[3.10]FrostBlades Starter/Budget Slayer that clears entire game.

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TeL_ wrote:

Here is an example of how to upgrade gear.

- Sticking with abyssus, since it gives us around 50% more damage, and due to our build, most of the time we stay quite safe.

- For chest I recommend a rare armor with a lot of life and resistances, since there are quite few uniques in the upgraded gear.

- For one ring I chose Mark of the Elder, since combined with a ring that has shaper influence, it gives us a lot of damage.

- Shaper ring with assassins mark on hit. Frees up the glove slot. Depending on how much you are willing to spend, you can get a decent ring with Intelligence, life/res and damage. If you are cheap like me, just buy a 1ex ring and try to fix resistances and intelligence requirement elsewhere

- The Pandemonious gives us a bunch of damage through the cold penetration, and bunch of survivability through the blind function. It only helps against trash mobs though, since most bosses don't care about blind. If you want better defenses against bosses, go for a rare with some damage mods and life/resistances

- Since we are heavily lacking in resistances, boots are one place to get them. Since we don't need movement speed, we can get a decent pair of 110+ life/120 res boots for a 100c or so. If you are starved for Intelligence though, this is also one place where you can get it.

- For the belt we will use a Stygian vise, with a high life roll, and some more resistances. Depending on budget, you can also get elemental damage with attack skills in there.

- We switch from Oskarm to Tombfist. Intimidate provides a 10% more multiplier, and you can fit in 2 jewels that each give around 8.5-9% more damage.

If you are still lacking resistances/life then instead of a tombfist, go for a pair of rare gloves with tempe mod "increased damage with hits against chilled enemies", a 12%+ attack speed roll, and life. A pair of gloves with these mods was around 1-2ex when I was buying them, so I chose a tombfist for 1ex instead.

For all 3 abyss jewels, you want to just put as much damage in as possible. Highest damage comes from 2 attack speed suffixes, but feel free to drop the general attack speed roll(6%) for a 12% crit multi instead, the damage will differ only about 0.5%

For weapons, I continued to use Ichimonjis, as anything that is a meaningful upgrade over them is very expensive. 450pdps Foils go for 11ex right now, and dual wielding them only increases our dps by around 30%, and it will require you to drop an a gem for level 4enlighte, AND it will require you to get quite a bit of extra accuracy.

All of this gear cost me around 10ex in total, the the damage difference is quite noticeable, but the entire game can still be cleared with the basic gear that is in the PoB