√ SeaWater of the Sacred School of Merveil

NEW BUILD HERE: PATCH 3.4:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2237602
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Hello guys, I present you SeaWater, Mistress of Freeze and Curses, of the Sacred School of Merveil.

This character still survives since the beta, when I was in top 800 rank. Now I'm level 89.

That is the third version of the build, I'm trying the Vaal Pact at the moment, cause of the modifies to the life leech and mana leech mechanics, the build is significantly changed.

v1 - HEX MASTER / WHISPERS OF DOOM / CHAOS INOCULATION / GHOST REAVER
v2 - HEX MASTER / WHISPERS OF DOOM / CHAOS INOCULATION / GHOST REAVER / IRON REFLEXES
v3 - CHAOS INOCULATION / GHOST REAVER / VAAL PACT / IRON REFLEXES

The guide is focused on an efficient build, fast and versatile, that grants good survivability and leveling, and above all, funny to play.

I don't like to play with a single damage spell, but I prefer to use more spells for a more various gameplay, also I like running all the maps, when possible, but it became very difficult with the new patch.

I'll show you my actual build, that works someway.

PASSIVE TREE

out-of-date link

The build is thought for a Standard League, I recommend an Eye of Chayula amulet, for anti stun, and a Dream Fragments ring for anti freeze and mana.

BANDITS QUESTS

Get 3 skill points, it's more versatile, but also mana, resistances and cast speed are good for leveling, no need extra charges.

- SKILL POINT (or mana or resistances)
- SKILL POINT (or cast speed)
- SKILL POINT

MY EQUIPMENT







A must have for this build is the Eye of Chayula, also a 20% quality Freezing Pulse is fundamental.

I really recommend a good chest with 6 linked sockets also, but it's expensive of course, anyway, the build works also with a 5L socket removing the Add Chaos Gem maybe.

ITEM MODS

Here, all the bonus you need:

- Spell and Cold/Elemental Damage, Cast Speed, Global Critical Chance and Multiplier
- Energy Shield, Intelligence and Mana, Mana regeneration, Movement Speed.
- Near 130 all Resistances, to overcap them.

Here the mods, item by item:

- WEAPON: SPELL DMG (ELEMENTAL/CRIT) - SPELL DMG (MANA) - CAST SPEED (CRIT/CRIT MULT/COLD DMG/MANA REG)
- CHEST: (SPELL DMG) - ENERGY (MANA) - RES (INT)
- SHIELD: (SPELL DMG) - ENERGY (SPELL DMG) - CRIT (MANA REG/INT/RES/BLOCK)
- CIRCLET: ENERGY (MANA) - RES (INT)
- GLOVES: ENERGY (MANA) - RES (INT/DXT)
- BOOTS: MOV (ENERGY/MANA) - RES (INT)
- BELT: ENERGY (STR) - ARMOUR (ENERGY) - STR/RES
- RING: MANA (ENERGY/RES/CRIT) - MANA (ENERGY/EVASION) - MANA REG (CAST SPEED/COLD DMG/RES)
- AMULET: Eye of Chayula

NOTABLE UNIQUES

Eye of Chayula Amulet, Dream Fragments Ring, Perandus Signet Ring, Le Heup of All Ring, Shavronne's Revelation Ring, Thief's Torment Ring, The Taming Ring, Rainbowstride Boots, Wanderlust Boots, Maligaro's Virtuosity Gloves, Atziri's Acuity Gloves, Rathpith Globe Shield, Saffell's Frame Shield, Aegis Aurora Shield, Divinarius Dagger, Auxium Belt, Doryani's Invitation Belt, Lavianga's Spirit Flask.

MAGIC FIND ITEMS



Some random magic find items, High Rarity and Quantity mods, reduce the overall Energy Shield and Elemental Resistances.

FLASKS



My preferred mods are Charge Recovery and Deal Crit, with anti Shock, Bleed, Burn, Movement, etc.

DESCRIPTION AND SKILLS

I love to curse and freeze thousand of mobs, run across them, and decimate them all.

Main Combo is: Cold Snap, Elemental Weakness, Freezing Pulse,
that we can translate it in: Freeze, Curse, Kill.

The overall gameplay include 6 skills and 2 active auras.

- FREEZING PULSE - LESSER - LIFE LEECH - MANA LEECH - COLD PENETRATION - ADD CHAOS DAMAGE
- ICE SPEAR - LESSER MULTIPLE - CRITICAL DAMAGE - COLD PENETRATION
- COLD SNAP - ELEMENTAL PROLIFERATION - AREA OF EFFECT - MANA LEECH
- ENFEEBLE - ELEMENTAL WEAKNESS - AREA OF EFFECT
- LIGHTNING WARP - REDUCED DURATION - CAST SPEED
- CLARITY - DISCIPLINE - GRACE - REDUCED MANA

Freezing Pulse is the main damage spell, it has short range, but it's very powerful in almost all situations, it slows and kills very fast big groups of monsters. With the new mechanics of Mana Leech I'm running it with a Lesser instead of a Greater, and an add chaos damage instead of a faster casting gem.

Ice Spear is a long range damage spell, it freezes too, very good to kill bosses or resistant to cold mobs, thanks to the Cold Penetration support.

Cold Snap is a control spell, it freezes all you meet.

Enfeeble, Temporal Chain, Frostbite and Elemental Weakness are the best curses.

Lightning Warp with Cast Speed is great, very effective to escape from mobs or against puncture, and also funny to play.

Skeletons can be useful, in combination to a spell totem too, and of course with a cast speed support gem.

