A Cold Crit Witch Guide 2.0 (RE-DONE!) Check it out!

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sanleon wrote:

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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...)

Thank you so much Felkor, it seems i would deal more average damage with cold pen instead of crit multiplier. So far i have spent more than 200 chromatics. Is just stupid how much bad luck i got. So i cant give it a try until i find a GGGBB ES Vaal Regalia or maybe when i got 600-700 chroms

Thanks anyways you were helpful to me

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Prolixitasty wrote:

So does it still work?

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webas wrote:

a build without items is not a full guide.

Im running atm 1totem + freezing pulse. I would like to switch for full freezing pulse build but i will need a lot more casting speed(to outcast fast archers, snakes in vaal ruins, and other nasty mobs)


So what about items? what to focus on? Atm im curious about boots. I noticed they almost never have big ES, so you must concentrate on other stats they can offer. Same with gloves and helmet. Any ideas?

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webas wrote:

a build without items is not a full guide.

Im running atm 1totem + freezing pulse. I would like to switch for full freezing pulse build but i will need a lot more casting speed(to outcast fast archers, snakes in vaal ruins, and other nasty mobs)


So what about items? what to focus on? Atm im curious about boots. I noticed they almost never have big ES, so you must concentrate on other stats they can offer. Same with gloves and helmet. Any ideas?

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Razorwind wrote:

Thank you Shibloble for the walkthrough. It saved me a lot of trial and error by clearly presenting out the upsides and downsides of build choices.

I am currently on my way to your default ci build. I got one tip for all newcomers:

Dont build towards ci from the start. It is quite fast to reach ci, but the gear is most prob not up to standard yet.

I would have rather went towards the hp build first, start collecting another set of gear at a3 cruel , then respec over. This takes quite a few more orbs of regret but I think its worth it for any ci ppl who prefer solo.

Will be great if more ppl can add on or deny this too :) I am currently unable to solo anything at a2 cruel even if I prioritised all the es nodes and 20% for all armor pieces

Added my current status at lvl 40:

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMAAv4FQhFQHNwd2SycLKYtHy1HN2Y3gzvhQZZDVESrT79QQlWuVkpXK20ZeLp_xoIQiEKLeow2j6aTJ5UEnqGfe6KjpuunK66zr5u71sHFwfPDbd-E37Di9-q67BjyHQ==

I shd have rather not ventured up to ci anf the 60% crit and spent more into the starting hp and mana nodes.