[3.24] Frostbolt/Ice Nova Hierophant | 100m DPS | All Content

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Intensity and the Pinpoint Support
Intensity was introduced as a high-risk, high-reward mechanic for handcasting that lets you build up powerful concentrated damage while casting repeatedly, as long as you don't move and at the cost of area of effect. To improve the mechanic, we're lowering the base maximum Intensity to 3, while increasing all bonuses to compensate. This will make it faster to build up and lose intensity, while also putting more power on the passive tree notable that gives maximum Intensity.

We've changed the Intensity mechanic to be one we can build into other skills and supports, like Crackling Lance and the new Pinpoint Support. Pinpoint Support gives 3 additional projectiles, while each stack of Intensity will reduce the number of projectiles you fire by 1 while greatly increasing the skill's damage. By increasing your maximum Intensity you could lose all projectiles, so this support works well with spells that can easily gain additional projectiles.

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The way I understand it, Ice Nova cast on Frostbolt isn't considered a projectile (try using GMP/LMP to confirm), so I don't see why intensity stacks would decrease the number of Ice Nova expansions. In essence, this just means we reach max intensity sooner by a little, but the big potential upside is AOE. Depending on the way they adjust the intensity numbers, the novas could have much more AOE, allowing for more use cases of Conc Effect over Hypothermia or even going for a +1 max intensity node.

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Trovarst escribió:

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The way I understand it, Ice Nova cast on Frostbolt isn't considered a projectile (try using GMP/LMP to confirm), so I don't see why intensity stacks would decrease the number of Ice Nova expansions. In essence, this just means we reach max intensity sooner by a little, but the big potential upside is AOE. Depending on the way they adjust the intensity numbers, the novas could have much more AOE, allowing for more use cases of Conc Effect over Hypothermia or even going for a +1 max intensity node.

Are you starting with this build again? You helped me a lot on how to progress it here, thank you!

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I might make some updates, I think it's 99% untouched by the patch.