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

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xserper wrote:

Any tips for crafting boots/gloves?

Gloves you need to awakener orb together a culling glove + unnerve glove and hope for the rest of the affixes to be good

Boots you can alt for tailwind+anything and imprint regal until you're happy and multimod. I wouldnt recommend trying to craft elusive anymore after the awakener orb change[/quote]

What was changed and whats bad on haven elusive on boots?

Can it do all maps mods including reflect/ no ES regen /no leech ?
Thank you

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ILIAS wrote:

What was changed and whats bad on haven elusive on boots?

Awakener orb was changed so you can't guarantee good prefixes. Thus theres a big chance of boots with no MS/ES/Mana and very expensive to keep recrafting boots until you hit ones that work. Elusive is great just not needed to get going

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okami29 wrote:

Can it do all maps mods including reflect/ no ES regen /no leech ?
Thank you

You can do elemental reflect if you gear for your ring to be replacable by a Sibyl's Lament and switch to anti-reflect pantheon.

It can do no leech because we don't leech HP or Mana. We leech ES.

It can also do no regen with a mana flask instead of granite. Which you can use at all times if you prefer easier mana sustain but loose 2k shield on your normal Molten Shell and ~6k on your Vaal Molten Shell.

Very nice and balanced build, does require some(++) EX to really get going. Quite flexible on some slots. I added Circle of Fear and Shaper's Touch in my set.

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Gaxe wrote:

Could this be done as CI until you had the currency for low life? If so how would you go about it?

You probably could but Lowlife isnt that expensive actually. All you need is Amulet and 5L shavs. The build comes together perfectly as Lowlife with the extra armor etc. All you REALLY need to play this build is go absolutely anything Life/CI anything and use any items you want aslong as you have a 5L pledge.

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Chrom wrote:

Thanks for the build I'm trying this out now.

One question on the 6L Frostbolt setup, while you're definitively not hurting for DPS, would a setup dropping the curse on hit and doing Frost Bomb be better on bosses and metamorphs? It does a double debuff of -25 resists (not scaled like curses on bosses) and 75% reduced life regen, a big deal for metamorphs.

4L Frostbolt > GMP > Arcane Surge > Faster Casting
2L CWDT(lvl1) > Frost Bomb || Frost Bomb > Increased Duration

Yep this would work if you prefer this, curse effectiveness was buffed on bosses awhile back though so it does end up being significant. I didn't decide to do frostbomb because I didn't want to manually cast it and I don't allways get hit for CWDT to add damage. Let me know how it works out!

Updated the build with this belt as an option for shock immune/ignite immune (important for sirus) this actually gives MORE es than my stygian. Test it out. Remember to have more STR than DEX if you want to make use of the ignite immune. Personally I will use it on sirus for shock immunity at all times.

Thanks for the reply.

One other quick question, do you use the vaal part of Ive Nova? If so what circumstances?

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Chrom wrote:

Thanks for the reply.

One other quick question, do you use the vaal part of Ive Nova? If so what circumstances?

Sometimes and just for fun mainly in thick full sextant maps like toxic sewers & Waste pool where you can chain it quite far. I don't recommend it for bossing as it eats souls.

what should i go for next, stuck at 8.5k es and the watcher eye is 35ex
also with memory vault giving 10% more mana reserved , i cant go blood magic and zealotry without enlightned 3 as it goes over 100%mana