[3.6] The Blizz Sorc - Icestorm/Winter Orb CI Occultist - Viable For Everything

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Med1umentor escribió:

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Med1umentor escribió:

Also, for those who don't like blood rage setup that eat away our ES and blocking ES recharge start.

I have different solution, but it comes at the cost of absense of a second WI staff on weapon swap, but on the other hand, it greatly diminishes our gem slot problems.

The things is - blood rage is removed together with gem, but we can't do that in the middle of battle, so we just place it on the weapon swap. So weapon swap, use blood rage, and weapon swap again. That way we can activate "stopped taking DOT damage" even without immortal call, and also it great way to "hurt yourself" before trap of the labyrinth, and activate unstoppable ES recharge to run through it.

But wait, there is more! As you all know, there is new craftable veiled mod, that "trigger socketed spell when use a skill", and those things are cheap as hell. So we can even place our frost bomb setup on it, and activate both blood rage and frost bomb at the same time (frost bomb will not go anywhere even after weapon swap, because the moment it was placed, it become completely independent from our gems). And we can do it with a skill as instant cast, even during the run, without stoping. (or with a skill that we want to use anyway, like vigilant strike)

In short, we can place there any of our supporting skills to cast, and cast it manually alltogether by weapon swap and one button.

There are tons of combo that will ease our life, i will investigate slightly further right now, any ideas are welcomed :) (coldsnap+bonechill, hello ^_^)

P.S. The only downside is that you need to get used to weapon swap notion, and waste "single target setup WI". But on the other hand, i don't even use "single target weapon swap WI" anymore. When i changed to 5 link winter orb, i use that instead for both bossing and map clear. It do both with flying colors. Maybe i will change my mind in more deep late game, but right now single target setup only make me to waste more time.

Update: Cause vigilant strike and fortify isn't one entity, removing vigilant strike from gems don't remove our fortify buff. Also, it's not a spell, so it will not be triggered by veiled mod, and will not clunk our order of skill activation.
So we can safely place vigilant strike+ancestral call+blood rage in one hand, and coldsnap+bonechill+frost bomb in another.

That give us 4 free gem slots at the very least.

So, is anyone at all have any comments about my new strat? I'm lonely that everyone just ignored me :(
If you think that it's bad decision, please comment on it, and explain why. I will try to improve it, or just drop that idea entirely if it's unsalvageble :)

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Gladiator25CZ escribió:

Why are you rushing Frigid wake in cruel? Wouldn't be Vile bastion much more powerfull? There is the regen and stund immune vs freeze immune that can be replaced with flask and little 33% chance to freeze boss for 0.6s.

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Jangri escribió:

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Kelvynn escribió:

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Jangri escribió:

Currently feeling very safe with this build, 1670 int and 9.1k ES @ lvl 89. Done up to tier 14, ele reflect is managable, no leach i just skip.

What upgrades do you think I should aim for next?

Do you have Watcher's Eye? No Leech is not a problem at all with it, except for T16 bosses (and not even all cases there).

No, don't have it yet. The ES on hit seem to go for about 5ex, which i don't currently have

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falagar112 escribió:

is there any particular reason you cannot play this as a low life build with shav? downsides/upsides?

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Kelvynn escribió:

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lilianmarius escribió:

Hello I am coming back with this question :

How can we know that we deal enough damage in order to chill end-game bosses?

Hypothermia is kinda useless against end game bosses if we can't chill them!

Icestorm chill ground = always 10% chill.
AA (if they are hitting you) = always 30% chill.
AA + Bonechill = they are also taking increased damage while hitting you (LOL @ minotaur)

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lilianmarius escribió:

Regarding Bonechill what's the %more damage we get from supporting AA with it? Does the damage multiplier apply constantly when we get hit or there is a spike in our damage output from time to time?