Whispering ice, a song of ice and fire

This build is based on this amazing new item coming up with act 4, whispering ice:




Mechanics
The goal is to use Cyclone and Cast on Crit with Icestorm and Firestorm, while using Elemental Equilibrium.

Whispering ice gives us a great increase damage with all the sweet intelligence we get from the tree and items. Therefore we need a LOT of intelligence.

We want to use a lvl 3 empower, which would also be buffed by the staff, for a +4 level to all our skills there! For a huge damage boost.

We use here Voll's protector to get charges faster and to increase our critical chance.

Passive tree
We need a LOT of INT, crit chance, accuracy... And of course energy shield and some elemental damage nodes:
http://www.pathofexile.com/fullscreen-passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMBAW8C_g18DkgPxBEPEVARlhNxFkAXLxhdGyUdFB1PKPopTyoLLKYsvy0fNAo0MTW5Nj03ZjeDO3w8BTzvPV9BckLDRtdHBkuuTLNQMFJTVdZXKVfJWK5Z81xrXfJepV9qY0Nk52aeaPJtGXBScNVxhX_GgKSCm4RIhX2J04t6jAuMNo9GkNaVIJeVl_SYrZo7m6Gf36KjpuunCKcrrJit8bFCtUi4k7jKuXy8msAawGbBxcHzw23JZ9lb2rnbXtvn34TfiuL344TpAuq66-7sOOyw7UTvfPLh8-r31_rS-4s=

And on POE builder:
https://poebuilder.com/character/AAAAAgMAAW8C_g18DkgPxBEPEVARlhNxFkAXLxhdGyUdFB1PKPopTyoLLKYsvy0fNAo0MTW5Nj03ZjeDO3w8BTzvPV9BckLDRtdHBkuuTLNQMFJTVdZXKVfJWK5Z81xrXfJepV9qY0Nk52aeaPJtGXBScNVxhX_GgKSCm4RIhX2J04t6jAuMNo9GkNaVIJeVl_SYrZo7m6Gf36KjpuunCKcrrJit8bFCtUi4k7jKuXy8msAawGbBxcHzw23JZ9lb2rnbXtvn34TfiuL344TpAuq66-7sOOyw7UTvfPLh8-r31_rS-4s=

Gems links
Gems on the staff

On Voll's protector

I'm also planning to play the ice golem, which seems to be way too amazing not to play it with this build: plenty of Accuracy and Critical Chance


Auras
Purity of ice + Purity of fire + Discipline + reduced mana. It should help a lot to take care of elemental reflect.

Items + how to increase Intelligence


Bandits


(more to come when act four is out)

It´s funny how you´ve put sooo much time into this shit, witout understanding that the talent-tree you´ve linked will be useless in the expansion. As the talenttree will be different.


CYA!

Actually, as you might notice, the passive tree in 2.0 is quite close to the passive tree in 1.3. Apart from the jewels of course. Therefore, it gives a pretty good idea of what it will look like.

I'm trying to improve the idea, if you have ideas about it, I would love it.

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sergus12 wrote:

We want to use a lvl 3 empower, which would also be buffed by the staff, for a +4 level to all our skills there! For a huge damage boost.

Just so you know, Icestorm isn't affected by Empower. You also only have 27% crit chance (before items & power charges, that is), I'd recommend switching Empower for a 20/20 (or 20/23) Increased Critical Strikes gem for another 167% increased Crit Chance.

Going CI without a shield is going to be iffy as well. I personally think you'd be better off going life with a tree something like this one, but again, that's just my opinion and I'm not the greatest at making trees anyway. :P

Gloves could also be Atziri's Acuity for 60-80 INT. (if you have infinity exalts, that is)

EDIT: typos

Does CoC work with Icestorm though? Ive been messing with the staff and I can't seem to get it to work. Im trying to use Ice Nova on the staff and have it trigger Icestorm with CoC, but can't seem to get it to work.

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Does CoC work with Icestorm though? Ive been messing with the staff and I can't seem to get it to work. Im trying to use Ice Nova on the staff and have it trigger Icestorm with CoC, but can't seem to get it to work.

You need to use attack with CoC I belive, so you cant use another spell like icenova ^^

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Landsrodt wrote:

You need to use attack with CoC I belive, so you cant use another spell like icenova ^^

Yep.

Cast on Critical Strike (commonly referred to as CoC) is a trigger gem that causes a linked spell to activate when the player rolls a critical strike with the attack skill it is linked to. Spells don't trigger it. If not, it would be an unending barrage... i.e barrage, crits, cocs fireball, fireball crits, throw more fireballs and so on.