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Serious question : playing witch should I change any passives?	Posted by Kamilek77#0994 on Feb 19, 2013, 2:33:49 PM Quote this Post
" Kamilek77 wrote: Serious question : playing witch should I change any passives? You can get rid of Lord of the Dead if you want. I wouldn't, it's a good node and minions are super useful, but some people don't like dealing with them. " Prysionero wrote: Hey aimless i need some advice. Im in mists of buying a mirror to get a beastly 6L but im so confused what colors i want since it will be impossible to change. I know 3Blue,2 Green, but that last color is haunting me lol. I don't know if i should go green for mana leech/cold penetration or red for life leech. Boohoo ;( Im trying to figure things out for the future, like if i have a mass amount of ES in near future and spec ghost reaver wouldn't i want life leech? That is an excellent question, and I can't decide either! Red has options beyond life leech actually, you can also put in item quantity for farming, and reduced mana as a crappy analogue to mana leech. If you were interested in doing PvP red would probably be the best for life leech, but then you might have to replace faster projectiles with cold pen. Also, I havn't tested this yet but I have a feeling Knockback might be interesting in PvP. My friend decided on red for his 6link and he's running quantity atm with othe quant gear and getting last hits on map bosses, causing them to explode with loot, so that's pretty nice ^ ^ " damelon wrote: Up to 62 now, just entering the Templar area of the tree. I've been able to get all my resists 70+ in Merciless, which helps a lot, and the +Life is a great savior for that chaos damage that makes its way through my ES. The few times I've died have been because I took a risk or had rubber banding. I like it a lot. The big problem I'm running into at the moment is Mana when using a 5L. I just got my 5L chest and am running Item Rarity at the moment (FP+fasterProj+FasterCast+LMP), because the added chaos damage just drains my mana pool almost instantly. I've only upped clarity to lvl 13, maybe I could up it more. My rings have regen but not a lot (11% ea) but my kris has a good regen roll. I guess I just need to trade up a lot on regen. With rarity running I can pretty much spam FP most of the time and never really worry about mana but the 150% added chaos dmg puts it over the top. I suppose this will improve in a half dozen levels since I will be hitting those +regen/mana and reduced cost nodes. Other than my current mana issues, I really like the build! Great! And yeah getting more regen and higher lvl clarity will help. I'd guess your FP is what, ~60 mana with Added Chaos? With 2.5 casts per second that's around 150 mp/s required. 20% qual hallowed flasks give about 100 mp/s so you need 50 mp/s from your regen. Should be pretty achievable. Last edited by aimlessgun#1443 on Feb 19, 2013, 11:12:09 PM	Posted by aimlessgun#1443 on Feb 19, 2013, 11:11:20 PM Alpha Member Quote this Post
I am assuming you use an spirit shield for an offhand with this build (w/e one thats gives the %spell dmg baseline)? Sorry for the dumb question...just got my ranger to 80 and dont know much about the others specs... really cool build and guide man Last edited by girth#5363 on Feb 20, 2013, 4:09:36 AM	Posted by girth#5363 on Feb 20, 2013, 4:09:06 AM Quote this Post
Great guide. But why do we need STR and DEX in this build? Is it to wield Daggers that require a certain level in those attributes? Also, I just reached Act 2 and I still don't have LMP, did I miss a quest in Act 1 O_o? Or what? Sorry for these dumb questions man. I just joined and I've got to admit that this is more overwhelming than I thought! Also also, this is the gear I'm wearing. This is my first playthrough so it's pretty much garbage: Spoiler What's your assessment on that? Are there any places in Act 1 I can farm for some better gear? Thanks alot dude! I'm pretty weird. Last edited by Venecan#2623 on Feb 20, 2013, 1:17:10 PM	Posted by Venecan#2623 on Feb 20, 2013, 7:58:15 AM Quote this Post
