[3.24] Devon's Frostblink Elementalist - The Hotstepper | Build of the Week! | 9M+ DoT DPS

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King_Haart escribió:

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This is the second build I've done (regular) Uber Elder on, did it with zero deaths, though had one close call where I was down to zero health flask charges. The ignites run for long enough that you can mostly keep distance and they still just DoT down pretty quick.

Did die once to the Minotaur while getting the fragments, was a oneshot which isn't that surprising with 4.5k life and pretty low armour, the evasion/dodge/block layers can only do so much. Did all of this with Maven witnessing too, and also did the Twisted with 80% qual including reduced max resists. Moving around so much while still being able to pop in for damage, and not having to worry about staying still to aim is really great for survivability.

Also dropped an Orb of Dominance and a 3-mod Watcher's Eye (will sell unIDed) so quite happy with the whole affair!

Next up, the rest of the favorite map slots.

EDIT: Did Maven, with 1 portal remaining XD

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Viridis Vail has added a little more protective layer: protection from critical hits and reducing the total damage of hits on me (unlucky monster damage).

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What I don't like so far is that this option is still extremely vulnerable to gradual damage because a gem with 30% life is used.

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addition to the post above
https://youtu.be/B70dO4rPVGs The 30th wave of the simulacrum

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King_Haart escribió:

Oh, and question - if one trades out Pyre and also Cold to Fire (to say Hypothermia, which is only *slightly* less DPS), can we use Elemental Equilibrium to get free -25% Exposure and does that stack with Mastermind of Discord? That could be an extra ~-12% fire resistance compared to Glove implicit (doubled with Eye of Malice) and then it frees up the Gloves to get a different implicit. Does require some extra points to path to it, but you can either get lucky with the keystone tattoo, or you can just path that way anyway like me to get the 4th Body tattoo for an extra 500 health.

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King_Haart escribió:

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Oh, and question - if one trades out Pyre and also Cold to Fire (to say Hypothermia, which is only *slightly* less DPS), can we use Elemental Equilibrium to get free -25% Exposure and does that stack with Mastermind of Discord? That could be an extra ~-12% fire resistance compared to Glove implicit (doubled with Eye of Malice) and then it frees up the Gloves to get a different implicit. Does require some extra points to path to it, but you can either get lucky with the keystone tattoo, or you can just path that way anyway like me to get the 4th Body tattoo for an extra 500 health

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skinmouse escribió:

Hello, could I get some assistance please? I'm kinda stumped on what to do next, I can't figure out how to get more damage or maybe some defenses.

Here's my pob - https://pastebin.com/292EMw8n

Thanks!

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King_Haart escribió:

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skinmouse escribió:

Hello, could I get some assistance please? I'm kinda stumped on what to do next, I can't figure out how to get more damage or maybe some defenses.

Here's my pob - https://pastebin.com/292EMw8n

Thanks!

What's your budget like?

For Defense:

A Watcher's Eye with +chance to evade goes a long way with this build (right now you are 81% chance - if you get a +8% jewel, you get hit ~40% less often!).

Your spell dodge is also very low, look into the last page or two where I discussed using a Green Nightmare + cold resist tattoos to get a relatively cheap 15% extra (there are a lot of other build tips in those pages too!).

You can drop some of the DPS nodes near Growth and Decay (and Glacial Cage) temporarily to reach Instinct and Inveterate as well for another ~20% spell dodge chance which is HUGE, that's 40% less often (since you're already at 50%) that spells hit you.

For Damage:

Replica Iron Point is OK for early maps but at your level you should be getting a decent rare weapon. PoB can give you a trade link for max DPS within your budget. FWIW I didn't worry overmuch about Elemental Overload & Crit chance, more base DPS is more consistent anyway.

Using Heatshiver or Eye of Malice is a LOT more DPS (former relies more on chill/freeze, which is better with the Frigid Cold jewels if you have the jewel slots and budget, Eye of Malice is fine for clear but for bosses you need good curses/exposure - if you have those it's roughly on par).

Look for a Lethal Pride that can go in the top center jewel socket and get a bunch of faster ignite damage, that's a *huge* DPS boost. A +Int Gem tattoo on Theif's Craft is a bunch more for 1 passive point.

Glacial Cage doesn't do much for DPS without Heatshiver, you can drop that.

If you get the right Glove implicit you can drop Elemental Prolif (you'd really want Ignite prolif anyway) for Unbound Ailments for more DPS again with little if any loss of clear.

There's probably a lot more - check out my PoB, it may help. Some of the items are costlier or require a lot of live searches to get affordably but others are cheaper to pick up.

I just did Simulacrum wave 30 for the first time, on my first try with this build - I did die a few times due to being slow to dodge the bosses but it's not that hard to get sufficient DPS on this build.