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

Confirmed. Tried my first beachhead. Instance crash at start of boss loading in. I had pre-casted a couple whispering ice, but far fewer than I normally do so I don't think it was that.

I was running it solo.

I've never tried Atziri before in game, so at level 84 I decide, hey why not. We are talking normal here.

First bosses, died practically before they could spawn.

Second three bosses, yawn, died.

Atziri herself. First two forms easy, then the 4 things show up with the reflect and well damn.

I put on the anti-reflect ring and the pantheon, but even trying my best to avoid the reflect form (I did read up on the fight) some of the aoe would hit and spank me hard. I died twice, but I'm a noob so ok, died a third time but the ice storm was still going and it killed the form I was targeting, resulting in a suddenly CTD closed window I've never had in POE and when I logged back on I had no portals. Apparently killing it while dead crashed the game completely for me.

So obviously I'll call these deaths due to my Atziri noobness, so what strats do people use to keep the aoe from hitting the reflect form. Maybe I'm answering my own question thinking about this, but try to target a corner and hope the overlap only hits that one? (Ok now I feel kinda stupid for asking but I did write this out...)

You cannot cast on the Mirror, only the Elementalist version could do that.

When Atziri fades away, stop casting immediately, go to the center and watch the statues. When the statues start to fade in, look above the head of the front one. You can see very early if she's holding the mirror or not. If she is, then target the opposite statue. And only then start casting.

If you die to the statues, stay dead for a few sec, let Icestorm kill them, and then respawn before Atziri comes back.

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Kelvynn wrote:

If you die to the statues, stay dead for a few sec, let Icestorm kill them, and then respawn before Atziri comes back.

I knew the basics, problem was the aoe would accidentally hit it a bit and poof. I did do the let it die while I'm dead thing, and my game completely crashed out and I lost all portals.

Anyone else having trouble with this build in the Chayula Realm? I lost one breachstone due to the timer running out. Any tips?

Uber Atziri has been added to the Boss Guide.

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Edeka wrote:

Anyone else having trouble with this build in the Chayula Realm? I lost one breachstone due to the timer running out. Any tips?

I haven't done Chayula in this league, it's really damn expensive now. But the old strategy should still work fine, especially since you do more DPS now than in 2.5:

- Use a Breach Ring with as much Int/All Stats as you can find.
- Replace Enfeeble with Flammability.
- Replace CE with CD.
- Replace FP with Inc Duration.
- Bring a Quicksilver flask or two with extra speed.

I assume you also need Chaos resist there. Replace your other ring with Ming's Heart. Or just use 2 Breach rings with high Int and Chaos res.

Keep moving. Never stop. Ignore the rares in this domain, they teleport, evade and basically waste your time. Inc Duration will make sure that the mobs you leave behind will die.

Here's the old video from 2.5 (with CI, pre-nerf Pyre, etc. but the main strategy is the same).

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Kelvynn wrote:

Uber Atziri has been added to the Boss Guide.

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Edeka wrote:

Anyone else having trouble with this build in the Chayula Realm? I lost one breachstone due to the timer running out. Any tips?

I haven't done Chayula in this league, it's really damn expensive now. But the old strategy should still work fine, especially since you do more DPS now than in 2.5:

- Use a Breach Ring with as much Int/All Stats as you can find.
- Replace Enfeeble with Flammability.
- Replace CE with CD.
- Replace FP with Inc Duration.
- Bring a Quicksilver flask or two with extra speed.

I assume you also need Chaos resist there. Replace your other ring with Ming's Heart. Or just use 2 Breach rings with high Int and Chaos res.

Keep moving. Never stop. Ignore the rares in this domain, they teleport, evade and basically waste your time. Inc Duration will make sure that the mobs you leave behind will die.

Here's the old video from 2.5 (with CI, pre-nerf Pyre, etc. but the main strategy is the same).

Thanks for the quick and detailed reply, I am currently doing my last challenge for 40, and I will try it out as soon as possible.

U da mvp <3

I much prefer this version than the previous ES version, although chaos is a small issue now, still feels nice.

Decided to do Uber lab at level 76, no issues, currently just clearing my map pool around t10, still no issues.

A few stuns here and there making things sketchy if I manage to flamedash into a pack, can be annoying to start the ice storm cascade.

Normal Atziri was a cakewalk, died once to trio because they moved around alot, oversouls died near instantly to pre-casted icestorm though.

I run with inc AoE for mapping though, and swapping in Conc for bosses or more tighter area maps.

Now i just need to focus on getting life, finding life/res/high int gear that doesn't cost a ton can be a chore though.

Enjoying this build, though I don't have the resources to get the preferred uniques for it. Hoping some things eventually drop.

Any thoughts on alternatives to purity of xxx and flame golem? I really have never needed any purity unless I do a map with elemental weakness. Also flame golem just won't stay alive for me on maps near my level so is kind of a pain for a few percent damage increase.

I had a vaal summon skeletons drop and find it has some good situational value. I pop it before doing strongboxes and arena bosses and some other things. Basically not much hits you when 30 skeletons are around, even if you get surrounded.

I'm wondering if anything else is worth considering. I guess we don't want an aura as it will drop the mana pool, and something like herald of ice would only do half the damage and also reserve mana. Is anything else useful?

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shrunn57 wrote:

Enjoying this build, though I don't have the resources to get the preferred uniques for it. Hoping some things eventually drop.

Most of the stuff is pretty cheap apart from Kaom's - and even then a cheap rare can substitute carrying you through T15 Maps. Astramentis isn't budget, but its not that expensive either. Everything else can be picked up on a budget unless you're looking to do T16/Shaper.

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shrunn57 wrote:

Any thoughts on alternatives to purity of xxx and flame golem? I really have never needed any purity unless I do a map with elemental weakness. Also flame golem just won't stay alive for me on maps near my level so is kind of a pain for a few percent damage increase.

Purity of XXX is really for T16 guardians. Purity of Elements is for ele weakness maps since its hard to overresist cap to 109% otherwise unless you run a second resist ring. Flame golem is a marginal damage buff, you probably won't even notice dropping it. Half the time when it dies for me I don't even bother resummoning. I don't find myself needing the damage.

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shrunn57 wrote:

I had a vaal summon skeletons drop and find it has some good situational value. I pop it before doing strongboxes and arena bosses and some other things. Basically not much hits you when 30 skeletons are around, even if you get surrounded.

Strongboxes shouldn't be a concern on this build. Just pre-cast icestorms and watch everything instantly die.

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shrunn57 wrote:

I'm wondering if anything else is worth considering. I guess we don't want an aura as it will drop the mana pool, and something like herald of ice would only do half the damage and also reserve mana. Is anything else useful?

I always like running a CWDT - Immortal call - Inc Duration. Even without endurance charges it still provides damage against stuff like multiple porcupines exploding in a row (and them being far enough away that they are all dead when the spikes hit you, so you don't leech) but that is also something you can play around. I ran herald of ice some when I was leveling, but dropped it for the extra health later.