[2.0] ✮ MrKasor's Tri-Curse Icestorm High Maiden ✮ [HC] Affordable CI Safe High Damage 7-Jewels

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mezmery wrote:

how doest curse on hit works with heralds?
which one should i socket for 5l - HOT or HOI?

Both and take a curse out. Probably the Power Charge one.
Ice Generates Charges on Kill.
Lightning Will Put Curses on Lightning Strike and when dead will generate Charges.

i'm in the same boat.. got everything, but on chest i have 5L / 6socket.. what should i put in the 6th socket?

Hey i really think this is an amazing build as i finally got my 6 socket staff. But i'm having tons of mana issues. Using herald of Ice/AA/Disc i have 877 reserved mana and only 205 unreserved. It also takes 132 mana to cast and i only have 44 mana regen a second. So i feel like i'm lacking unreserved mana space to be able to cast more than once a second. How do you deal with the small unreserved mana pool?

Edit: Also why do you use saboteur in your skill tree that you have linked? When i look at your build you dont even use traps/mines as of current.

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Shadowdragon6680 wrote:

i'm in the same boat.. got everything, but on chest i have 5L / 6socket.. what should i put in the 6th socket?

i put hoi, seems okay.

Hi,

First of all i would like to thank you for this fun build. i'm 70 atm and enjoying it a lot.

I've seen before that you mentioned that you shatter almost everything with the ice storm. Do you use only Frostbite for freeze chance on jewels aswell?

Also where do you get such high intelligence? I have all high or perfect int roll's on uniques + astramentis at the moment, medium int on rare chest, gloves and boots and i'm standing at 922 int. Do you have 20-25 int on all your jewel slots?

I'm not comfortable with mana too, i use mana leech on ice storm just to be able to spam that thing.

I feel like there's too much things wwe need in few spots we can put them. Resists, ES, high int, mana recharge, freeze chance. Finding right gear is a cumbersome task.

so you can have hoi and the 3 curses w/ coh, then hot in 6th slot, and generate everything okay? don't wanna chrom unless confirmed. xD

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Shadowdragon6680 wrote:

so you can have hoi and the 3 curses w/ coh, then hot in 6th slot, and generate everything okay? don't wanna chrom unless confirmed. xD

both HoI and HoT linked with CoH and curses, generates charges at shatter explosion and at thunder release from shocked enemy. In 5 link with a setup you described, you'll have only HoI generating charges at ice explosions, so you might say it will be only half of the effect you might otherwise have with both heralds applying curses, but it will work.

What would you do for 4L setup? I'm can't buy a 5L yet... :(

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TheBanishedOn3 wrote:

What would you do for 4L setup? I'm can't buy a 5L yet... :(

What one? The Staff doesn't need links just sockets.
the Chest Probably HoI + Curse on Hit + Warlords + Poachers

ok, here we go. i like frost sorc gameplay, and i was happy to see this new staff released, as in d3 there no viable frost builds atm.


1) while having pretty moderate damage(comparing to inci and srs, as my fav spells) and high gear requierments this build, as every CI build nowadays makes you heartattack every exile, leaping increased damage or just white devourer you meet. im not running AA atm, but i dont think i will feel much better when hits for 50% of my 8k shield will hit me for 45%.
2) without astramentis you cant hit any gem reqs(you need to take 2 dex and 2 str 30sh nodes, or not to convert rangers zone to int, which is counteproductive), so it is mandatory, as you cant stack stats on your items, because you need high int.
3) recommended scorn and gentle touch sink your ES in unacceptable manner.
4) resists are painful to get, the only way to fix- 1-2 ex triple pieces, or taking templar tree(you need to take it anyway if you want to run aa). godly 3 ex gems are fun, but they are not even sold.
5) curse setups override each other in heartattack manner(you dont want that elite dovurer to lose temp-enf-bite, cause you killed some little spider next to it)
6) mana issue, you cant sustain yourself untill early 80th. pure leveling is impossible. geofri firestorm only way.
7) colouring es pieces in ggrb manner is fun
8) almost impossible to farm tempests in correct way.
9) makes you play in extremly conservative style, unless you want scrubcore ticket.

TL;DR
not for novices, first char in league, for someone who got used to agressive play and is really fun to play in group as semi-support(kappa, no one needs nonmf support). prepare you exalts, but keep in mind that currency wise this is quite ineffective build with no power spikes upon investmens(unlike crit builds)