[2.6] 95% Freeze Chance Glacial Hammer, Champion. 300+k dps, Budget (under 20c),

Last few months the only way i can play POE is making non-meta builds, focusing on most useless and cheap gear pieces possible. I don't know why, probably its some kind of illness :)) But if seriously, i like a challange. Making build, based on a temporary (permanently, because of GGG's inability to hire competent specialists) broken mecanics and stomp the content - is not the thing i enjoy about poe.

Making to work something that should not be working and not use obviouse ballance glitches - is my sourse of pleasure in this game. So if you are looking for a meta build a.k.a. high speed 10+ k ES killing machine, which shield charge through shaped strand for 30 seconds, destroying everything offscreen, this is not waht you will find here.

Anyway, my borders for this league are:

Price - 10 - 20 chaos
Working as intended with 5-link
Life based :)) (Because you can't make ES build under 20 chaos, anyway)

I did few builds before this one. All of them failed due to one reason - you can't beat math. They all did good damage with 1 chaos weapons, but not good enough to avoid oneshots.

Offtopic little rant

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I figured out on practice: evasion and dodging are not a defence mecanics. They are gambling mecanics. And as we all know casino always wins in the long run.




But, lets talk about our Champion.

The reason i decidet to post this build on the forum is because it actually dooing quite well so far, being completely off-meta and cost under 20 chaos. (Yes, that including 6-link armor)

Quick overview


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According to path of building (i have discovered this program quite ricently) you will get.

First of all, aesthetic part.

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Using exact gear as me you will look as fucking clown and will have 100% more damage from Shaper, because his desire to reshape you will be unlimited. Look for yourself.

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I tried to adress this issue, and best set i made sofar, according to my minimalistic taste, is this:

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Will transmog after finalising real gear, because you can use cosmetic change only once, if its not sparking fluffy crap GGG's artist spit out from time to time.





Now, quick stats.

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Based on lvl 82 with my current gear, fully buffed, with potions up and punishment buff (which will be up 90% of the time, because we are melee:

6025 life
14236 armor,
75% + resisits
Perma fortify.

319204 dps with 89583 single hit averege damage. 464297 and 130303 if enemy shocked.

311303 and 91927 on bosses. (Thats why title says 300+k)

It has nice potential aswell. in POB with fully leveled and quality gems at lvl 100 it will be around 600k dps with around 8k life. Which is not that bad.




Detais

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My current Gear
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Reasoning behind gear choices

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Our Alpha and Omega. I did some testing, and this baby gives best dps among all other maces. Including 2-handed. Because of glorious unique mod. And it cost 1 chaos.

It has a temporary flaw - chilled condition. But according to 3.0. announcements, freeze and chill immunities will be there no more. (This is a buff)




Our bigest dps item. Scince we are aming to hit as hard as possible - to break freeze border - we should not miss. And we do not, due to this shield. As a nice bonus it has insane flat damage bonus to counterattack, because of which, our revenge hits for 80-100k when procks.




Nothing special about this boots. Lots of life and it makes us unstopable. I got pretty lucky with enchant - got flat cold damage from first and only (so far) uber lab run.




Bought this one for 3 chaos. Sexy enchant (main reson of buying) and lucky stats makes it not a complete junk helmet.



Great addition to dps. Cold pen + ele pen from tree and this flasks results in 76 (20+37+19 = 76) cold penetration, which basickly nullifys monsters resistances.

Rest of gear choices are pretty obious.


Gems setup and reasoning

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Main hand - Ancestor Warchief, Shield Charge and Fater Attacks. Totem for max single hit damage (i have protector installed, because my warchief is leveling) SC + FA = very fast movment. Actually more than needed.

Shield - Punishment, Enduring Cry, Blasphemy. Firsr of all, we can easly reach 100% chance to freeze with Frostbite, which i was using before. But 95% is high enough and single hit boost is better for freezelocking, because we already penetrate all possible resistances (as i know mob's max res are similar to players and are 75)

Body Armour - GH, WED, CP, ACD, H, MPD.
Obviously, that Multistrike would give alot more dps, but i use phys damage becuse it is only possible choice left to boost single hit. That is reffered to a freezing mecanics as i understood it from wiki. If duration would be less that 0.3 sec, freeze won't trigger at all, which means even 0.29 will result as zero. Freeze duration calculates from percentage of max health hit had removed. 60 miliseconds for 1%. So basicly to triger freeze you need to hit mob at least for 5% of its max life pool. (Shittiest of all possible mecanics, hopefully it will be properly adressed in 3.0) Multistrike eats out 30% of hit damage. According to math no matter how fast we het, if we are not scoring 5% of max health, we will not be freezing at all. And to ballance on the edge we need 3.4 attacks per second to effectively freezelock target if we are able to break 5% border. That is why multistrike is a comlete shit in our case. Math is a bit more complicated because of ailment duration, but i don't know how exacly its working, so i won't be guessing.


Helmet - Vengance, WED, ACD, CP - straightforward most damage supports. Hypothermia is actually better, i don't know why i'm using added cold.

Gloves - Herald Of Ice, Arctic Armour, Bloodrage, Vaal Lightning Trap. All seems to be pretty obvious. Herald for flat damage. Lightning trap is cheap shock applier, bloodrage is a frenzy charge generator and nice dps boost. Arctic Armor is ok defencive aura.











Skill tree (lvl 92) This is how it looks finished in my opinion.

