[3.17] The Frozen Garden - Elementalist Permafreeze Arc Mines (3.17 partial, recommend self cast)

The build is awsome.. Cannot wait for level 59 to equip Expedition's End. Wasted one ex to buy one and I will just get a helmeth with flat life and resistance to get around the three dragons.


I think you get a lot more life/ es with a crafted chest but I like the chill from the armour :)


But how does the armour work with the shock shananigan ? All your damage can freez.

So technically I take down the three dragons and my normal lightning damage can now freez and shock ?

Or I still need some cold damage / fire damage / pys damage somewere to spells ?


Also, what aura you drop if you don't have enlighten level 4?

I've been trying out this build and I'm loving it so far. It feels rippy, but my gear is absolute garbage right now and I still need uber lab, so that is expected. I'm trapped in a cycle of buying cluster jewels so I can keep investing in the tree, then by the time I have enough currency saved up for the next upgrade, I have more passives to spend so I have to buy another cluster. Aaaaaah! Oh well, I'll get it there eventually.

Question... I see people complaining on the patch notes posts about a bug where blastchain mines with tremor rod don't trigger all at once, leading to a 'massive DPS loss'. This doesn't seem like a problem to me, other than it maybe taking 2 seconds longer to destroy a map boss after stacking mines. It doesn't seem to be a DPS loss truly since the mines will go off on the second or third trigger, so more of a instant burst loss I guess? The normal use case is that we're only dropping one stutter step's worth of mines, which is less than the 10 or so it takes to trigger the bug. I haven't played mines before this character, so I don't have anything to compare to. Is the bug actually a problem for this build at all?

With expedition's end, lightning can shock just fine, as well as freeze. No need for special things.

You don't really need Clarity anymore, so Enlighten 4 just means a higher level Vitality.

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CantripN wrote:

With expedition's end, lightning can shock just fine, as well as freeze. No need for special things.

You don't really need Clarity anymore, so Enlighten 4 just means a higher level Vitality.

Ok , So works with Enlighten 3 but with lower vitality.

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Vendetta wrote:

Expedition's End.

Thank you for reminding me about this item.

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DixuMixu wrote:

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Vendetta wrote:

Expedition's End.

Thank you for reminding me about this item.

No worry mate.. It's awesome. I got it for 1 ex but now I see it went down.

Hard part is coloring something on it.

Ok, so I'm playing along and am almost at Act V. It's great. But now I have Wave of Conviction, Purifying Flame, Assassin's Mark, Frost Shield, and Arcanist Brand to juggle. And it feels really shitty. I can't even set up all 5 without losing movement.

Am I missing something here? Is it Wave and Flame for mobs, and Mark and Brand for bosses? Or can you set up any of them with Cast on Taking Damage?

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Faustyna wrote:

Ok, so I'm playing along and am almost at Act V. It's great. But now I have Wave of Conviction, Purifying Flame, Assassin's Mark, Frost Shield, and Arcanist Brand to juggle. And it feels really shitty. I can't even set up all 5 without losing movement.

Am I missing something here? Is it Wave and Flame for mobs, and Mark and Brand for bosses? Or can you set up any of them with Cast on Taking Damage?

You put Arcanist Brand+Wave of Convicion+Assasin's Mark+Purifying Flame together in a 4Link and then you only cast Arcanist Brand and the brand will cast the other spells by itself.

Frost Shield, I would just ignore until way late when you have a couple thousand ES (even then, I've opted to completely skip it).

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You put Arcanist Brand+Wave of Convicion+Assasin's Mark+Purifying Flame together in a 4Link and then you only cast Arcanist Brand and the brand will cast the other spells by itself.

How did I not know this... ok, yeah, that's tons better. Thank you!

Can someone please check my character and tell me where I'm going wrong? Only 60 mana is available for me to use after activating vit/wrath/zeal, I have them linked with a lvl 3 enlighten support, How the lots of you isn't having the same exact issue knowing that level 4 enlighten only provides 4% less reservation?


Plus generally I'd love to know what gear I should upgrade the most, I tried to match my gear with the original build creator as much as possible, some gear was no where to be found in the market such as the amulet