[3.20] Ice Dancing Queen - Icestorm/Cyclone/CI - Viable For Everything

Yeah the DPS is on the lower side compared to meta builds.

I still like playing in for a bit of a challenge and something new. I'm having fun with it but it definitely isn't close to being a T1 build (and don't think anyone was claiming it was in current state.)

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Ridman a écrit :

Yeah the DPS is on the lower side compared to meta builds.

I still like playing in for a bit of a challenge and something new. I'm having fun with it but it definitely isn't close to being a T1 build (and don't think anyone was claiming it was in current state.)

I'm not complaining, It's just that last time I played it was pre storm cap and it felt amazing both damage wise and survivability wise

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RaGe0uS a écrit :

How detrimental would it be if I dropped inspiration for Awakened Increased Area of Effect on the AOE Weapon and Concentrated Effect on the Boss Weapon like in 3.16?

It was like that in 3.15, before they changed the mana modifier on CwC in 3.16. Check if you run out of mana without Inspiration or not. Just spam Icestorm in hideout. Maybe with some mana regen mods on rings you can sustain it without Inspiration.

Hi. I'm Cjin and I am explosion addict.

It all started when Niko first introduced me to explosions. I thought one dynamite every now and then would be fine and that I could stop whenever I wanted. But soon it was not enough. I needed to get more. Small or large, it didn't matter first, but after a while only bigger and bigger BOOMs would satisfy me.

I thought it would be different this league. I told myself I would be able to just quit, live without the BOOM. But I was just deceiving myself. Withdrawal effects were just too strong. I thought I could push trough it if I just had a tiny small amount of boom. "Little BUFF", if you will. I heard rumors of this Unspeakable Gift that could solve my problem. Satisfy my need of BOOM. So I got myself this... Gift.

I knew it would not be as good as true stuff, but that is the whole point of it, right? As soon as it would satisfy may addiction to BOOM, I would take it off. Gradual reduction and soon I would be free from needing new BOOM.

And it felt... lacking. I knew it was not the real deal, that's the whole point, but I didn't imagine it would have been that disappointing. It was not enough to satisfy my need of BOOM. And now I had given my little finger to the Devil. So I fell back to my old habits. It does feel good. For now.

TLDR: Rerolled Witch for Profane Bloom.

Yeah..same switched to witch cause without Profane Bloom no fun xD
Killed 30 waves simulacrum...well even with selfcast boss dmg sucks and it's feeling meh :/

its funny cus i want to swap to scion cus i realllly miss the regen from inq :o

what 6 gems do i want for the boss dmg?

On another note while the DPS isn't great, any none timed boss fight is a guaranteed win, You can tank Sirus die beam and such, yeah the fight takes a bit of time but its a guaranteed kill deathless.

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Kelvynn a écrit :

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klorin2 a écrit :

Yea this build seems to be heavily nerfed damage wise. I wanna say it's about 4M dps with strong investment 9K shields 2300 int. You become a tank if you can always leech, it's good for crazy delirium type maps but for bossing the cutoff is at shaper because it's really slow, there's a lot of better boss builds out there.

2300 Int is something you get by just switching to the cluster version at about 5 ex budget. With ~25 ex you should be at about 2800 Int. That's a totally different level of damage.

That's with the regular setup. I haven't had an opportunity to test the newly buffed self-casting setup yet. On paper it's 3x the damage, and in Standard with the character from 3.16 I simply deleted The Maven and her Nexus in a matter of seconds per active phase.

I'm sure there are better boss builds though. This build is never meta. Thankfully.

True, don't get me wrong. It's one of the better tanky builds I've played in over 20 builds it's like top 5 for tankiness. The damage is like 1/4 of meta builds I've played with similar costs (they've been nerfed too) and I'm sure you could min max and try to get it up to par dps wise but that's not really my point. On a scale of 1-5 with 5 being the highest I'd rate it boss: 3, farm: 4, stacked farm(juiced maps): 5.

Week 1 update

The build works just fine in 3.17. It's tankier than ever, even with cheap items. I have not felt the lack of damage yet. It feels just like the first week of the previous two leagues.

I had a better luck in this league and dropped a 6 ex item on day 4. It let me buy a Watcher's Eye early and switch to the cluster version with cheap jewels.

2100 Int and 8k ES so far. Two curses, 5L chest. All my gear is cheap, nothing good yet. A long way to go there.

Learning the new Atlas stuff. Just finished all maps today except Vinktar and Doryani. On the new tree I specced into my favorite mechanics (Expedition and Betrayal), with some extra map drops, Harbingers and quantity. And the new endgame: Maven, Eater, Exarch. Map sustain looks fine. Currency is fine. Found a ton of chaos orbs and 0 exalts - PoE as usual. But my bro Tujen hooked me up with a couple of ex already, and I sold a bunch of logbooks. Expedition is LOVE.

Archnemesis league mechanic is only good at the start, to get a Tabula for leveling and some low currency. In red maps it feels like a waste of time. I'll probably stop bothering with it after combining all recipes for the challenges.

The new bosses are total pushovers, at least for this build. I knew nothing about them and didn't want to watch any spoilers before trying them. 1-shot the minis with the CwC setup and even got the challenges because they didn't live long enough to do their mechanics.

The big ones took 1 death each as I learned that each of them has a 1-shot mechanic that has to be avoided. The fire guy has an AoE death explosion that he announces as "Incineration". And a phase where you frostblink thru some moving magma balls. The lightning guy pops a bunch of shiny balls and the Maven tells you to light them up. You step on each of them and they light up to cancel an AoE death explosion. Stay away from green dirt balls, they have some degen debuff. Everything else can be easily facetanked. The experimental self-cast single target setup is perfect for these guys.

New video: The Eldritch Bosses

Does it look like "zero dps"? Do I need more damage? Maybe for the Maven? I don't target her in the first week of a new league. Normally I wouldn't even bother trying her without at least 2.5k Int and 3 curses. With the self-cast setup I just might. But not today.

Added the self-cast setup to the Links section, for those who want to experiment.

Harvest craft is soooo good.

Got this chest tody with reroll prefixes. I love the sacret groove more then tujen who ignores me and give me only crap deals. :-)

Build is fine. Never come so far in one week of a league, as i could play a lot the firest days. And then you can get the jewels and so much cheaper.

This is the chest for now. Have another with inc int and try to get a free suffix for inc att.

But for week one in a league i am really happy with it :-)