[3.1] The Blinding Blizzard - Whispering Ice Berserker - Viable for Most Everything

i ripped my Elementalist WI a few days ago.
Was not careful and VD got me hard...

some facts:
reached lvl 83
7,6k dps with leech gem and CE (3,4k with cascade)
6,8k ES
no lvl20 gem nor quality
low till medicore gear
1,3k int

if u want to check my ripped char:
YuzMe

it was rly comfortably and easy... i gonna make another one these days.

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Naramie_VI wrote:

Hey Kelvynn,

do you run purity of ice just for your watcher's eye or do you think that this is the best purity to run?

I don't run PoI for the Watcher's Eye at all. The jewel just happens to have a bonus use for the Shaper, but that 10% on the Slam doesn't make or break it.

I have all 4 Purities lv 20 and run them depending on the map mods or the boss. If the map has EW then I clear it with PoE. If it has +ele damage then I use the matching Purity. If the boss does a specific type of damage then I run the purity of that type.

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adambog wrote:

:(

instances crashing all over again, different types (t12-t16), atziri, unique ones, one thing i noticed, it always happens after using portal (or dying), lost so many high lvl maps, it makes not want to play anymore

Yeah, that's super annoying. If you leave the map for any reason after killing a lot of mobs (to sell loot, trade, Zana, etc or just happen to die to the boss) - there is a chance that the instance will crash the moment you kill anything after returning. I don't know if it's specific to the build or if it happens to everybody. I just noticed that it doesn't happen unless you kill a LOT (especially if you do some Abysses and Breaches). Must be some internal code issues with handling too many corpses or items on the ground. In this league I'm just trying to finish everything important in the map before leaving.

Yep... For me it crashes when killing the boss. Twice on atziri and twice on tier 15 maps.

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Yuzlol wrote:

i ripped my Elementalist WI a few days ago.
Was not careful and VD got me hard...

some facts:
reached lvl 83
7,6k dps with leech gem and CE (3,4k with cascade)
6,8k ES
no lvl20 gem nor quality
low till medicore gear
1,3k int

if u want to check my ripped char:
YuzMe

it was rly comfortably and easy... i gonna make another one these days.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't it better to invest in "vitality void" right below of vaal pact in the tree instead of wasting entire gem link for life leech?

I think even if you take 3 points from "snowforged" group for example and place something like concentrated effect instead of life leech gem, then you damage will be better by a third or so, leech would be faster, and also it will improve your max leech in second.

Considering whooping % increased spell damage from whispering ice, and quite a lot of increase modificators from the tree. With that ammount of additive modificators, 3 points definitely not worth our gemlink which is technically multiplicative "50% more" modificator.

@Kelvynn

Hey man, can you post somewhere your CI gear? I can find it anywhere, thanks!

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Med1umentor wrote:

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Yuzlol wrote:

i ripped my Elementalist WI a few days ago.
Was not careful and VD got me hard...

some facts:
reached lvl 83
7,6k dps with leech gem and CE (3,4k with cascade)
6,8k ES
no lvl20 gem nor quality
low till medicore gear
1,3k int

if u want to check my ripped char:
YuzMe

it was rly comfortably and easy... i gonna make another one these days.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't it better to invest in "vitality void" right below of vaal pact in the tree instead of wasting entire gem link for life leech?

I think even if you take 3 points from "snowforged" group for example and place something like concentrated effect instead of life leech gem, then you damage will be better by a third or so, leech would be faster, and also it will improve your max leech in second.

Considering whooping % increased spell damage from whispering ice, and quite a lot of increase modificators from the tree. With that ammount of additive modificators, 3 points definitely not worth our gemlink which is technically multiplicative "50% more" modificator.

Vitality void just works with "attack damage". Icestorm is not an attack.

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Naramie_VI wrote:

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Med1umentor wrote:

Correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't it better to invest in "vitality void" right below of vaal pact in the tree instead of wasting entire gem link for life leech?

I think even if you take 3 points from "snowforged" group for example and place something like concentrated effect instead of life leech gem, then you damage will be better by a third or so, leech would be faster, and also it will improve your max leech in second.

Considering whooping % increased spell damage from whispering ice, and quite a lot of increase modificators from the tree. With that ammount of additive modificators, 3 points definitely not worth our gemlink which is technically multiplicative "50% more" modificator.

Vitality void just works with "attack damage". Icestorm is not an attack.

Oh, i see. I remembered in the back of my mind that this region was boosted at some time to be more broad, but forgot how exactly. Mistakenly remembered that it was boosted to apply from every damage, but it was just switch from exactly phys attack to just attack.

Thanks for pointing it out.

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nel0angel0 wrote:

@Kelvynn

Hey man, can you post somewhere your CI gear? I can find it anywhere, thanks!

Dude, just look at his character in profile.

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Med1umentor wrote:

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nel0angel0 wrote:

@Kelvynn

Hey man, can you post somewhere your CI gear? I can find it anywhere, thanks!

Dude, just look at his character in profile.

Dang! you are right pal, totally forgot that lol

@Everyone that plays this build

How is your performance when you spam the screen with Icestorms?
How are your FPS?

I m plummeting from 100 to 15 when i fill the screen with Ice..