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

important to have 5L or 6L?or made as shown above? sorry for my English

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InfinityPool wrote:

How important or how much of a dps boost is a black sun crest? Currently wearing a hubris atm, not sure if i want to switch to the black sun crest yet, my resists are all balanced out atm, black sun might trigger my ocd

BSC is a very good DPS boost. Depending on your Int you'll gain 1.5-2k tooltip damage and lose about 1-1.5k ES which is a fantastic trade. Of course if you are using the helmet to balance your resists then it's more complicated. You shouldn't really need any resists on the helmet.

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tallock wrote:

To be honest I only started this build because of how well its explained and how detailed this guide is.

Then I realized that it's in fact most fun I ever had :)

Good job sir.

You're welcome! :)

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CrazedWanderer wrote:

When trying to 5 link my chest I managed to 6L it, any change in gem setup for a 6L?

If you happen to have a 6L chest, add Enhance to your curse setup. It's a totally awesome luxury upgrade that I use on my Standard chest:

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1Zoppo1 wrote:

important to have 5L or 6L?or made as shown above? sorry for my English

In the staff you only need 3L. In the chest you need 5L. See the Links section.



New video: Godly Elementalist vs Everything with Mods

I'm done with 40/40 in the league on the Berserker, so I went back to Standard to have some fun on my godly geared Elementalist and made a video. This is what you can do when you level a little higher and get some nice gear. The only difference for the Berserker is that he can't pre-cast on Atziri statues before looking which one is where, but that's just Elementalist showing off her reflect immunity. Uber Atziri is easy enough for the Berserker already.

hi there, thank you very much for this build.
could you please explain to me the need for a 5link armour? it is not.the same.to have a 3link for curses and a 2link for the ball lightning (or it is ball lighthing applying the curses? in this case it is not hitting just a few monsters? it is not another aoe sill better?)
Another one is: we have a total of 3 curses (enfeeble, temporal and warlord aura curse). the question is: it is Dierdre ring mandatory for the build and it is not blaspemy warlird always overriding one of the other curses? We can have only a maximum of 2 on a monster if we use Dierdre, Am I correct?
sorry but i am new to the game
thx
Marco

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jesuseargo wrote:

hi there, thank you very much for this build.
could you please explain to me the need for a 5link armour? it is not.the same.to have a 3link for curses and a 2link for the ball lightning (or it is ball lighthing applying the curses? in this case it is not hitting just a few monsters? it is not another aoe sill better?)
Another one is: we have a total of 3 curses (enfeeble, temporal and warlord aura curse). the question is: it is Dierdre ring mandatory for the build and it is not blaspemy warlird always overriding one of the other curses? We can have only a maximum of 2 on a monster if we use Dierdre, Am I correct?
sorry but i am new to the game
thx
Marco

How the 5L curse setup works: CWDT lv 1 fires pretty much every time you get hit by anything. It shoots a Ball Lightning in the direction of the attacker. Ball Lightning touches everything in that direction as it moves, it's already an AoE skill and we have extra AoE nodes. Curse on Hit allows high level curses to be used, and it adds curse effect to them too.

3L with just CWDT + curses can't use high level curses with low level CWDT. Either your curses would have to be too weak (low level) or they would not fire often enough (high level). And you'd lose the extra quality from CoH in either case.

We can have 3 curses on the enemy. You forgot Whispers of Doom.

It's not mandatory to use 3 curses, but it's the best option. Swapping Doedre's Damning for another ring and trading the 3rd curse for more ES/damage is possible, but why? In the easy maps where you don't need 3rd curse you don't need extra damage/ES either. And in the endgame the 3rd curse is very worth losing some ES/dps.

I'm loving the build!

Couple questions for you.

What are your thoughts on infernal mantle?

Also, have you thought about any damage based CWDT or Cast while stunned?

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intangible_s wrote:

I'm loving the build!

Couple questions for you.

What are your thoughts on infernal mantle?

Also, have you thought about any damage based CWDT or Cast while stunned?

Infernal Mantle is a fancy way to commit suicide. :) We are always on low mana. Converting 15% damage to chaos would actually lose DPS against most enemies because there is no chaos penetration, so you just lose fire penetration for that 15% of your damage. Crits don't matter, this is not a crit build and we use Elemental Overload (no crit multi). 500 ES on a chest is way too weak. No Int = useless. 35% Increased damage is similar to the lowest roll Izaro jewel and is absolutely not worth the downsides of that item.

CWDT auto-cast is a novelty idea. It may work for the easy maps, but the clear speed will be too low since you have to wait for something to hit you. As for the endgame... letting the Shaper or Uber Atziri hit you first doesn't sound like a great idea, does it? :)

Haha. That all makes sense.

I think until I get a third curse I'm going to run cwdt/ball lightning/coh/enfeeble/blind. Blind just sounds really really nice.

this build is insane holy shit

... this is the best and comprehensive guide I have ever followed
and I want to thank you very much for all your time and effort !!
Very well done ... I now even have a choice which character category I can respec,
which is your favourite?

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Ooma wrote:

... this is the best and comprehensive guide I have ever followed
and I want to thank you very much for all your time and effort !!
Very well done ... I now even have a choice which character category I can respec,
which is your favourite?

My personal favorite is the Elementalist because I'm a perfectionist. All other versions have some downsides and wasted nodes (e.g. half of Berserker's ascendancy is melee-oriented and does nothing for Icestorm). They may be stronger than the Elementalist in some ways, but they make my OCD sense tickle. The Elementalist has no weaknesses, nothing is wasted and the synergy is just perfect: Pyre - Mastermind of Discord - Orb of Storms - Elemental Overload. I like perfect. :)