Frost-fire Crit barrage [1.1.1] by Dream_scythe [videos]

Updated skill tree for the atziri patch

This is a build I designed, and since many people have asked for a guide I have decided to share it.

Summary:
This is a cast on Crit build. It involves utilizing keystones such as elemental equilibrium, Mind over Matter, and eldritch battery. Using GMP with barrage shoots 8 projectiles. each projectile can cast 5 ice spears 5 fireballs, and 1 arc for immense damage. Since arc is not affected by GMP, it hits for a lot of damage, almost always shock stacking mobs.

Most mobs are frozen / shock stacked while soloing maps (have done 77 piety)


With power charges up, I have 95% crit chance.

Gear to look for:
-6L (volls is best) Tabula rasa works decently too.
-high crit chance wand (12%+) with spell damage
-Accuracy, life, resists, mana regen, crit multiplier on items
-Bereks grip (unique)
-**avoid gear with added fire or cold damage. If you run arc with fireball and ice spear, also avoid added lightning damage.


My Gear: (as of march, 2014)





Gems:


Because this build uses Bereks grip for lifeleach, you can go without a lifeleach gem. That being said, you will need to move around here and there to avoid big hits. Bosses die very quickly, but still, need to be careful at times. Now that I am using Arc, I leach mana, which helps a lot with reflect.

General Break-down of build:



Pros:


Cons:



Updated Skill Tree August 27 (I have not tried it out yet)




Map viable - works great solo or in party.
I have done up to 77 maps without difficulty.
Made it to the second set of bosses in the Apex of Sacrifice on first try (2 deaths on first boss, did not kill the trio).

Videos: I will try to find some recording software and make some proper videos. Suggestions are always welcome for good (free) software.

short video added

cool build... if u could improve the survive ability it would be really fun.

Creative!

Yes, nice build.

Because you try to shotgun, try switching to Freezing Pulse instead of IS.

And yeah, fireballs point blank do mean damage, especially when they crit.

But reflect/lightning thorns are a bitch....

If your Crit Multiplier isn't so high, you can handle reflect better (my count shows you have 246)?


Actually, you get some accuracy from a ring and gloves, and 15% AS from helmet. What's your to-hit and APS, please?

81% accuracy at the moment, I will be rearranging the bottom part of my skill tree and gain more accuracy along with iron reflexes. Without frenzy charges, my barrage is 1.01 attacks per second. since there are 8 wand projectiles, it works out to be 8 attacks per second.

Also, i have 294% crit multiplier, though I plan to try a crit multiplier gem and see how that works.

thanks for sharing your build. I m also wokring on something like this, but I got some other idears:

1. I like to use Arctic Breath instead of Icespear. It does more dmg than icespear. With a 6 linked Voli, you can also use Coldsnap for permafreez and leech from Bereks grip. Coldsnap does also a high amount of dmg and chance to freez and with a Powercharge generator its awesome.

2. I think its very important to get a wand with 1.5 attack speed or higher. The one you got with 1.1 aps is very low and you miss out much dmg. Furthermore I would take the 3 attackspeed nodes "Berserker" south from sion start. Attackspeed is next to crit chance very important...


3. Are you sure if elemental equibrium works with this build? If never tried it so far. Because the wiki says:
" you hit an enemy with two different elements at the same time it will give -50% Resistance to third element and +25% to both elements used. A hit carrying all three elements types will give +25% to all elemental Resistances." Are your projectals hitting at the same time or not, thats the question :)


greetings

I chose ice spear with fireball because they hit at different times, meaning they alternate between fire and ice over and over. This does not happen with arctic breath from what I have seen. Secondly, I have experimented with cold snap (level 20) and it does not work well with EE since it strikes instantly.

Also, I realize that my wand is garbage. I paid 1 chaos for it and yet I do insane damage. I am currently working on crafting a far superior wand which will dramatically increase my damage.

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Norec wrote:

3. Are you sure if elemental equibrium works with this build? If never tried it so far. Because the wiki says:
" you hit an enemy with two different elements at the same time it will give -50% Resistance to third element and +25% to both elements used. A hit carrying all three elements types will give +25% to all elemental Resistances." Are your projectals hitting at the same time or not, thats the question :)


greetings

If my understanding is correct, OP procs Elemental Equilibrium with lightning on their wand first, thus allowing the Ice Spear and Fireball to deal tons of damage because of the 50% drop. If the ice spear and fireball struck at the same time it would do even more damage. This is assuming the 1st initial hit isn't calculated at the exact same time as Ice Spear/Fireball. I'm relatively new to the game so I don't fully understand the mechanics but my guess would be it doesn't all happen simultaneously, otherwise the dmg would be poor because monsters would just get a 25% boost to everything except chaos/phys.

Anyways, nice build OP, was looking for a change of pace from my 1st build of dual claws, gonna give this concept a whirl. Making a CI variant though.

In the next few days I will respec the lower portion of the skill tree. Instead of going down by berserking, I will go down the dex side and grab iron reflexes and on to Mind over matter. That will allow me to use jade flask + granite and keep them up 100% of the time, which is roughly 21k armour.

I like this build a lot. I've really wanting to try a wand'er but most builds I have seen are really expensive. This seems like it's really fun and not uber expensive.