[3.5] Scold Snap™ - a low-life league starter Cold Snap Occultist

Tyvm Sicu!!! I had made my own levelling trees before but had no idea you could import to that spot.

Very cool

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Maxpoggi wrote:

I don't think we can fit Arctic Breath unless we drop curses, so we might have to put Bonechill on Vortex. We're also missing an immortal call cwdt setup already, but admittedly I'm not sure how much it is needed as I haven't played the build in its current state.

As for the new nodes, the two cold clusters on the north of the Witch area are close enough that you should be getting them, and pathing for Fingers of Frost results in more damage than the minion wheel so it's probably correct to go for that one as well.

Importing a poeurl skill tree link into Path of Building:
1. Open PoB to the skill tree. I recommend starting with a blank, unsaved build, to ensure you don't accidentally over-write anything you were working on.
2. Use the "import tree" button at the very bottom of the window (not the same menu as importing a pastebin).
3. Paste either the poeurl link or the full pathofexile.com skill tree link. PoB accepts either.

CWDT - Immortal Call:
Hot damn, do I love this gem combination for pretty much every build I play. If you can find a way to fit that 2L setup in somewhere without losing build functionality, do it. This advice is massively relevant for HC players, and even more so for ES-based builds.

Your take on the new nodes:
I 100% agree. North side wheel (Breath of Rime) is worth it, but much less so for a life-based build. Maybe if we went Eldritch Battery we'd have a good excuse for pathing up there? Northeast wheel (Fingers of Frost) also seems worth it, and appears to be valuable for a wider variety of cold DoT casters.

Grab 'em both if you've got enough points to do it. They're nice.

edit: To clarify, that last bit was more my endorsement of your take on the skill tree, than direct advice to you. You already know your way around - I just wanted to be sure that anyone else reading this thread is aware that I agree.

Thoughts on taking Ghost Reaver if using Cerberus Limb and a shield with 30% + block? Looks like ~600 ES Leeched/hit with my suboptimal gear in PoB. I'll likely be going CI since playing private league and unsure of likelihood of acquiring Shav's with starter char in a reasonable timeframe.

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jtedrick wrote:

Thoughts on taking Ghost Reaver if using Cerberus Limb and a shield with 30% + block? Looks like ~600 ES Leeched/hit with my suboptimal gear in PoB. I'll likely be going CI since playing private league and unsure of likelihood of acquiring Shav's with starter char in a reasonable timeframe.

Definitely not. Ghost Reaver's drawback is brutal, and makes the keystone do more harm than good for any DoT build. The most awesome part of being an Occultist is the 4 seconds of near-invincibility that you get when your ES recharge kicks in. Why would you want to deny yourself that mechanic?

If you really want to work Ghost Reaver into a Cold Snap build, maybe consider switching up the build paradigm so you can spam spells and focus more on the upfront damage of your spells:

-Winter's Bounty (the cold snap threshold jewel)
-Romira's Banquet
-Doedre's Elixir (if you're really bad at managing those blue balls)

In early November, I came across a guy with a lvl 99 life + MoM Trickster Cold Snapper. He used these items (not Doedre's Elixir, just the two good ones) but his account was set to private, so all I could see was his gear. My point: it works. You *could* do it, even though I 100% would not.

Wondering if it's going to be better to run arctic breath + pierce as the main skill with cold snap as the bonechill proc, and swapping them for bossing?

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boomersoonr wrote:

Wondering if it's going to be better to run arctic breath + pierce as the main skill with cold snap as the bonechill proc, and swapping them for bossing?

"Why don't you try it for yourself and find out?" -GGG devs

No seriously, I have no idea. Arctic Breath just got a rework, so your guess is as good as mine.

Cold Snap: 1196.3 DoT
Arctic Breath: 1089.2 DoT

Not much of a difference at all. Good luck!

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boomersoonr wrote:

Going to league start with this, or something very similar.

Thoughts on EB + MoM before transitioning to CI/LL?

edit: my only worry is clearspeed in incursions, guess we will see

First. i was playing this build before launch a betrayal.
i've got feeling nice clear speed with leveling and juicy MoM.
i wasn't use EB. only MoM(30~40% Mana reserved for Clarity and Arctic Armour).

Really tanky better than Armor Marauder Leveling, Sometimes cold snap cooldown makes me annoying.
I'll use Arctic Breath(With GMP) instead of Cold snap. It feels better Clearspeed and nice combination with Bonechill support.

And i think about Incursions...
Clearspeed is doesn't matter. maybe 'Vaal' cold snap is better than Incursions.
I'm not worry about it. Just worry about "when we respec to CI or LL".

Sorry for my bad english. Good luck.

what do you think about new Void Beacon and Frigid Wake?

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Backho wrote:

what do you think about new Void Beacon and Frigid Wake?

They should replace Profane Bloom and Malediction nicely. I've discussed this previously in the thread comments.

what do you guys think of the following leveling mom life tree?

https://pastebin.com/gEZspYeC