[2.0] ✮ MrKasor's Icestorm Trap Goddess ✮ [HC]

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Bobblybook wrote:

Here are a few notes from me for anyone out on a journey to farm the cards solo!

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MrKasor wrote:

Just the type of Post I love to see one that points out problems you've been having.

The as Icestorm depends on INT amount it really doesn't shine early and is probably better off Self-Casting Until Sunblast/Clever Construction. For the Bosses Killing Traps until you get the notable that gives them a 5 second Grace. I added that to the 60 & 80 Tree as that should help a lot. Sunblast is also key as it sets them off after 5 seconds so they can no longer be destroyed before they go off your welcome. Deerstalker is a good choice for now as it's cheap and gives 5 Sockets if you had one corrupted with +1 to Socketed gems it would increase Cold Snap damage by enough to make it a very good skill early Switch Trap Damage for Cold Pen. Your Amulet needs like 3 Int Rolls Hybrid Dex/Int with All Attributes and Int for near 100 INT. INT Increases Icestorm Base Damage and Due to the staff's spell damage per Int it also helps Cold Snap. So remember INT is the most important stat for you. As it Gives you mana for MoM, Max ES, and Damage it's broken.

Edited the leveling part to help people with your problem.

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I did have Sunblast and I was also already using Doedre's Scorn at that point. I did realize that one of the main cause for the slow and difficult levelling/progress was due to A4 content just being a lot harder. As soon as I got into Cruel, I breezed through A1. Merveil or Brutus was no big deal. Thank you for the tree update, I seem to have ended up with more damage with it and it'll make things easier for when I hit the later Acts because of an earlier Clever Construction.

Currency is pretty scarce for me at the moment so I'll have to save the amulet for later. DPS is just fine currently. Oh and I would just like to point out that Sunblast doesn't reduce the trap duration down to 5 seconds. For some reason, Cold Snap one is at 10 seconds from 23 seconds and Ice Storm trap is at 42 seconds from 55. Increased Duration increases the duration of the traps as well.

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ValorForLife wrote:

Currently level 57 and using the firestorm/cold snap combo until I can get a staff. Overall feeling very good and able to do pretty much anything with relative ease.

One issue I've ran into recently is mana: ever since picking up MoM, I'll often be completely drained of mana and can have trouble with certain ranged packs. Any advice? Even when not being hit, my traps just generally feel pretty expensive ATM and clarity is having trouble keeping up.

I'm running with 0 mana pots atm, maybe I just need to use one or two for now?

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Bobblybook wrote:

Yes I read it's 2.5% per level above (zone level + 2). That's why in Cruel, you have a very small window to actually farm, once you outlevel the zone by around 10 levels you have a 20% droprate penalty and it's not worth doing.

Same with merciless, but the "cap" for the penalty is level 68, so any higher than that and we'll still have the same drop chance as level 68... which ends up being a (68-61-2=5)*2.5=12.5% currency drop penalty, at maximum. Which isn't bad considering you'll be killing things more than 12.5% quicker anyway, so your drops/time should actually increase.

I'm unsure about IIR/IIQ also, I just thought I'd mention my stats for transparency. Plus you somewhat need a tinfoil-hat stat if you're going to do this! :D