ShakCentral’s Vortex Occultist: Beginner-Oriented | All Content | Budget | HC, SSF, & Console

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VidarNanowish wrote:

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Shakker12 wrote:

❆ Get you a Quicksilver Flask from Nessa and buy Orb of Storms. Get Frost Bomb from Tarkleigh and check wands / boots. You want 2 items with BG links now. Gems should be linked as follows: Explosive Trap with Arcane Surge, and (if you’ve hit lvl 4) Frost Bomb with Onslaught.

Ingame tool tips displays arcane surge isn't compatible with explosive trap. Is it an error ?

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Killerlotus wrote:

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Fireviperrr wrote:

Thank you very much for the guide, very helpful. One thing I don't understand yet: why level six Vortex gems? What's the purpose?

Once again, many thanks, I subscribed to your Twitch channel as a small thank you.

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If you don’t have 6 Vortex gems leveling in your weapon swap yet, get them going.

After getting gems to level 20 you either sell them for chaos to get better gear or continue upping their Quality to 20 and try your luck Vaaling them for a chance to get lvl 21/20q gem.

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roselan wrote:

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Fresh2000 wrote:

3. Phase run, not sure why is that with CWDT link, is the idea for this to activate when we are being hit? why there is no level cap on it then? I don't really see use for it when using Flame Dash but again I never used Phase run before.

4. I am leveling storm brand, frost bomb and orb of storms but getting the needed crafting things seems impossible and so far at this time, especially multiple mods one that I am not sure if I will ever be able to use them as intended in this guide. I am not even sure how to get needed prophecies for that pale court thingy.

5. Why we use Vaal Cold snap? I managed to get it now but the vaal version doesn't seem needed, everything dies with use of vortex and cold snap (at least not yet I'm in act 7)

6. I constantly have issues with Mana, and I only use discipline aura, I was wondering if it is because I constantly mash Vortex, cold snap, frost bomb, flame dash and that is not a way this build is intended to be played...

3. Phase run is no triggered by cwdt as it's too high level. You have to use it manually. However it benefits from increased duration, like Immoral Call does. (As a support, increased duration doesn't need to be "triggered", which is nice). quick edit: the hard part is getting "int/es" boots with 3 red slots.

4. You need pale court only for multimod crafting. until maps you only need "trigger as socketed spell when you use a skill". I don't remember which syndicate member has the craft thou. Until maps, any damage on the weapon is a bonus. I did beat Kitava on a claw with the suffix... (but not in HC).

5. It's a nice damage boost against big bad bosses and syndicate, damage stacks with vortex and (normal) cold snap, and both benefits from all our dot+cold bonuses. Plus normal cold snap applies bonechill. It all adds up pretty nicely for bosses, or even fast mapping as the cooldown is low.

6. The best way to mitigate mana issue is one of the mana 2 enchants for boots. (i prefer the 0.6 leech one, SonsOfKorhal prefers the 2% one). Until then, yes, it's hard. I only use vortex, and sometimes flame dash, very seldom cold snap and both vaal skills (bosses). Other spells are triggered automatically.

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roselan wrote:

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Killerlotus wrote:

Hey there, I was looking through your build and didn't find any mentions about https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Malachai%27s_Artifice.

For the price it normally costs it's a considerable damage boost that you can pop on the boss for that juicy -50% cold res.
It has some downsides like taking slot of crafted stat ring and denying gear that adds raw cold spell damage, but still can be considered into this build if you can manage minuses it comes with.

The tree goes right by elemental equilibrium, you can take that keystone and use a normal ring too.

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Suporex wrote:

Died at 55 in Act 6 last location. Build is good and fun but lacks defenses for HC I feel, and it needs some as you need to jump into monsters to cast Vortex. I imagine later it will shine. I wonder as well if it would be better to get CI earlier for chaos/poison immunity (I think it was poison + hits from other monsters that got me).

I am thinking about using this on console tho but for SC char.