(1.3) Budget Life Freezing Pulse Witch (HC)

Jesus, some are lucky :D

But yeah, you seem to be pushing it with the life and defences tho. Dunno if I could drop my shield slot, that takes some balls especially in beyond. Whats ya damage at? Your deeps must be pretty sick though seems more of a thing I'd do on standard though.

You do have access to close life though so that problem can be fixed shortly. Whats your mana pool like? Musn't be too high without the 200 or so ES you'd get from a shield slot with a pure ES shield like rathpith etc. How much unreserved do you have and generally how do you find it plays atm in all aspects.

I'm still plodding along here atm, reached maps last night but unfortunately for me I only get 2 hours or so a night to play and I'm doing a character with the missus :P

Great stuff, keep it up :)

2637 total mana
3975 dps no auras

Grace, herald , and clarity 684 mana left

291 mana regen

4876 dps on fp

I use FP>echo>fastercasting>gmp>pcoc

I just hit 60. Will be finishing up merciless story soon. Need to get the library reward.

My tree


My gear


I am also doing crit. It is increasing my damage and defense quite nicely.

Using FP>Faster Casting>LMP>pcoc.

When I get all of my charges I have over 40% crit chance so most mobs are perma frozen. This is making up for my lack of defence. My AA is at level 13 now, will get that up when I get more mana regen going.

I plan to head down through the middle of the tree for more HP similar to this build. Will be grabbing conduit on the way though to share my power charges from pcoc and endurance charges from my CWDT.


My resistances are pretty bad atm so I need to work on my gear. I will want some leech as well but the uniques are quite expensive.

I'm 69 now, just running FP > LL > LMP > Echo my damage is pretty OP for where I'm at atm, I have GMP but just leveling it currently. Would love to grab a 5L to run cold pen as cold res mobs are about the only thing that slows me down atm. I get smacked about a bit by the beyond mobs but other than that pretty solid defence wise. Need CoD still but I should have that quite soon, almost have enough for a good rolled one which I'll then 5L. My lifes at 4.3k atm which is solid and my dps is at 3k tooltip, this is with the noncrit build I posted. Pretty happy with things atm will keep this updated.

Still jelly at banes gears, had terrible luck thus far, even really scarce on currency drops :(

Updated with my progress and changes made whilst leveling.

Hello. Just wanted to thank you for posting this build. It has helped me do great things I never thought possible for me, like reaching the 80s and such. With a pretty sub-par rig and playing in Brazil, one can imagine playing in hardcore can be very hazardous...not with this build. Strong, agile, hard as a rock, and extremely affordable. I recommend it highly. Even with just a 5-link and less-than-stellar gear (like I have), this build will sail you smoothly through any situation.

I don't know if someone has already mentioned, but I have opted to use one armour/evasion piece to make a CWDT lvl 7 - Enduring Cry lvl 9 - Immortal Call lvl 8 - Increased Duration setup. It proved to be a great defensive support setup with the already impregnable Arctic Armour, high life theme, especially in cases of constant incoming damage. Immortal Call gives you lots of time to reposition yourself where there is less pressure. Just curious if you thought about this already. It takes away some ES, and therefore mana, but at merely level 81, I am still sporting 700 mana unreserved and 373 mana regen.

Also, I found this to be really helpful for mana and mana regen neeeds:


Loving the build a lot! Let me know what you think about my setup.

I'm glad you like it mate and yes the CWDT setup you use is quite good, It's useful to have leveled up for certain heavy hitting physical dmg boss fights where you dont need the ice spear. Love my Ice spear too much to drop it permanently though as it makes hard bosses lolable as I can just kite and offscreen them (such as the academy boss). But that's your choice to run it and a good one at that.

Also that amulet is good for leveling/early endgame but once you have good enough gear to support not using it you should definitely drop it for an amulet like my one.

At the moment I'm trying to 6L another CoD and my gems are on their way to level 20.

Currently level 89 sitting at 5.4k HP with 1100 unreserved mana (bout 350 mana regen) and around 6k tooltip dps (around 25k with LMP and cold pen factored in) and the only dps increase I can really get is the 6L which I'll chuck a 20/20 added cold in for the nice freeze chance and big damage boost. I've only found myself getting more tanky as I level due to picking up more block nodes and I cant wait for my empower to level so I can further buff my AA.

Running up to 77 maps atm, havent had a 78 drop but even if i do I'll probs save them for 90+ as I still get good xp from 75-77s. In terms of bosses though I kill ones deemed difficult on quite a regular basis (academy, crematorium, necropolis etc) its only the stupid ones like shock and horror I havent even attempted cause a) I've never done them and b) risk isnt worth the reward.

Got my 6L, build is pretty much done, only thing left to do is buy a belt with same stats + strength so I can drop the keystone and upgrade certain gems to 20 quality... DPS is insane now

Hey there!

Look like a great build. I would like to try it out in the new Torment league, anything I should be aware of or any adjustments for 1.3 suggested?

Thanks,
HarakDem

Updated for 1.3...been away from the game for a bit. Build lost 20% block/spell block but gained a fair chunk of dps and about 1k HP which pretty much balances it out. Had a bit of a play and with the 10% extra freeze chance gained it's reallllly noticeable. Freezelocks everything, even had merci dominus just standing there all frozen n shit :)

Now with the tree changes and the witch mana regen starting point not being 100% necessary, you'd actually get a dps boost (very slightly) by rolling this a shadow. So really the choice is yours, works out the same either way.