Hardcore Frost Witch Guide (Last Updated May 8th)

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rz2yoj wrote:

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hoiland wrote:

Have any of you guys tried a build like this with taking Energy Shield on a Shield nodes?

There are 4 in total and would take you 6 points to get them for 120% ES bonus to your shield.

2 questions from this....is this 120% ES bonus additive or multiplicative with the other ES bonuses? If additive, would getting 120% on top of normal ES bonus be worthwhile to the overall ES you lose? (or damage if you take away from those nodes)


I have a feeling this would be a great option if you can grab an ES shield that has +max ES and % increase ES on them. Those 2 (prefixes?) could make your shield 1500 ES easily, if not higher.

I'm about 95% sure they're multiplicative with the shield affixes and additive with the passives (but don't actually have them yet), so they should be pretty comparable to the 8% nodes we have so many of.

Here's the shield I'm using at the moment (starting to outgrow it though and Minion Life is just there so I can level it):

For each 30% shield es passive I would get 65 more energy shield. I have a total of about 840 energy shield on my gear so for each 8% passive I would get 67 more energy shield. Assuming my ratio of shield es to total es stays the same, the passives would have about the same value.

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Sprutzi wrote:

Hi, thanks for this awesome build. :)

This is what we're doing with our passive tree now:

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMBAW8C4wdjB6URUBHbHNwdFB3ZHwIsnCymLL80CjbFN2Y74TyOQ1RDY0myT79WSlcrV8lY9WaebRlxTXNTf8aCEIRIi3qPRpMnlQSaz53EnqGio6brpwinK6-btzG4k7vWwcXB88Nt2CTfsOL35oHr7uwY-tI3g-q6jjwXVCKB


this passiv tree is not working.. :)
Pls can you fix that?

Thx

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defjones wrote:

Am I missing something or does it seem like there are way too many skill points in the trees you link for each difficulty. In the cruel section you have a tree that has 63 skill points used putting the player at ~lvl 60, yet in the merciless section you suggest farming the ledge until 59. Then you also link a tree that has 73 points used which is way beyond where you would be in merciless. I don't remember getting that many extra skill points from quests. I must be missing something, quite confused.