[2.0] SuperNova - whole screen 137K DPS Ice Nova | Atziri ez GGG featured

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RunMyWay wrote:

how well will this build do in a 78 map rotation with packsize if you lightning warp into a shrine and there are elemental reflect? any chance you will one shot yourself on the reflect?

You better pop lightning flask. Thats only way ive died. sneaky nemesis reflect pack in a strong box or something. I lightning warp away to apply curse and boom head shot.


ice nova cant kill u you have double instant leech with LL gems and warlords mark. Lightning warp is issue. Watch my relfect map vid i pop lightning flask every pack

If you slot LL in chest instead of inc AOE you are immune to lightning warp reflect too. I just dont do it because lighting flask is easy enough for uncommon reflect.

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Asag wrote:

How you deal with hard hitting bosses like map Kole etc? I enjoy this build but I have really hard time with hard hitters.

Pop a granite face tank with your single target gem and LL.



At my DPS i just use ice nova though.

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Aim_Deep wrote:

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Nayton wrote:

So far so good! Level 82 and I only die to pumped up roarers or Devourers one shotting me.

I've followed your tree ofcause, and I now stand between taking the Mental Rapidity, Inner Force or Celestial Judgement, all of them are 3 points away. What would you suggest taking next?

All are deeps u saved best for last. nice:) celestial triangle prolly most deeps. And no way you should be one shot esp by those with over 4K life & AA. Sure not 2-3 shot and calling it one shot? I cant die in map so this is foreign to me.

and i play with crappy ping too only reason i died in HC with this.

Okay maybe not 1 shot then, but got hit 3+ times, so fast that I couldn't even react :)
Playing with shitty ms myself atm. Thanks for the answer :)

I will try this build with triple curse since i don't play alone, always in party.

What do you think about 6l with green socket for poacher or temp chain? Stick with blue for ele weak or vulne?

I don't know how good could be poacher for party but temp chains (effects expire 40% slower) is so good.

Its up to you what curses you use.

I use assassins to generate power charge and more DPS
I use warlord to do all maps even no regen and also have 3-4 endurance up for defenses.

I like inc aoe on lightning warp to curse almost everyone.

I tried triple curse with frost bite and low AOE made it hard to maintain 100% uptime on power charge for me.

You dont want ele weakness IMO. Atziri reflect curse and will one shot u. Frost bite better because she doesnt do cold damage.

Omg, used vaal on tabula and got +1 Gems mod. Now I dont know what to use Carcass or Tabula +1. Any sugestion?

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Asag wrote:

Omg, used vaal on tabula and got +1 Gems mod. Now I dont know what to use Carcass or Tabula +1. Any sugestion?

Carcass hands down, the chest piece is only for cursing so +1 doesn't really do anything, and 6L is just a luxury for +AoE


P.S it looks like Ice nova is getting a huge buff in 2.0, 6% base crit, slightly reduced cast time, and almost 50% more damage!!
The only downside is quality (AoE) is halved.

With 2.0, what is going to be the aura and gem setup?
As it stands, without reduced mana, we gain back 2 gem slots, but also it makes it impossible to run 2 heralds + clarity + extra aura.
So what do we do?

Also, what do we put in the cwdt setup instead of EC? Molten shell?

Finally, in a new league, what is the best way to play the character until we get a PoH? without it, mana is quite an issue I find. Spec some mana nodes? Go light on links for the nova? Run only one herald?

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Zepepsico wrote:

With 2.0, what is going to be the aura and gem setup?
As it stands, without reduced mana, we gain back 2 gem slots, but also it makes it impossible to run 2 heralds + clarity + extra aura.
So what do we do?

Also, what do we put in the cwdt setup instead of EC? Molten shell?

Finally, in a new league, what is the best way to play the character until we get a PoH? without it, mana is quite an issue I find. Spec some mana nodes? Go light on links for the nova? Run only one herald?

I would add a second empower to the second herald and probably some vaal skill to the ice herald setup
And use abyssal cry instead of enduring cry to get the extra damage + mana regen since we're up in enemies faces all the time anyway.

As far as auras, I'd just drop the purity, leech is enough for (pack) reflect to not be an issue anyway and resists are really easy to cap with all the rares.

For mana, I think this build is better off using a cloak of defiance on 2.0 for mana and damage mitigation since high level AA seems to be dead, use a tabula with reduced mana for leveling.
There's also 5 reduced mana nodes along the tree so I wouldn't worry about that too much.

After finding a PoH and because I really like ice nova I went and gave your build a try.

Currently I'm lvl 85 and up until now the build has been really awesome! Leveling was fun, the clear speed is pretty nice and lightning warp as only means of movement isn't as bad as I thought it would be once you get used to it.

I said up until now because I feel like I'm facing a wall: My damage isn't really improving anymore and I'm dying more often than I'd like to admit. (Currently running lvl 74-75 maps btw.)

Things I'm having problems with: hard hitting bosses (when they aren't frozen at least) (the kole and kraityn map bosses for example), leaping/flickering groups, devourer, ele reflect and a few other things. I try to cover most of those problems with my flasks (see below), but e.g. a rare flicker strike mob with powerful crits or the 'monsters deal x% extra damage' map mod often insta-kills me before I can even react. I realize that the last example isn't solely a problem with this build, but overall I'm still feeling kinda squishy.

My stats are the following:



(and ~26k with 7 power charges)

I know the amount of life I'm running around with is pretty low, but I'm not sure getting to 4K life is going to fix all of my problems.

I'd really appreciate it if someone could take a look over my tree/gear and give me some suggestions for improvement. Thanks!



(I'd like to respec the 2 Inner Force nodes next level and instead go for Celestial Punishment)



I couldn't get my hands on Windscream Boots with +1 all gems (I tried to vaal a few myself before giving up) so I went with the vertex instead (I know I'm sacrificing a lot of potential +HP here, but I thought the +2 for AA and a bit of chaos res were worth it).