! Thank you for noticing.

Also changed GMP for LMP due to better actual single target dmg, the spread is too big on GMP.

Interesting. I was going to ask about why there was LMP now. Do you not find that clearing is more tricky, perhaps especially the messier syndicate fights and in delves?

I'm using GMP, but perhaps I ought to give the lesser version a go.

Pretty sure clearspeed is very good with LMP too. Herald of Ice is working like a charm :)

It should :)