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TJDowning wrote:

Frenzy charges give +5% cast speed and attack speed per charge.
Which is why blood rage is a fairly useful skill to have on a CI build because you can get up frenzy charges for free.

I will try out blood rage when I finally take CI, however there are a ton of other skills that I am using atm and not sure if I will have enough sockets to use it. The same reason why most high high level cold crit witches don't use it that often.

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shibloble wrote:

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TJDowning wrote:

Frenzy charges give +5% cast speed and attack speed per charge.
Which is why blood rage is a fairly useful skill to have on a CI build because you can get up frenzy charges for free.

I will try out blood rage when I finally take CI, however there are a ton of other skills that I am using atm and not sure if I will have enough sockets to use it. The same reason why most high high level cold crit witches don't use it that often.

I use 5 frenzy charges with CI, and i can tell you that my witch is an absolute beast...3 casts/ sec + ice spear totem with GMP...NOTHING moves and everything is shotgunned to shatters instantly

edit: the build..
http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMAAuMC_gVCBVsHYwelDkgPxBEvEVARlhHbFVAXVBzcHdkfAiKBLJwsvzLRNj02xTdHO3w74UGWQsNDVEVHSbJPv1ZKVytapl3GXfJgbWusbRlwUnDVc1N1ini6fll_xoIQiEKIa4t6jDaOPJMnlQSZmp2jnqGfe6IuoqOly6cIpyuvm7UEtve4k7jKu9bAVMHFwfPDbdQF2CTcx93z34TfsOL344Tmgetj7BjyHfyr

Going for the far right nullification and then addning some more ES/res as i go along..

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shibloble wrote:

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TJDowning wrote:

Frenzy charges give +5% cast speed and attack speed per charge.
Which is why blood rage is a fairly useful skill to have on a CI build because you can get up frenzy charges for free.

I will try out blood rage when I finally take CI, however there are a ton of other skills that I am using atm and not sure if I will have enough sockets to use it. The same reason why most high high level cold crit witches don't use it that often.

That's true for the most part, you usually do end up with a spare socket or two sitting around eventually and for no cost at all blood rage can really boost your DPS.

Btw it seems you got frenzy charges mixed up with the frenzy skill.

so frenzy charges give cast speed

or frenzy gives cast speed?

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Nevzat wrote:

so frenzy charges give cast speed

or frenzy gives cast speed?

Frenzy charges do.

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TJDowning wrote:

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Nevzat wrote:

so frenzy charges give cast speed

or frenzy gives cast speed?

Frenzy charges do.

To specify even more clear, frenzy is a skill that generates frenzy charges (green balls hovering around you), wich i term give you 5% increased cast speed per frenzy charge...
Blood rage does this to, but blood rage is like a temporary aura that extends by 10 secs for each killed enemy.
You can have 3 frenzy charges as a base..and get one more from helping Kraytin in merciless and also by taking the +1 frenzy charge in the shadow area far to the right.

Well the propblem is the far right one is quite out of my way... would 4 still be beneficiaL?

as in, 4 is still ok? (i could take the cast speed nodes instead nearer to where I am )

Absolutely

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shibloble wrote:

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bailorgana234 wrote:

Hey, nice post. Just started playing and I've found this build

Spoiler

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMAAv4FQgW1B2MM8g2NDkgQexEvEVARlha_FvMXVBzcHdkigSY8J6kqWysKLJwsvy-dNj074UGWQsNDVE-_VkpXK13yYeJtGXBScNVzU3WKeLp5A35Zf8aCEIfbiEKIa4w2jjyTJ5UEmZqdo597oqOly6crrrOvm7Q4tMW297vWvjrAUcBUwQDBxcHzw23N6tIZ1AXVT9bR2xred9-E37Di9-OE5Rnmgetj7BjyHfPq9Uv79fyr

What do you think? He gets a lot of evasion but I don't know if its better going into the templar path. And what are those frenzy green nodes?
Thanks.

Not going to lie, I wouldn't follow that build if my life depended on it.

Frenzy does crap for casters. Frenzy nodes allow you to have an additional frenzy charge activated (default of 3, +1 for each node). Every frenzy charge adds additional physical attack damage and attack speed (NOT CAST SPEED).

Frenzy charges increase cast speed as well. 3 Frenzy charges increases my Pulse dps from 690 to 792.

However, I get my charges from my friends with Conduit; not sure I'd bother building them myself, it's probably not worth it.

Frenzy charges wont be worth it. A quality gem is better to obtain while taking more defensive, or dmg nodes.