[2.2] Dreamscythe's Dance of Death - (cwdt Scold's) - [Video]




Have you ever had difficulty choosing what spell to use on your caster?

Well why not cast them all.



Synopsis:
-cast spell using Scold's bridle and CWDT
-HIGH ES regen
-High damage
-fun to play




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How it works:

In a nutshell, we use our own life-pool to cast all our spells while cycloning. AKA the Dance of Death


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1) Fevered mind makes cyclone cost a lot of mana (204)


2) Scold's makes us take 400% mana cost as damage


3) soul taker allows us to have a high mana cost and not need mana


4) CWDT casts all our spells whenever we take 3272 damage


5) Life regen and Life leech sustain our lifepool





Math
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WE have zero armor.
we have 3 x Fragile bloom (30% increased damage taken) - this was updated [2.2] - down from 6 FB
The berzerker scion node is another 5% damage taken
Scold's deal's 400% mana cost as physical
Cyclone costs 203 mana - updated 2.2



(204 x 4) x (1.35) = 1096 damage per cast of cyclone

Every third time cyclone is cast, all our spells proc (this occurs multiple times per second)






Skill Tree 2.2 updated - Ascendant class - Berzerker and Occultist


My Gear: (2.2 update)

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Links:
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5L - fire ball - ball lightning - arctic breath - cwdt - GMP Discipline aura

4L scolds: cyclone - fire penetration - life gain on hit - inc AoE (gems used only for mana multiplier)

4L voidbringer (corrupt with assassins mark) - cwdt - EK - glacial cascade - crit multiplier

4L boots - ele weakness - blasphemy - Leap slam - faster attacks

3L - cwdt - magma orb - arc

3L - firestorm - shock nova -cwdt

Belt corrupted with vitality aura





Stats
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Current update (April 17, 2016)
15k es
3250 regen

1.35 multiplier on damage taken (down from 1.65) - as a result of removing fragile bloom's





Old stats:
12,500 ES
3200 regen (using 1.5% regen enchant on boots, which is activated by scolds)





Build Updates
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I will update this section with changes I have made over time

Build was updated on April 17, 2016 - removed a fragile bloom and a fevered mind. Rearranged the skill tree, and gained substantial ES. - Now at 15k es, 3250 regen





Build was updated for 2.2 - gained a lot more energy shield, removed warlords curse and both heralds. Now running ele weakness curse aura, discipline, and vitality. Gained elemental equilibrium node. Damage and sustainability have increased substantially.



Build was updated for 2.1 - Cyclone is used in a 4L instead of a 3L to adjust to the decreased mana cost





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October 14, 2015

changed gems around
- got rid of ball lightning and replaced with arctic breath










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October 1, 2015
Just Obtained

This allows me to free up a socket for another spell instead of a lvl 20 curse.


The Vitality on the belt will be very important - I plan to run 2 heralds once I get enough resist without purity.



October 3, 2015 obtained new armor and I now run 2 heralds.
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My gem links are now as follows:


CWDT - Fireball - Ice spear - GMP - and the free assassin mark


Herald of ice - Herald of thunder - Discipline - enlighten (lvl 3)


Life leech - warlords mark - CWDT - Arc


CWDT - Firestorm - Shock Nova


5L CWDT - EK - Ball lightning - Glacial cascade - Crit multi
Leap slam in open socket


This setup is only used once you have assassins mark gloves, vitality aura on belt, and have enough resist to run the 2 heralds.

Old vidoes

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Using Purity of Elements
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Please note that I am not using the best spells (some are low level)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ1IDZ91r0E&feature=youtu.be


wanted to test out lightning warp - so much fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F52gtMFpei4&feature=youtu.be


77 Plateau map
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LeA-E2FWbg&feature=youtu.be







view some of other builds:
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https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1602863

Older builds:
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1.3 soul harvest (crit firestorm + the harvest unique)
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1225136

1.3 max range crit cyclone (hits most of the screen)
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1271098/my-posts/1

2.0 chaos damage EK
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1406909




Leave your questions and comments below.
Main characters: Deep_water - AnomaIy - Artica
Build guides: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1602863
Last edited by DreamScythe#1384 on May 20, 2016, 2:17:31 AM
Last bumped on Apr 19, 2016, 3:28:12 PM
The main problem I can see is that LGoH isn't converted to ES on hit. EK and the curse are also wasted in the Voidbringer's +1 ele gems. Warlord's Mark for the purpose of life leech works fine in a standalone cwdt level 1 (instead of the level 20 cwdt you have on boots), and what I've seen other people do is cwdt + level 1 arc + curse on hit + assassin's mark with a Scold's (of course yours can be a higher level cwdt since you're taking so much increased damage).
lgoh is used solely for the 150% mana multiplier. I had to try out many different combinations, and this was the only way to achieve the optimum mana cost.

The +1 ele skills in voidbringer actually has no use at all for the build, since the damage taken is very specifically calculated for a level 20 cwdt.

you're right about the warlords mark, I plan to use a level 20 one for greater area of effect. The more sockets I have for damage skills, the better.


Main characters: Deep_water - AnomaIy - Artica
Build guides: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1602863
I have updated the build - Found out you can not use multiples of one spell on different cwdt setups as they share a cd ( I had planend to run 7 separate arcs each with their own cwdt).

New test video is up
Main characters: Deep_water - AnomaIy - Artica
Build guides: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1602863
added 77 map run
Main characters: Deep_water - AnomaIy - Artica
Build guides: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1602863
You can just equip romira's banquet and self-cast incinerate for awesome power charge generation and mana cost, incinerate does not crit so you will not waste any power charges.
I have not tested it myself so don't know if it's really good, but those explosions and troll coc incinerate are real.
EDIT: Though remeber the cooldwon, you will be able to cast only 5 discharges per second.
Last edited by Abhinandan_Mahant#1480 on Oct 9, 2015, 7:54:19 AM
while romiras might be good for gaining power charges, we already successfully gain pcharges through assassins mark which is regularly cast.


Incinerate will not work with this build because cwdt requires that you take 3273 dmg to trigger your spells.

In order to run incinerate you would need a ridiculous amount of mana regen and would lose at least 1 herald to have mana available for casting.

But dont let me deter you from trying out various combinations with scolds. It took a lot of testing to get this build to where it is now.


this is my latest video which showcases the build
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbzNQPram30&feature=youtu.be
Main characters: Deep_water - AnomaIy - Artica
Build guides: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1602863
Last edited by DreamScythe#1384 on Oct 9, 2015, 10:28:55 PM
Changed a few gems around, added 77 plateau

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1qnWjtyMHY&feature=youtu.be
Main characters: Deep_water - AnomaIy - Artica
Build guides: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1602863
If your CI LGOH have no effect on your ES at all.

LGoh is for only life
Last edited by bobozo2007#4374 on Oct 30, 2015, 12:34:09 AM
I dont use it to gain life. its the only 150% mana multiplier support that works with cyclone.
Main characters: Deep_water - AnomaIy - Artica
Build guides: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1602863

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