[0.10.3b] What's cooler than being cool? Ice Cold Templar

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VenatorPoE wrote:

Awesome suggestion on the spell power nodes, thanks. About the +30 attribute nodes; yeah I'm aware of having to pick them up. Added lightning damage would add a miniscule amount of lightning damage, so apparently I'm not familiar enough with how exactly the Shock ailment gets applied in this case? Thanks in advance!

http://en.pathofexilewiki.com/wiki/Shock#Shock

1x +30 Dex node and how many might nodes would this build need?

Also where are those 3x 15% extra spell damage on the tree?

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DrKrills wrote:

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VenatorPoE wrote:

Added lightning damage would add a miniscule amount of lightning damage, so apparently I'm not familiar enough with how exactly the Shock ailment gets applied in this case? Thanks in advance!

http://en.pathofexilewiki.com/wiki/Shock#Shock

Exactly as it says there; the amount of lightning damage needs to be equal to at least exactly 1.09% of the targets HP to apply a 0.3 seconds long Shock. Will the "added lightning damage" gem be able to provide that? And of course, 0.3 seconds is too short, it should be at least a whole second to allow for the next spear to hit.

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VenatorPoE wrote:

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DrKrills wrote:

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VenatorPoE wrote:

Added lightning damage would add a miniscule amount of lightning damage, so apparently I'm not familiar enough with how exactly the Shock ailment gets applied in this case? Thanks in advance!

http://en.pathofexilewiki.com/wiki/Shock#Shock

Exactly as it says there; the amount of lightning damage needs to be equal to at least exactly 1.09% of the targets HP to apply a 0.3 seconds long Shock. Will the "added lightning damage" gem be able to provide that? And of course, 0.3 seconds is too short, it should be at least a whole second to allow for the next spear to hit.

admittedly its not much lightning damage, but I still shock on a regular basis. Lets also not forget that passives raise that damage and its during a crit which mine is around 300%(multiplier). The totem by itself wont get much use from it (because of cast speed) but while attacking with freezing pulse you will get the benefit.

How about picking up the "Ghost Reaver" keystone? It will really help if a situation arises where you have a reflect mob around.

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Strangebrew wrote:

How about picking up the "Ghost Reaver" keystone? It will really help if a situation arises where you have a reflect mob around.

Its not a bad idea, but there are other ways to get around that. Your totem's damage doesn't get reflected to you. So when you face that type of mob keep attacking until your es is about half make sure your totem is up, and just run till you charge. Which is all the es cooldown nodes it shouldn't be that long. That and maxing your cold resist should make ghost reaver unnecessary.

Also dont forget that you would need to attach a leech life support gem to the spells to get any use out of that keystone.


The way I deal with the mobs are a bit of what I said in the first paragraph and EK with chain and added chaos damage. If Im dealing with only one guy I will quickly pull chain out.

IMHO its not worth the points and you will be lowering your dps going that route. there are other builds that make a much better use of the ability, and those are usually ones that actually do physical damage normally.

Reading the posts above about reflect mobs; that's why I included the Sapphire Flask in the "Flasks" paragraph. It gives +10% to max, with 75% you shoot up to 85% cold resist even without Purity.

I'm trying almost this exact build right now at level 24. I'm modifying it a bit, and adding some shield nodes since I'm going mace/wand + shield (switching off depending on what I get from drops for now). Using summons makes it pretty easy-mode in the beginning, but I'm guessing the difficulty is going to ramp up soon.

Planning on trying this build what level are you yet ? end game is it any good?