[3.5] CheeQu's CoC Ice Nova Assassin - Up to 7m Shaper DPS + Amazing Clearspeed [In-Depth Guide]

Anyone using the unique Tether Belt combine with
Atziri's Acuity for more substain? Then move CRS mod to boot aswell. I wonder if the DPS lost is worth

@ Grindstone if you get a quick second or two can you check my damage on pob n see if there is anything im missing or dps ok thx in advance

If anyone can review what would be the biggest upgrade and/or changes that I could make it would be REALLY appreciated, please!

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dragnmith1 wrote:

@ Grindstone if you get a quick second or two can you check my damage on pob n see if there is anything im missing or dps ok thx in advance

Seems mostly fine.
- Light of Lunaris actually adds more dps to your build than the shield you are using. You'll have to compensate the resists tho. You can also opt for a shield with the Topocante buff from Temple of Atzoatl, and craft things like "Extra chaos damage", "5% chance to deal double damage", and/or "15% chance to deal double damage while focused" on it, which is slightly better than Light of Lunaris (but probably not worth the investment). You do lose out on a bunch of life and resistances if you add Light of Lunaris, so it's not per se better.
- A custom 6-link with +1.3-5% chance for attacks to crit will also lead to more dps. You can also add resistances and life / ES to that. However, loreweave is also great, so probably not worth the investment.
- If you get super rich, you can also upgrade the watcher's jewel to one that includes a hatred mod (added cold damage / penetrates cold resistance).
- I'm not a big fan of the new 2x MotM / Unnatural Instinct versions. You could free up a lot of nodes by heading to the top left of the passive tree, towards Arcane Potency / Purity of Flesh / Sovereignity. This way, you can also run aspect of the spider (and precision/dread banner) instead of herald of ice, but it does require changing a lot of nodes on the tree. This will add dps and barely impact your ehp. I changed your tree to reflect this, and also picked Alira as an easier way to fix some resistance issues (can of course be changed potentially). For convenience I picked sanctity and mind drinker.

Note that in the build adjustment I didn't swap the shield, because it was too straining on the resistances. Swapped cold resistance in your boots to lightning resistance, and changed the jewel to add some fire resistances instead of crit chance for cold skills.

Your build then has 8.2k effective hp and 3153031,13 dps (note that I used my own timeless jewel, so results might vary for you). You can mostly steamroll the game with that setup ;-). Things to watch out for: freezes, bleeds, elemental reflect.

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What's the exact breakpoint on APS for optimal proccing? At the moment I'm sat at 7.42 APS with dual cospri's, is that too much?

Trying to min max this build using shroud atm. Need a couple more lvls it get another jewel socket. Anything else you think I should change to get more damage?

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aastr wrote:

What's the exact breakpoint on APS for optimal proccing? At the moment I'm sat at 7.42 APS with dual cospri's, is that too much?

You should be close but not over 7.5, so this is very good.

Close to finished with this now, on the lookout for a better watchers eye and need lvl 98 for my tree to be finished.

Below is ss of PoB, I have a shock ring but shock is unticked as its 20% vs 50% from PoB shock

One thing I was wondering about - where do you guys get your melee crit chance? I'm sat at about 90% effective crit for cyclone in PoB with ice golem, 5 power charges and diamond flask up. Am I doing something wrong?

@grindst0ne - thanks man, appreciate the time taken to help. The updated tree you provided looks great, doing these changes tonight. Also I can't believe I've been using controlled destruction this entire time over conc effect.. bloody hell. /facepalm