[3.25] Ice Dancing Queen - Icestorm/Cyclone/CI - Viable For Everything
Ironically, the best way to get spefcial maps is through Kirac missions. Use Scouting Reports to cycle through the selection and they pop up often enough.
Downside is that you can't MAven-witness the maps. If you want to farm invitations, for instance, buying in bulk is the only way. |
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" You probably missed the defensive part of the setup. 3 endurance charges all the time : with 1.98 secs duration and 2.50 secs cooldown that synergises very well with Hartstopper Assendancy: I can assure you, i dont die on maps, simulacrum, guardians or pinnacle bosses. The only thing that eventually kill me are the Uber Pinnacle Bosses but thats normal. I made this setup, because its cheap at league start. With no cluster, no WE and no Split personality. Its a low budget setup that can do all content on first week of the league easly! I learned few things playing WI for so long(10+ leagues): - The budget to clear maps with confortably speed and do regular pinacle bosses, on block version is High! - With Uber Pinnacle Bosses you must have high damage or eventually you fail. I like to farm Uber Maven, Uber Atziri and the Feared with a high %IIQ, and when I run maps I like to just pass through the eare mob one time and kill then. Thats why I dont play the block version nowdays. The investment is too high, the damage is low based on budget and the jewels are not available on first 4-5 days of the league. I certainly died a lot in the beginning, but I did all the content and sold a lot of boss services since the day 3 of the league. Eventually, with the improvement of my gear I stopped dying and reached lvl 100. In the end this setup proved to be very good to start with. With few resources , having a very high progress ramp. I'm working on PoB two High-budget versions. A no-block + crit (over 1.5M damage per hit) and a block+crit (about 1M damage per hit). I just need time, my business is draining all my time and i'm not been able to play properly :( |
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" I would definitely love to see these pob's once you have time to finish them. I made some adjustments on my version and have ~860k average hit on a semi block non crit version. Dropped the safeguard nodes and a couple others to pick up Heart of Ice and the mastery for frenzy charges. Will have I should say. Need my last 4 levels and still need a couple awakened gems. Every time I think I'm going to buy them I spend it on gear for my son's character instead. Even in a video game I have to support him. Lol |
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Hey whiterockxx, thanks a lot for your build variation. I did play it for two weeks, half this league.
Just so you know, it's not easy to get those minimum endurance charges. I was aware of them. I missed the "cheap synth rings" train which leaves roughly about 4 days after league start. (I'd really like to understand why they are so cheap early on and dear later on. Are people just not farming where they drop?) So, I did what I could without the endurance charges. I would venture it took you quite a while to get them yourself, so you were as squishy as I was before that. Regarding the build costs, I can assure you my gear didn't cost a lot either to where it became quite usable (I'm only missing 2 x 7% rings, and the forbidden jewels for a good dps bump. Everything else I wear I purchased cheaply or crafted cheaply.) You don't need blanketed snow on the clusters, for example, for quite a long while. My amulet is only slightly less dps than a 14%/1% per 15 amulet, and is far easier to craft (though I wasn't aiming for endurance charges.) As an interesting contrast, my kid is running an EA crit deadeye build that can hit about 1 billion dps with reasonably cheap gear (10 div total.) But she defines the very meaning of a glass cannon, and decided she couldn't take the deaths anymore. Last edited by Graiaule#7461 on Jan 8, 2023, 6:02:05 AM
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" I had few hous to play today and made few upgrades on my character. https://pastebin.com/6Dn4kVDt (updated) There are 2 trees, the Low-budget and the High-Budget If didn't configured anything wrong, its low-block with 2.1M damage per hit and almost 12k ES. I tried Uber Maven and she just melts, was really clean and fast! There is still a lot of room for improvement with time/currency! Last edited by whiterockxx#6367 on Jan 8, 2023, 10:14:47 AM
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" Thanks! It looks really good! About 40k less ehp than the block version, but still over 100k which is plenty IMO. POB also doesn't take into account that with twice the dps stuff has half as long to kill you. Edit: Also your dps is just shy of 2mil if you tick the enemy on consecrated ground box which he should be with your bottled faith. Last edited by stoudtlr#5310 on Jan 8, 2023, 9:09:43 AM
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Quick update, up to 320k Avg hit with my main hand after a few updates, feels a lot better!
Current status here: https://pobb.in/odajFUV6pSbf Have a hard time determining my next upgrade though. Defensively, it seems a new chest would probably net me the most? Offensively, it seems like incremental upgrades all the way through? Probably chest first then, unless someone knows what I'm lacking in general. I'm also looking at that crit build you shared, doesn't seem too complicated compared to the original one, the Forbidden jewels are a bit cheaper (2 div for the pair) and the lack of the second cluster jewel is half of the bottled faith, but not sure if it's worth 'respeccing' for it. " Last edited by Giku#7497 on Jan 8, 2023, 11:15:58 AM
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Is there a reason we're not running Wave of conviction in Ball Lightning's place? It seems like it could apply both curses just as effectively and free up another spot.
I'm probably missing something. |
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" Ball light spread the curse better imo. |
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So guys, rocking this build for first time this league, never done a int stacker, never done a scion (well, scion is already left behind, trickster is WAY moar fun) and I am having a blast - big thanks to everybody improving this!
I hate sanctum mechanics and just grinded it a bit to get my hands on a sanctified relic, which I just now got and already Elemental Overloaded. So how do I get now the Elemental Overload? My relic is currently in my Relic locker in my Hideout... |
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