[3.11] Aquarism's Ice Shot [All Content]

i decided to dive in and give clusters a chance.

i wiped out the full claw wheel and wiped out the 8 points leading to the life nodes at the duelist starting location with bravery as primary life mod.

i grabbed 2 fettle jewels and a curse medium cluster with culling strike and intimidation

i cant seem to stick those jewels into my msg in here from the tree. but my profile is public.
from appearances, while sheet dps is def greatly reduced the 250+ more hp and the abilities are actually noticeably stronger. pob seems fairly similar. i do not dig my large cluster jewel, i would have loved arcing shot as the final skill or have the 10hp per small passive (i do have 2 hp jewels already but dont have the leech nodes on them) but i got tired of chaos spamming.


i personally think a large cluster with fuel the fight for mana leech drive the destruction for life leech and 10hp per passive and 2 sockets is a top of the line bow jewel. the hp alone from the small passives would add a ton.

this is my budget setup. have done all stuff with it except uber elder (no frags yet and i do not do sirus on any lvl but zero) but have completed 1 out of 3 simulacrums



i run a double curse with whispers of doom anointment. it fun. most expensive item in the farrul fur.

For anyone using Tombfist, I did some more experimenting with the curse cluster, and found a way to add it while keeping the tombfist (which I Was having trouble replacing without losing significant life or damage). Tombfist covers intimidation which is a large draw from the curse cluster, but the Evil Eye notable is also pretty great, which gives a 5% more damage taken modifier to enemies, and an extra 5% dodge chance against cursed enemies.

After messing around in POB, it looks like the 7 points that would go towards Bravery can be replaced with a medium cluster + a well rolled 3-passive fettle and come out even in life with the Bravery nodes + the 7% life from a jewel socket you are giving up. Total gain is ~2% total dps (with culling factored in), no net change in life, and whatever other small passives you can get - so likely ~10-15% all res between the medium and small cluster. It definitely seems worth it for the Culling Strike QoL when bossing alone.



If you have one extra passive point (so 8 total) and are only running 1 large cluster, it looks like it would also be worth it to run an additional large cluster jewel + fettle rather than going for Bravery - allocating 5 nodes on the large jewel (2 notables, 2 sockets) + 3 on the fettle comes out significantly ahead of bravery in life and damage for those points.

Holy fck, what i scam buim, with Medium build, i cant reach 200k... only i got 120k wtf on pob says 12ml what a joke. scam

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karolis78 wrote:

Holy fck, what i scam buim, with Medium build, i cant reach 200k... only i got 120k wtf on pob says 12ml what a joke. scam

Your character is level 71 with two labs and several items missing, and your skill tree is currently branching off to Africa. Perhaps you should at least follow the guide if you want to complain about your character not dealing damage?

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Glull wrote:

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karolis78 wrote:

Holy fck, what i scam buim, with Medium build, i cant reach 200k... only i got 120k wtf on pob says 12ml what a joke. scam

Your character is level 71 with two labs and several items missing, and your skill tree is currently branching off to Africa. Perhaps you should at least follow the guide if you want to complain about your character not dealing damage?

He's also running Omen on the winds, I'm assuming he's probably got about 30-35% crit chance too, Pierce on the quiver breaking chain, Inc duration on the frost bomb for some reason, level 17 gems with no quality, super low roll armour, Perandus Blazon, no Acrobatics, sort that out and you'll have a lot more luck :)

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karolis78 wrote:

Holy fck, what i scam buim, with Medium build, i cant reach 200k... only i got 120k wtf on pob says 12ml what a joke. scam

Dude you haven't even read the guide, it clearly says gathering winds first and what do you do? Lvl to 70 only do 2 labs and don't even pick gathering winds at all. I wonder what else did you conveniently skip and then wonder where did the damage go. Also gg for playing with omen on the winds and pierce voidfletcher so your ricochet probably doesn't even proc.

Also pretty sure you aren't meant to spec frenzy charges and slot ice bite if you aren't using a rare quiver generating frenzy charges. Not mentioning the 5 points on the tree that are going to absolutely nowhere atm so you're like lvl 66 in practice with 2 labs and expect millions of damage... yeeeeah...

Edit: I see when I was writing this SynixProcessing and Glull replied already and noticed the same issues.

Edit2: also your circle of fear and cinderswallow have probably the worst mods out of all variable ones you could pick on them.

Hey everyone been trying to reach the amount of dps in the guide (i know i'm raider so rip free +1 chain, but free phasing/onslault is just too good to pass imo)

Here's my PoB : https://pastebin.com/W7TnHYQA

Got the helm, chest and neck locked down i think, i'm just wondering what to improve next. I've tried to find a better bow with +2 arrows, but they all sim way lower than the one i have atm. Should i just focus on awakened gems, or try to reshuffle my res with a MotE/shaper ring?

Thanks a bunch, can't wait to beat sirus with this guy!

Hey all, looking to build this character out in standard now that I have enough currency to buy a HH + some of the other essentials. I had a question re: our ring set up. Now that we have power charge generation through cluster jewels, is an assassin's mark ring necessary? I have a circle of fear with HOI buff effect / cold damage and would like to pair it with a Taming for extra resists and damage.

When looking at this build and at others on poe ninja running this build, I am a bit unsure why almost no one picks up Vaal Pact, even more so if you are already going to the Duelist area anyway.

Could someone help me understand why and what I maybe missing? We have no real regen, so I don't see us really losing anything other then the skill points.

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409force wrote:

Hey guys,

Need some advice on what to upgrade next for the biggest DPS/clearspeed boost?

Thinking either Bottled Faith, 2 Mod Watchers or Awakened Chain?

Here's my current gear:

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks

Picked up a dual mod watcher’s which was huge..

I see many high end build’s have Bottled Faith, is that mainly for bosses or does that help with clear speed too? Sorry, didn’t play synthesis league so don’t understand it’s interaction/mechanics. Also, would you prioritise this pick up first over awakened chain support?

Cheers