[3.6] The Blizz Sorc - Icestorm/Winter Orb CI Occultist - Viable For Everything

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lilianmarius wrote:

He is using Watcher's Eye with % of maximum mana gained as extra maximum energy shield while using Clarity.

Ahh yes that'd do it

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lilianmarius wrote:

Don't underestimate the ES you can gain with this mod it's pretty op

Sure but I wouldn't trade it for ES on hit, and % max mana as ES AND ES on hit is...retarded expensive.

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Kelvynn wrote:

New video: Synthesis Bosses

I finally spawned that retarded RNG gated crap called The Cortex. 72 attempts! And of course it had to have extra life and AoE, so I failed most of the challenges and will need to spawn it again, at least twice more. FML.

So here's all of them now. They do different types of damage, use the matching Purity. If they have a 12% resist penetration mod, bring a matching flask too. And just faceroll them.

Altered - cold, Augmented - fire, everything else - lightning. Really, only the big laser from the Rewritten boss (the golem) can 1-shot, and only at high levels with bad mods. Don't stand in the goop, it slows you down.

If memory bosses gets elemental damage + elemental pen, then they hit really hard.
with ele pen, they hit really hard, and if you cannot avoid the attacks they one shot you. :/

clean kills, congrats :)

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lewo wrote:

If memory bosses gets elemental damage + elemental pen, then they hit really hard.
with ele pen, they hit really hard, and if you cannot avoid the attacks they one shot you. :/

clean kills, congrats :)

Laughs in 18K Energy Shield + 52% maximum ES leech rate :)


P.S. Did few days ago(was level 99 lol...going to 100) a 6-man lv83 Rewritten Boss with double elemental mod + crit chance + crit multi + elemental penetration for end game grinds. Guess what happened, all the "meta" folks where lying dead around about half of the fight and i managed to save the day and kill the boss alone :).
Moments like this one are when i get really proud of how much this build with proper gear can handle.

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psycico wrote:

don't have the white socket either on crafting. can someone please explain the method?

When you encounter syndicate, try to have Vorici in Research job (with best possible rank). Then when you get access to research safehouse you'll be able to add white sockets to one (or two if Vorici is the leader) items.

Get 5 blue 1 green, it's good enough to play and not very hard to get (just replace cold penetration with another blue dps gem), then when you get Vorici in research add white sockets and replace this blue gem with cold penetration

4 blue 2 green would not be hard. Did you even try?

Yes I tried and had very bad RNG. It was at the beginning of the league so I didn't have a lot of chromatics and I got Vorici in research faster than 200 chromatics.

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Kelvynn wrote:

No matter how you get to the point when you need to annul a junk mod, it's 1/3 chance then, so expect to do it 3 times.

I failed my 6th attempt... will try again tonight

Hey lilian any advice for using a talisman instead of an astramentis? I picked up one with decent mods (31 to all attr and 15% inc) but getting my Dex and Str up is going to be extremely difficult. I looked at your tree and see where you took out the Breath of Rime cluster to pick up more strength and dex but when I did that I lost a huge amount of DPS. My INT went up by nearly 100 but it seemed like I barely broke even on the damage...although my ES was up by almost 500 so perhaps it is worth it.

I'm still going to tinker a bit more to see what can be done. I'm about to hit Lv 96 but I don't know if that's high enough to make good use of a talisman as you really have to spread the points around to get those stats up.

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lewo wrote:

If memory bosses gets elemental damage + elemental pen, then they hit really hard. With ele pen, they hit really hard, and if you cannot avoid the attacks they one shot you. :/

Only the Rewritten one. The rest are trivial with the matching purity even at lv 83 with any mods. For the Rewritten with bad mods, you just dodge the laser ('Light of salvation!'). And they even fixed the bug in the latest patch where something kept damaging you near the middle after it died.

Talisman update:

Ok so I did some testing. In order to keep my stats up after swapping out Astramentis I had to remove the Breath of Rime and Divine Judgement clusters.

This gave me the 8 points I needed to add Trickery, Expertise and Ancestral Knowledge. Also added Alacrity and swapped out two Brute Force Solutions for two Fertile Minds. Also had to swap out one jewel to add a little strength.

Here is what happened:

Original stats at Lv 95 with Astramentis:

Clear Staff: 4537 DPS
Boss Staff: 11506 DPS

Mana: 1931
Int: 2159
Str: 122
Dex: 120
ES: 11777

New Tree at Lv 95 with Talisman:

Clear Staff: 4553 DPS
Boss Staff: 11554 DPS

Mana: 2018
Int: 2367
Str: 120
Dex: 113
ES: 12719

So the only real bonus here is almost 1000 ES with a bit more recharge and mana regen. I had to give up 6% elem pen and a lot of chill and freeze effects. Tried out a Tier 11 map and noticed the lack of chill and freeze making mobs a bit faster but wasn't too bad. I'm 85% to Lv 96 so getting another level would allow me to pick up Cold Damage, Freeze and Chill Duration which would give me some of that enemy slowdown back.

I'm going to run a few more maps to see how this feels. I don't like giving up the freeze, chill and elem pen but having another 1000 ES is pretty nice. I doubt I'm going to make it past Lv 96 so if I keep these changes then I'll have to live with it.

Thoughts? Does this seem like too much to give up for 1,000 ES? Here is the talisman I'm using for reference:

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KiadawP wrote:

Get a ring with an open Prefix. Het one of the member here like Lilian to help craft -7mana. I can only craft -5 mana unfortunately.

I got -6, is that good enough or -7 is the magic number?

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Kelvynn wrote:

Did you forget to upgrade Arakaali? There is no point in using BR when it's not upgraded.

137 mana is fine. Enchant your boots.

4600 ES can take you to T5 maps, but you need to upgrade and level up if you want to go further.

And you need to use the recommended links. Check the Sockets and Links section. Bonechill should be linked with AA, not with HoI. Not using CWDT -IC also reduces your survivability.

I just upgraded the Arakaali to level 2, will test BR again when I am 80ish.
I did my merc lab and upgraded a few items, now standing at 5895 ES and I can clear up to tier 10 maps w/o dying.

Corrected the Bonechill-AA link, thanks for pointing out. Also re-set up CWDT-IC as well (due to change of gear, I did not have enough dex to support my level 17 IC, have to re-start at level 1)

Out of curiosity, how do you craft 6% implicit? The price of readily 6% int (non corrupted seems a bit too high (7.8 Ex)

What would you combine in the synthesizer to make fractured mod +54 intelligence gloves?