[3.5] The Blinding Blizzard - Whispering Ice CI Elequisitor - Viable For Everything

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popochka wrote:

I didnt get it, how are you supposed to make room for combustion (which will be linked with orb of storms for the high crit chance) if you remove faster attacks ?

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popochka wrote:

Oh right ok.

Are you sure about having to drop izaro's turmoil and the elementalist node ? The elemental focus gem says "the supported skill can not inflict elemental ailments" so I would have think it overrides any chance to ignite we get from any source.

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Kelvynn wrote:

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svarions23 wrote:

How about the new corrupt implicit mod on belt that gives upp to +6% int? Will u try to get 1 of those in Cyclopean Coil?

Also that mod is aviable in rings too, so +12% int corrupt lol.

Of course, it would be great. But it's a lottery. You either get lucky, or you don't. I suppose some of that may be up for sale one day, but it's too random.

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svarions23 wrote:

But wait! There is more!

U can double corrupt an item and get up to +12% intelligence, that means Belt+2 ring with double corrupt will net up to 36% intelligence!

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NoImagination wrote:

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mqecco wrote:

(4–6)% increased Intelligence
(4–6)% increased Dexterity

(4–6)% increased Dexterity
(4–6)% increased Strength

(4–6)% increased Strength
(4–6)% increased Intelligence

Amulets(0.99%) Rings(1.02%) Belts(1.24%)

So we have new yolo corruptions in new league.

Belt definitely seems doable. Ideally we want one of the %int boosts, but we can also live with 15% discipline or 8% ES. You'll hit int boost 50% of the time in your first 27 tries. You'll hit one of the OK corruptions 50% of the time in your first 14 tries. Let's say a 15% Coil is ~50c after a few weeks, and we're looking at ~715c total for a 50% shot.

Going for %int on end game amulets seems basically impossible - I reckon that 10+ %attributes & 1% damage per 15 int amulets with multimod takes about 1,250c in alts alone.

Astramentis is doable though, at ~30c per try, you'll need 33 tries to get a ~50% chance at %int. We can also live with 0.5% fire damage leech, +1% max resists, 8% move speed, or 15% discipline. In that case, we take 11 tries to get a 50% shot at one of them, so let's say 350c for a 50% shot.

Rings perhaps you can take a 50 int, 60 resists, 20 ES for 25c or something, but we can only live with three outcomes - int/dex, int/str, and 15% discipline. That's 22 attempts to have a 50% shot at those 3, or 33 attempts for just int/dex. That works out as ~575c and ~850c respectively, for a 50% shot.

So while it's expensive, it's not totally yolo to get significant upgrades. I reckon our EV is about 35ex mid-season to hit something we can live with in all four slots. Of course, this goes up when we're all sitting around trying to buy the same items, and it probably means Vaal Orbs are more valuable than previous seasons.

Trying to get %int on all four items is about twice that, 70ex. Trying to get double % int via double corrupt is too expensive for anyone, I imagine.

As an aside, perhaps 0.5% damage leech on the amulet is actually better than 6% increased int? It gives us ~+40% damage via Fire Pen or Hypothermia as our 6th socket without needing two mods on the Watcher's Eye.

Do other builds use Cyclopean Coil or Astramentis? Do other builds need int on rings? As we'd need to keep an eye open for corrupting in ways that help those builds, to recoup some costs.