3.1 Capped Dodge White Wind Frost Blades Raider HC Viable

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dxbydt wrote:

Hi Oos, with your defense being based so heavily around dodging attacks, how do you deal with spells? Or are spells not a big enough threat when just clearing maps?

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Hawkly wrote:

The reason its showing as more damage is because you can use frost blades with any weapon, and you have 'is enemy chilled' checked.

Frostbreath in this scenario is hitting, and thus doing 2x more dmg + the more multiplier from dual weilding.

So of course you are going to increase you dps with that off hand, but you lose the dodge.

Edit: Also frostbreath does not work as a stat stick for blade flurry, because the weapon very specifically states "attacks with this weapon" and you're not hitting with it if you are using Blade Flurry.

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NickyTheSquid wrote:

Thanks for this guide, it's super helpful! For the first time ever I started this league without following a guide and I tried a White Wind dodge-stacking freeze-stacking build too. I ended up going ST and it worked out pretty well but after reading this guide, perhaps it was not the best choice (looks like I still have a lot to learn...)

Your skill tree pathing is definitely not what I would have expected going all the way over to elemental overload. I didn't even consider doing that but it looks like a much better way to get damage (and the life along the way) as non-crit build.

Is there any particular reason why you run freeze immunity on your basalt flask? As a raider I find the phasing is nearly permanent so you will never get frozen. And even if you do get frozen, your silver flask will break the freeze on its own (phasing gained from onslaught via the first part of the phasing ascendancy line)

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Oos wrote:

I imported his character and Blade Flurry was selected (not Frost Blades), PoB was saying higher damage but I have no idea why. Odd though.

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Oos wrote:

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EKTELESTES wrote:

Why icebite instead of hypothermia? Aren't you losing a ton of dps?

Hypothermia is probably more single target damage, yes. Use it if you prefer.
Ice bit has 15% chance to freeze which is very important for general map clear, it makes the build safer and procs Herald Of Ice for better AoE.

If anything I would drop Added Cold Damage for Hypothermia. Hypothermia has 10% chance to freeze so that may be a good addition.

edit: Gonna test it out now for a bit and see how it feels instead of Added Cold, cheers.

edit2: I prefer Hypothermia over Added Cold. Damage seems the same but the added freeze is really nice. Thanks for the suggestion.

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Oozeling wrote:

Hello!
Would this build be viable without Pandemonium?

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Mrkip86 wrote:

I Assume for the major one you went lunaris since its the primary defense of the build.
But i'm wondering what minor god you would have taken.