[3.5] Occultist Vortex/Cold Snap ES/CI - Deathless and Safe Uber Elder and T16's

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BoozBear wrote:

Could anyone link me an up-to-date PoB on this build?

Currently just reaching level 70, hc.

I don't think much, if anything, changed for this particular build so you can prob roll with the 3.5 iteration but what the guy above linked is also a good resource if you want up to date ones.

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warxtreme wrote:

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falagar112 wrote:

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Ashtrey wrote:

Too bad you didn't Perfect fossil to 30% first :(

I got a 30% beast corrupt for it, so it's no problem :)

Since I have this on standard, it doesn't matter to much that it's corrupted:

Which fossils did you use?

Only single fossils - dense fossils

They are fairly expensive this league at 13c each, but still worth it. Used around 10, though that is definitely on the lucky side of RNG, expect to use at least double that.

Hi all,

I'm kind of a newbie here, and like many, i have a question about EE on this build.

I know EE can't work with flat cold damage, does it means that it cannot be proc with herald of ice on my build ? And if so, how can i know that the damage output is better with EE than Herald of ice ?

Thanks all for any tips about that :)

I got a 30% beast corrupt for it, so it's no problem :)

Since I have this on standard, it doesn't matter to much that it's corrupted:

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Which fossils did you use?[/quote]

Only single fossils - dense fossils

They are fairly expensive this league at 13c each, but still worth it. Used around 10, though that is definitely on the lucky side of RNG, expect to use at least double that

If you like to gamble and have tons of currency and a strong stomach, go for the fossil crafting
If not, you might be better off spending a couple ex and getting a decent shield than wasting them and ending up with a brick

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Sherubim wrote:

A quick guide to EE (and what it does in this build):

EE will give a 25% increased res to the elemental damage type you last dealt, while providing a -50% lowered res on the other elemental resistances.
So what we want is -50% cold res ofc.
How do we get that?
We proc skills in our weapon (from first (top, left) to last (bottom right), putting them on a 4 sec cooldown.
So we chose to take skills that continously deal (in this case) lightning damage to have the EE effect (storm brand and orb of storms).
The frost bomb effect is just a millisec.
So there are 2 things you have to do 100% or it wont work:
1. get the skills in the right order
2. NEVER EVER have flat cold damage on ANY of your items, icluding gems (it will let you deal near to 0 damage with EE)

Hope that helps

No Heralds on a dot based build, i will do nothing (or not much) for you. EE will give you a damage increase of around 50% on monsters that don't die on the initial hit (like bosses or hard rares). It's supposed to be a boss killer after all.

I seem to be having mana sustain issues so I'm currently solving that by using a mana flask although I would prefer to use another utility flask over it. Is this a playstyle issue? I'm spamming Vortex quite often since the clear is alright but there tends to be stragglers or monsters who don't want to go near the Vortex AOE. I've grabbed the Arcane Will and Shaper nodes for mana regeneration but that just doesn't seem to help enough with how much I'm casting Vortex. Is anyone else running into this issue or should I just be more conservative with my skill usage?

Hey guys, how are you liking Low Life with this build? Looks like it can be converted really easily.
Seems to be adding about 600k Shaper dps (from 1 mil to 1,6 mil) and setting me from 12,375 ES to 10,700.

Do you guys feel like that's worth it?

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BundesHeinz wrote:

Hey guys, how are you liking Low Life with this build? Looks like it can be converted really easily.
Seems to be adding about 600k Shaper dps (from 1 mil to 1,6 mil) and setting me from 12,375 ES to 10,700.

Do you guys feel like that's worth it?

I have played the low life version for a bit and the loss of survivability is not worth the damage increase.

Keep in mind that you are not immune to chaos anymore so you will have to invest in some chaos resist unless you like to get randomly one shot in deep delve or by syndicates and that's w/o mentioning the 2k to 3k es loss.

Low life variant is just for pob warriors to be frank.Realistically you will never see these types of builds ever reach 1k+ delves and do really hard content (deep auls etc.) unless they party with supports.

That's the reason delve is the peak of poe for me.You can't just get off by being glass canon like it used to be in the past(Kill shaper in 0.5 sec).You actually have to make real builds with both damage and survivabiliy.Plus all the min-maxing makes sense now and you can actually put the build to the test.

In the end it really depends on your goals or playstyle.If you don't care about deep delve or dying from time to time and just like big numbers then low life is the go for you.

Ty community for the league. Its Been hard with all the crashes and syndicate falure. Might try this build again next league starter. Goodluck to all for the rest of the synthess and hope for more fixes to league mechanics..

Really tanky and strong build. Killed uber elder in ssf with this a few days ago.
While I really enjoy bosskilling and delving with this, I feel that mapping is a bit slow.

Overall I really enjoy it, thanks for the build guide