(1.3) Budget Life Freezing Pulse Witch (HC)

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Criticism_ wrote:

Your build seems pretty solid in terms of going life Crit, but as you have noted in doing this you'll need to take measures against reflect, in your idea the use of a pyre + potentially additional spell block to cope. Remember in doing this though you lose the ability to chill all your enemies which is pretty significant in terms of defenses as you lower their movement/cast/attack speed by 30%, also freeze is great for survivability, I have no doubt you'll be doing nice damage with burn though instead. I don't believe my 70 build will struggle with reflect at all because as you have said, it isn't crit focused. I am going to have a look at running a purity of ice though as an option to help that.

Thanks for the feedback on the 10/20/10 mana nodes, I dropped them for the superior Deep Thoughts and saved 1 point. Also put me in a superior position to grab the shield block or power charge later on :)

Do note I intend on going crit once I have the currency to buy the gear and I am a higher level. My reason behind this build was to create something that required as little currency investment as possible whilst still being very effective up until early endgame, ie. just what I want from a new league.

In terms of IR and MoM I just feel they use too many points now and are just too far off the path to achieve what im trying to achieve here. If I were to go down that road I'd lose a lot of dps and life only using the same amount of points and once im into 85ish where I could grab it, I have other plans anyway as I'll be looking to switch the whole build up around there. Also my thoughts on evasion > armour is that after using Mathil's ST build it does seem to scale quite well on a ranged (even tho FP is only semi-ranged) when you don't invest any points into it and run grace. If I were to go IR id end up with what? about 4-5k armour? I just don't feel that's enough. I would rather use evasion and evade 50%~ of attacks as it also benefits your MoM mana pool.

Here as an example I roughly reconstructed your tree if you were to be using the CoD

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http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMA37DfioIQB6UC40myLJwFQkGWrrPQ9UyzLR9QMAQHlSDbXuvkg9trF8HzXypVxrzqgh6iozpYwFTbC3_GD8RqQwj0HNwnqX5ZEZY7fJMnDkgHHrjK74i0DOOEY0Nd8pUu-TfqukZxNj1w1ULD8NXXzw18gwmdqonT34SP-klRSbFXyW-eYqxsjHBSAv7r9Sj6nKTxsyoLjDZknevugseHE0tXVUvyHZrg-egMfXcHwONh4kWdQYcQfyaVU1K3PsaeFr_-CgMe8kXYvR9BOuGmV03j_o_z6g==

So, what do you gain by doing this...well for starters you gain significant boosts to your mana pool through more ES, higher base mana + 120-130% mana regen (great for AA and MoM). You also gain 23% additional life, 1.8% life regen and the Inner Force cluster for a stronger AA. Lastly you gain the additional 10% of damage converted to mana through the CoD. Now, what do you lose? 50% evasion rating, stronger flasks and the base life + resists using a normal chest would grant you. Personally, I don't think that's a gain. Hence Cloak of Defiance is what I'm going with, its just more efficient in my opinion even though I have to sacrifice the life roll on it, but at the end of the day, each to their own

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Criticism_ wrote:

Yep your right, if I was to continue with the same sort of idea for the build id invest more into block as it works out better than investing more into evasion. Id probably go something similar to this for +10% block chance and +10% spell block whilst also using rathpith. So you'd end up with 40% block and 30%+ spell block.

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http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMA37DfioIQB6UC40myLJwQWK-blQQyNB8CNsUEB9gk6-SD20yzpwhfKlXGLR-4k9rdOliVIOvuaxfB85rgKPq86oIeoqNFnYLHwFQUsNsLf8ZTUvnoakMI9EwtJ6l-WRGWQYcXVA5IBx63Po4844Rd8pUu_gpWSjY9QsPw1fJF2L2eoZ2q34RJUTrhNZIigWKsbIwC_qZX_o-MNk3jc7NVS_BrYeIV5yaVl5cWv0V8Ax4fQSsNQkuFxd--tMUegUuN_xwMfRB_xp6drhpsFm8kqjbp42o=

For aura's im going to go just Grace and Clarity (possibly with HoI) for the non crit build so as I have a large effective MoM mana pool.

I most likely wont go crit as life as I feel running the extra 40% aura for PoI so you don't one shot yourself, ontop of grace and clarity doesn't leave you with enough mana to make CoD's MoM effective. If you were to drop grace all together it could work but you'd lose a large chunk of defence.

For end-endgame I'd most probably go Crit/CI with AA, discipline instead of grace and PoI with a tree somewhat like this

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http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMA37DfioIQ6QIHpUuuAuMbJUmy2VssnG0ZBUIRUEGWNbmus9D1pysdT0yzLR9QMAQHlSDbXuvkHwLB818qNsWio4t6f8YPxAFvHNwnqRGWO3zi95MnDkgHHrjKhEjviLQMY0Nd8pUuXGv5N7Jw6rpGcfLhtvdw1ULD8NXDbdfPYpUNfIMJRwYrConT34SP-klRSbEqU1fJb57b5xEvcFIC_uv1KPqcpF9qKguMNmSdgseHE_PqB2PyHfnoDH13B8u9EH_mgcaeFr8DHh9BK3gfxy2LwcUsv4auFddWYw==