[2.0] Ice Ninja - Cast on Crit dual dagger (added FP variant and new video)

- a high crit / high attack speed dagger. This is your main weapon
- Rat’s Nest
- Ungil’s Gauche as your offhand weapon
- at least one jewel with the mod “+2 mana gained for each enemy hit by your attacks” (2 are better)
- one of those three items : Doedre’s Damning, Windscream or a corrupted amulet with “enemies can have one additional curse”
- a 6L body armor, in preference Lightning Coil for endgame (5L should be OK but your clear speed will be decreased a lot)

With this build, you can reach 90+% crit chance without any power charges.
The skilltree will give you 650% crit chance, Ungil’s Gauche an additional 90%, Rat’s Nest at least 70%, a quality CoC gem another 20% and your Ice Golem 30%. Your amulet and your rings will provide you the missing crit chance you need to attain 90+% chance to crit. (You can use Maligaro’s Virtuosity but it would become problematic to maximise your resistances.)

Our main attack is :


Double Strike (lvl5 max) + Multistrike + CoC + Arctic Breath + Ice Nova + Ice Penetration

Double Strike + Multistrike combo will deliver 6 hits per attack, casting up to 12 spells per attack (in practice, with a level 20 CoC gem it will be rather 6 spells per attack in average).
When dual wielding, Double Strike have also the particularity to use only your main weapon. So we can ignore the shitty base stats of Ungil’s Gauche.
We use Arctic Breath as a massive DPS dealer and Ice Nova as a crowd control skill.





Our Secondary attack :


Whirling Blades + Curse on Hit + Enfeeble + Temporal Chains

It’s your mobility and protection skill.
Enfeeble and Temporal Chains are the more useful curse for the highly evasive Ice Ninja. They allow you to face tank hard-hitting bosses and dive into the pack mobs.
Enfeeble will greatly reduce damage dealt by cursed ennemies (and greatly reduce the chance to hit of your opponents), while Temporal Chains has wonderful effects on chilled/frozen enemies (additional slowness and increase duration of the chill/freeze effects).

Our main buff :


Herald of Ice + Hypothermia + Frost Bite + Enhance

Hypothermia and Frost Bite applie only on HoI’s on-kill effect. It’s a quite good crowd control, which provides you with frenzy charges.
HoI’s quality is global. The combo quality HoI + enhance is a huge boost for Arctic Breath and Ice Nova.

The other gems :


Grace


CWDT + Arctic Breath + increase AOE + LMP/GMP
I let the CWDT gem at level 7 and AB at level 10, but do as you prefer.


Vaal Grace + Increase Duration
An additional layer of protection against tough enemies. Vaal Grace + acrobatics will give you 75% dodge chance and 64% spell dodge.


Summon Ice Minion + Minion Life/Minion and Totem ele Res

I use a portal gem in my last slot, but you can do as you want.

Normal : Oak / 40 life
Cruel : Kraityn / 8% ias
Merciless : Kraityn / frenzy charge or Eramir / 1 skill point

The ideal skill tree (reached at lvl90 or 91 depending your merciless bandits reward)

If you have only 1 jewel “+2 mana gained for each enemy hit by your attacks”, you can temporarily use the Spirit Void node located in the south east of the tree.

Main weapon :
Fast dagger with high crit chance.
Increase spell damage / crit multi / flat dmg (cold in preference) are good affixes.
Try to have at least 1.5+ APS and 8+ crit chance.
In standard you can find a dagger with those caracteristics and 60%+ spell dmg for 1~3ex.

Offhand :
Ungil’s Gauche
+90% global crit chance and 19% total block chance while dual wielding (25% if legacy). We don’t care about the other stats.

Body armor :
6L evasion armor (if you only have a 5L, drop the Cold Pene gem). I strongly recommend a Lightning Coil for the physical damage reduction.

Helm :
Rat’s Nest

Gloves :
Rare gloves with life / res
Another good mods are attack speed, flat dmg, evasion, accuracy and intelligence

Boots :
Windscream or a rare boots with life / res / movement speed
Another good mods are evasion and intelligence

Belt :
Cold Doryani’s Invitation or a rare belt with life / res

Amulet :
A rare amu with life / res / crit chance
Another good mods are cold dmg+%, spell dmg+%, flat dmg (cold in preference) evasion and intelligence. If the amulet is corrupted with “enemies can have one additional curse”, it’s the jackpot.

Rings :
Doedre’s Damning and/or rare diamond ring(s) with life / res
Another good mods are accuracy rating, attack speed, flat dmg (cold in preference) evasion and intelligence.

Jewels :
2 jewels with “+2 mana gained for each enemy hit by your attacks”
Another good mods are life, attack speed, cold dmg, crit chance, evasion, accuracy, resistances…

Flasks :
Flasks are very important in this build. Try to have all your flasks with the surgeon’s mod, for literally permanent flask effect. A jade flask, a flask with the staunching mod and a life flask are mandatory. A mana/hybrid flask will help you in no mana regen maps, a quartz flask of heat is the best when opening a strongbox… Chose as you wish and don’t hesitate to rotate your flasks depending of the maps.



Beware, it can be tricky to find your gears, especially in temporary league !
You have to max your resistances and aim for 90+% crit chance. You also need at least 300 accuracy on your gear (the more the better). If you want to use a Ice Nova gem at lvl20, you need 31 additional intelligence (the 30 intelligence node east to Vaal Pact can help you, at the cost of 1 skillpoint). Or you can chose to not maximise your Ice Nova.