[1.2][Beyond] Crit Ice Nova Build w/ Glacial Cascade (Work in Progress)

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Jambe wrote:

Will you be posting leveling trees as you level through the new league ? That'd be incredibly useful to me and I guess a bunch of other unexperienced players ! :)

I posted a few trees for what I plan to do and I'll update the leveling section as I go along.

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monkeydave wrote:

Hmm. I'm poor. :P I'm lucky if I get 5 exalts in a whole league. I may need to just play around, hope for the best.

Is cold to fire not good unless I've got expensive fire boosting gear?

It's mostly the life leech that I had in mind. Since the plan is to drop life leech for cold to fire you'd need some form of elemental life leech to make up for it. Since the damage will be split between fire and cold ideally you'd want elemental leech which is only available on doryani's catalyst. Although, warlord's mark might be an option since the leech is no longer specific to physical damage.

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PuppyDogPimp wrote:

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Jambe wrote:

Will you be posting leveling trees as you level through the new league ? That'd be incredibly useful to me and I guess a bunch of other unexperienced players ! :)

I posted a few trees for what I plan to do and I'll update the leveling section as I go along.

That's awesome, thank you very much !

Thanks so much. I appreciate it. Could you please make sure to note when you split from the cheap to the more expensive build?

Do you help any bandits?

Also, is there a skill I should be using for Power Charges?

Bandits play seems like Life - Point - Power Charge

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monkeydave wrote:

Do you help any bandits?

Also, is there a skill I should be using for Power Charges?

As JohmaSho mentioned, help oak for life in normal, kill all for passive in cruel, and help alira in merciless for the power charge.

Assassin's mark gives a chance to generate power charges on kill. That method won't work in curse immune maps though, so I think it's still a good idea to level a power charge on crit as well (still haven't picked one up myself though, currently level 51).

Also, I feel like I should mention that I'm pretty much exclusively leveling with glacial cascade since I started cruel. Cold snap still isn't reliable and I don't want to be in the middle of a bunch of mobs unless I know they're going to be frozen. I will switch back to ice nova when I'm able.

ive respeced my old char into what you (roughly) are trying to level yourself

few notable changes in 1.2 that alter things a lot

Assassins Mark -> charges without PCOC (for these curse immune maps, youll just clear slower or equip pcoc)

Dual curse EASY to get -> Warlords Mark (sustain) + Assassins Mark (damage)

Ice nova is fully viable now up to 74 maps i did (dont have any higher due to play self found/solo)

Herald of Ice - just test it out. Lots of fun and lots of damage (ice nova benefits greatly from that flat added dmg and these explosions are scaled nicely with AOE)

my non-perfect tree:



and gear:

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sidtherat wrote:

ive respeced my old char into what you (roughly) are trying to level yourself

few notable changes in 1.2 that alter things a lot

Assassins Mark -> charges without PCOC (for these curse immune maps, youll just clear slower or equip pcoc)

Dual curse EASY to get -> Warlords Mark (sustain) + Assassins Mark (damage)

Ice nova is fully viable now up to 74 maps i did (dont have any higher due to play self found/solo)

Herald of Ice - just test it out. Lots of fun and lots of damage (ice nova benefits greatly from that flat added dmg and these explosions are scaled nicely with AOE)

Cool, thanks for the info. I'm using herald of ice and absolutely loving it. I'll probably wait and see about dual curse. The leech from warlord's mark sounds awesome, but I also don't want to be dependent on a curse for leech. Curse immunity is a pretty common map mod and it's already going to be hard enough needing to swap in PCoC or going without power charges.

I would wanna know your thoughts on crit ice nova with single target GC in beyond in particular,would you deem it viable,what links would you use for both and how do you propose to deal with reflect?