[3.24] Frostbolt/Ice Nova Hierophant | 100m DPS | All Content

just got my mapping boots, elusive and tailwind. Makes me feels like a zoomer

Well rounded build, did uber lab at 68 as soon i got staff on :) sometimes it is hard to hit some metas but otherwise its a blast! Missing alot of gear still but it feels strong! Did level with 2h staff fb+nova, was ok actually. Gj and thx for this build m8!

How does this build perform in high tier red maps? How is the survival ability against serious map bosses and obnoxious metamorph's? I am currently playing LL Vortex Occultist and have close to 20 ex in the build and it's demanding another 20 ex to take further. How does the budget for this build look?

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The_Fatness wrote:

How does this build perform in high tier red maps? How is the survival ability against serious map bosses and obnoxious metamorph's? I am currently playing LL Vortex Occultist and have close to 20 ex in the build and it's demanding another 20 ex to take further. How does the budget for this build look?

With just 6L Pledge i did shaper/uber elder deathless(before i got ring with assasins mark/helmet with enchant and awakened gems).
Survi is rly strong on build, right now I have like 4k+ hp, 1,5k ES and 4k mana for MOM.
Additional i have right now 46% chance to dogde spell and 16% for dodghe hit, and a little chance to block spells 13% and attacks 23%.

With arcane blessing u have immunity for all aliments. So yeah that is rly tanky build, but you must click 2 hotkey on keyboard so this playstile is not for everyone.

What exactly does clicking 2 hotkeys mean? I already push 5 buttons for flasks but 3-4 for skills.

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The_Fatness wrote:

What exactly does clicking 2 hotkeys mean? I already push 5 buttons for flasks but 3-4 for skills.

First you press button with frosbolt and then you cast your ice nova button.
You always want to cast ice nova after frosbolt. Because if you will that in reverse way then you will be struck in one place to time when you will cast all ice nova from spell echo and greater spell echo. ( you dont want this situation because for that you can die.)

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The_Fatness wrote:

How does this build perform in high tier red maps? How is the survival ability against serious map bosses and obnoxious metamorph's? I am currently playing LL Vortex Occultist and have close to 20 ex in the build and it's demanding another 20 ex to take further. How does the budget for this build look?

Build is very tanky when you get everything together but one thing to note is that all our survivability comes from the expensive items and I would recommend to just get a 5L pledge as a start and then spend currency into the uniques that give all the layers of defence as I'm doing T14 maps at the moment just fine with only crazy metamorph's taking a while to kill but defence holds up fine whilst doing do.

I still have plenty of damage and defence to gain with only 200k Ice Nova PoB DPS (No flasks) compared to the Standard Build in OP having 1m Ice Nova DPS along with more block from the passives and Glorious Vanity should add another large layer of defence.

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Thronar wrote:

Build is very tanky when you get everything together but one thing to note is that all our survivability comes from the expensive items and I would recommend to just get a 5L pledge as a start and then spend currency into the uniques that give all the layers of defence as I'm doing T14 maps at the moment just fine with only crazy metamorph's taking a while to kill but defence holds up fine whilst doing do.

I still have plenty of damage and defence to gain with only 200k Ice Nova PoB DPS (No flasks) compared to the Standard Build in OP having 1m Ice Nova DPS along with more block from the passives and Glorious Vanity should add another large layer of defence.

What would you estimate the total build cost to be comfortable in t14-16? If I liquidate my Occultist, I can scrape together 15-18ex, is that enough?

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Drarke wrote:

Hey loving the build so far, I'd been wanting to try out the frostbolt/ice nova playstyle for awhile due to Mathil liking it a lot and this was the perfect choice. I just have one question for now, would using the Frostbolt threshold jewel to get 2 extra projectiles be good? Or is the enhanced projectile speed bad for us somehow?

The extra projectiles do nearly nothing because Ice Nova will only be passed on to 2 frostbolts anaways, no matter how many you have shot. So if you have 7, it will still pick just 2 and explode from them. The speed is also bad because you 4th and even 3rd ice nova from that frostbolt will not hit the boss anymore.

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shabanotti wrote:

As someone already asked, I also want to know if I cast Frostbolt multiple times, do all balls project Ice Nova or just one set?

Your first frostbolts of your first salve will finish the echoes you loaded onto them prior to casting a new salve. As soon as you shoot a new salve of frostbolts Ice Nova will start be passed onto them. So you will get 2+2 bolts fireing ice novas but the first ones will only do what they would have done if you did nothing instead of fireing a new wave of frostbolts. So to do optimal dps you always want exactly one frostbolt salve hitting the target being superseded by the next salve. Else you're going to be spending cast time for frostbolt, that is unnecessary.

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The_Fatness wrote:

What would you estimate the total build cost to be comfortable in t14-16? If I liquidate my Occultist, I can scrape together 15-18ex, is that enough?

That is easily enough to get you to kill everything in the game. If you want to min/max, this build has insane possibilites that let you spend 100+ ex to crank up your dps very high, which is not really needed but super fun.