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https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAQDAAHcBS0F-Q-rEYEUIBR1FSAV8Ba_GNsZtCFgI_YmlSmlLJQs6S2DMgEyCTOSNZI2PTrhQKBDE0QNRrdHfkp9TZJN41BHVEdVS1b6XzlfP2HiYetiF2KsY6dlTWega9RsRmyMbWxvO3JsdO108XfXd-N4DXj5eWh6U3rve9R-3X8rgayElITZhrOHdolxivCMNo19jbmPYJXMmyabLZ2qo4qmV6a-qW6pearNsKuxfLIZtfK5Hb02vqfAGsEEw-bEgsjMyPDPetNv037Yvd1G32_jn-RR5GrndOjW7FztP-4O7w7veu-P8kX2o_lj_W7-Cv6P?accountName=maxkardinal&characterName=__Unbreakable__


Ascendancy skills

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Leveling and tree choices reasoning.

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Bandits choices i made:

Help Oak to get 40 life, rest kill for passives.

Optional choice could be 8% attack speed, because attack speed insainly boosts our dps, but i decided not to.

Leveling process.

I leveled with Glacial Hammer from strt. Just rushed to the socket that leads to Scion life wheel, and with Winter Burial jewel got AOE damage.

Rest of leveling choices are up to you. But in the end you need to get a 40% conversion phys to cold damage, all elemental penetration (which is comfortably located near by) and as much life as possible.

Few options for late game choices

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First option is to keep Lycosidae shield and focus at taking life everywhere. In this case tree at lvl 100 will look like this:
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https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAQDAABeAdwFLQX5CC4PqxGBFCAUdRUgFfAWvxjbGY4ZtCFgI_YmlSmlLJQs6S2DMgEzkjWSNj064T38QKBDE0QNRrdHfkp9TZJN41BHVEdVS1b6WGNfOV8_YeJh62IXYqxjp2VNZ6Br1GyMbWxvO3TtdPF313fjeA14-XloelN673vUfXV-3X8rgayElITZhrOHdolxivCMNozPjX2NuY9glcybJpstm42dqqOKplemvqluqXmqzbCrsXyyGbXyuR29Nr6nwBrBBMPmxILG2MjMyPDPetNv037Yvd1G32_jn-RR5GrndOjW7FztP-2D7g7vDu9674_yRfZI9qP5Y_1u_gr-j_66?accountName=maxkardinal&characterName=__Unbreakable__


You will have 8100+ life.

Second option is to tske Resolute Technique, which will cost 8 points to reach, and chnge Lycosidae for Lioneye's Remorse, which will give nice ammount of armor as well as life. As a result you will have almosr exact (+-50 life) ammount of life, but will free 4 helmet socket, because without 250-300 flat damage Vengance will become a waste. You could add Leap slam in addition to shield charge to ease your movements, golem and something with CWDT.

In that case at 100 tree will look like this:

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https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAQDAAHcBS0F-Q-rEYEUIBR1FSAV8Ba_GNsZtCFgI_YmlSmlLJQs6S2DMgEzkjWSNj064TwtQKBDE0QNRrdHfkp9TZJN41BHVEdVS1b6XzlfP2HiYetiF2KsY6dlTWega9RsjG1sbztyqXTtdPF313fjeA14-XloelN673vUfNl9dX7dfyuBrINfg8yElITZhrOHdolxivCMNo19jbmPYJXMmyabLZ2qo4qmV6a-qW6pearNsKuxfLIZtfK3PrkdvTa-p8AawQTD5sSCxPbGrsjMyPDPetNv037Yvd1G32_jn-RR5GrndOjW6UbsXO0_7g7vDu9674_yRfaj9zL5Y_1u_gr-j_66?accountName=maxkardinal&characterName=__Unbreakable__


Third option is to take all avalible ele damage points (7 of them) which in the end will give about 50k dps, and rest life.

Choice is yours. I prefer third option, because i like the idea of extra 80k aoe hit and build's main goal is to freezelock. You don't need much life for that.

















Edit: Added all detailes i planned. Next update will be about content which was officially trivilised*.
And we will see, if our Champ will become Formidable Content Triviliser.


*Officially Trivilised Content - boss, freezelocked, killed and laughed at.


Edit2: So far build shows itself pretty good. Did up to tier 13 maps, bosses getting freezelocked. Planning to try freezlock all of them, who are not freeze immune. Made a change - swapped AA and Blasphemy for Hatered. Need to see how will survivebilty change. Now only elemental spikes looks dangerous. Died few times due to ele bursts. Physical enemeys seems no fatal.
Last edited by maxkardinal on May 9, 2017, 3:29:56 AM
Last bumped on Nov 10, 2017, 11:07:28 AM
What bandits did you kill ?
Added some details. Bandits included.
Thanks very much!
Whay not Belly of the Beast?
What Ascendancy did you pick in the Champion tree?
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CatInside wrote:
Whay not Belly of the Beast?


First of all, because i don't have 6-linked Belly. Buying one is not an option, because it will break build limit - 20 chaos. I got my armor for via Chains that bind card set (i luckly found few people selling 3-5 cards stacks for 1 chaos) and crafted it with essences.

Second reason - resists. Its not hte reason, tecnically speaking, becuse 10-15 Belly has and resist passives from tree solve the problem, but thats not what i'm looking for.


Edit; Added Ascendance picture to the first post.
Last edited by maxkardinal on May 7, 2017, 6:23:18 PM
I've used to make builds by my own for a while, but this one is awesome! What can be better than using good old, understated by everyone, skill and don't suffer so much?! And having lot of fun after all!
Thanks man! I shall try it out, because fuck meta!
Can you freezelock Uber Izaro?
Where is your plash come from?

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