[2.2] A Storm of Ice and Fire - Avatar of Fire CI Whispering Ice - Uber Viable!
" In these cases its always nice to test things out! If I do not get bonuses for both %fire and %cold damage, then both of these jewels should provide approximately the same damage increase. (I get no benefit from damage over time modifiers - icestorm is not damage over time) With neither jewel socketed my icestorm avg damage is listed as 5266.3. If we add the viridian jewel, my damage increases to 5,364.3. I have gained 98 damage. If we instead use the cobalt jewel, My damage becomes 5,477.4 I have gained 211.1 damage over base, or 113.1 damage over the viridian jewel. I am definitely getting 14% increased damage from the viridian jewel and 30% increased damage from the cobalt jewel here, so I am most definitely benefitting from both cold % and fire % damage modifiers in full. The phrasing on the jewel is identical to the phrasing on snowforged also. [Build Guide] - Whispering Ice CI Avatar of Fire https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1386145 Editado por útlima vez por Baalorlord#0339 en 10 ago. 2015 18:43:39
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" Int is not the best way to increase damage alone for this character - this I readily admit! Building for crit you should be able to easily achieve higher listed damage than I have. However, the reason we stack int so much is that we ALSO get defense for our investment, 1% increased maximum energy shield per 5 intelligence. Can't say no to the mana either, mana is tight on this build. [Build Guide] - Whispering Ice CI Avatar of Fire
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Why don't you get amplify for clear speed? AoE is love, AoE is life. I can see not getting blast radius because it costs an extra point and has 4% less AoE than amplify.
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" Firestorm and Icestorm have a unique interaction with increased area effect size. More AoE increases both the size of each individual blast as well as the size of the area over which they fall. Ultimately this results in similar coverage over a larger area - less density of hits, to put it simply. Against single, tough creatures like rare monsters and bosses, this is a bad thing! We will hit them with less hits per storm and do less overall DPS to single targets. AoE on other skills does not have this drawback. If you look at firestorm build guides you will see that most do not recommend AoE size for this reason. If you check my wasteland video you will see that the spell's default AoE (without conc effect) is more than adequate for mapping. [Build Guide] - Whispering Ice CI Avatar of Fire
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" Its a little difficult to equate intelligence to %increased damage, because our damage is actually affected by our intelligence in three ways(!). Each 100 int provides: 10-30 base damage 10% increased spell damage +0.35 second duration on Icestorm What this means for us ultimately is that each point of intelligence adds more damage than the last because we are exponentially scaling our damage as we add base damage and increase our multiplier and increase our duration, allowing us to stack more icestorms on top of one another. At my current level of int (1580) a 10 int node is roughly equivalent to an 8% damage node, ignoring the duration effect. What makes them better is that we also get energy shield, mana, and icestorm duration out of the deal. Celestial Judgement is a great node, but the elemental damage nodes we take to get to it are pretty useless. You'll note I try to avoid as many such minor nodes on the tree as possible - I take the long way around to elemental dominion and elementalist. [Build Guide] - Whispering Ice CI Avatar of Fire
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Hey dude, nice guide, made me make the switch from cold whispering ice to this avatr of fire version.
I can't shatter enemies anymore since I got AoF, is that because of "You deal no non-fire damage" ? This is my gear at the moment, I know it's not great but I can't replace the garb cuz I have a lot of mana issues if I do, how do you deal with mana anyways? Im running discipline, herald of ice and arctic armour too. I'm a witch and I only have 8.6k ES atm, will get 1 more vaal discipline when I stop being lazy haha. Have you tried carcass jack with this build? I'm afraid the ES will be extremely low, so I haven't tried it myself.. Thanks! |
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" Yes, you will never freeze or shatter enemies with Avatar of Fire - we deal only fire damage! I only use herald of ice for the added base cold damage. Mana for me is mostly solved by the Perandus Signets, without them mana is a severe issue. Carcass Jack does not have nearly enough ES to be worth considering, IMO. [Build Guide] - Whispering Ice CI Avatar of Fire
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"Ohh right i forgot you have those 2, sick regen.. Any gear I should upgrade? Other than the boots, lol, can't find anything good on poetrade for less than 1 ex.. |
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Cool build for freeze immune bosses, and nice "trick" for getting awesome jewels cheap (I suspect). I really like the Scion start for Unwavering Stance.
The defenses look a bit low to me even with all this awesome gear for generic high level mapping though. |
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" The most expensive of the jewels was 15 chaos! Though I expect people are starting to realize their value now. [Build Guide] - Whispering Ice CI Avatar of Fire
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