[1.3] The Crit Philosopher - CI Crit Cold Witch - Freezing Pulse, PCoC & Echo

Been away but now I'm back, Lloyd!

Sorry guys, I had no Internet connection at home. Anyway...

@jeppesu: your builds looks manly! I've always wanted to have pure ES gear on my char, but mixing up would be a cool idea too. I've never tried using Taryn's Shiver, so I don't know what it is like not to have a shield on me. If you craft your guide, please let us know :D

@Rudy514: Pretty interesting! Both Le Heup of all and Rat's Nest are affordable, and they boost the damage neatly. With that much armor, physical damage is not that scary anymore. I'd invest some regrets to re-allocate some aura nodes in your tree, though. If you were to get the two reduced mana reservation nodes in the Sovereignty wheel instead of the aura effect nodes, you'll end up with 2 free nodes that can be invested in the Influence area (aura notable near the shadow start) and thus getting 8% increased effect of auras with the same amount of points.

Tonight I'll upload the DPS calculations in the OP. Thank god I have an stable connection now T^T

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Saxarona wrote:

Been away but now I'm back, Lloyd!

I'd invest some regrets to re-allocate some aura nodes in your tree, though. If you were to get the two reduced mana reservation nodes in the Sovereignty wheel instead of the aura effect nodes, you'll end up with 2 free nodes that can be invested in the Influence area (aura notable near the shadow start) and thus getting 8% increased effect of auras with the same amount of points.

Maybe I'm stupid, but that doesn't make any sense to me. If I swap my aura effect nodes in the sovereignty tree for the reduced mana nodes then I don't have 2 free nodes because I just swapped them.

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Rudy514 wrote:

Maybe I'm stupid, but that doesn't make any sense to me. If I swap my aura effect nodes in the sovereignty tree for the reduced mana nodes then I don't have 2 free nodes because I just swapped them.

Lol, no, I'm the stupid one lol I meant getting the two aura effect nodes in Influence gives better results than getting the two in Sovereignty, but yeah you've got 2 points not four; my bad xD

I now have this build at lvl 89.
Made some changes and took the 2% cold pen 71% dmg nodes.
dps tooltip is 7800 goes to 10400 full charges.recently lvled gems to 20 and turned them in so still need few more lvls on herald and echo.
7600es, 57 block, 54% spell block, 16% ev , 2% damage reduction ;D

Had some BAD encounters with devourers, add in some cold res, a dash of curse immune and get fukd ;D
really need to be careful tho (moreso playing solo, in a group at least you dont have 6 pop on you at once..usually).

Have tried the maligaro gloves but don't think its worth the loss of es for me.
debating where to go next but i think im satisfied with block nodes where they are.
also thought getting one of these would be good as they were fairly cheap with 2-3% block



current tree

Updated with the following:

- Added endgame section in the second post. Check it out if you're stuck mapping over and over.
- Updated some minor details all over the guide (grammar and such).
- Updated current gear.
- Updated current tree.

How the hell do you keep your resists capped. I am doing this build currently but with all the uniques that don't give resists... how can you possibly keep them capped?

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Gh0stWalrus wrote:

How the hell do you keep your resists capped. I am doing this build currently but with all the uniques that don't give resists... how can you possibly keep them capped?

You have some slots left: ring, circlet, and chest. Doryani's Invitation gives you both lightning and fire resistance. Dream fragments grants cold resistance. Rathpith gives lightning resist and Rainbowstride adds 20% to all elemental resists.

Of course, you can swap any of those uniques with decent rares and master craft some resistances too :)

I was just wondering if your most updated build is the one on page one or from this link:

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMAAW8C_gQHBUINjQ5IEZYVUBXXFkAXLxslHNwdFB8CIvQksCepKU8qCyycLL82xTrYQZZCw0NjRKtG10cGS65Ms03YUDBVrlZjWPVca13GXfJfKl9qYG1jQ2SdZp5sC20ZcFJwu3DVcU1-WX_GgKSCEIKbhEiFfYauhtGJ04t6jDaMdo5kj0aPpo_6ms-dxKcIrrO1BLb6tzHBxcNt0PXYJNlb2t3bXtvn3fPfhN-K37Di9-Qi6QLr5Ov17BjsOPId8uHz6vem-tI=

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unicornstampedes wrote:

I was just wondering if your most updated build is the one on page one or from this link...

The newest tree is this one. It's the same as "current tree @ lvl 90" in the first page.

Progressions are supposed to be a series of steps from life to CI. Then you should re-spec from hybrid Armor/ES CI to full Block CI (:

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Progressions are supposed to be a series of steps from life to CI. Then you should re-spec from hybrid Armor/ES CI to full Block CI (:

Thank you for the swift response!
As you may already have figured out I am completely new I believe I "seriously" started playing last night and from what little I know, there is not a full respec option... So how do I even go about tweaking and making adjustments as I go?