[3.16] Wintertide Brand Occultist/Trickster | 8-9M Dot dps| Fast Clear | Detailed explanation

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xsicho wrote:

To the guy above, I've read that we mostly scale Spell Damage, DoT Multi, and Gem level so look to those three, I'm looking for a good wand/sceptre as well since mine sucked.

Just wanted to say thanks for the build. Ran through t16 and awakener a8 easily, played almost as smooth as my other characters that funded this one for the sole reason of tankiness as I can't kill Maven with that other one.

I changed it up a lot though with my boomer brains, like instead of using curse on hit gloves, I used a trigger wand instead (selfcast frost bomb, trigger cast curse + OOS), allowing me more freedom on rings and other things to achieve higher ES (currently sitting at 7.9kES with discipline up).

I also put in Clarity instead of Haste for the mana sustain that we desired, needless to say mapping is a much better experience when I don't have to constantly mana flask.

For cluster jewels, I'm considering changing remarkable to 1 and add in either Grand Design or another Brand Loyalty instead. I'd also like to mention wintertide brand helm enchants being extremely cheap, and since I don't have a good calculation in my head about brand stages, I chose more chill effect to help me survive maps (again, I'm boomer and can't react fast enough) but I also think the 40% wintertide brand damage is a good one.

I also wondered, since our clear are so good, should we take Vile Bastion for more survivability instead of Profane Bloom since bosses situation is something I'm worrying as I can't dodge mechanics much.

Here are my current gears (spent around 10ex in total).

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HieiTheBlue wrote:

hi what would i drop for a 5link setup? i cant afford a 6l shavs so i 5 linked mine

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Delant wrote:

Hey, first of all, thank you for this build. I was trying to upgrade my own trickster wintertide when I found yours and it greatly helped.
I was wondering if a synthetised weapon with the "explode" implicit would work to help with the clear. I don't know the interactions well enough and I fear it wouldn't activate on a dot kill.
Do you have any idea about that ?
(Sorry if it has already been asked)

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Skyler98VN wrote:

I'm currently lv 91 occultist wintertide brand and yes even though it is a very powerful single target dmg but clearing speed with a large number of mobs (specifically in Haewark with Beyond passives) can be daunting and feel a bit slow. Moreover, with multi-boss fight mechanics as in Maven this lg, the build can be very unreliable and it may takes longer to fight all the bosses... possibly death. True, vulnerability is a shiet =.= one hit

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ShadowOfhistory wrote:

So, its worse version of strombrand? Delay, more buttons, need to be close to apply curses?