(2.4) Wormblaster the Third (A Herald of Ice build)

1 - At what level is this supposed to be viable?

I got to 60 (min lvl req for jars) and the dmg is very low.
Seems I don't have enough aoe reach or dmg on Hoi,
the worms spawn always away from enemies and hit nothing when they blow up.

The only way to kill anything for me at this point is to herd a huge pack like 20-30 monsters around me, then I'm able to spam worms and wipe all mobs.

Guess I need more crit + cold dmg nodes?
Got all aoe nodes down already, and just missing 1 socket from my 5L chest,
dmg still sucks. Also my 30% more ele dmg helm is lvl 69.



2 - Do you skip soul eaters?

It feels like they steal my worm souls, so I get no charges from them.
I suppose this doesn't matter once my crit is higher?


3 - My own tip:

For anyone without Kaoms, get sweep+ multistrike+ crit+ power charge, really nice way to keep get some extra crits going. I'd suggest you don't use Kaoms till you get high enough aoe, cold dmg and crit rate.

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Quantume wrote:

1 - At what level is this supposed to be viable?

I got to 60 (min lvl req for jars) and the dmg is very low.
Seems I don't have enough aoe reach or dmg on Hoi,
the worms spawn always away from enemies and hit nothing when they blow up.

The only way to kill anything for me at this point is to herd a huge pack like 20-30 monsters around me, then I'm able to spam worms and wipe all mobs.

Guess I need more crit + cold dmg nodes?
Got all aoe nodes down already, and just missing 1 socket from my 5L chest,
dmg still sucks. Also my 30% more ele dmg helm is lvl 69.



2 - Do you skip soul eaters?

It feels like they steal my worm souls, so I get no charges from them.
I suppose this doesn't matter once my crit is higher?

1. I started running this build at lvl 60 too.
What i needed to do to get it going was to buy 20% quality gems - that brought my dmg up enough for me to shatter the worms. It really picks up in your 70s.
I'm level 83 right now and facetanking guardians no problem :)

2. You don't need to skip Soul Eaters, they die fast enough :)

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ZilPui wrote:

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Quantume wrote:

1 - At what level is this supposed to be viable?

I got to 60 (min lvl req for jars) and the dmg is very low.
Seems I don't have enough aoe reach or dmg on Hoi,
the worms spawn always away from enemies and hit nothing when they blow up.

The only way to kill anything for me at this point is to herd a huge pack like 20-30 monsters around me, then I'm able to spam worms and wipe all mobs.

Guess I need more crit + cold dmg nodes?
Got all aoe nodes down already, and just missing 1 socket from my 5L chest,
dmg still sucks. Also my 30% more ele dmg helm is lvl 69.



2 - Do you skip soul eaters?

It feels like they steal my worm souls, so I get no charges from them.
I suppose this doesn't matter once my crit is higher?

1. I started running this build at lvl 60 too.
What i needed to do to get it going was to buy 20% quality gems - that brought my dmg up enough for me to shatter the worms. It really picks up in your 70s.
I'm level 83 right now and facetanking guardians no problem :)

2. You don't need to skip Soul Eaters, they die fast enough :)

What's your current HP at 83? Just trying to get an idea if I'll be able to facetank at 80.

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ArsonWave wrote:

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ZilPui wrote:

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Quantume wrote:

1 - At what level is this supposed to be viable?

I got to 60 (min lvl req for jars) and the dmg is very low.
Seems I don't have enough aoe reach or dmg on Hoi,
the worms spawn always away from enemies and hit nothing when they blow up.

The only way to kill anything for me at this point is to herd a huge pack like 20-30 monsters around me, then I'm able to spam worms and wipe all mobs.

Guess I need more crit + cold dmg nodes?
Got all aoe nodes down already, and just missing 1 socket from my 5L chest,
dmg still sucks. Also my 30% more ele dmg helm is lvl 69.



2 - Do you skip soul eaters?

It feels like they steal my worm souls, so I get no charges from them.
I suppose this doesn't matter once my crit is higher?

1. I started running this build at lvl 60 too.
What i needed to do to get it going was to buy 20% quality gems - that brought my dmg up enough for me to shatter the worms. It really picks up in your 70s.
I'm level 83 right now and facetanking guardians no problem :)

2. You don't need to skip Soul Eaters, they die fast enough :)

What's your current HP at 83? Just trying to get an idea if I'll be able to facetank at 80.

8.3k atm

hi, do you think it could work with a 5l the harvest? and do you think a Herald of thunder version could work?

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EspadaDelPanico wrote:

hi, do you think it could work with a 5l the harvest? and do you think a Herald of thunder version could work?

I'm using a 5L and it works fine, just drop the aoe till you get a 6L.

And thunder would work, but it wouldn't be very effective:
You kill a shocked worm, HoT starts blasting thunder on one target at a time.
Even if you add lighting penetration+ added lightning dmg+ controlled destruction on it,
the dmg would be ok vs single targets, but it would take forever to kill a pack,
just sapping ever mob one by one.


Also, if anyone can sustain righteous fire, do it at least in softcore.
Adds a ton of dmg, and with endless hunger life overleech you can make it to the next pack just in time before it starts taking you out.

While leveling starting at 60,
you might find your mana pool too low to use any other skills.

If you use dash/sweep like me and have low mana,
replace Hoi support: cold pen (140%) with ice bite (110%).
Reserves less mana, and gives you frenzy charges = more dmg.

Am I going crazy or was this build hit with some ninja nerfs? I was doing a quay map yesterday and could constantly spam my flasks and they would refill instantly. Did the same map today and my flasks didn't fill up as quickly. Noticed this with other bosses aswell, map clearing is still fine though.

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Quantume wrote:

Also, if anyone can sustain righteous fire, do it at least in softcore.
Adds a ton of dmg, and with endless hunger life overleech you can make it to the next pack just in time before it starts taking you out.

RF does pretty much nothing for the build. Herald of Ice does not have a spell tag, so the only things that get damage boost from RF are lvl 1 spells in CWDT setup.

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MrHuynh wrote:

Am I going crazy or was this build hit with some ninja nerfs? I was doing a quay map yesterday and could constantly spam my flasks and they would refill instantly. Did the same map today and my flasks didn't fill up as quickly. Noticed this with other bosses aswell, map clearing is still fine though.

Most likely it's just that you entered the room with more BV stacks yesterday. You need like 6-7 stacks for the worms to be self-sustaining on single target, as I feel (lvl 90 atm).


Also it's kinda good if you can fit into the build, it gives a good chunk of damage and also movement skill as well a curse immunity.