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

ok thx for the answer .... but would you care to explain to me why they need to be lvl 1 ?

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Apristina wrote:

ok thx for the answer .... but would you care to explain to me why they need to be lvl 1 ?

A CWDT lvl 20 needs 3.5k damage to activate Ball Lightning, which activates the curses. A CWDT lvl 1 only needs 500 damage to activate Ball Lightning, but since CWDT is lvl 1 it can only support lvl 1 ball lightning. Since ball lightning lvl doesn't matter, while getting curses all the time does, a CWDT lvl 1 with a Ball Lightning lvl 1 is the best way to trigger them.

AH well ... so curse on hit is for ball lightning ..
this makes sense .... so CWDT and ball lightning don't need 20quality then ?

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Apristina wrote:

AH well ... so curse on hit is for ball lightning ..
this makes sense .... so CWDT and ball lightning don't need 20quality then ?

Ball lightning can use it. CWDT no, since it increases, I belive, amount of damage needed to trigger ball lightning.

wel TYVM that fixes everything that didn't work :D and if i ever get 6l ... i stick orb of storm in there i guess ?

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Apristina wrote:

wel TYVM that fixes everything that didn't work :D and if i ever get 6l ... i stick orb of storm in there i guess ?

Yes, since it will also apply curses on it's area, and since you want it lvl 20, you will be able to manually cast it.

Just got my shit rocked in the shaper fight. Got him down to 50% health before I lost. I used up 3 portals on Daresso, Rigwald and Malachai, so I didn't have a lot of chances with him. Oh well, here's to grinding for the fragments again. :)

Dinged level 94 earlier today. I think I really need to upgrade my chest and get a better crystal belt, as I'm just over 7800 ES with 1530ish int. In fact, my boots and gloves could likely use an upgrade too, I'm just not stoked on spending the chromes to off-color one of them again to support ice golem. On the other hand, it's nice not needing enlighten anymore as vaal discipline has saved my ass a few times, so I'm glad I have a dedicated slot for it now.

All-in-all, I've mentioned a few times how much fun I'm having with this build. It's a bit slower compared to the "meta," but it fits my playstyle perfectly. Thanks again for the build, and the effort you've put into your guide(s).

My lord this build is soooo detaled. Great job, sir!

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Dinged level 94 earlier today. I think I really need to upgrade my chest and get a better crystal belt, as I'm just over 7800 ES with 1530ish int. In fact, my boots and gloves could likely use an upgrade too, I'm just not stoked on spending the chromes to off-color one of them again to support ice golem. On the other hand, it's nice not needing enlighten anymore as vaal discipline has saved my ass a few times, so I'm glad I have a dedicated slot for it now.

I've had trouble too trying to kill shaper with 8.6k es. I just got one shotted by shaper's slam and all in all it was just panick out there.
I eventually killed him later with 9.5k es.
My current setup has 10.3k es, 1580 int and anger aura (only 2 curses).

Here's some of my gear and links, I got BSC enchant on my first end-game lab and that's why i run anger

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psyonix wrote:

Just got my shit rocked in the shaper fight. Got him down to 50% health before I lost. I used up 3 portals on Daresso, Rigwald and Malachai, so I didn't have a lot of chances with him. Oh well, here's to grinding for the fragments again. :)

If you died to daresso, rigwald and malachai, your gear is either way subpar or you lack knowledge about how to engage various bosses. Well... those three boss fights specifically are the ones where you can't stay stationary all the way through. The same is true for the shaper fight if one has less than 8k ES - better dodge the slam then. ;)