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

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s_w_a_s_s a écrit :

Tried some uber pinnacle bosses but exarch and maven kicked my butt repeatedly.

My DPS seems a little low for uber pinnacles but I'm not sure what to change that won't be tough to find now. Like I know my rings can be upgraded but I haven't seen two that will cap my resists in days. Does anything stand out as obviously wrong? Thanks!

https://pobb.in/rS3p7pHF4g7a

I cannot load into PoB right now, so I can't look at the raw numbers, but here are a couple suggestions I got from looking at your character on this site, keeping in mind that all of this is min-maxing for Ubers :

- You have a regular rare jewel with 15 int in your middle-right slot. Switching to a +22 to +24 converter jewel will give you +17 to +19 int, which might even be a bit higher with multipliers. I'd bet it's going to be a bit better than the 1% res pen you have there. I do understand it opens a gem slot on your mapping staff by removing Elemental proliferation, but honestly, you don't need more damage on your CwC staff. You can switch to self-cast anytime you encounter something that does not instantly die.

- I can't see the second jewel on your top-right cluster on the site. I'm assuming that's your second Forbidden jewel, as I dont, see it anywhere else, but it's weird that it doesn't show up.

- Switching Split personnalities to int/ES will give you a substantial boost in survivability, if you can find some. We're talking 700-1000 ES if you switch both. It makes a big difference against Ubers.

- Finding Large clusters with +int, +attr or a third notable will give you a nice boost.

- You'd benefit from +% int on your chest piece.

- Your gloves could benefit from a higher ES roll. At high int levels, it's approximately X7. +40ES on the roll is +280ES and that adds up a lot, especially against Ubers. Some people run the upgraded version of the +dmg per int roll that only procs on pinnacle bosses to get a bit of extra damage against Ubers. You need the big Eldritch currency to roll those.

- As I'm checking right now, you're missing a ring, but I understand you're looking for one. Look me up in-game when I'm online and I have a variety of nicely-rolled rings that might help you out like this one I was previously using : . I personnally prefer two +35% allres rings, as you get a *lot* of res and it gives you flexibility for the rest of your gear. Also, remember that you can harvest craft to change a res roll to another on non-mirrored, non-corrupted gear like your belt or glove.

- Helmet could be pushed from +8% to +10%, though I understand how painful that thought would be with the enchant and good rolls already on yours to reroll a new one.

- You can change annoint from Charisma to Mystic Talents for a nice boost in damage.

- You don't need two Enlightens, especially since one of them is linked only to Clarity, whose cost is very low. Removing that and Portal lets you run Bonechill and Vortex in another link and you can use lvl1 Ball Lightning + lvl1 CWDT in your six-link to apply curses automatically. It works a lot better IMO. Using Increased duration on Immortal call can also upgrade your defenses a bit. You'll be missing a gem slot with those changes, but personally, I wasn't using Culling Strike until I got it on a Megalomaniac.

- You still got three more levels to go to get additionnal skill points.

- Food for thought : does X to X cold damage result in more damage than X% cold pen on the Watcher's Eye? I honestly don't know. considering the amount of res pen we got elsewhere in the build, it might be preferable to add the raw damage instead. Guess you could try to get a three buffs Eye, but that's nigh impossible, especially at a reasonable price.

Hope that helps!

Ha you caught me in the middle of upgrading my rings. Thanks for looking and responding, much appreciated.

I'd totally forgotten about the second Enlighten, it's left over from when I upgraded to a L4.

Good tip on Mystic Talents, I was using Charisma to run both Hatred and Aspect of the Spider but I decided to sell my Aspect belt and buy one with better int.

I was feeling early on that I needed a gem with Corrupted Blood but overleech seems to be good enough protection which is nice to know. Swapped it for a Fertile Mind.

POB says a flat cold watcher is less damage for me than a cold pen one - not a lot but like 2k average hit less.

Thanks again!

Hi,

want to say thanks to Kevlynn for creating this build.

This build took me to 40 challenges:), but some challenges i bought.

Also I want to say thanks to Graiaule for helping me with questions and tips.

The Atlas mod grind I did with vaal scouting report, to get 8 mod maps.

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Snowbliz a écrit :

Hi,

want to say thanks to Kevlynn for creating this build.

This build took me to 40 challenges:), but some challenges i bought.

Also I want to say thanks to Graiaule for helping me with questions and tips.

The Atlas mod grind I did with vaal scouting report, to get 8 mod maps.

Thanks for the tip on the vaal scouting report - it's helping a lot! 1000 more Atlas mods to grind and then I'll do the divine orb benchcraft last to get 40/40.

Btw, I grabbed the 60% reduced elemental reflect damage taken mastery (Divine Judgement node) and together with the Pantheon, I'm able to run elemental reflect maps as well. Is there a better way to be elemental reflect immune? My method is costing me 5 passive points.

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kraken1944 a écrit :

Thanks for the tip on the vaal scouting report - it's helping a lot! 1000 more Atlas mods to grind and then I'll do the divine orb benchcraft last to get 40/40.

Btw, I grabbed the 60% reduced elemental reflect damage taken mastery (Divine Judgement node) and together with the Pantheon, I'm able to run elemental reflect maps as well. Is there a better way to be elemental reflect immune? My method is costing me 5 passive points.

You can get "players take no reflected damage" as sextant mod. They are quite common, and you can save them for when you have enough reflect maps for all charges. But this will not help against reflect maps you accidently open.

Or you can just not run them. Harvest crafting bench has "Sacrifice a Corrupted Map. Create a new Corrupted Map of the same tier and rarity."

But nether of these works for Kirac missions.

And Watcher's Eye can have 40%-50% reduced Reflected Elemental Damage taken while affected by Purity of Elements. If you can find one with other good mods. And afford it.

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kraken1944 a écrit :

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Snowbliz a écrit :

Hi,

want to say thanks to Kevlynn for creating this build.

This build took me to 40 challenges:), but some challenges i bought.

Also I want to say thanks to Graiaule for helping me with questions and tips.

The Atlas mod grind I did with vaal scouting report, to get 8 mod maps.

Thanks for the tip on the vaal scouting report - it's helping a lot! 1000 more Atlas mods to grind and then I'll do the divine orb benchcraft last to get 40/40.

Btw, I grabbed the 60% reduced elemental reflect damage taken mastery (Divine Judgement node) and together with the Pantheon, I'm able to run elemental reflect maps as well. Is there a better way to be elemental reflect immune? My method is costing me 5 passive points.

Be careful with any effect that makes you take increased damage. Even if you have -110% reflected damage, you can still take reflects if you have an effect that gives you +20% damage taken, for example (-60%-50%+20%=10%). Things like being on shocked grounds, for example, or specific mods can get over your decrease in damage and get you unforeseen deaths.

I just skip those maps myself. They don't seem to be worth the hassle.

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kraken1944 a écrit :

Is there a better way to be elemental reflect immune? My method is costing me 5 passive points.

not sure about better but 1 gem can fix elemental reflect completely

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spaceace7373 a écrit :

not sure about better but 1 gem can fix elemental reflect completely

Does that really work?

It says it supports attack skills, so cyclone alone. That doesn't even do elemental damage in the first place. That Icestorm would not be supported at all and would not get the benefit.

Whoaah thanks for the suggestions and tips guys!

There's so much in POE that I don't really know.

I tried putting in POB the Awakened Elemental Damage with Attacks Support gem but I doesn't seem to change dps for both single and clearing setup.
I haven't tested the reflect feature though.

Anyone building this one again in Mayhem today? :D