[3.5] Ryu's CI Winter orb CWC Ice spear Occultist - Lv 100 - 1M+ DPS

+ Can be played as a budget/starter.
+ No leeching (except mana).
+ Insanely fast start-up of energy shield recharge.
+ Can Facetank most things in the game even without leech.
+ Herald of Ice explosions.
+ 9k ES

- Can get expensive real fast.
- Addicting.
- Cannot do Ele reflect.
- Cannot do Atziri
- Cannot turn to MF very well.
- Cannot do SSF

So when i was designing this build, i thought about that i wanted a build, that has insanely fast startup of ES, so i dont actually need to leech. I got to around 0.84 Sec, and if i pair that with Blind, Enfeeble, Temp chains, Chill/Freeze, and Reduced action speed from Pandemonius. I become nearly immortal.
+ Added CWDT Ball lightning with Knockback For more protection.

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There are few different Leveling trees Inlcuded.

Ive personally leveled with freeze pulse until around 40-45 level untill i got myself a Five link.
As for the skill tree, you want to take almost all the Cold damage Nodes first. Then the Hybrid Life/ES, the rest of the Ele/Cold nodes, then ES nodes, Crit nodes and Power charges, And a few mana nodes and Dex/Str Nodes If you need them.

As for the Ascendanices, you want to take Void Beacon first. Wicked Ward and Vile Bastion next. and Lastly Forbidden Power.

Pantheon, We want Soul of Arakaali, for reduced damage taken from Damage Over time, (For ignite , cause we are immune to Bleed/Poison.
And then Soul of Abberath for 50% reduced Ignite duration of You. This makes a pretty big difference against fire Bosses. So keep that in mind.

Main setup - Winter Orb / Cast While Channeling / Ice Spear / Greater Multiple Projectiles / Power Charge On Crittical / Controlled Destruction.



Helmet - Temp chains / Blasphemy / Vaal Discipline / Enlighten


Gloves - Cast when damage taken / Ball Lightning - Greater Multiple Projectiles / Knockback


Boots - Cast when damage taken / Immortal Call / Enfeeble / Lightning Golem


Shield - Flame Dash / Faster Casting / Arcane Surge


Weapon - Herald of Ice / Vaal Righteous Fire / Frost Bomb

BiS Body would be 900+ES chest, but Incandecent Heart is extremly good because of Elemental damage Gained as extra Chaos, And 25% Elemental damage Hits taken as chaos. What this means is that its basically removing 25% elemental damage taken, because we are CI.


Helmet, Just one or two Resists and As much ES as you can get, For budget The Vertex is extremely Good.


Gloves, again one or two Res and As much ES as you can get.


Boots, 30% Move speed, Res, and ES, Enchanting for 0.6% Leech is BiS.


Belt, Ive used Bated Breath for so long, its so good. But later on replace with a good Crystal belt.


Amulet, Pandemonius is BiS obviously, but you can use any spell damage/crit/ES/Res/Stats ammy You can get for the money.


Rings, Stats/Res/ES, Also the Craft 18-24% Faster start of ES recharge is BiS.


Shield, Apeps is a Pretty good Shield because we can forget about Bleed entirely cause Degens of any sort are a huge Counter to this build. It also adds Faster start of ES recharge, and the occasional +3% Max res.
You can possibly get 450+ES Shield, but wouldnt recommend.


Weapon, Void battery is BiS, Since we are scaling alot of damage from power charges. This is pretty good boost to damage. Untill you get your hands on this just juse 130% Spell damage wand. Its still going to work Very nicely.


For flasks, You want Dying sun, This flask is extremly good for our build.
Then the Diamond flask, Quicksilver, Basalt or Silver flask and Atziris Promise.


For Jewels, you want a watchers eye with Faster Startup of ES recharge, A rare Jewel with Stats / Crit Multi / ES , And a Energy from Within.

Playstyle - is very simple, you charge your Winter orb on a few stacks and run around like a mad lad.

Bossing - For the most part you just stay in one place, watching a movie on your second monitor and holding your Winter orb button.

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