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

Wow - started this character as my 2nd this league in LSC (casual player, 1-3h a day, weekends more) and just hit lvl 90 yesterday and my little witch just rocks. I pretty much only die because of bad PC / connection issues, but apart from that: super tanky and kills everything (even bosses) within seconds. Enfeeble, EE Core map with some more map mods - ez game...!

My gear:


Thanks to some wiggling with my jewels I was able to put my resistances at 132 for all 3 elements - so not only helps with extra penetration but also with a nice reduction to all incoming elemental damage. With end. charges and the flask ele weakness maps aren't to much of a problem either.
Next I will try to get the jewel socket in the shadow area, try to get some better jewels in general and hopefully claim my gfs PC on one of the upcoming weekends to try my luck against the guardians (and shaper). With 8.3k ES, 6.5k Icestorm damage (with golems, sulphur flask and pend. of destr.) I should have a chance, right? Would be my first shaper kill ever, so I'm hyped.


So a big thanks to Kelvynn for this great build and guide!

Hello Kelvynn!
Thx for this guide. Pretty perfect for me and my wife! :)

What do you think about this guide for ranger? What ascendancy fit better?

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smeagol01 wrote:

what about using Heretic's Veil

See Q&A

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Grimstarz wrote:

Got a small question: why do we use orb of storms? I do have it in my gem slots, but i never use it

See Q&A

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Distaeri wrote:

Is it better to go Elemental Focus and pass on the ignites, or rather keep the Concentrated Effect, to keep the occasionnal ignite ?

See Q&A

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Levirael wrote:

Congrats on the 300 pages Kelvynn!

Thanks! Although probably 1/3 of that is answering the same questions that are already in the Q&A section. ;)

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CakeOK wrote:

Hello Kelvynn!
Thx for this guide. Pretty perfect for me and my wife! :)

What do you think about this guide for ranger? What ascendancy fit better?

If not for the upcoming 3.0 that will probably change too many things, I'd likely be playing another new class in 2.6, and I was considering a Ranger. The choice there is obvious: Raider. None of the 3 Ranger classes have much for elemental damage, Deadeye is 100% archery, Flaskfinder is all about flasks which is not something I'd like to build around. But Raider can be something of a cross between the Scion and Templar versions of this build. Immunity to ele status ailments is really nice, Frenzy/Onslaught is good too. Tree would be pretty much the same as the Witch, just replace 3 nodes at the Witch start with 3 nodes at the Ranger start.

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Zagreb1987 wrote:

A last question, when the ball lighting activate from Cwdt, is it consider like "using a lighting spell" from the ascendensy node "Mastermind of Discord"? Because sometimes i forget to cast the orb of storm, not a realy big deal, regarding the large amount of dammage this build can inflict, but i wonder?

Only self-cast skills can trigger Mastermind. Forgetting to use Orb of Storms can be fatal in the endgame boss fights, especially the ones where you use Purity and delegate all curses to the Orb. Get used to popping a fresh Orb every 10 sec against bosses, it will be a very good habit to have.

hi, i have a question

I feel like i get stunned a lot, beam interrupted a lot. Is this normal?

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hahahahoha wrote:

hi, i have a question

I feel like i get stunned a lot, beam interrupted a lot. Is this normal?

It's normal until you get Unwavering Stance. Make sure you are using WM+Blasphemy and get close enough to the enemy. Most everything gets stunned by Icestorm when it's inside your WM aura, and then they can't hit you at all.

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Kelvynn wrote:

If not for the upcoming 3.0 that will probably change too many things, I'd likely be playing another new class in 2.6, and I was considering a Ranger. The choice there is obvious: Raider. None of the 3 Ranger classes have much for elemental damage, Deadeye is 100% archery, Flaskfinder is all about flasks which is not something I'd like to build around. But Raider can be something of a cross between the Scion and Templar versions of this build. Immunity to ele status ailments is really nice, Frenzy/Onslaught is good too. Tree would be pretty much the same as the Witch, just replace 3 nodes at the Witch start with 3 nodes at the Ranger start.

I think the same about it. I have an archer 87 and just ~15lvl witch. Think what will be better for me - try ranger-WI or exping a witch. Will be fine for me in both cases, cause i just started this build. Thats all about my lazyness... =\

addicted again to PoE :/... thanks for this build!

Fresh 41, got some gear, not the best one since I didnt have any decent farmer yet, but so far, this was all was like 8-9 chaos:



What a breeze, leveling is so easy! Thanks man!

Well the dmg is nice but cant really tank any t9 unique boss. Pretty much instadeath. Using all the auras mentioned. ES only 3.3k and as guide wont show any Es talents taken, i cant find how to get that 7000 ES more? Not to mention most resistances 20-30....

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Zeros wrote:

Well the dmg is nice but cant really tank any t9 unique boss. Pretty much instadeath. Using all the auras mentioned. ES only 3.3k and as guide wont show any Es talents taken, i cant find how to get that 7000 ES more? Not to mention most resistances 20-30....

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