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Are you still adamant on not using spider aspect? 15% more damage for 25% mana and a slow effect is hard to beat imo.

Kinda sad that there are no new additions besides auras and baseline FP buff though.

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Rivx wrote:

Are you still adamant on not using spider aspect? 15% more damage for 25% mana and a slow effect is hard to beat imo.

Kinda sad that there are no new additions besides auras and baseline FP buff though.

I've never been adamant about not using it, I'm just not sure how I would add it onto my build in particular; I can add a mention of it as an option in the guide for 3.6 if you think it's good enough, but I can only make the main guide off of things I've tested.

How would you value it in the build in your experience playing?

I'm uncertain if it's worth a large expense to change one of my (already fairly expensive) rare gear pieces to get it. I'm also uncertain if it will be worth it instead of another aura in 3.6, particularly since it might be worth it to run Zealotry and Hatred.


Hatred and Zealotry auras are a decent buff; and it makes running a +crit chance Hatred Watcher's Eye potentially attractive (pending testing). I think it's possible that the build could be doing 1.5-2x the damage in 3.6 compared to 3.5.

Cant wait to try it out.

Last league I started with FP Totems and it was a blast. Seems like this build receive many buffs, I will give self-cast a try

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Is there a starter guide out for this build? Like how to progress gear until you hit the endgame stuff?

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IWonderBreadI wrote:

Is there a starter guide out for this build? Like how to progress gear until you hit the endgame stuff?

You could check out this general occultist leveling guide:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2451873

In general, I assume in this guide that you can figure the leveling process yourself, because I don't think there is much unique about leveling a self cast freezing pulse character. You progress normally as life based, swap to CI when basic leveling ES gear becomes available, gradually acquire better gear, eventually get a shavs and go low life, etc.

If there are specific questions about leveling with respect to the build, I'll try to answer them and add them to the guide, but I think the leveling process for this build is super generic to any ES based spellcaster.

thanks for pointing to this leveling guide, super helpful

Ok, still waiting on final path of building to double check everything, but I think that the build feels insanely strong with zealotry+hatred+crit chance watcher's eye. I dropped haste and herald of ice and am running a level 10 clarity.

Subjective feel is that the build has somewhere around 2x the damage as 3.5 and has extra ES as a bonus.

Still using the same Freezing Pulse support gems as in the guide?

Keep up the good work mate.

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Dracule wrote:

Still using the same Freezing Pulse support gems as in the guide?

Keep up the good work mate.

So far, yes. Just the auras changed.

Might tinker with unleash sometime but my instinct is the build has too much cast speed for unleash to be good.

the right part of that new tree you just posted doesnt work