[0.11.0] Aimlessgun's Cold Caster Guide [Now with RF/PA section] Videos! [

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sebay wrote:

I need answer on my noob question.
What i must have on my 6link chest?
Ofcourse its Freezing Pulse, Faster Casting and Lesser Multiplier Projectiles. But What else?
What is the profit of added chaos damage and faster projectiles?

I guess a better question is, what isn't the profit of adding them :p

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SeanRogerPierce wrote:

Ok guys,

Power Charge Support Gem is announced. Do you consider using it? If yes, which gem would have to go in your setup?

I can't talk about the exact mechanics/numbers under the NDA, but I am confident it will be a very good 5th/6th link option. If I could I would replace mana leech with it, however sadly the colors are fixed on my mirrored chest :((

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aimlessgun wrote:

I guess a better question is, what isn't the profit of adding them :p

So u want to say that this supports are necessarily for freezing pulse in this build?

Also how much mana regen we need in second? U dont have mods - increase mana regeneration rate on ur rings and amu. So how do u regen mana? Oly clarity and freezing pulse and this is enough?

Added DPS Spreadsheet link for use in comparing passive setups and gear upgrades.

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sebay wrote:

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aimlessgun wrote:

I guess a better question is, what isn't the profit of adding them :p

So u want to say that this supports are necessarily for freezing pulse in this build?

Also how much mana regen we need in second? U dont have mods - increase mana regeneration rate on ur rings and amu. So how do u regen mana? Oly clarity and freezing pulse and this is enough?

Nothing beyond LMP is really 'necessary': the build works fine if you put Item Quantity and Item Rarity as your 5th and 6th gems.

I talk in depth about the gem options in the Skill Setup part of the guide.

Mana regen is from a combination of Clarity and mana potions. More regen on gear means less need to hit mana potions constantly. A 4link FP is pretty easy to run just off Clarity if you have good regen gear.

free bump
gonna to test it!
anyone here who following this build without that good gear/quality gems?
How u doin guys?

Just started something similar yesterday (had a break since closed beta, have no items!) and I will post my progress. Right now I'm just lvl 13 but I dig it big time (and I'm more of a melee player usually). Not a big fan of a single skill-oriented builds and I love how spear / pulse complements one another, can't wait for more skills and totems to get some more interaction going, right now I sometimes throw in a bear trap to stop rares and bosses if I can't get a lucky freeze on the ice spear.

Mana is supposed to be a problem with the shadow path for this build, but with two mana rings, paula amulet (30 mana regen) and clarity I don't need to use any mana flasks (and I've got lucky with +1 to cold gems items so my mana needs are ahead of my level).

Looks fun for now! Wondering if I should invest in life nodes or go CI, never did that before and I will probably be using self-found stuff.

Hey, here's my version of it.



Its rough draft with a lots of points up in the air, specially resist nodes, if i'd go with a CI build i'd obviously ditch Chaos Resist and Life Nodes, but its just to give an idea of what i'm looking to do.

I completly ditched minions and totems to focus on curses tough, would run Frostbite/Crit Vulnerability as offensive ones and Temporal Chains/Enfeeble as defensive ones if needed.

I have 2 questions tough, why most cold builds seems to Ignore Frost Wall? I have yet to find it yet but seems pretty effective.

Also defensively i'm unsure if i want to go HP/ES or pure ES with CI at some point, i'm an Hardcore player so it kind of matter a lot but i guess i'll see.

What are your toughts about it? Mostly trying to recreate my old Bonemancer's gameplay from D2 where i was nuking everything with Spear/Spirits while they were trapped in bone walls and prisons and Enfeeble, never felt the need to run the Revives version of it thats why i chose to ignore pets again, i that kind of gameplay. Got to lvl 95 in HC without dying with it so i'm used to how it plays :>.

Updated the passive tree with some minor changes. Basically dumping the projectile dmg nodes lategame for more defense.

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piotras wrote:

Looks fun for now! Wondering if I should invest in life nodes or go CI, never did that before and I will probably be using self-found stuff.

I predict going CI will be difficult for self-found >.>

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GrieverZ wrote:

Hey, here's my version of it.

You need 109 STR and 109 DEX when all is said and done for support gems, which means taking more DEX and STR nodes unless you have some crazy house of cards gear setup planned out :)

Going over to Frost Walker isn't a particularly efficient use of points, you'd be better off spending those same points getting Arcane Potency over towards templar.

If you're not taking the projectile damage nodes near the shadow start, the cast speed nodes are better than the 5% elemental dmg ones.

Frost wall gameplay felt tedious to me. Maybe you will enjoy it though, just not my thing.

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aimlessgun wrote:

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piotras wrote:

Looks fun for now! Wondering if I should invest in life nodes or go CI, never did that before and I will probably be using self-found stuff.

I predict going CI will be difficult for self-found >.>

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GrieverZ wrote:

Hey, here's my version of it.

You need 109 STR and 109 DEX when all is said and done for support gems, which means taking more DEX and STR nodes unless you have some crazy house of cards gear setup planned out :)

Going over to Frost Walker isn't a particularly efficient use of points, you'd be better off spending those same points getting Arcane Potency over towards templar.

If you're not taking the projectile damage nodes near the shadow start, the cast speed nodes are better than the 5% elemental dmg ones.

Frost wall gameplay felt tedious to me. Maybe you will enjoy it though, just not my thing.

True, thanks for the tips, and no i don't have any special gear, i'm mostly casually playing solo atm, almost have more fun with the talent calculator than the actual game :|.

And yeah i feel spells like frostwall are very personal, personally i find pets tedious and annoying but don't mind setting up those kinds of spells, i feel i have more control over the battlefield tha with AI controlled zombies and skellies running around.

I have taken a look at your build, and other build for bow, and I think I am gonna try out Eldritch battery/FP shadow, due to influence of invalesco and your build ;p

Hi, I'm lvl 29 and I love the build. Had nice progress with self-found gear until I reached act 3, after that my squishiness (low life / es and poor resi) became too much of a limitation (I didn't even bother with a shield until now :D). However it would happen sooner or later as I decided that I will go with CI so I skipped all health / strength nodes. Still amazed that it went so smoothly that far. Damage and cold crit is very good and I still sometimes manage to solo well after I've learned to use frost wall to disrupt attackers and use it to get in range for freezing pulse.

I will shop around for some 30 lvl gear and see if that makes any difference (my stuff is really poor), but it looks promising.