[2.6] -273,15 °Crit-Trapper (Shaper farmer, deathless) + Budget Version (below 3 exa)

TL;DR: Use Fire trap or nerfed pyre with Cold->Fire Gem


2.6 pretty fucked us here. Because of the Pyre nerf.

i posted a ~possible~ solution, still the build will suffer.
here the post:

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you would probably drop less duration for cold->fire to reach 90% conversion. thats probably a loss of around 25% dmg, which sux but hey what else can you do... maybe go for fire trap instead but then you have again the down-sides of firetrap. but now that ice trap is much weaker maybe fire trap is worth considering.

i would like to quote post from page 2 here:

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hankinsohl wrote:

But have you tried this build with Fire Trap instead? That way you could free up Pyre and replace it with a DPS/stats/resist ring; you'd also get burning ground for a bit more damage that way as well.

the cool thing about fire trap is that it has 20% higher base crit. i never tried it out tho because i've read that the radius is not satisfying, you might have not the overlap effect of ice trap (which is not important for boss fights tho).
the crit of ice trap is enough and Pyre also gives some resistances and 30%+ burning damage, which is no double dip modifier ofc.
also you have 50% higher cooldown with firetrap which sounds very limiting to me.

alternative

maybe you could pick firetrap and drop some crit nodes from tree so you still have 60%+ crit. could go for +1 curse node and pick +1 curse amulet to have dual curse instead of Purity. but this is really expensive end-tier shit. and not really necessary

edit: tried out 20/20 fire trap on shaper, the longer cooldown is really annoying, very hard to protect zana with it. the burning ground does literally 0 damage and the clearing purpose between the stages the AoE of ice trap is MUCH better

aaaand

avatar of fire is shit because you can't use elemental equilibrium anymore.

This is an Ice Trap build which uses the commonly used Pyre to convert all cold damage to fire. I have a crit setup with 5 power charges (permanent sustain) which result in having over 60% crit. crit = ignite. so besides conflux we have a reliable way to apply ignites by traps.

Cool thing about traps is that we have additionally 10% fire penetration (High Explosives). Also it’s easy to acquire much trap damage modifiers, which will double dip with the initial hit AND ignite.

You can run this build in the shown normal setup or as a Budget Version (check the Gearing Guide).
I would guess that the cost of the budget version is roughly 3 exa. This includes fusing, 2x Essence of Horror attempts, solid jewellery, 2x doryani. This does NOT include high level gems. getting each gem 20/20 will be expensive and probably another exa. So for endgame you probably need like 4 exa. But that's it! 4 exa to beat the content. Not uber atziri tho :[

All DPS considerations based on my old vortex build. I wanted to find something which doesn’t need close combat but still utilized ice spells. After muuuuch theorycrafting (assa vs elementalist vs saboteur) I can say that this version is the best combination of high ES and good damage. Elementalist's "Mastermind of Discord" Node is just too good, that's why I would not pick Assassin. Otherwise Assa is bit superior. Also Pendulum is nice to have and gives you from time to time ~15% more dmg :x

Hrimburn is cool for perfect elemental equilibrium application BUT when you have 100% Fire Damage as a hit every Fire Damage% Node is double dipping, so finally I decided to go for Pyre instead of Hrimburn.

Tree



Use any jewel with Trap/Area/Fire/Inc Dmg + Max ES for the few slots. All these double dip. 5-15c per jewel.


Ascendancy
1) Shaper of Desolation
2) Pendulum of Destruction
3) Mastermind of Discord (gets triggered by Orb of Storms)
4) Liege of the Primordial

no need ele prolif from beacon of ruin, if you really really want it then put ele prolif gem into your sockets but i don't recommend it, the ice trap overlap (by inc aoe)+cluster traps is enough to kill any mobs T16+ instantly

Auras Budget: Elemental Weakness-Discipline-Clarity
Auras: Purity (i picked cold for ez shaper)-Discipline-Clarity

How can this be budget?
TL;DR answer: Use Essence of Horror on Helmet, 4L it and use IceTrap-CritChance-TrapDmg-ConcEffect/IncAoE. Use Elemental Weakness Aura. Use ES Gloves and 2x Doryani Scepters. Use a 4L 700+ ES Vaal Regalia.

...more to come
deathless Shaper Kill
remind: i have 700 ES regalia + 200 ES Helmet, you can be much better! still deathless
another shaper faceroll
update: 770 regalia, 360 ES helmet. run #24. farming is really ez

1. trap support was changed so that the "more" multiplier only applies on hit, not double dipping for ignite. also quality on trap-support is absolutely useless.
the option would be: vortex+trap support (39% more for the vortex hit, which is still not bad)
my option is: icetrap+rapid decay/less duration (39% more for DoT, which is also not a double dip modifier/19% more for both)

2. and the cool thing about rapid decay and less duration is that your full ignite damage is dealt over a shorter timeframe (=DPS) and also you can apply a new ignite faster, so the total damage is higher if reduced/less effect duration. imho
sure you have the bonus of spell damage doubledipping but in my tree is almost no spell damage (all in all 36% with 5 PCs)

3. ice trap has higher base damage than vortex

4. also enchants for ice trap (and lvl20 ice trap to vaal it to 21) is much cheaper than vortex afaik.

5. trap-support has 4 seconds cooldown, ice trap has 2 seconds! without being a saboteur it might suck

6. the big damage advantage of vortex comes from going lowlife (pain attunement, 30% more spell dmg, resulting in 23% extra dps), but this would with my momentanous gear result in 43% LESS ES! not sure if it's worth it