[3.20] Ice Dancing Queen - Icestorm/Cyclone/CI - Viable For Everything
" Those are my actual numbers from equipping the gem. I'm sure they already include all cold damage increases except penetration. The problem is in the variance. Each hit will deal a random amount of cold damage between 48 and 72, and a random 51-76 fire damage. Sure, the actual amount of cold will be higher, but it's still quite possible for the random fire amount to end up higher than cold. Bonechill won't work for targets not near you since Vortex is cast on you. Hence the question: can the same target have BOTH exposures at the same time? Fire from an occasional unlucky proc and cold from most 'good' ones? |
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" Why don't I go and check? Haha. I went to Act 10 and manually cast WoC on some mobs. In about 1/3 of the cases they became Vulnerable to Fire instead of Cold. However, when I then dropped Frost Bomb on them they became Vulnerable to both Fire and Cold! That means the Exposure debuffs can stack. That's all we need! WoC can proc almost as often as CWDT itself. Meaning that against a persistent source of damage it will proc multiple times and guarantee that Cold Exposure will get applied. I'll play with this Phantasmal WoC and see how it goes. |
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Another question: is there a way to tell that a monster is Unnerved? I spammed Blade Blast on some mobs, but there seems to be no visual indication or a text under their names about it. How do we know that Blade Blast is working?
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" Yes, that's the other main route you can take. You can use PoB to choose between them, given what cluster jewels you have. I had that route earlier in Delirium, before I switched to the posted one. |
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" LOL. Good game design from GGG. Not being sarcastic -- the GGG designers try hard to kill off the overpowered players, and any time they succeed, they have a round of drinks. And that's a good thing for the game. I didn't see the disable icon. The lasers & landmine are easy to see and I haven't had a problem with them. Thanks, I'll keep an eye out now that I know what to look for. |
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Here's the result of me testing Alternative WoC:
- It works fine for applying Cold Exposure. It procs several times more often than Frost Bomb, and if it doesn't apply Cold on the first proc (because fire or lightning randomly does more damage) then it surely will on the 2nd proc when the target already has Frostbite and will take a whole lot more Cold damage. - I'm not impressed with WoC as a curse vessel. It goes only in one direction, it moves slowly, and it doesn't get very far. Enemies at the edge of my screebn remain uncursed even when they are in the same direction as WoC just went off to. Not to mention enemies around me in other directions. Ball Lightning is much better for curse application. It's fast, it instantly curses everything near me in a radius, and then it also curses everything in the targeted direction, more than 1 screen away, and very quickly. This fits my play style a lot better than WoC. I like to Frostblink into packs of enemies. Overall: I'm keeping BL in the main curse link, but going to use WoC instead of Frost Bomb in the secondary CWDT link (with Blade Blast). Editado por útlima vez por Kelvynn en 24 sept. 2020 17:47:11
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"Understand I'm not trying to contradict you or say you're wrong... But I simply don't understand how you can have the Phantasmal WoC gem doing 20% phys conversion to cold (which means there's 25% conversion to fire, 25% conversion to lightning & 20% conversion to cold... so a net 5% difference), and then you have +109% cold damage and 6% cold penetration from Heart of Ice, and somehow that 5% difference isn't made irrelevant? That just makes no sense. You're looking at your in-game tooltip, but I think you should look at the Calc's tab in PoB, and I bet your # to # cold is way more than fire and lightning. Editado por útlima vez por SkylerOG en 24 sept. 2020 17:47:17
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" You can test it yourself easily. I actually did in the next post. Fire or Lightning Exposure gets applied quite often, when their random damage is on the high end of the interval while Cold is at the low end. So no, Cold is far from guaranteed even with the significant buffs to cold damage. However, it's not an issue anymore. Read on to the end of my testing posts (last one is just above this one). |
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" what is ur current int? cus i added split personlty and it added 30 int to my setup is it really worth? it feels like i lose a lot of energy shield for a lil bit more int |
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" Have you accidentally bridged your passives somewhere? I'm getting 91 Int each using Hem's tree. https://i.imgur.com/uNGK0oC.png |
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