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

do you think this is viable in the flashback event or too little time?

Any tips for Uber Elder for someone at the baseline viable area? 1750 Int and 10500 ES against UE, can get through about 50% of the fight but then getting overwhelmed.

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Kirian42 wrote:

Any tips for Uber Elder for someone at the baseline viable area? 1750 Int and 10500 ES against UE, can get through about 50% of the fight but then getting overwhelmed.

You should try follow these advises:

- Purity of Ice instead of Herald of Ice
- Blood Rage for 50% increased ES recovery
- Enfeeble instead of Frostbite (Enfeeble was buffed against bosses this league)
- Use Enlighten lv 3 or higher (linked with Discipline and AA) to be able to keep Bonechill linked to AA
- Arctic Armor (Shaper/Elder slams mitigation)
- 2x Sapphire flasks (if possible with additional movement speed)
- 1x Basalt flask for Shaper/Elder slams (physical damage)
- Soul of Yugul (for even more cold damage mitigation) - 85-90% of the damage in this fight is cold damage keep that in mind.
- The Wise Oak for higher DPS (your cold resistance is probably highest due to PoI)
- The Vigil jewel socketed in the slot of Brute Force in Templar area -> 35 seconds of Fortify with just 1 Vigilant Strike successful melee hit - this is HUGE during the fight, it allows you to eat a lot of damage (20% less damage) from bad positioning or full tanking
- 1x Quicksilver flask for slow moments (when Elder slows you)

- Shaper is the most dangerous target in the fight, always keep an eye on him
- i keep my Quicksilver charges for Elder attacks that slows you, when it start to drain your energy in a 180 degree area, use Quicksilver flask and Flame Dash away from that slowing semi-circle.

- most dangerous moments of the fight are when Elder is vulnerable/Shaper is invulnerable but it hits you, you are slowed and you cant leech enough from Elder and need to reposition your toon fast while avoiding Shaper attacks. You can use Sapphire flasks in these moments for higher mitigation also.

- always kill those adds that spwan degen on the ground, that also slow you
- Shaper beam can be easy avoided, just step out a bit (or flame dash) when he cast it and continue the DPS
- Shaper barrage(balls) which is most dangerous skill can also be avoided just by side moving a bit(or flame dash) when he start to fire those balls and continue to DPS the vulnerable target.
- you can hit also an invulnerable target with Vigilant Strike to get Fortify :)

As long as we can leech at full DPS we cant be normally killed

-When they both get to 25% and both become vulnerable you can consider the fight done, just nuke the Shaper fast and after that The Elder and this is it

Other than this it's all about learning the fight while trying it for some times

Hmmm... Kelvynn's boss guide suggests dropping the Blood Rage and switching to Solaris/Lunaris from Arakaali. Do you think Blood Rage is that much better Lil?

Also, Purity of Ice subbing in for Herald of Ice rather than for AA? It seems like the total physical damage is low here (and you're not standing still nearly as much).

Probably the rest for me is, indeed, just practice. Also it feels like dying near the start of add phases is particularly bad, as they spawn but you don't get much time to kill them.

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Kirian42 wrote:

Hmmm... Kelvynn's boss guide suggests dropping the Blood Rage and switching to Solaris/Lunaris from Arakaali. Do you think Blood Rage is that much better Lil?

Also, Purity of Ice subbing in for Herald of Ice rather than for AA? It seems like the total physical damage is low here (and you're not standing still nearly as much).

Probably the rest for me is, indeed, just practice. Also it feels like dying near the start of add phases is particularly bad, as they spawn but you don't get much time to kill them.

AA is used besides physical mitigation in conjunction with Bonechill to give 30% more damage over chilled enemies

Blood rage is ok if you know you will get hit hard often and want to recover fast the lost ES but you can try also with Soul of Solaris and replace Blood Rage with Vortex for example (if you have a white socket where Blood rage is socketed)

Before the adds portals spawn there are couple of seconds when Elder disappear in the air to do its slam and you cant leech too much in those seconds so try not to get hit too much in that interval from Shaper mainly and prepare your Basalt flask for Elder upcoming Slam

lilianmarius' advice is legit. I just beat UE with this build and my mechanics are fairly bad.
This was a fun build to try this league, always wanted to try WI. Thanks!


Also what should I just upgrade next? boots? Gonna waste the remainder of my cash and just start planning for next league.

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Path_Of_Bear wrote:

lilianmarius' advice is legit. I just beat UE with this build and my mechanics are fairly bad.
This was a fun build to try this league, always wanted to try WI. Thanks!


Also what should I just upgrade next? boots? Gonna waste the remainder of my cash and just start planning for next league.

Spoiler

Corrupted Coil with % increased intelligence and/or an Emperor's Wit Cobalt jewel with % increased intelligence would be some upgrades you may do.

Also ES based boots with T1 intelligence and at least T2 movement speed would be something to take in consideration

del

My final craft for this league , couldn't resist and bought this supreme base for 30 exalts(0 exalts left but who cares anyways, currency in Standard i don't need)

Perfect fossil with 1 fossil for 30% quality, a fast alteration spam and lucky regal (got T2 Intelligence, T1 flat ES and T2 %increased ES) 5 divines for max T2 intelligence value and multimod i present you my final boots for this league:



Aren't they a beauty?

Final stats for this char:

Insane Boots, congrats :)