[2.0] The Party Crasher - Ice Crashing maps on a 10 Chaos budget (Hardcore viable)

FINALLY!

We got our intro video uploaded. It's a quick peek at the build, as well as bonus footage clearing Daresso's arena.

There's a Promenade with Exiles and Frenzy charges uploading now; I expect we'll have that for you in the next 24 hours.

(by the way, if anyone knows the code to make the description point to the clickable link, i'd love to hear it; looks so much more brofessional in the descriptions.)

More mapping fun!

https://youtu.be/ZeSCAJTQIEc - 71 promenade with rogues and frenzy charges

73 Arachnid map uploading now. Fun!

https://youtu.be/PEVOWGrFsSE level 73 Arachnid map up!

I'm pretty new at this game so i'm sorry if my question is "like a noob" ^^

I saw your passive skills tree step by step
And between 28 and 52pts there is some skill which disappear
The same for the next step
You didn't say why ? Maybe the refund points ? In case i'm not sure and not very confident with the refund point, I guess if I remove those skills I will lose the keystone until I get enough points to go through the other way

Moreover, you put 2 passive skills (in the 28 tree) in Destroyer and Two handed melee damage.
Don't you think it's two point lost if you play with one hand melee and shield (as you do i guess regarding your gear)
Or maybe the goal is to play with 2H when you have the good weapon ?


I'm rather critical, but it's not negative :P It's just to help you and your guide to be understood by everyone :)
And a cheap build is the goal of most newbie (like me) so we need to understand exactly what you do step by step :P

Thanks for help and your guide
See ya :)

what would you recommend for an endgame weapon / shield ?

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Crazycuban wrote:

what would you recommend for an endgame weapon / shield ?

The best part about Ice Crash is you can use it with any 1H'er. Frankly, getting anything above 300 pDPS will work out great. Look for good phys rolls, and high attack speed. Since we're using Resolute, you won't need crit; this is great because it'll help keep costs down.

For perspective, you can use a 260 pDPS weapon that'll cost you about 3 chaos. A 300 pDPS wep is closer to an exalt, though you will see a clear speed increase of about 20%.

As for shields, more armour is wonderful. For me, I absolutely needed a ton of resists; I've switched up my gear (and I'll update the OP with my new changes shortly), and I'm running 4 unique pieces. I need solid resists on the rest of the gear with only shield, rings x 2, belt and hat as sources of resists (though, I totally cheated and put 20 cold res on my weapon, because I lacked anything better to put there.)

TL;DR

pDPS is king for weps, followed by attack speed.

Armour, life, and resists (sometimes heavy resists) are what you're looking for in a shield. If you can get high block chance, that's a hell of a bonus.

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Saoo21 wrote:

I'm pretty new at this game so i'm sorry if my question is "like a noob" ^^

I saw your passive skills tree step by step
And between 28 and 52pts there is some skill which disappear
The same for the next step
You didn't say why ? Maybe the refund points ? In case i'm not sure and not very confident with the refund point, I guess if I remove those skills I will lose the keystone until I get enough points to go through the other way

Moreover, you put 2 passive skills (in the 28 tree) in Destroyer and Two handed melee damage.
Don't you think it's two point lost if you play with one hand melee and shield (as you do i guess regarding your gear)
Or maybe the goal is to play with 2H when you have the good weapon ?


I'm rather critical, but it's not negative :P It's just to help you and your guide to be understood by everyone :)
And a cheap build is the goal of most newbie (like me) so we need to understand exactly what you do step by step :P

Thanks for help and your guide
See ya :)

Great questions! You're absolutely right on both counts; we are using either regret orbs OR passive respec points from quests to "redo" parts of the tree between level 28 and 52. You're also right that there's a few 2H nodes in the leveling trees. Both are for leveling optimization; I find it's easier to level up with a 2H for extra damage, and you won't need the defense from an equipped shield until Merciless. Once you're using a shield, absolutely drop those 2H points.

There's around 16ish free respec points from quests available as you level through Merciless act 4 (might be more, I didn't count), so feel free to experiment a bit, as you'll have some flexibility to test and optimize!

Updates 7/28/15:

*updated gem section

*updated gear section with a bit more theory, and current gear

*updated Blood Magic skill tree for level 83

Hope you're all having as much fun as I am!

8/2 - Updated gear and stat shot pictures. We've cracked 16k with full charges running, and haven't sacrificed tanky-ness to do so!

Posted updated stat pic for defenses. Note, this is with zero END charges, as we don't count on having END charges for defense.