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

Started playing this build a week ago and I love it! This is the first league I really started playing the game (like many, I finally gave up on D3), started with Enkis Arc Witch, which is also very fun, but kind of squishy and made this char second. Love the tankyness and the damage is also very nice. Spent like 10 ex on my gear so far, have like 3-4 ex to spend atm. I know there is a lot of improvement to make, but what are the cheapest gear slots I can upgrade? My resistances are really high for example, i have like 120+ in every slot, so I guess I could tune that down a bit for more damage. Thanks for any help!

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and then either Cold Resistance Penetration, Damage on Full Life, or one other useful mod, then craft on the Trigger a Socketed Spell when you Use a Skill

Do you mean Cold dmg over time multiplier?
Or does cold penetration actually effect our DoT?

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Freusch wrote:

Started playing this build a week ago and I love it! This is the first league I really started playing the game (like many, I finally gave up on D3), started with Enkis Arc Witch, which is also very fun, but kind of squishy and made this char second. Love the tankyness and the damage is also very nice. Spent like 10 ex on my gear so far, have like 3-4 ex to spend atm. I know there is a lot of improvement to make, but what are the cheapest gear slots I can upgrade? My resistances are really high for example, i have like 120+ in every slot, so I guess I could tune that down a bit for more damage. Thanks for any help!

You have a nice char overall! I would recommend to upgrade your helmet first, 184ES is kinda of low now with fossils crafts. You can easily reach 250+ with spaming fossils on it!


Upgrade on my stuff I finally managed to craft a more decent weapon after spending hundreds of chaos and thousands of alte.



I also corrupted my old Vaal regalia and got something nice

Hello, I am just about to start leveling using this guide. Looking forward to it. Looks like fun.
One thing I wish was a part of most guides, but is not, is a leveling item filter the poster would use when leveling with the build.
As a fairly new player I have tried to make my own filters, but often find myself wondering if I have hidden something I want to see, or not highlighted something enough and so on.
So if it wouldn't be to much hassle, I would think many newer players would appreciate having that in a guide. For instance if you plan on updating the build for the next league, I think that would be a good addition.

But anyways, thanks for spending your time making this guide, I am going to start leveling now!

I have a question regarding Elemental equilibrium in this build. Maybe someone can explain:

I need to use either cold snap or Vortex in order to trigger one of the lightning spells in the sceptre. But both cold spells "hit" the enemies with cold damage first.
EE would only work in my benefit if I cast Vortex/cold snap where no enemies are standing and I'd have to kite them into the DOT area...

Is my assumption correct?

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ashnixi wrote:

I have a question regarding Elemental equilibrium in this build. Maybe someone can explain:

I need to use either cold snap or Vortex in order to trigger one of the lightning spells in the sceptre. But both cold spells "hit" the enemies with cold damage first.
EE would only work in my benefit if I cast Vortex/cold snap where no enemies are standing and I'd have to kite them into the DOT area...

Is my assumption correct?

Until you don't have anything on your stuff which add cold damage to spell your EE will proc. Yeah at first monsters will gain cold res but the elec will proc just after and you will finally get the -50% cold on them!

Would love to see some videos of t16 clear from this build...
OP posted a few, but its was like 2 weeks into the league and i think his gear wasnt great at that time...

I did it - I mean: WE did it!

Killed UberElder. First time ever! THANKS for this amazing build!

Hint: Aspect of Spider rocks! My Pob is now 350k with Vortex.

My Gear:



My PoB: https://pastebin.com/gLif7F3L

I see discussion scattered throughout the threads here and in the OP in the section where solstice vigil is discussed) that talk about using temporal chains as a second curse. How is that possible with this build since it doesn't have +1 curses anywhere? For those of you who are using temporal chains, what gem slot did you give up? Can it only be used with solstice vigil so you still have enough mana res to run enfeeble and aspect of the spider (AND discipline, or do folks just use that for the vaal version?)

Thanks!

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Sir_I_Exist wrote:

I see discussion scattered throughout the threads here and in the OP in the section where solstice vigil is discussed) that talk about using temporal chains as a second curse. How is that possible with this build since it doesn't have +1 curses anywhere? For those of you who are using temporal chains, what gem slot did you give up? Can it only be used with solstice vigil so you still have enough mana res to run enfeeble and aspect of the spider (AND discipline, or do folks just use that for the vaal version?)

Thanks!

You can have Enfeeble aspect of the spider Discipline AND temporal chain up at the same time. But you absolutely need to have the amulet up to get temporal chain for free. Obviously it also means you need +2 curses, one from the tree and one from your gears. On the paper it would work for me but maybe I'm missing something around.

Also I try to calculate the DoT on PoB and I obtain that. To get this dot I need to cast Cold Snap before to chill the mobs around.

https://imgur.com/a/ia203QZ