[2.6] Crystal - Crit Freezing Pulse - 307k-410k DPS, 10.5k ES, CI, Occultist

Hi , I got a similar build but hsaper rips me

Did you try shaper with this , did you succeed ?

I didn't try shaper yet.
Tried guardians few times and didn't yet kill any. Almost killed twice.
They hit with big damage. Can't just facetank them. And it depends heavy on the mods after corruption.
If I would avoid everything, I wouldn't have problems. Not sure maybe 3-4 minutes would be needed. So it's not any huge damage like in meta. And nothing invested into damage mitgation (armor, evasion, block) either.
No idea, maybe if someone who already did guardians and shaper would kill them with this build. Or if I've put all my currency into trying to kill them I'd learn better to avoid damage.
I didn't have any problems with regular mobs on T16. And T15s are easy, although I do sometimes die from boss.

What is your tooltip DPS and final ES?
I see you have a shield but otherwise not much ES on gear, also Shavronne's and 1 dagger.
And somewhat different tree and gem setup.

Hello there,

Im wondering, how the hell did you get those damage numbers.. 290k DPS. Even I have a better gear with much more damage atributes, using snakepit rings, pure crit&damage nodes (no CI) and now with 5 power charges (82level still) i have 73k DPS (cold penetration included) freezing pulse and others on 19level (20%quality). is this because of still 19-20level gems?

I have FP ->Spell echo->inc.crit.chance ->cold penetration- >added cold - > life leech. or its for life leech gem? shoud thtought of going empower gem

ES is almost 9k , dps 100k(ish)

I am doing fine with T15 bosses as well (done for twinned challenge)

Shaper gets me with Slam
For guardians I only tried Chimera , got ripped at 50%
(at smoke phase die due to low movespeed and no regen)

One thing I dont get btw is how ppl manage to keep ES on full with vaal pact in shaper fights
Since I can only get about 1k leeched /sec

Guess it only works with BV or 1M dps

Anyway this build(specifically my version) is not for Endgame bosses

Normal atziri was piece of cake btw

Well level 19 versus 20 does increase DPS somewhat sure, IDK guessing 30% maybe.

Lets me try this approach now: I'll start with my setup and will remove stuff, showing tooltip damage (in hideout, no charges):
- 307k, with current setup, and golem
- 294k, -4%, no golem, I'm dividing above value by this, 307/294*100%, and so on)
- 243k, -21%, with Cold Penetration, instead of Added Cold Damage (some prefer this setup)
- 239k, -1.6%, 5L (from now on), without Cold Pen (it nearly doesn't increase DPS)
- 234k, -2%, without gloves (they have +16% increased spell damage)
- 213k, -10% without Snakepit1 (the worse one with +30% cold damage, +9% cast speed)
- 190k, -12% without Snakepit2 (the better one with +38% cold damage, +10% cast speed)
- 171k, -11% without amulet (+24% spell damage, +8% cast speed, rare ring had similar stats)
- 159k, -7.5% with 5 jewels (1 removed, the worst, last from guide list)
- 147.6k, -7.7% with 4 jewels
- 136k, -8.5% with 3 jewels
- 125.7k, -8% with 2 jewels
- 115.4k, -9% with 1 jewel (the best one, with 2x crit multipliers and cast speed)
- 104.5k, -10% no jewels
- 60.8k, -72%, with just 1 wand (the best I got, Mind Bane Omen)
- 55.2k, -10%, with Freezing Pulse 20/20
- 43.2k, -27%, 4L without Increased Critical Strikes

So yeah, dual wands give a lot more, +72% DPS, but that's also due to having +20% cast speed when dual wielding on tree (top, Dark Arts). And this drops too when removing wand stats for just 1.
Then like I mentioned (in guide) all jewels sum up to +51% DPS.
Next is just the proper gem setup (to get highest tooltip DPS).
And of course high and many stats on wands, difficult to compare them or quantify.
Lastly amulet and 2 snakepits, sum up to +33% DPS.
Rest is minor.

So not sure if this is useful and probably not the proper way, but I hope it'll at least give some idea about what does increase DPS most.


Profilaktiskas, I see just have a bad gem setup: no Cold to Fire (it does increase DPS a lot) and Life Leech instead of Controlled Destruction.

Like I added in guide, the base 4L is:
Freezing Pulse + Spell Echo + Controlled Destruction + Cold to Fire,
then base 5L is with Increased Critical Strikes too.
And for 6L, most DPS increased comes from Added Cold Damage.
But if you want, switch it to Cold Pen (or Life Leech).

i have a crit freezing pulse build right now lvl 94
that can do guardian (will need to know the boss fight) and farming uber izaro with ease face tanking.

requires triple curse (enfeeble is required)
low life
need this aura set up
Arctic armour
Purity of ice (helps with reflect mobs)
disc
clarity
warlord mark on blas

good luck exiles.

my ign is FewExalts.

if you need help msg me

I wonder if it's because we don't have enough Armour in our builds? I notice my ES and Evasion based characters die easily during boss fights compared to my Armour/Life builds. And I also wonder how some people's ES never drop much.

Since my play style is staying stationary and spamming until they're gone, I wonder if The Brine Crown Prophet Crown would be great for this build?

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omgTeal wrote:

i have a crit freezing pulse build right now lvl 94
that can do guardian (will need to know the boss fight) and farming uber izaro with ease face tanking.

requires triple curse (enfeeble is required)
low life
need this aura set up
Arctic armour
Purity of ice (helps with reflect mobs)
disc
clarity
warlord mark on blas

good luck exiles.

my ign is FewExalts.

if you need help msg me

Wow, 5 auras? How? Can you please link your tree and set up? Your profile is set to private.

2x lvl 4 enlighten, low life with shavs.

run purity of ice + clarity on life / blood magic lvl 20 gem / lvl 4 enlighten

rest on mana.

grab the reduce mana reserve next to vaal pact.

There is also that Basalt flask that does 20% additional Physical Damage Reduction.
But I didn't try it.

Recently I've bought a Dying Sun (for 5 exalts), adds 2 more projectiles. I'll write some more after testing it.


I tried Shavronnes's lately, it was bad, 7k ES not 10k. And without anything extra I could only get 1 more thing reserved. So you end up having nodes on tree for less mana reserved and using more gems to reserve more and actually use Shav's which drops ES a lot. I don't see it.

Also btw. tired dual Void Batteries. Complete garbage for this build. You get the same damage with max power charges (7 since they add 2 to the 5 I got). But without charges DPS is nearly half of current I got. Plus they are also very expensive.


I don't see much benefit from Purity of Ice does increase the max resist +4%, so cold will be 79% not 75% is that much? Luckily no bosses/guardians reflect elemental damage (just that 1of4 Atziri's with mirror).

Clarity is meh IMO, like anything for mana. I don't see a significant difference.

So this only leaves me with 1 good thing that I'd like: Arctic Armour.
But don't guardians actually do spell or spell and physical damage?
13% less Physical Damage taken when Hit, doesn't seem much IMO.