I Have been searching for ages trying to find a Hardcore version of this, my friends all play Hardcore and im going to join them (I know I might die a lot to begin with) but I have played this build to cruel ant 3 so I know how to play it, just unsure how to build it for HC. Any ideas or skill maps from any of you fellow cold casters would be massively appreciated	Posted by ktwilson#0463 on Feb 20, 2013, 8:08:49 AM Quote this Post
Kripp did a HC version which looks like this build but started with Marauder, then took all the life nodes till the starting area of shadow and then took all the +crit chance nodes. I noticed he skipped almost all +dmg nodes so I'm guessing crit scales better on high level then damage. Big plus with starting as marauder is that your life pool is bigger in the begin with better resists for survivability. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbBaotIcOOg&list=UUeBMccz-PDZf6OB4aV6a3eA&index=3 Last edited by Elbacone#1183 on Feb 20, 2013, 8:20:44 AM	Posted by Elbacone#1183 on Feb 20, 2013, 8:20:01 AM Quote this Post
noob question(i didnt read all topic, sry) how do you manage your mana? im like 30lvl and im oom all the time. On higher lvls will be better because of clarity or what do you use for mana regen?	Posted by neroth#2703 on Feb 20, 2013, 9:50:06 AM Quote this Post
" neroth wrote: noob question(i didnt read all topic, sry) how do you manage your mana? im like 30lvl and im oom all the time. On higher lvls will be better because of clarity or what do you use for mana regen? " aimlessgun wrote: Spoiler Help, my mana sucks and I always run out! This is a problem with the Shadow start, for all shadows. Until you get to the witch start area mana can be bad. I recommend acquiring Paua rings and amulet as early as possible, and trying to get mana and mana regen on them. Once you have the witch regen and maxmana passives, and a bit of regen and mana on your gear, you should be able to run a 4link Freezing Pulse fairly easily, and once you get a higher level clarity you can run FP almost completely off regen. Look for the 'Surgeons' mod on your mana flasks to keep you supplied with charges. I'd suggest reading the whole thing through next time, haha ;p. I'm pretty weird.	Posted by Venecan#2623 on Feb 20, 2013, 10:44:22 AM Quote this Post
" girth wrote: I am assuming you use an spirit shield for an offhand with this build Yes. " Venecan wrote: Great guide. But why do we need STR and DEX in this build? Is it to wield Daggers that require a certain level in those attributes? You will need 109 STR and DEX for lvl 20 support gems. You get LMP from an A2 quest. Don't worry much about gear early in the game :) " Elbacone wrote: Kripp did a HC version which looks like this build but started with Marauder, then took all the life nodes till the starting area of shadow and then took all the +crit chance nodes. I noticed he skipped almost all +dmg nodes so I'm guessing crit scales better on high level then damage. Big plus with starting as marauder is that your life pool is bigger in the begin with better resists for survivability. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbBaotIcOOg&list=UUeBMccz-PDZf6OB4aV6a3eA&index=3 Yeah Kripp's build looks pretty solid. You could do something very similar with a shadow, though for the first half of leveling you'd have more damage and less HP, so I guess it would be a riskier starting point.	Posted by aimlessgun#1443 on Feb 20, 2013, 3:50:11 PM Alpha Member Quote this Post
I saw this thread last week and got tired of my Bow Shadow so I decided to give this a try and.. wow! This build is so much fun! I'm currently level 70 using this build (I just added 10% cast speed) Spoiler http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgYBAuMC_gdjB6UI9A5ID8QRlhdUGYUabB8CIoEkqiaVJ6kqWyycNsU26Tt8O-FBlkLDSVFJslVLVkpXK1qmXfJmT2vbbRlwUnDVc1N5A35Zf8aBSYIQiEKLeow2jjyOZI9GlQSdo52unqGio6cIpyunXK-bsji0OLb6uMrAUcBUwcXB89IZ1U_W0dgk3Mfed9-E37Di9-Nq44TkIuUZ8h3z6vem-_X8qxa_7BjDbS-dFvMmPA== And this is my gear; I got lucky I was able to buy my Quality FP for cheap, Now I'm trying to get a good Kris so I can use Whirling Blades to get out of those tight situations. I also need to upgrade my gloves and belt to get more +life.. but other than that, im not sure what to do! Also not sure where to go with the build from here..	Posted by SabreWolf#1831 on Feb 20, 2013, 11:44:47 PM Quote this Post