[3.9] ICE NOVA GUARDIAN. INSANE DPS. INSANE DEFENSE. BUILD OF THE LEAGUE.

Hello, nice build!

Someone can look my perfil/build please?


I feel im not dealing enough damage to bosses

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foxzombie wrote:

Hello, nice build!

Someone can look my perfil/build please?


I feel im not dealing enough damage to bosses

Simple fix use slower projectiles instead of faster casting (1 white shavs needed) just get 6 white dual corrupted or just use vorici in research on it and dont use frozen trail vs bosses. Remember the slower your frostbolt the more damage u deal.

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foxzombie wrote:

Hello, nice build!

Someone can look my perfil/build please?


I feel im not dealing enough damage to bosses

1.Dont use inc aoe, use conc effect on bosses if you lack dps
2. you dont have Crusader passive, anoint it in you amulet (2 golden 1 clear)
3. use slower Projectiles instead of faster casting
4. You miss Bottled Faith Flask, ur diamond flask is normal rarity ...
5. Buy Awaken Cold Penetration it costs 60c or so
6. Drop Healthy mind, get Heart of Ice via Thread of Hope (Read my last posts)
7. Get some juicy crit jewels, cold crit spell crit global crit ele crit w/e combined with cast speed.
8. Drop that Mana flask you dont need it... use a onslaught flask


Lots of work you got there to do, very bad optimized.

What can I upgrade? lol. I'm wondering if elusive/tailwind boots are worth getting.

Any chance of 2-3 leveling trees added to the guide?

Hey again all,
After making and rolling with a COC ice nova assassin for a while I was really surprised about the conclusions I came too with the mapping speed of this build. I think we all know the defense and damage of this build is just comical but it seemed but this build actaully maps pretty damn fast too. For reference my version of this build is on page 22 written up in what i am sure is a painful level of detail.

What i found after mapwatching 50 maps on each this and my COC ice nova assasin (on my account if you want to look at it) was this build is mapping pretty even in speed.

I ran 25 promenades and 25 academys each red 14+s each awakener 8 on both builds. Rolls i made sure it was not reflect and cannot regen mana and ran everything else vaaling the prominades.

Promenade: Assassin averaged 2:09 Mana guardian 2:22.
Academy: Assassin averaged 3:52 Mana guardian 3:55.

I also did not consider the types of wide open maps with this build is going to have a big advantage in aoe coverage like Dunes, summit, castle ruins.

A couple points i think really keep the speed of atleast my version of mana guardian up:

-I went all out building cast speed on my guardian (see pg 22).
-Alot of that cast speed also came with attack speed and I weapon swap to whirling blades on two 30% fidelitas spikes for back tracking or long between pack spots.
-Faster proj is huge for getting your coverage of one ice nova cast spread out. Being about to clear t16 awakener 8 trash with one cast of ice nova with frost bolt with faster proj is critical to how fast I can map on this build i feel.
-I kill all bosses as metamorphs as they are super worth it so single target really is part of your map clear since all maps now have a boss and a metamorph.

TLDR: While this build is not full meme "Anything slower than 8 second burial chambers is unacceptable" levels of clear speed it is definitely not slow. Atleast how my build feels it seems comfortably in that tier of fast mapping builds that are the tier below the all out i dont even look at whats happening on my screen and just run HH mapping builds.

If a few leveling trees aren't possible would anybody who has leveled the build be able to suggest what major nodes to head for and what order while leveling?

Thanks!

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Sevreth72 wrote:

If a few leveling trees aren't possible would anybody who has leveled the build be able to suggest what major nodes to head for and what order while leveling?

Thanks!

I think page 9 has some POB leveling trees that I followed when I was leveling.

Is Ghost Reaver max ES recovery from leech worth gimping ES recharge rate? I don't see any life leech, so I guess this is the only reason for taking it.

Edit: Would you say it is worth it, in absence of amazing jewels, to take 3 extra power charges in place of 2 jewels? It is 6 for 6 points, nothing extra needs to be sacrificed.

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Riviar90 wrote:

Is Ghost Reaver max ES recovery from leech worth gimping ES recharge rate? I don't see any life leech, so I guess this is the only reason for taking it.

Edit: Would you say it is worth it, in absence of amazing jewels, to take 3 extra power charges in place of 2 jewels? It is 6 for 6 points, nothing extra needs to be sacrificed.

POB it for your own character, you might lack crit chance, but usually 2 x30 multi jewels will outperform 120% crit chance.

None of this might be true for you so check your own character. Jewels are pretty much just for damage so any node that is better for you, you should take.