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Resist are a concern in early in the game act 3 specifically. I rolled one of these the other day and I struggle to balance mana needs and resistances and also life. Kinda rough starting from shadow. Good news is frost pulse is a very fun skill to over level on some lower maps and the crit available toyou early on somewhat makes up for the lack of decensive nodes. I suspect I'm going to be farming levels before I continue on to cruel. I still yet to utilize crowd control methods like skelly totem.

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kog1115 wrote:

Resist are a concern in early in the game act 3 specifically. I rolled one of these the other day and I struggle to balance mana needs and resistances and also life. Kinda rough starting from shadow. Good news is frost pulse is a very fun skill to over level on some lower maps and the crit available toyou early on somewhat makes up for the lack of decensive nodes. I suspect I'm going to be farming levels before I continue on to cruel. I still yet to utilize crowd control methods like skelly totem.

Resists will continue to be a concern :) It's something that has to be solved with gear. Make sure to keep a decent set of cold, fire and light res rings to swap on and off depending on the zone. If you're new or not twinking dont blow alterations on them, but transmuting a few is a good policy.

Also, soon you'll be able to get a Ceremonial Kite Shield (lvl 34 item), this gives you 24% resist all, and you can try to craft HP and hopefully another resist on it as a suffix. Keep this in your alternate weapon slot and bring it out for zones that need high resists.

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piotras wrote:

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.

Haha I'm also amazed. That might be rough, unless you have some good midlevel ES gear waiting for him?

Hi aimless, Just wondering if you're having any trouble doing maps? Are you clearing them quick? Thanks

Hi Aimless, Ive been following this thread for some time and posted when I was a wee level 12 or so Shadow.
Currently Im level 75 and thoroughly enjoy the build with some slight variations.
Could you critique my gear in terms of upgrades?
I know my chest is one weak point currently but its served me well for the last 25 levels.

My current setup:

I wish there was a simple way to go blood magic and massive crit early on being a shadow. Constant tweaking of gear for +mana and mana regeneration along with resist and life for survivability is sorta exhausting. Good thing the play style is so rewarding for me. I've seen what the end result of this kind of build can be and I like it a lot. I'm thinking about equipping my dual truth sceptres and apex circlet to help hasten the process though.

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OheShizaru wrote:

Hi aimless, Just wondering if you're having any trouble doing maps? Are you clearing them quick? Thanks

At my level and gear only very high level maps with terrible mods/enemies are problematic. I'm not sure what counts are 'quick', but low lvl maps take around 5 minutes.

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crunklepat wrote:

Hi Aimless, Ive been following this thread for some time and posted when I was a wee level 12 or so Shadow.
Currently Im level 75 and thoroughly enjoy the build with some slight variations.
Could you critique my gear in terms of upgrades?
I know my chest is one weak point currently but its served me well for the last 25 levels.

Glad to hear it :)

I think your biggest concern is lack of crit on your weapons. It's important offensively but also very important defensively, since you're missing out on 5-10% potential freeze chance.

Good spell daggers are hard to come by, but if you can't find one in your price range I would transmute literally every single white Kris you find. Eventually you will roll spelldmg prefix and spellcrit suffix in decent quantities. At that point you regal, but even if the regal fails it might be an upgrade. Thats a pretty solid wand because of the cast speed but crit really is that important.

Individually gloves are your weakest slot. The chest could be worse :)

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kog1115 wrote:

I wish there was a simple way to go blood magic and massive crit early on being a shadow. Constant tweaking of gear for +mana and mana regeneration along with resist and life for survivability is sorta exhausting. Good thing the play style is so rewarding for me. I've seen what the end result of this kind of build can be and I like it a lot. I'm thinking about equipping my dual truth sceptres and apex circlet to help hasten the process though.

Yeah it is a constant struggle while lvling. But then again being at your static endgame setup that doesnt change often could be kind of boring :p

I love this build apart from being 2 shotted from everything if a freeze fail i'm dead and that sucks but otherwise its extremly fun to play the hardest mobs are elemental hitters since getting resists are extremly hard on the gear. Archer must be the easiest mobs there are just face tank the shit out of them xD

Anyone got any tips to dealing with the 2 shotting i'm struggling with?
I'm just level 62 and just entered act 3 merciless but i'm getting tired of this build right now since i can't level up everytime i'm close to level i die since i have no armor all mobs hit far over 2k per hit so it's quite frustrating to play right now


Is any of these daggers an upgrade to my wand?





tool tip dps gets lower with both about 300 less with the loath scratch and 400 with the other one. The Loath Scratch gives about 2% crit chance more then the wand the other dagger gives no improvment.

Thank you so much this guide Aimless, I'm really enjoying this build and I would like to take it to a very high level someday. Here's my gear, all of it was self found and crafted, except for Maligaro's gloves.
I've taken some +resist nodes from the Templar area to compensate for my gear which is not so good. I have all resistances at 75% (77 with Purity), about 2.1k life and 2k ES, but my Freezing pulse DPS goes between 2.5k and 3k right now which I would like to improve. What should I be looking for to upgrade my damage? Maybe a better shield or some crit multiplier on amulet?

ps- Please ignore some of the useless gems in my gear :P I'm just testing some out and lvling.

Hey Aimless,

I just have a little question about the weaponchoose.

I would like to know if it is a good way to survive when I use a dagger and a spirit shield or do I need to use 2 daggers for more critt or could i even play with 2 wands?
It's not pretty clear in your guide which weapons are a good combination for a good dps way or a more tanky way :)

Thx, nice guide!

Man I'm so glad I had a breakthrough for gear to make cruel a breeze right now. Faster projectiles on my new wand (it has a whopping 32% faster projectiles) and some resist gear is rejuvenating my progression and grinding. I refer to this as a grace period. Nothing too challenging and perfect for over leveling till I feel comfortable with resist and energy shield to continue unto merciless. Thanks for that shield idea! I picked one up that maxes me out when I need that extra protection.