[3.25] Ice Crash-Jugg-2h-Axe-Crit (FREEZE THE GAME) 100% Crit Rate Full Screen Explosions

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Nizreb915 wrote:

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HeroEvermore wrote:

Made one big change to our passive tree. Spent 4 hours in PoB today. We drop Butchery because it was not scaling well.

We add Thick Skin nodes now for 25% Life and 20% chance to avoid ele ailments.

This is my level 100 PoB.

https://pobb.in/Q8yFutfNhIxO


Please read front page for further details.

You can gain 2 skill points by dropping the 3 small passives above Big Breaths notable and taking the one below the Robust notable.

Great eye, did this as well.

So I spend a lot on body armor and belt upgrades and swapped in awakened cold pen per your recommendation.

Build now feels really good, a level or two more and I'll really push content (I just hate losing exp to dying) so I'm a tortoise when it comes to content. I have like 2 red maps left to be done with atlas.

Due to the upgrades I freed up a single socket on my helm (I removed fortification from skill for A. cold penetration and removed lifetap from leap slam).

So I've been looking at what the heck I could do with a single socket. I could always go back to linking precision to arrogance to level it up but like how much life I have now (like 5600). Looked at vaal skills, like haste (eh), grace (eh). Then read about vaal cold snap, which can generate frenzy charges. Because I use automation for molten shell and blood rage (cwdt low level molten shell feels useless), sometimes the life degen is annoying on the blood rage, so thought this could be something to use, but depending how quickly the souls charge it probably not all that practical.

But wanted to ask this question as I'm not deep into game dynamics. What about having frost bomb on cwdt or automatation, keep it at level 1 for the -15 cold resist from the exposure? Wouldn't that be another source of DPS? I'm pretty sure it stacks and is seperate from penetration from passives and even stacks if you are cursing.

Otherwise the only other skill that could have any complimentary help I saw was phase run, but it consumes frenzy charges.

Ah whoops, I see APC at level 5 gives us chance of exposure at level 5, albeit only 10%.

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Illuminance_DY wrote:

But wanted to ask this question as I'm not deep into game dynamics. What about having frost bomb on cwdt or automatation, keep it at level 1 for the -15 cold resist from the exposure? Wouldn't that be another source of DPS? I'm pretty sure it stacks and is seperate from penetration from passives and even stacks if you are cursing.

I have frost bomb along with frostbite in my Battlemage's Cry set up.

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vaiur wrote:

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Nizreb915 wrote:

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HeroEvermore wrote:

Made one big change to our passive tree. Spent 4 hours in PoB today. We drop Butchery because it was not scaling well.

We add Thick Skin nodes now for 25% Life and 20% chance to avoid ele ailments.

This is my level 100 PoB.

https://pobb.in/Q8yFutfNhIxO


Please read front page for further details.

You can gain 2 skill points by dropping the 3 small passives above Big Breaths notable and taking the one below the Robust notable.

Great eye, did this as well.

Yo this is great, thanks for noticing that! Heck yeah! I will update my level 100 PoB to reflect this change! I was originally up that way due to the dex and int nodes when I was short on stats. Big buff for sure!

Level 100 PoB updated with better pathing.

https://pobb.in/dE4zDz8DJczZ

Adding to front page

Here is my current level 95 character and it's PoB.

https://pobb.in/kMDqAB4eVeOY

This takes me to be one of the best overall Ice Crash characters in game now.
With an EHP of 76000. Life at 6400 (6001 hp exactly with arrogance). Damage over 11mil. Overall an Ice Crash GOD!
What a league boys! We brought this back from the dead! ROAR!!!!

Link to my character. Updated besides the gain of new passive points. But probably will show correctly later today
https://poe.ninja/builds/settlers/character/HeroEvermore/IceCrashJuggGuideMaster?type=exp&i=4&search=class%3DJuggernaut%26skills%3DIce%2BCrash%26sort%3Dlife

Do note that I WILL be adding Abyssus double corrupted at some point when I am done leveling. Which will either be at around 98 or push 100 if I'm bored. This adds around 4.5 million damage.

