[2.4] Wormageddon (crit Herald of ice)

Edit - this version of the build is NO LONGER viable.


Warning:

The following guide contains scenes of exploding worms. If you happen to like worms, or are some kind of nature nut, go watch the nature channel.





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lljcb9YTdQM Russian Ice-cream truck song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YerYP3yIp38&feature=youtu.be infinite flasks




How things work:

Herald of ice is part of a 6 link and is augmented with increased area effect from gear, gems, and the skill tree.


casts 2 enemy worms, which when hit with cold damage, explode (Herald of ice)

is used to trigger multiple CWDT gems with low level skills that do cold damage and kill the worms.

allows the build to regain flask charges when hitting worms/ enemies.

Because of the extreme AoE, Herald of ice explosions overlap, and even chain off screen.

For tough mobs and bosses, a 20/20 vaal molten shell gets the job done

The result, is wormageddon.



Pros/cons



Gear:



Links:


Skill Tree




Videos:



To see some of my other builds, look here:

little side note,

I seem to have miscalculated the mana cost of 6L HoI (Aura calculator, y u so wrong??)

For now I am just rockin the build without arctic armor

Edit:
Skill tree has been updated - can now run arctic armor and 6L HoI

-Flickerstrike now uses blood magic

Nice build, good use of The Harvest, your other gear and gems are a bit confusing to me though

ill add a section to explain the gem setup

i saw you made a build with high crit HOI and HOT..
why not just use HOT to kill worms and generate the explosions? (without actually doing anything)

Inb4 2.2.3c hotfix:

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Writhing Worms now can't be frozen and gain immunity to melee damage for 2 seconds as they spawn

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The_x_ile wrote:

i saw you made a build with high crit HOI and HOT..
why not just use HOT to kill worms and generate the explosions? (without actually doing anything)

in order to "spam" worm flasks quickly, there needs to be fast accumulation of flask charges. HoT does not do that. HoT also requires at the very least a method of freezing (three dragons/ brotherhood) and increased critical strikes gem. We do not have enough mana to support a 6L HoI with a supported HoT.

HoT also is quite random for targeting enemies, so it may not immediately hit the worm(s). You would be better off playing my HoT build, or raizqt's build.

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Writhing Worms now can't be frozen and gain immunity to melee damage for 2 seconds as they spawn

hhmmm... Herald of fire build then.

I had to restrain myself from asking why you had a 6L HoI earlier. Now I know. Really cool build! This feels like the next level of Writhing Jar silliness from all those CoMK builds.

All hail the woooorrrrms.

I love it man! Scary funny laggy, and very well thinked. GG

Oh and you may put a cold to fire gem in the 6L setup 10% mana cost and a lot of damage :o oh well it sucks with cold pene... ok :/ maybe the solution is somewhere else.

A similar setup can be done with herald of ash + emberwake, it needs a fast attack skill thoo :/

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viperesque wrote:

I had to restrain myself from asking why you had a 6L HoI earlier. Now I know. Really cool build! This feels like the next level of Writhing Jar silliness from all those CoMK builds.

All hail the woooorrrrms.

Once I get my 20% reduced mana reservation enchant on the helm, I might try ComK by putting flickerstrike in the 5L.