[2.0] ✮ MrKasor's Icestorm Trap Goddess ✮ [HC]

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MrKasor wrote:

True. The increased duration from the tree is screwing with it as Sunblast is reduced not less. Fixed by removing the Gem and the Cluster from all trees. New tiers of Staff are GGGBBR, GGGGBR, and GGGGGB. Originally I didn't have increased duration it was suggested somewhere and I needed a red and had a cluster nearby so it never affected me. Should be All Good now. Now you have more ES for Survivability so it works out in the end.

How's bosses now? I've made a few changes to try to smooth out the Leveling Process since I built this in beta. I never did get to put her against the Act 4 Last Bosses. I figured her damage could beat Atziri it could beat anyone. The Cold Res Shred made bosses easy as that is their main line of defense and even Atziri had negative when I was done with her. -90% from Curses which is reduced to 70% effectiveness for bosses and -47% From Gem and Trap Notable which isn't affected. Keep in mind this is wiki 70% reduced for act bosses as it mentions in the patch notes that some bosses had their curse resistance increased it might be wrong.

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raclife wrote:

The reason is icestorms mechanic, it gets +duration for int aswell, (base duration is around 0.7 sec so its usefull) whereas this duration gets added to the trap gem aswell.

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reitaaaxD wrote:

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raclife wrote:

The reason is icestorms mechanic, it gets +duration for int aswell, (base duration is around 0.7 sec so its usefull) whereas this duration gets added to the trap gem aswell.

Hmmm.. I wonder if the duration scaling applying to the Trap gem is intentional :/

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raclife wrote:

The reason is icestorms mechanic, it gets +duration for int aswell, (base duration is around 0.7 sec so its usefull) whereas this duration gets added to the trap gem aswell.

Back to topic, lvld my scion the last two days in this manner, gotta say the leveling was mediocre. I switched to icestorm/trap at around 300 int with lvl 40 i think, it was playable. Am 65 right now, already switched to CI. The build itself is fun and easy to gear with the exception of the few uniques, but they are afordable. I dont know how you thought it would work with bosses, but most of them only get hit by one trap, so you dont really "shotgun" them with all 3 at the same time. I am going to continue this build until around 90 i guess, gonna try stuff out because i dont really see a reason for cold snap since its damage is rather low compared to icestorm, its only use is the "easier" access to cold pen, but i prefer shocknova trap for the extra shock dmg which helps with bosses and high resist/curse immunity. Oh yeah i only got a 5s Whispering Ice GGRRB, dont have any jewels/chromes right now so just used as is.

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raclife wrote:

Yeah well, I was actually running cold snap the whole time, was wondering if its just me but it seemed the freeze duration was hella short. Now i tried several different spells, like shocknova/lightning trap with innervate, and just now noticed that shock debuff was reworked and is barely useble with a non-lightning build therefore no reason to pick anything else. Still feeling squishy against fast enemies and getting annoyed by curse immunity, but i guess this will change once i get the cold pen into the staff.
ps: sry for language mistakes

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IceIight wrote:

Is the only reason to go traps over crit due to reflect?