[0.10.0] Double Hex Coldfire Crit Caster Shadow
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Other Guides Spork Battle Mage Shadow Crit Dagger Shadow _________________________________________________________________________ This is a build oriented around the cold-to-fire gem. I removed earlier on but now re-instated it because there were people using it. Sorry about the trouble guys! Bandit Skill Rewards 1. Normal - kill all the bandits for the skill point 2. Cruel - help alira for the cast speed 3. Merciless - kill all the bandits for the skill point Skill Tree Progression 28 Points 44 Points 61 Points 79 Points Time for Chaos Immunity 109 Points Build Completed For those who want the pure cold-crit version 109 Points How this build works: The key to this build is to possess the cold-to-fire gem. if you can make it a quality gem, all the better as each percentage of quality adds 0.7% fire damage and 0.7% cold damage. the beauty of this gem is that it provides more damage without costing more mana Mechanics behind the build
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According to this updated build, the multipliers are:
37% increased spell damage 80% increased cold damage 48% increased fire damage 15% increased elemental damage 24% increased projectile damage Total increased cold damage = 37 + 80 + 15 = 132% Total increased fire damage = 37 + 80 + 15 + 48 = 180% The projectile damage will increase the overall damage by 24% Example: If freezing pulse dealt 100 damage and your cold to fire damage converted 40% of cold to fire damage, the cold damage dealt would be 60 + 147% of 40 = 148.2 and the fire damage dealt would be 40 + 195% of 40 = 118 damage. Total damage dealt would be 266.2 damage. The projectile damage bonus will then amplify that total damage by another 24%. As the cold to fire gem levels up, and more cold damage is converted to fire damage, even if your base freezing pulse damage remains at 100, your total damage output would increase. Together with your healthy % of critical damage output multipliers, your total damage dealt can only increase. In view of this, should I level the cold to fire gem?
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It really is up to you. The higher you level the gem, the higher the percentage of cold damage that is converted to fire damage and your overall damage output. This is a double edged sword in that it decreases the chill/freeze time of enemies while at the same time increasing the dps/second of burning. Hence, the decision boils down to yourself. If you feel that the enemies are frozen for more than a sufficient enough amount of time and you want to kill them faster, go for it! Take note however that this is a strength-based int gem, hence you will need a decent str attribute to level and then use it. Thankfully, the str needed is not that high, with a level 15 gem requiring only 44 strength, which can be easily achieved by using a heavy belt/amber amulet or by investing a point into the easily accessible 30 str node near the CI node. Personally, because of the fact that you will have minions to tank for you, and a totem with ice spear anyway to chill/freeze mobs for you, I would say go for it! Level up your cold to fire gem as high as possible to increase your damage output!
Overall Gameplay Survivability
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In this build, your main focus will be dealing tons of damage. Tanking is not your job, it is for your minions, hence they contribute to your survivability. That said, your own ability to tank should still not be neglected and with the ES nodes allowed in the build, it will be impossible for enemies to one-shot, two-shot or even three-shot you as long as you equip the right gear and have the proper resistances.
When I'm talking about the right gear, I mean mainly EV/ES chest, and the rest should be pure ES equipment. You have the option of going either dual daggers for the increased crit chance, or dagger and shield combo for the increased survivability and spell damage provided by the shield. I leave that up to you, although I will experiment with it myself and give my own feedback. What Curses should I use?
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If you want safety above all else: Enfeeble + Temporal Chains
If you want DPS above all else: Frostbite + Flammability If you want a mixture: Temporal Chains + Elemental Weakness Auras and Active Skills
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Discipline, Clarity and Grace (optional). Discipline and Grace to take advantage of your increased evasion and energy shield % nodes and to help your minions tank a little more, and clarity to help in your mana regen. Remember not to level clarity up so high such that it ends up reserving your entire mana pool.
Blood Rage You are CI, this is what makes you even more awesome! (sounds cliche I know :p) but yes, having frenzy charges up will increase your cast speed. So it's a must! Main Skills
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Your main DPS skills should all be cold-based spells. Why? Because cold-based spells are all auto-pierce, and your fire based damage will also be based on your cold damage anyway.
