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

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KUSA86 wrote:

Does anyone know how to fix the instance crashing with whispering ice?

Still crashing a lot and losing maps...

Kelvynn wrote it a few posts above your on this page.

Can anyone give me some guidance with this build ? I want to go the CI route but I'm sorta confused because the guide is based on the life build ? Also I'm still dieing ALOT in the story .. and my dps feels average. Maybe I should spec out of VP for now ? (This is my first VP char.) The leech seems hit and miss for whatever reason.. thanks in advance for any help

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Naramie_VI wrote:

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KUSA86 wrote:

Does anyone know how to fix the instance crashing with whispering ice?

Still crashing a lot and losing maps...

Kelvynn wrote it a few posts above your on this page.

Damn, sorry. Just came back home after 4 days working outside and I was tired.

I'm going to try it, thanks!

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notwisted wrote:

Can anyone give me some guidance with this build ? I want to go the CI route but I'm sorta confused because the guide is based on the life build ? Also I'm still dieing ALOT in the story .. and my dps feels average. Maybe I should spec out of VP for now ? (This is my first VP char.) The leech seems hit and miss for whatever reason.. thanks in advance for any help

Also, i have an anger/discipline version of the watcher's eye. you think anger instead of hatred could work? (maybe I can convert it back to cold and still gain the leach?

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Kelvynn wrote:

[Professor Farnsworth's voice] Good news, everyone! I've mastered that instance crash that happens if you leave the map after almost clearing it, to such a degree that I can make it happen any time I want. So I've submitted a detailed bug report to GGG and got a response. There is a good chance that they will finally fix it.

Good news indeed! I am at the point where I make sure to crash the instance just to add to their internal crashed instance counter to hopefully draw attention to the bug. But you actually got a response which is pretty amazing to say the least - it didn't seem like they noticed or cared much when it was originally brought to their attention. Fingers crossed for an *actual* fix some time soon.

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notwisted wrote:

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notwisted wrote:

Can anyone give me some guidance with this build ? I want to go the CI route but I'm sorta confused because the guide is based on the life build ? Also I'm still dieing ALOT in the story .. and my dps feels average. Maybe I should spec out of VP for now ? (This is my first VP char.) The leech seems hit and miss for whatever reason.. thanks in advance for any help

Also, i have an anger/discipline version of the watcher's eye. you think anger instead of hatred could work? (maybe I can convert it back to cold and still gain the leach?

Hey, what kind of Watcher's eye do you have exactly? There are 4 modifiers for each aura. You have life leech from ascendancy and it should work fine. The lack of leech may be caused by the lack of damage, i dont see any other reasons. And i think you die alot because your life pool is too low, mb you should try to get more life and switch to CI later (80+ lvl). Btw, Kelvynn's running CI berserker now, so you may simply have a look at his abyssWIZ to know what to strive for.

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Windgaming wrote:

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notwisted wrote:

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notwisted wrote:

Can anyone give me some guidance with this build ? I want to go the CI route but I'm sorta confused because the guide is based on the life build ? Also I'm still dieing ALOT in the story .. and my dps feels average. Maybe I should spec out of VP for now ? (This is my first VP char.) The leech seems hit and miss for whatever reason.. thanks in advance for any help

Also, i have an anger/discipline version of the watcher's eye. you think anger instead of hatred could work? (maybe I can convert it back to cold and still gain the leach?

Hey, what kind of Watcher's eye do you have exactly? There are 4 modifiers for each aura. You have life leech from ascendancy and it should work fine. The lack of leech may be caused by the lack of damage, i dont see any other reasons. And i think you die alot because your life pool is too low, mb you should try to get more life and switch to CI later (80+ lvl). Btw, Kelvynn's running CI berserker now, so you may simply have a look at his abyssWIZ to know what to strive for.

thanks for the help man !!

its the flat es gain on hit // life leach with anger!

Yea the health pool is low but shouldn't i be able to out leach shit at my level?

I saw Abysswiz and am following it somewhat closely. (mostly for the tree)

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notwisted wrote:

thanks for the help man !!

its the flat es gain on hit // life leach with anger!

Yea the health pool is low but shouldn't i be able to out leach shit at my level?

I saw Abysswiz and am following it somewhat closely. (mostly for the tree)

Welcome :) Very nice Watcher's eye, so use it and pick Avatar of fire to get 100% CtF conversion, this should be very helpful.

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CaimanLizard wrote:

Question about passive tree points:

Going with CI version, AND having Pyre ring (100% cold to fire), can the following adjustment be justified?

Instead of taking Coldhearted Calculation and Trickery, which is 6 points of:
70 Int + 12% increased spell damage + 20% increased elem damage = 39% increased damage

how about taking Explosive Impact and Storm Weaver (witch area left), which is 6 points of:
45% increased fire damage + 43% increase ice damage = 88% increased damage?

Legacy Pyre lets you use a stronger DPS gem (CD) instead of CtF and save 2 skill points on AoF. But that's not related to any other tree changes.

I don't know how you decided that 70 Int was equivalent of 7% Increased damage, but it's more like 60% (10 Int is as good as about 8-9% Inc dmg). Extra bonus if you cross a 100 Int boundary and extend the Icestorm duration by 0.22s. Plus it gives you extra ES which is important for the Ci version. I would not trade that for just 88% Inc dmg. The only non-Int damage node worth taking is Snowforged because it gives double bonus (cold+fire).

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Windgaming wrote:

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notwisted wrote:

thanks for the help man !!

its the flat es gain on hit // life leach with anger!

Yea the health pool is low but shouldn't i be able to out leach shit at my level?

I saw Abysswiz and am following it somewhat closely. (mostly for the tree)

Welcome :) Very nice Watcher's eye, so use it and pick Avatar of fire to get 100% CtF conversion, this should be very helpful.

The only question I have left now is what aura do I drop to run anger ?
Otherwise the leach doesn't work.
Currently running arctic armour/disiplin/purity of elements.
I guess I could drop PoE and run another taming (this is an expensive option tho)