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

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ultra_super_hyper escribió:

Yes, where can we email them? If they raise the cap even a little bit it'd be better.

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Kelvynn escribió:

Oak died in about 5 sec to my Icicle Mines. Just saying ;p

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Kelvynn escribió:

I did a test in Standard: ran T16 Hydra with random alch mods on my abandoned 3.11 character (Winter_Farm) - lv 89 with unfinished gems and semi-ghetto gear, 6.6k ES.

Clearing with Inc AoE + CD instead of CE + SC was just fine. The storms are indeed limited to 5, but everything dies as I cyclone through, before the storms behind me disappear, except some tanky rares. It's still far better than any self-casting setup.

The boss, however... Yeah, the limit of max 25 hits per second feels bad. Ramping up that max dps takes only ~1.5 sec, but it takes quite a bit longer to kill the boss than before - I did the same test last night with unlimited storms.

Then again, spending 2x as much time on the boss as before the nerf is still only a fraction of the total mapping time. And this is a base that we haven't started to build upon yet. New things in 3.12 might allow us bring the boss DPS up again.

For now, the build is definitely viable as a league starter. I'm going to go with it and see what can be done later.

I'm going to try emailing GGG, and it would be nice if more people emailed them too. The 5 storm limit is an unjustified nerf. Perhaps the devs can agree to raise it to 10?

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archwerewolf escribió:

well think i burned out with poe. started, played a little bit, and closed game. specially after they nerfed WI not interesting again lvling

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LiNGeN escribió:

Allright. I'm going to compare post-patch with pre-patch with my Harvest character Plant_Icestorm_Reap_FPS.

Right now I will run:
1. A Simulacrum
2. A T16 magic Purifier Elder Guardian Promenade with +40% Monster Resistance

Using these sextants:

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3. And finally a T16 Blighted Promenade

* I have respecced into a defensive tanky version with an ES on hit Watcher's Eye.
* I have removed Awakened Elemental Focus, Awakened Controlled Destruction & Hypothermia from the staff and will only use Cyclone, Lvl6 Awakened CwC, Lvl 21 Concentrated Effect (as well as Fortify & Infused Channelling for immortality's sake <:-} )

Tomorrow when the patch is released. I will do the same thing over again to try out all the new mechanics. I have a 2nd Simulacrum, a 2nd identical T16 Resistant Purifier Promenade & another Blighted Promenade ready waiting for that when the time comes.

I will record all the runs.

Edit: Ofcourse I will take out my explode chest. I will use this piece instead that is from my Delirium character:

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Maps used

Wave 18 comparison


Wave 19 comparison


Wave 20 comparison


Prepatch:
Simulacrum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRaT31-6Rcc
T16 Blighted Promenade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWH2J41dsqw
T16 Elder Promenade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6QxOSJU464

Postpatch:
Simulacrum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oiX1fqgdbw
T16 Blighted Promenade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-u5-TDg9pY
T16 Elder Promenade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx6y8g-21rQ