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karmakill wrote:

i found this guide very helpfull and i'd like to thank you for the time invested in this, it helped me alot even at high level altho i wish i had seen it sooner as i was confused in the begining.

some things i'd like to add are:

Haste - is a very good aura, its a main aura actually, specially if you play in a group, i would take it over anything depending on how you are either with mana or es, it also benefits the entire group, as where mana regen or es might not. (haste gives cast speed and movement speed), i think you should include it in your guide.

also i believe ice spear is far supperior to pulse, i was amazed when i swapped those and started playing with the shards, the dmg is lower yes, but the fact that it crits alot makes up for it, also scales well with crit dmg support gem (use crit % for another skill)
it also allows you to keep your distance and i havent died once since i started using it, oneshots any non rare while farming docks for instance, also killing mobs outside your screen. Also with pulse i had alot of problems with mobs not taking dmg correctly, not beeing able to dmg thrugh doors, mobs near walls not taking the dmg, and probably countless mobs not taking dmg from all mult projectiles, taking dmg from maybe only 1 or 2. I personally was convinced pulse was better and used it up to lvl 70, but its not.

another good combo i think is arc with the totem, adding item quantity or quality if you have, and probably the best skill for soloing endgame maps with this build would be conversion trap, it mind controlls ANYTHING cept the bosses (the orange coloured ones), and in those maps every boss room contains about 8 rares...its just a blast seeing them kill eachother, plus it provides with tanking mobs, also giving you auras they might have and what not.
I know this is a starters/basic guide, but these skills can be usefull in the same way at lower levels to, plus personally i feel like a beginner even in endgame and got tons of questions unanswered.

oh and as a con to CI, when i 1st started playing i was sure i would use it, i picked it up and noticed that the passive should say something more like this, "chaos dmg now does dmg to es" or smthin, having ci doesnt rly make you imune to the dmg, it makes the dmg no longer chaos, but normal, so you can still die from mobs that use chaos dmg, i think it should only be picked up if the gear you have happens to not have much hp.

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Denzik wrote:

I'm kind of curious too what some people are using for their support gems. I'm using a combo of the following main skills. Freezing Pulse, Ice Spear, and Cold Snap for damage. I also use Frostbite for cursing regularly.

Now that i'm just getting into the "Support Gem" area at mid level 30's I'm wondering what others are using?

So far I've got "Lesser Multiple Projectiles" (LMP) on Freezing Pulse. I've got an "Increased Critical Damage" (ICD) on Ice Spear, and nothing on Cold Snap yet.

Currently I'm faced with the choice of taking "Cold Penetration" or another "Increased Critical Damage" gem.

I feel like the fact that I need to Crit to get benefit out of the ICD gem I might be better off going with "Cold Penetration". However, keeping Cold Penetration and LMP on Freezing Pulse will quickly cause it to be a Mana Sink (At least at my current level).

On the flip side of that I'm thinking that ICD will work with any spells, and potentially give me more bang for the buck out of the crits to come later as i get more passives into Crits and Crit Damage. Fireball as a backup skill could Benefit from being linked to it.

Also, can you stack multiple ICD gems onto a single skill if you have double links going to the single skill gem? For Example: Can I link two ICD to a Freezing Pulse or an Ice Spear and get a stacking effect out of both being linked?

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TJDowning wrote:

Cold snap I don't use, see no point in using it IMO.

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shibloble wrote:

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TJDowning wrote:

Cold snap I don't use, see no point in using it IMO.

Crits quite often, it's used mostly as a "nuke" when you are running, mostly for when the enemy has ES and you don't want it to regen.

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TJDowning wrote:

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shibloble wrote:

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TJDowning wrote:

Cold snap I don't use, see no point in using it IMO.

Crits quite often, it's used mostly as a "nuke" when you are running, mostly for when the enemy has ES and you don't want it to regen.

Yeah I usually have Ice spear on totem so don't have to worry about ES regen, I can see how it could have some small use before 31 though.