[3.20] Ice Dancing Queen - Icestorm/Cyclone/CI - Viable For Everything

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Jesture wrote:

Don't think anyone touched on phantom_god's question, but I see one way to craft the helm and two ways to craft the chest piece.

Helm is outlined in Kelnynn's guide. Buy a base ilvl75-79 with decent es/int and slam an exalted orb on an open suffix for guaranteed % int mod (will either be t1 or t2). Make sure the prefixes are full and you have an open suffix before doing this. Optional step is to craft the helm with Deafening Essence of Spite, guaranteeing a pseudo t1 flat int roll. Once you have the essence mod with reasonable es (200 after crafted is fine) use the hunter exalt for the % int.

For the chest piece you can either start with the prefixes (high ES roles) or the suffixes (%int and/or flat int). I would recommend starting with prefixes by spamming dense fossils if you are low on currency, as it's pretty easy to hit a 600+ ES chest and use that until you can roll something better. My current chest is ~740 ES with no int mods, but it helped me to survive a bunch of content I wouldn't have been able to do otherwise. You can even reroll suffixes later on to fish for int rolls or an open suffix to craft attributes.

If you have some currency to spare you can hit t1 % int and t1 flat int in about ~23 fundamental/dense/pristine fossil crafts, which is about 100c-150c. From there, make sure you have the third suffix and one prefix open (annul and pray if you don't) and craft "can have up to 3 crafted modifiers" as your last suffix. Craft "Suffixes cannot be changed" in the open prefix slot, then hit it with reforge defense more likely harvest craft until you get an ES roll you're satisfied with. This can get expensive as the first crafts will cost 4ex, then each harvest reforge after will require 2ex to recraft the "suffixes cannot be changed" mod.

Hope this helps. Anyone reading feel free to correct me if there's an easier

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Graiaule wrote:

Both instructions are either wrong or (I believe) suboptimal.

1. For the helm, find an ilvl 75-79 hubris with 43-50 int, good ES, and a free suffix. If there's a free prefix (unlikely but..), craft something random on it. Make sure the helm is NOT already influenced. Slam a HUNTER'S orb on it (not a random exalt.) You will get %increased int 100% of the time, sometimes T2 and other times T1.

If you really want to craft with essences, find a synthesized ilvl 75-79 hubris with an affix you like (i.e., one T1 resist.) Then spam deafening essences of spite until you get a good ES roll. Note that the spite essence rerolls ALL affixes on the helm (except the grey synthesized one.)

2. For the chest, the arguably simplest way to do this is to look for a ilvl 75-79 good ES (about 500-550) vaal regalia with TWO open suffixes. Make sure there are no open prefixes, and that it is NOT influenced already. Then slam a crusader orb. You have about a 40% chance to hit %increased int. Then craft 6% increased attributes on it (search for "of Hillock's Veil" chests on trade and keep using Jun until you get the craft. It's a LOT easier now.)

Any other approach to chests costs too much. If you really can craft a killer chest with 23 fossils, well, very cool. Please post your results.

All of the above can be found in multiple places on this thread!

Harvest crafts may improve on the above, but I generally am not able to find any useful harvest crafts. I.e., their spawning is a bit too random.

One other comment. You can then reroll all of the affixes using beastcrafting at a far lower price than buying divine orbs. I'll leave which beast as an exercise for you.

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Firestrike9 wrote:

Then I filled prefixes if needed and crusader slammed for the guranteed increased int %.

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Graiaule wrote:

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Firestrike9 wrote:

Then I filled prefixes if needed and crusader slammed for the guranteed increased int %.

Grats! Unless things have changed a lot, the crusader slam on ilvl 75-79 is only about 40% success rate, and on ilvl 80+ closer to 30% if I remember correctly. The gods are aligned in your favor! (Nice helm by the way.)

How are you doing on resists? I usually have one affix on the chest and helm for resists.