[3.21] ShakCentral's Cold DoT Elementalist For Everyone

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Alcsaar escribió:

Hello,

I'm trying to decide on a Vortex build for 3.10. Right now I'm on a fence between this one and Ghazzy's.

I prefer Ghazzy's tree at a glance, it boasts 270% increased ES compared to this trees 207%.

I'm not sure that I'm behind you on pathing over to templar being worth it.

Does anyone have any comments regarding this and why this passive tree pathing to templar might be superior?

(Edit: I realize now that the PoB defaulted to the LL build for some reason, I see on the CI build you don't go to templar)

Regardless, I will certainly be used parts of your guide because its very well written, I just may tweak the passive tree a bit. Especially the live-search suggestions, not enough build creators provide useful things like that!


PS: Guide Suggestion -> Consider renaming the ToC to just say "Path of Building (PoB). It took me a minute to find it in the table of contents because I was using the CTRL F search function to look for PoB/Path of Building. Minor suggestion.

Thanks!

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ShakCentral escribió:

Great suggestion - thanks! Also, I'm working on a big tree update. There's so much flexibility that over the last 1-2 leagues the most widely used trees have had huge variance. Updates soon!

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Alcsaar escribió:

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ShakCentral escribió:

Great suggestion - thanks! Also, I'm working on a big tree update. There's so much flexibility that over the last 1-2 leagues the most widely used trees have had huge variance. Updates soon!

BTW how does this build curse consistently to make use of profane bloom? The only curse set up I see in the POB is a COTD enfeeble. You wrote about potentially using awakened curse on hit but its not included in the pob (not that its a great choice for league start anyway)

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Forii escribió:

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ShakCentral escribió:

Hey everyone! I'm currently waiting on patch notes, at which point I'll update the guide with any relevant information.

A few other quick things -

1. I wanted to be sure that leveling as Vortex is viable, so I did a quick run to test. I took a lot of damage nodes because I'm very comfortable with dodging mobs, and it actually went very well. I swapped to Vortex when I found a 4L in Act 4 and was able to do all trials and skill points and kill Kitava in 4 hours and 14 minutes. Vortex leveling is very viable.

2. I think Vortex will still be a good build for 3.10, but this isn't necessarily a great mechanic for Vortex. Vortex shines as probably the best overall build for all content, from mapping to bossing to delve. That being said, it has obvious weaknesses, and Delirium will show off a few of them, namely speed. Without seeing any actual league gameplay, I would rate Vortex as still a fantastic choice, just not quite as S-Tier as in Metamorph.

Hi would you be updating the leveling thread to accommodate vortex leveling?

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Dessel4 escribió:

Does elemental focus not prevent us from freezing/chilling or am i missing something there?