Your skills should include Freezing Pulse, Ice Spear and Frost Wall. Frost wall is your defensive spell. Nothing more satisfying than walling off an enemy from you, be it ranged or melee, blocking their projectiles from you, and then freezing pulse them! (Yes freezing pulse goes through frost wall.) If you accidentally frost wall yourself and trap yourself with them, just use whirling blades and whirl through your wall! (awesome isn't it?) Freezing pulse is your main DPSer and should be linked amongst others with your cold-to-fire gem, Lesser multiple projectiles, Faster projectiles (optional if you possess a quality freezing pulse, and should be replaced by Added Cold Damage gem), faster casting gem and a Life Leech gem if you are a 6L user Ice Spear in my opinion is best when used for CC purposes and where possible should be linked with a totem support gem and a lesser multiple projectiles gem to help chill/freeze incoming enemies with a Faster Casting gem to aid its slow cast time and ensure for effective CC. Dagger or Wand? " However, a dagger does allow you to use whirling blades for extra mobility. If you decide to go for a wand wielding build, put a dagger in your swapped weapon slot so that when the time comes and you need to use whirling blades, just press X and your whirling blades hotkey :) I want more of this/that, what should I do? Feel free to modify the build yourself : For more survivability Take up the 30% increased energy shield from shield node above the frost walker node and sacrifice some increased critical damage/chance nodes. Also remember to include a ES-based shield in your equipment. For more damage You can always sacrifice a few increased ES nodes in favour of increased critical damage nodes. If you want to be a swashbuckling spellcaster with massive critical chance, go for a double dagger/wand wielding build! if dagger, preferably golden/platinum krises as they have the highest (80%) increased critical chance implicit mods. Gameplay Video Level 52 Coldfire Crit Cast Shadow Of course, if at the end of the day you decide to just go for the conventional cold crit caster instead of the coldfire build, by all means go for it! Just remember to remove the cold to fire gem and respec the fire damage nodes. Build of the Week 14 The first Righteous Fire/Non-Shavronne's/Shavronne's HC Shameless self-proclaimed theory-crafting extraordinaire and forum crusader Last edited by Invalesco#7360 on Mar 13, 2013, 5:51:59 PM
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I saw you mention in the old thread that "this build is no longer viable" and you were going to make it into a low hp build using Pain Attunement instead of Chaos Inoculation.
That said I don't really see any notable changes made in this version relative to the old one. I liked this build a lot for a first character, but was dismayed to see you said it wasn't viable anymore. Would you mind elaborating on why you thought the build was no longer viable, but have re-uploaded the guide with little changes if any? Last edited by Grasswhistle#3117 on Jan 27, 2013, 7:20:40 PM
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" Oh, simply because the cold-to-fire support gem, even though it makes the build interesting to play, isn't exactly the best support in terms of DPS. I uploaded it back because I realised there were players using it. so it's mainly for their sake. Made some changes actually, took alot more ES nodes now for defense :) Build of the Week 14
The first Righteous Fire/Non-Shavronne's/Shavronne's HC Shameless self-proclaimed theory-crafting extraordinaire and forum crusader |
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If you were to swap out the fire dmg nodes and keep the build as just a CI coldcrit caster build, where would be the best place to allocate those last skill points? what support gems would you use in place of cold to fire?
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" This is what I was wondering as well - is there any way to turn this build into a straight up cold-crit build |
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Is a cold/crit build superior in terms of dps to the cold to fire crit build?
Also which bandit rewards should I take? Last edited by Kemeras#5974 on Jan 28, 2013, 12:38:06 AM
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k added the pure cold caster version of the build in case you guys are interested.
111 Points also added in the bandit rewards choices Build of the Week 14
The first Righteous Fire/Non-Shavronne's/Shavronne's HC Shameless self-proclaimed theory-crafting extraordinaire and forum crusader |
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" You're awesome. IGN: @TruthBeyondTheGate
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is this guide or your http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/56695/page/1
Shadow Battel Mage better for dealing damage ? What do you recommed for a newbie ? |
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I realized your build complete 111 points has equal amount of increase fire and cold spell dmg but why is it different from the mechanics you stated?
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