[Beyond] K19's CI Crit Ice Spear - Perma Freeze Bosses (10k+ ES)

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Saibaschbeis wrote:

hey there,
I just saw another possibility to decrease reserved mana at lvl 90+, investing 7 passive points.
1. remove the 30 Dex node - 1 point
2. remove the 6% aura effect and 4% reduced reserved node just below the ES ring - 2 points
3. remove the cold damage and freeze duration node at Fingers of Frost ring - 2 points.
4. you need 2 more points, meaning you either need lvl 92, or you remove the 3 flask nodes (lvl 89) or instead two ES nodes (-15%, lvl 90).
5. now follow the bottom skill line at True Strike, specing into 3 Dex nodes (giving back the 30 Dex) and then 4 points to get Charisma.

This change would mean:
- you lose 15% ES at lvl 90 or the flask nodes at lvl 89. Future point go into Fingers of Frost or give back the flask nodes, so you cannot put the points into more ES.
+ you win 8% reduced Mana reserved, 12% aura radius and 10 Int

--> not ideal, but it might help running both Heralds? What do you think?

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onijacques wrote:

would swapping added lightning out for pcoc, and using frostbite/ele weakness instead of assassin's mark result in faster map clearing speed?

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k19 wrote:

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onijacques wrote:

would swapping added lightning out for pcoc, and using frostbite/ele weakness instead of assassin's mark result in faster map clearing speed?

Well, I need added lightning for Mana leech with Berek's grip. but swapping Pcoc for ele prolif/FC and using ele weak wouldn't make a difference to clear speed (quite possibly slower)

Most monsters have little to no resist, so 30-40 % resistance reduction is 30-40% more damage, and Assassins mark gives 40% more damage on crit/increased crit chance - and negates the need for Pcoc.

and if charges from assasins mark are about to drop, I throw out 1 Pcoc ice spear (side link) to maintain. Bosses usually die in 2-3 seconds so worries about power charges dropping isn't really an issue.

note: my Pcoc side link with ice spear has around 12k LMP dps - so its not really a big damage loss.

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onijacques wrote:

i know there's a drop in tool tip dps, since im asking to swap out a gem with dmg for another w/o, but i saw your full clear videos(they were awesome) and the charges uptime wasnt very frequent, at least to me, and from passives its 4% increased spell dmg per charge, so maybe with pcoc the frequent 20%++ spell damage would be preferable?

so factoring out the berek's grip u got recently, im really wondering if actual clear speed might be significantly faster in this case, or am i just making u repeat urself again lol

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Tyhmyys wrote:

Hi, just wanted to add my 2 cents to the discussion. I am a soft core scrub who loves item rarity/quantity. I also love running stupid maps with -player res, immune curses and stuff. So, I tweeked the build for iir/iiq and very lazy gameplay. Since cursing is to annoying, I have powercharge on crit in my main attack. I use cold penetration, cos it is a necessity against resist mobs for me. On bosses, I switch gmp to lmp. Thats enough to freeze bosses, even on no curse maps.

gear

and

on switch

Was thinking about running this build for next league, so made it on a budged. the 6l cost me only 7 exa, and the rest of the gear another 4-5 ex and another 4 exa for the flasks.

flask

It is very easy to use divination flask on this build. For me, having above 300 mana is the sweet spot to make using mana flasks efficent. For that I invested 2 points into soul siphon. That way I can run both heralds + discipline and have no issue with mana, since I don't use faster casting.

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Rusherboy wrote:

I use

instead of

More damage and ES.