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Der_Kantelberg wrote:

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shibloble wrote:

It is actually TWO points to get doom cast. You will already have the first int node if you go for CI/Natural calm/Fitness

No. In your own basic Hybrid (Health/ES) build you need 3 points for Doom Cast. You don't need the int point, because you don't get CI, and you reach Natural Calm and Fitness via the Might point and the life node.

So the Doom Cast crit chance is really no other drit chance than normal crit chance (for spells)? Ok, than that doesn't really make sense to avoid Bloot Thirst but go for Doom Cast.

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torfteulfe wrote:

how do you cope with extremely high physical burst, like flicker strike mobs with increased phys. damage and increased phys crit?

im playing a similar build right now, which works like a charm (lvl 66) but some mobs kick my ass :(

my freeze pulse + spork totem (shock stack) hybrid build

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http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMB37CCEEGWB6UC40myLJxWSpUEr5tXKwdj5oHAVHNTeQMxiAj0EVC71jvh4venK20ZwfOio3_GJ6labSQ8p1xJURGWnaP8qw5Ioi5d8lBCjDZw1XBSjr4RLXyDzfq4kzLRRUe1BF3GRtfd82BtnYCDOBRNogCnCI9GgUmyOGZP0NDPZVXGm6Fnve5v7SDhc4uMBVtVSyaVDH0Qf8ae8-rAUQ==

main reason for me to go freeze pulse and spork is cause i get bored quickly and freezing shock stacked mobs will make them freeze forever pretty much :D

also: whats your current armor/evasion rating? (thinking about getting a pure armor shield and the shield passives above the templar tree atm)

i am running clarity, discipline and purity and am at 77% all res, no mana problems whatsovever

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0sync0 wrote:

Is frostbite good enough to deal with cold resistant mobs or is something else needed?

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Zapados wrote:

Shib, is there enough CC in this build? This is Ice Crit Witch (ICW)! There are really only 3 sources...top node for spells only, then left and right but that's probably pretty late game. At the same time, there is a circle of 15% CCs down near the ES nodes, but no big payoff on taking them, unfortunately.

You really think everything else trumps those? I'm finding in my early game play-through, I feel a bit short on mana and a good amount short on CC. Freezing Pulse is not stopping the baddies most of the time, again this is very early, < level 20.

Lunicuss where are you seeing 60% crit. for 3 points? There are the 15% trees, but that's 15x3 = 45% crit.

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Felkor wrote:

@sanleon

Cold penetration will give you something like ~33% overall damage increase.*
Because this is applied after everything else : it multiplied all your damage.

* If the mob have 0% cold resist. On a 75% cold resist mob, cold penetration will give you
something like a 130% damage increase !
You deal 25% damage on a mob with 75% resist without ColdPen
You deal 58% of your damage on a mob with 75% resist with ColdPen (75%resist - 33% = 42% effective resistance !)

And it scale with Frosbite / Elemental weakness :)

Cold Penetration >>>>> Critical damage increase.


For the Chaos Inoculation users, I recommend you a Blood rage lvl 1.
With the extra Frenzy charge of the Shadow tree (was on my path for the second nullification node) and the extra Frenzy charge from bandits in Merciless, it is 25% fastcast.
Better than haste, and no drawback (the %life damage is deal as chaos, so with CI...)