(RIP)Frostbolt/Eye of Winter, Coldsnap, Cast on freeze/Cast on Crit comet Sorceress

How u cast so much frostbolts on that movie ?

hi, i really like your guide and i'm following it along with my own sorc.
would you be so kind to edit in your original post where your attributes are at (or what to aim for when it comes to specific items/skills etc.) so everyone can plan ahead their attribute node distribution?

thanks in advance and keep up the good work dude

Can someone help me and do the best gem links for 50 lvl ? I want to swap to this build from lightning build.

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KyleMasc#7189 wrote:

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Eph_#0853 wrote:

Mapping has been absolutely miserable, damage is more than there but defensively i feel like im always 2 hits away from dead

Ranged mobs in particular just wreck me, im having a really bad time in maps because im just clearing full hp and il run into a pack of archers or whatever and get instantly blown up, even with resists each shot chunks me for 300-500 dmg

Its really crazy to me how theres nothing to help you live in the top side of the tree. Not sure how others are faring

It is really painful unfortunately, I'm trying to figure out how to achieve more survivability as I'm going. There isn't much for Sorceress to choose from outside of Mind over Matter which just doesnt work with this build because of the chunks of mana Comet takes, or going CI which is a bit out of the way and requires specific gearing that isn't easy to get. I'm experimenting with putting in Strength nodes where I can to see if I can get away with using Armor + ES pieces to at least get some armor damage reduction.

One thing that helps me with this: get 20 spirit on gear somewhere so you can run Elemental Invocation/Comet (in addition to CoF/Comet). It's basically Cast on Freeze but you have to manually trigger it. However it's still instant cast and you can free aim it wherever you want, and it stores up to 3 Comets.

You can use it to speed up clear or save it for troublesome enemies. Don't want to slowly cast frostbolts at a huge pack of chaos shooters and wait for them to freeze? Just instantly throw 3 comets at them from Elemental Invocation. Dangerous rare that's hard to freeze? 3 comets to the face.

It is a int/dex monk skill so it's unlikely you can use it at max level though. Somewhere around lvl 10-12 is very doable.

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konar278#1982 wrote:

How u cast so much frostbolts on that movie ?

Lots of Cast Speed from Arcane Surge ascendancy nodes + Scattershot support gem and some mana stacking to buff arcane surge.

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aimlessgun#1443 wrote:

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KyleMasc#7189 wrote:

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Eph_#0853 wrote:

Mapping has been absolutely miserable, damage is more than there but defensively i feel like im always 2 hits away from dead

Ranged mobs in particular just wreck me, im having a really bad time in maps because im just clearing full hp and il run into a pack of archers or whatever and get instantly blown up, even with resists each shot chunks me for 300-500 dmg

Its really crazy to me how theres nothing to help you live in the top side of the tree. Not sure how others are faring

It is really painful unfortunately, I'm trying to figure out how to achieve more survivability as I'm going. There isn't much for Sorceress to choose from outside of Mind over Matter which just doesnt work with this build because of the chunks of mana Comet takes, or going CI which is a bit out of the way and requires specific gearing that isn't easy to get. I'm experimenting with putting in Strength nodes where I can to see if I can get away with using Armor + ES pieces to at least get some armor damage reduction.

One thing that helps me with this: get 20 spirit on gear somewhere so you can run Elemental Invocation/Comet (in addition to CoF/Comet). It's basically Cast on Freeze but you have to manually trigger it. However it's still instant cast and you can free aim it wherever you want, and it stores up to 3 Comets.

You can use it to speed up clear or save it for troublesome enemies. Don't want to slowly cast frostbolts at a huge pack of chaos shooters and wait for them to freeze? Just instantly throw 3 comets at them from Elemental Invocation. Dangerous rare that's hard to freeze? 3 comets to the face.

It is a int/dex monk skill so it's unlikely you can use it at max level though. Somewhere around lvl 10-12 is very doable.

I'll definitely take a look and consider it! I've actually been having a pretty good time in map, currently up to Tier 4 waystones, and have died very little outside of something I couldnt see just randomly popping me for a lot of chaos damage.

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Robbenkloppa#0171 wrote:

hi, i really like your guide and i'm following it along with my own sorc.
would you be so kind to edit in your original post where your attributes are at (or what to aim for when it comes to specific items/skills etc.) so everyone can plan ahead their attribute node distribution?

thanks in advance and keep up the good work dude

I currently have all intelligence nodes on the tree save for 2-3 Strength nodes to use some gems/have a bit of extra life. I also have some attribute points on gear but it's not a lot.

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Scavangerr#7318 wrote:

Can someone help me and do the best gem links for 50 lvl ? I want to swap to this build from lightning build.

At level 50 you should be able to use everything with the Frost Bolt setup outside of maybe Arctic Armor because of the extra spirit requirement! Eye of Winter requires a bit more investment to use as a main freeze skill.

If you dont have the jewellers to get 3 sockets on your skills just drop whatever the last listed support gem is. If you're having too many mana issues with cast on freeze + comet just leave it off for now until you have better mana regen and just spam frostbolts + cold snaps for clearing!

Frostbolt + Scattershot + Glaciation + Blind
Cold Snap + Cold Penetration + Elemental Focus + Concentrated Effect
Frost Bomb + Fast Forward + strip away + Considered Casting
Cast on Freeze + Comet + Spell Cascade + Elemental Discharge(drop this if your mana regen cant help you sustain it)
Frost Wall + Echo + Ingenuity + Icicle
Hypothermia + Heightened Curse + Persistence
Comet + Unleash + Inevitable Critical + Supercritical

Hello, KyleMask#7189

Recently saw your build and saw how similar it is to mine

I also used cast on freeze, but later with the discovery of cast on crit switched to it and it procs much more effectively than freeze.
I focused on leveling up crit chance skills in the skill tree and got to ~50% on every skill.

What do you think about this?

Going for Impetus on the cast on freeze has been a lot better for me, casting comet on every freeze instead of every 2 freezes is so much better for safety

Overall im thinking about dropping the idea of elemental storm and crit and just speccing for Scouring Winds instead, and droping the crit nodes on the tree in favor of more ES stuff like faster ES recharge

Im not having much luck finding a trial for the 5/6 points so idk how good elemental storm is first hand but im starting to think current tree might be spread too thin already