Notice I no longer have UNDENIABLE. I take UNBREAKABLE for a MASSIVE gain in EHP. You cannot do this without 100% hit rate though.

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HeroEvermore wrote:

Level 100 PoB updated with better pathing.

https://pobb.in/dE4zDz8DJczZ

Adding to front page

Here is my current level 95 character and it's PoB.

https://pobb.in/kMDqAB4eVeOY

This takes me to be one of the best overall Ice Crash characters in game now.
With an EHP of 76000. Life at 6400 (6001 hp exactly with arrogance). Damage over 11mil. Overall an Ice Crash GOD!
What a league boys! We brought this back from the dead! ROAR!!!!

Link to my character. Updated besides the gain of new passive points. But probably will show correctly later today
https://poe.ninja/builds/settlers/character/HeroEvermore/IceCrashJuggGuideMaster?type=exp&i=4&search=class%3DJuggernaut%26skills%3DIce%2BCrash%26sort%3Dlife

Do note that I WILL be adding Abyssus double corrupted at some point when I am done leveling. Which will either be at around 98 or push 100 if I'm bored. This adds around 4.5 million damage.

Notice I no longer have UNDENIABLE. I take UNBREAKABLE for a MASSIVE gain in EHP. You cannot do this without 100% hit rate though.

I saw that change to the ascended nodes. When I first saw the post about making that change I thought it was about pathing TO deep breaths. It worth picking up 1 point by giving up the 30% increased recovery rate for just area effect? I mean with second wind I don't think I've ever had a situation where I wanted to use a war cry and couldn't.

Also when you see 100% hit rate, where is a reliable place to see this? In game there is vs. normal stuff and right below it evasive ones with another, usually a little lower hit rate. Do you mean 100% on both?

Further efficiency pathing!! If you just path from the 2 hand master nodes right below warriors blood and path to where we have measured fury, thats a 2 more points. Vs. going up above deep breaths.

Okay I see what you are saying. But let me check PoB first and see if it is an actual net loss because it might be. There are times in delve where i absolutely am using 100% of my CDR of warcry. Because I am spamming them as heals. We changed the pathing near Warriors blood last night.

Edit: I tested and it is a worse setup. Will not be changing the warcry node for the guide or my character. Appreciate the suggestion, everything is worth looking at to maximize our points.

Hey guys,

I've been off PoE for a good 2 years and decided to seriously start again this season. I was looking for a fun chonky build to play around with melee and Ice Crash brought back such good memories.

Boy did it deliver... I'm having fun! HeroEvermore, you're the man!
Shout out to all of you for this good 30+ pages of build brain storming since league start.

I did like the whole Ice Crash leveling, one step at a time. Then slowly progressed through maps to finally complete my last red map yesterday.

Currently sitting at 93 with a decent-ish character, I think.
5k hp, stacked res, ~94% crit and 4m dps. Still dying to the occasional nasty packs but doing great in map farming. Some bosses are tough (guardians for exeample, especially on loaded maps) but that may be a lack of knowledge about melee and warcry rotation from my side.

I'm struggling now to see how I can significantly improve my dps to reach your 10m+ numbers. If anyone can provide me with some insights that would be very helpful!

https://pobb.in/k12FVg3hvG86

Some damage will come from max lvl gems but apart from that... crit multi?
For some reason my self crafted fleshripper at 550 pds gives me higher damage than multiple div weapons.

Thanks guys, you're awesome.

Hello! I was hoping if you could help me with my issues.
https://poe.ninja/pob/5ffce

I feel like I have very little damage to the point it is hard to kill red tier bosses.

Is there any improvement that I could do?

Ding 96. woohoo. I'll help out with questions soon. Need my brain to refresh.

I may change my helmet enchant now that I have 164 mana pool, haven't been out of mana for days.

Goign to try out 10% inc aoe instead of mana cost of attack implicit. This take my aoe from 1.9 to 2 meters. Probably other buffs for more DPS but size matters...