Run up to 2 auras, depending of the mods of the map, deactivate an aura, if you need more mana, normally I run Grace and Clarity.

MAPS AND SIDEBOARD

With that build I try to run all the maps, but not Blood Magic maps becouse I have 1 HP. :)





DAMAGE WITH FREEZING PULSE

>> MAX DPS 21800 (single target)

TOOL TIP DPS 6000 x3
COLD PENETRATION 35%

CAST SPEED 77%
CRIT CHANCE 31%
CRIT MULTIPLIER 314%

DEFENCES AND MANA

>> ENERGY 8150 (9400 with Discipline)

MANA 1223 (free 397, with Clarity and Grace)
MANA REGENERATION PER SECOND 138

note: fixing equip/skills to raise mana to 1500+ should be nice

ARMOUR 6400 (38% physical damage reduction)
% BLOCK ATTACKS 35%
% BLOCK SPELLS 8%

CHAOS RESISTANCE 100%
ELEMENTAL RESISTANCES 119%+

STATUS AND MOBILITY

STRENGTH 122 (need 109)
DEXTERITY 164 (need 109 for Mana Leech, 153 for Grace)
INTELLIGENCE 353

FREEZE AND STUN AVOIDANCE 100%
MOVEMENT SPEED 23%

CONSIDERATIONS

The overall build grants an accettable survivability in solo and party games, thanks to a great mobility, slowing and freezing skills. Damage is good with critical hits and penetrating spells.

With the last patch, I don't suggest a CI caster and at the higher levels the price of the items rises a lot.

See you at level 90! Oo

Thanx for reading and enjoy the freeze!

RECORDS

Rank 785 Standard League in July 2013
Dominus Merciless Killed in December 2013
Level 89 Standard League in January 2014

SEASHOPS



LINKS



The build is 1.1.1 ready, it still lives.

SeaWater

Last Edit: 19.03.14

After a little break, I did a significant upgrade with the 6L chest. Now I'm running with 2500 more Energy Shield and more penetrating damage.

See You for the next upgrades! ;)

This is what I would do differntly to reach higher dps with this build.

I know it's to late now for you but I would have done skill point in normal and gotten the power Power Charge in Merc.

With double cures using Frostbite I would have droped the Cold Pen on the L-6 for Power Charge on Crit. At 6 charges that's 300% more crit chance and if your not using Blood Rage with your CI build well your just leting CI users every were down :)

Also the Power Charges give you better Crowed Control as well as it most always means you can Cold Snap any time you need to even back to back.

But for real use Blood Rage with your life leech gem it realy helps a ton to take the sting out of elemental relfects and adds Frenzy chargers for higher dps :)

Thanx for the suggestions,

Of course the Power Charge combo with Cold Snap is very interesting, but atm I don't think I can renounce to Cold Penetration gem, and also I could not even.

Maybe, Cold Penetration is the key of my build, I go faster against the bosses and very high resistant mobs, and I don't need to use Frostbite all the time. For example I found an interesting combination with Temporal Chain + Enfeeble that help me against reflect elemental mods or evil bosses like Piety in Temple Map. I'm trying to don't use the totem also cuz I have enough damage and energy now to manage hard situations, with the new Lightning Warp also, that is improved a lot with the last patch.

I'm considering to remove the totem with skeletons, gaining two gems. I could to add a third curse like Enfeeble to use two of three curses according to different situations and also add Cold Penetration to the Cold Snap too. Anyway I don't think that's a big improvement.

About Blood Rage, I don't think it really help me because I have a lot of cast speed yet. With some improvements I can make over 3 attacks per second that is enough.

Meanwhile Freezeing Pulse & Cold Snap Q20 gems reached lvl 20! So powerful!

Wow man this is one of the most random builds I've ever seen... I think I could have done better just closing my eyes and randomly clicking on the skilltree.

With the release of 0.11 patch my stats changed:

+21% Spell Damage
+3% Cast Speed

-10 Dxt, -10 Int
-28% Energy Shield
-4% All Resistances
-Freezing Pulse Damage

Overall I have the same damage with Freezing Pulse and I lost near 10% of my total Energy Shield, while Ice Spear damage improved.

Considering the less damage of the monsters, my build remained pretty equal than before.

Atm I didn't respec and I run maps with 1750 DPS and 8k ES. I'm looking for some equipment upgrade to reach 2k DPS and 10k ES.

See Ya at the next step.

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RoyalStar wrote:

10k ES

Keep dreaming bro!

SeaWater Build (R) updated.

I added some useful info, not significant variances, just some considerations and the item mods. I added an intermediate build too, at lvl 60, to show the main steps of my build.

Atm I'm farming very fast, with 50/50 magic find, that is not too bad. ;)

Good reading.

Hello guys, I am at 60% of lvl 86,

with the last patches, I see monsters do more physical damage than before,
so I just respeced to an Iron Reflexes build, and I'm testing it with Grace instead of Discipline.

The build can be found in the first msg.

Overally I lose:

- 50% Cooldown Recovery
- 60% mana Regeneration
- 10% Critical Multiplier
- Discipline Aura

and I gain:

- 20 Int
- 35 Dxt and other Dxt for Grace
- Iron Reflexes
- Grace Aura

With my equip I have 3000 Armour now and I reduce near 25-30% of phsycal damage.
I think it's a nice improvement for this patch, I will tell you.

Ok, the guide is updated.

I finally reached lvl 87 and rank 1100.
I did 40% exp in only two days with my new build, that works very well.

I buyed Rainbowstride boots also, and I'm checking for upgrade my equipment.

Stay tuned.