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

Thanks for the feedback

Thanks for the 2 detailed replies.

With those steps for 3red 1green I probably won't have enough chromes for that RNG, I don't have the "at least 3 red" even thought I've been delving a lot. I will look out for it though. I have 5ex, heaps of chaos atm if a 21/20 Vortex was 12% increase--showing big increase for me--then I think 1 ex is worth it.


As for the Uber Atziri reply, great news. I am going to try shaper soon but a spider mod with enlighten auras, maybe the similar weapon that can squeeze CDOT--onslaught buff useless for bosses--and a 21/20 vortex should be more than enough. Guardians die really fast.

I am probably going to have to really spend some currency fine tuning my ES up to 12k+ with skinm atm I am 10.7k but to beat my current gear it's really spiking up in cost plus the resistence dance start all over again if I replace 1 piece.

I managed to get a better second ring that added 250es, put recharge chant on it but I need to get 2 that have cold damage but res reqs are holding me back. Knowing I am only playing this build for SC league is a lot better on the budget.

I am going to go for those 2 jewel sockets intx2 socket, ele dmgx2 socket next. I could go dbl curse and I guess manually cast 1 curse? Not sure if that would be better. I would have to not have enlighten then so I am not sure if you could even run spider then.

You have temporal chains on your build but mention Aspect of the Spider, which one is better? Although, I cant have Spider, Enfeeble and discipline active all at the same time. Not enough mana. Any suggestions?

Tried this build today and cleared Uber Elder. Damage feels really lacking, no where near traps/mines, but the survivability is nice though. I had Mana issues until I got 4 Mana nodes on the tree and a socket for a Mana jewel. How do you scale the damage up?

Well I just one shot shaper deathless I didn't even use a flask besides quicksilver during intermission lol. Damage was definitely not an issue, I think I dropped to 8k es once and I am not even closed to optimized. He did like 1 beam per phase, that was it lol. Uber Atziri is next goal but I can't get elder just yet.

What's great is you can kite just of melee range and always be moving. I mean to be honest phase run is just a bonus for trash clearing it feels, not having to stop when doing your main attack always means you're kiting.

Have to love using 36c of frags to get a 2alc unique though lol.

I'd love to have started with this build on HC league, I think I will next league. The balance between dmg and tankiness is amazing.

What could be tweaked to increase single target DPS? I was farming delve around 550-620 and boss fights take damn long (I am looking at you 60% life endurance charge Aul). I am using this build only for delving, do AoE clear for maps is not a big concern for me. Thanks for advices.

Is there any issue with adds element damage to spells? i think not supposed to use cold because it messes with lightning skills and ele equilibrium, are other sources like fire or lightning ok?

I have create this char yesterday, my curent es is 10k5, damage is fine i could do t16 deathless but havent try uber elder yet
Any advice for me to upgrade, becuz my h/o tooptip only 17k, people here say taht its 100-200k

Took me about 2400 alterations, but I finally got the T1 roll :)

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xxtntctxx wrote:

I have create this char yesterday, my curent es is 10k5, damage is fine i could do t16 deathless but havent try uber elder yet
Any advice for me to upgrade, becuz my h/o tooptip only 17k, people here say taht its 100-200k

Hi, 17k tooltip is very good, when you look into the vortex stats, you will see "deals 200k cold dmg per second". thats what the people metioned here.

But you need to change your weapon, because it has cold dmg to speels on it.
That will mess up your EE