Pohx's Crit Glacial Cascade Build ( Just Gear and Youtube For Now )

So I was lucky enough to have an ex drop in a recent map. Trying to figure out to get a CoD or get a new staff. At 6 charges, my GC dps is around 8.5k now. With AA, I'm taking dmg ooooookay with around 3.2k health. Not sure what to invest in...lol

What do you think? Current gear:

Hey Pohx.

What do you think about this staff? And potential value in currency,

it fine for the build dude?

Does the vaal grace work with CWDT? Mine never seems to cast.

At some point you talked about using Cold to Fire along with AA to mitigate cold reflect. Have you tried it yet and/or is it still in your plans?

I'm not far enough along to add AA, but I'll give it a try later.

Also, I tried to simulate the conversion with a pyre ring, but it screws up the freeze and I can't really tell what's going on.

Yeah, the pyre ring didn't seem to work out too well.

General question...does the increased AOE gem work with the shatters from HOI? I really can't tell if it has any change.

This continues to be the most fun I have had in PoE yet....!

your build is so fun! i died to lvl 70 for reflect

Hey Pohx, long time glacial cascade user here :)

I was very happy when I heard that you are using glacial cascade, but the same time a little bit disappointed cuz I realized its a crit build.

The last ladder (rampage) I tried in and out almost everything related to glacial cascade(I loved the skill, but couldn't find any build here that I liked, so I kinda built it from zero), from support gems to crit-no crit, and in my opininon, no-crit is the way to go.

I cleared lvl78 maps, and killed Atziri with my build
sadly I can't link how my tree looked like, but with the new tree I'd probably go with this:



Items:



please don't mind some of the gems and craft mods, I'm trying out some other things ^^

okay, talk about some of the items

pledge of hands - first of all, im using this, cuz its basically a 7 link (well, not mine) and the 100% mana is just superawesome, since I'm using carcass jack instead of CoD, without it I probably can't run lvl20+ AA

carcass jack - aoe, aoe dmg, life, res
since I'm using this, I don't need increased aoe gem for getting max hit/target (3-4)

now the gems:

cold to fire is just the most AWESOME MOT****************** gem in the whole game, I just love it, it gives you like 50% damred (with AA), PLUS a ton of damage from glacial cascade, PLUS a ton of damage from added cold damage -> thats why I'm using added cold instead of added chaos
fcr - conc effect for, you know, more damage etc.
for 6link I'd probably go like this: glacial cascade - added cold dmg - cold to fire - conc effect - fcr - life leech - (spell echo from staff)

with 5l I'm often switching my gem setup, depending on the enemy I face
VS. Atziri, I'm using glacial cascade - cold pen - fcr - conc effect - life leech - (spell echo)

VS. reflect maps: glacial cascade- added cold - cold to fire - conc effect - fcr (spell echo)

life would be easy with 6link but w/e : )

as for auras, I'm running clarity, herald of ice, herald of thunder, purity of fire + cold
+ AA

with this setup right now (although I'm using a little bit different skill tree) I have 20k dmg, 4.6k life and 80/80/75 resist

I hope you'll get some ideas from this post, I'm really excited to see more about your char
GL with it :)

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Aegineer wrote:

So I was lucky enough to have an ex drop in a recent map. Trying to figure out to get a CoD or get a new staff. At 6 charges, my GC dps is around 8.5k now. With AA, I'm taking dmg ooooookay with around 3.2k health. Not sure what to invest in...lol

What do you think? Current gear:

I would recommend you get life on all your pieces of gear

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Izuka wrote:

Hey Pohx.

What do you think about this staff? And potential value in currency,

it's okay. Low spell damage, low cast speed, no crit and no crit multi