[2.6] The Curse Whisperer - Tri-Curse CI Whispering Ice Elementalist - Viable for Everything

Alright, I found a good way to deal with the Shaper Slam. Just need to bring physical mitigation flasks and be smart with them. And then it's not that bad, and 8.5k ES is fine even if the Clone is attacking you at the same time as the Shaper does his slam:





Flask management is really important now: only enough for 2 slams (plus 1 more if he does the add portal). Vaal Discipline can be used as an extra 'flask' if you run out of charges.

And thank you @RivX for making me reconsider Atziri's Promise. It's actually really good for this fight if used smartly: when you see the clone shooting at you and you need that extra leech to survive.

New video: Dealing with the Shaper Slam

Just the final fight. The first two are trivial and go the same as before 2.4.1, pop the flasks when he starts the Slam animation.

Boss Guide updated.

out of curiosity: can you somewhat reliably do the guardians deathless on maps that have damage mods?

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Black_Gun wrote:

out of curiosity: can you somewhat reliably do the guardians deathless on maps that have damage mods?

Depends on the mods.

Extra fire: no difference at all.

Extra lightning: watch out for shock. Dodge the Hydra instead of facetanking.

Extra cold: reroll or expect some deaths. Do not do Chimera with this, the fog phase will freeze you.

Other mods to damage or speed mostly matter for the Hydra. Generally, switch to the dodge tactic against her if there are damage/speed mods if you really don't like dying.

Extra projectiles: very nasty for the Phoenix, the adds shotgun and hurt you a lot more than the boss.

That's on the 8.5k ES Inquisitor in the league. On the Elementalist in Standard (almost 12k ES) I do them all with totally random mods (except BM and leech immunity) and rarely die. Probably 90% of my T16 deaths since the start of AoW were to the Hydra. That bitch just won't stand still! >:-E

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Black_Gun wrote:

out of curiosity: can you somewhat reliably do the guardians deathless on maps that have damage mods?

not untill you get end game gear, vulnerability+boss inc dmg and attackspeed will basically end you on any guardian exept the phoenix and maybe hydra if your dance skills rock.
After you get near the 12ES barrier you are good to go any map mod exept blood magic.

Sweet looking build... I plan to put this together but is buying a chest piece damn expensive for this build or am I searching incorrectly. I am seeing 12ex+ for the stats we need.. (6sock-6link)

You dont need 6L, just 5.

Are these enough to start mapping?

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Millennium wrote:

Are these enough to start mapping?

hell yea, you can even beat the guardians (no extra mods) with this, all you need is some div orbs for the helm +14/15 int preffered

Hi. Sorry for bad English :)
Iam using this build and very like it. Thx for it.
Can you help pls.
There is my gear :


What need upgrade next ? Its enough for Shaper ?

Just a small detail I noticed during leveling. For T1-T14 you don't need 3rd curse unless you are doing some crazy mods. Just carry Doedre ring with yourself and swap it with perandus signet whenever you feel like you need some extra defense.