[3.6]Winter orb CWC Ice Spear Assassin 2.2m+ Shaper DPS 9kehp - Beginner Friendly. Uber Elder Down

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Tabula is the MVP here. Winter Orb clears remarkably well provided it has dps. Winter has pretty shitty single target dps. CwC has a good mix of both but requires a 6l. Tabula is the answer.

But seriously tho, if you're starting from scratch and afford a tabula, start with a +1 cold gems scepter/wand. You can make them yourself by vendoring a white scepter/wand with a sapphire ring to get that cold gem.

Level 1 - 27
Grab freeze pulse and explosive trap to start.
Both deals pretty great damage as a single link and have great single target as well. Use a +1 gems scepter/wand using recipe or a dagger if you manage to find one with some nice spell damage.

If you have a guild, try to ask them for 2x lifesprigs. Lifesprings make leveling so much easier. alternatively you can try your luck on global 820 if you're cheap. Equip Lifesprigs if once you reach lvl 14. Grab added cold damage link it to your freeze pulse/explosive trap.

Grab herald of ice and thunder asap once you reach act 2.

Grab a ice spear and level it in your spare gem slots

Level 28 - 45
Once you hit level 28, grab winter orb added cold and lesser multiple projs and socket in a 3l wand/scepter +1 cold gems. Use a offhand with spell damage/crit or flat damage. Basically anything that boosts your dps. Equip tabula if you have/can afford one at this point. This set up should be able to carry you all the way till Act 5 without much of a problem. Dont facetank and run around in circles when fighting bosses.



By level 40 you should either have a 3l in a +1 gems setup OR a 4l/5l with spell dps weapons OR tabula with winter orb, cwc and ice spear in that setup.
Take GMP and CWC but dont link it with your WO unless its in a 6l with ice spear.

If youre on gloves 4l, craft +1 to projectile gems/ pierce additional 1 target that huge QoL increase.

The links you should have are as follows:

3L : WO - added cold - LMP

4l : WO - added cold - LMP - Controlled Destruction - (hypothermia)

6l : WO - added cold - GMP - Cont. Des. - CWC - Ice Spear

Affixes you wanna look out for are: Spell/cold/flat damage(cold) ->crit chance -> crit multi/cast speed.

Once you hit 44, swap mainhand for a cerberus limb and try to get a shield such as aeges aurora if you want survivability or light of lunaris if you want dps.

Grab goldrim if youre struggling with resists, grab the gull(38) if you are able to cap resists.

Grab boots with at least 25% MS.

Level 45 - 70

Now would the time when you just finished act 5. Grab resists gears, equip that goldrim that you have been holding off for a while and make sure you get resists on rings.

Grab a brine crown once you hit level 63.

Once you clear act 10 you need to upgrade your resistance gear again. Make sure you are capped(except chaos) or you will have a hard time entering maps.

Level 70+

Do not enter maps without a tabula or with uncapped resistance.
Use discipline to increase your ehp pool.
Grab voidwalkers if you are saving up for a pandemonius.
Upgrade rings and amulet to decent rares (life -> resists -> es)

Mainhand



Cerberus Limb is farmable through delving and I didnt actually buy it. It gives spell leech with a shield with at least 30%block. Prior to Cerberus limb I was using a leveling dagger with crit chance, spell damage and flat damage to spells

Price: Looted

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Offhand


light of lunaris is one the best dps shields out that that complements this build really well. Offering flat damage to spells, loads of crit multi (up to 75% with Rumi's) as well as decent ES, some crit and block chance. Saves me the hassle of getting a rare shield. However, you probably can get a rare shield with much much higher ES.

Price: 20c or so at time of purchase

Other shields that I considered using were:



for synergy with cerberus limb as well as being really defensive due to resists. I started mapping with it and the resists it provided was actually really useful. It costs practically nothing so it's a nice pick me up if you find yourself struggling to survive in maps

You can also use another dagger or a stat stick for this build but I did prefer to go some what defensive due to syndicate encounters

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Helm



Brine Crown post-buff seems to fit the hydrid archetype really well!
Offering a high amount of armour and es as well as up to 100 life, its pretty much a no brainer for the unique headslot. I initially intended to pair it with an aegis aurora but I stucked with this even after changing shields! The 5% less cold damage taken work be useful for shaper and elder/uber elder fights, the mana regen also helps us be self-reliant without leech.

Other than that, hybrid life+es rares would do the trick although you might end up paying quite a high price for good rolls

Price: 5c

If you can't balance resist, a goldrim can help you in the initial stages of the build.

The gull is also another interesting option, although I prefer less variability in my builds.

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Chest

Since I am running aspect of the spider, Fenumus's Shroud is definitely BIS. The 10% mitigation + -10% to resists is really too good to pass up. No life on this chest but youre able to get 400+es with quality from this.

Only other unique chest I considered was the Queen's Hunger. All the offering skills have great synergy with this build plus it offers one of the highest es rolls on a unique chest. up to 10% increased life is a crazy amount of life for an ES chest. Plus the veiled mods can roll some crazy stuff such as spell dodge/Int+quality/120es regen per sec. Super awesome. If I didnt managed to get the spider craft, would have totally gone with this instead.

Price for Fenumus: 85c at time of purchase

Of course the earlier mentioned chests are your endgame chest and you might need to save up for it. Also CWC ice spear definitely needs a 6l to feel good so I would avoid recommending people to use it with a 5l. That being said, I took a while to acquire my chest so I was using a tabula leveled with it till 90. Even with budget gears, I still had around 7.4k ehp with a tabula at around lvl 88 and had not much difficulty with syndicate encounters other than tora. I even managed to down Uber Atziri with a tabula so it's pretty manageable still.

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Gloves





Pair of rare gloves with increased damage against chilled enemies cos you can never have too much dps. Winds of change is an option but was too expensive for what it offered at time of purchase so I went with a rare pair. Resists, life and damage: Much better than WoC and cheaper too.

Price: 10c

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Boots


Another slot for dps. I would say Doryani's Delusion fit this build really well due to hybrid nature as well as flat damage to spells. 30% movespeed
life rolls as well as decent es make this pair pretty hard to beat with a budget.

Price: 17c

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Amulet

BIS for sure. In fact I would prioritise this as the first major upgrade in the build. The increase in clearspeed as well as dps to bosses is very noticeable. Prior to this I was using a crit multi neck with life and resists. Pretty standard stuff.

Price: 2.5ex at time of purchase.

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Rings


Both these rings are pretty expensive but you can definitely make do with cheaper ones. The aspect ring was bought with 4 rolls, bought aspect craft for 35c and crafted -mana to skills. the -mana allows you to channel without running out of mana when not leeching, which is a huge qol for boss fights.

Price: Former: 1.5ex + 1ex es recharge craft. Latter: 15c + 35c craft

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Belt


life resists and the usual stuff. If you can cap resists, craft es regen on belt.

Price: 15c

Flasks



Atziri, rumi and wise oak are your value for money dps flasks. I would upgrade wise oak for dying sun tho.