End Game Freezing Pulse RF/PA Guide-60k dps 8k es

updates at the end

Recently my build attracted lots of attention so I decided to share it here.
Please be aware that this is 'not' a noob friendly build. However, it scales with gears more than any other existing build. This build requires several uniques and high level gems to work, but once you have the essential parts you will feel the power. It's more like when you have all the cards then you can "SUMMON EXODIAAAAAAAAA"

After 4 lvl 80+ ranger characters with all the popular builds I kinda hit a wall so I decided to make this witch,I would say if you can afford a Glare+Kaom then you are ready for this build.

The beauty of this build is that it's extremely flexible. You can adjust minor changes according to you own taste.

DPS version passive


Tanky version passive


At low levels, progress to the right and grab the shadow passives first. Mainly because Templar area has nodes such as 'inner force', 'elemental adaption', 'zealot's oath', 'reduce mana cost'; they aren't useful early on.

*some path may look odd, it's because it gives 154 str+154 dex, with my gear set up

Gears
The three uniques that you need are: Shavronne's Wraping, Eye of Chayula and Dream Fragment


*note that the 6L on Shav is a luxury and I was lucky to link it myself with around 300 fusings. 4L-5L is also very viable and stats will be compared later.

Chayula and Dream Frag are musts, do not ditch them even you have a godly dps ammy or ring. You need the stun/frozen immune

Other parts


Few points on what type of stats you are looking for:
1. Dual wand is not recommended, the extra es&block rate on shield is quite some survival bonus
2. spell dmg+crit > cast speed, cast speed is not needed imo, a perfect wand would be spell dmg+mana+spell/mana prefixes cold dmg+crit+regen suffix
3. stack Es, as much as you can on boot glove helm, and resists too.
4. if you are using the Tanky version, use a armor/es full defense shield
5. Malachai to run vitality haste purity with blood magic

Gems
20% Freezing Pulse is a must
lvl 20 gems will help a lot, buy them from other players, usually 2 chaos or a bit more

lvl 20 purity vitality clarity discipline are your priority

There are a lot of options how you can link your gems


Chest: Freezing pulse+Faster Casting+Life leech+LMP....5L then add increase crit damage...6L you can use Added Cold Damage(20%=10%freeze for more cc)/Added Chaos Damage(more tooltip dps)/Cold Penetration(works better on high cold res mobs)/Faster Projectile(larger range)/Mana leech

boot:Reduce mana+clarity+discipline+determination

glove: Reduce mana+vitality+haste+purity

helm:classic skeleton totem or Enduring cry+inc area effect+molten shell+faster casting

wand+reduce mana+grace+blood rage

shield:frost bite/enfeeble/w/e curse you like

2nd set shield: righteous fire




lvl 82Stats:


20 x 3=60k dps with lmp
armor is with granite and molten shell on

dps would be more if I use Maligaro, dropping my es down to 7k

Tanky Version allows me to have
25k dps
85% resist
50%block
40k armor 95% phy reduction with endurance charges
15% evasion
9500 es

just by switching a shield(which I bought with 1 ex) and tweaking passive

Respeced to dps version few days ago so I don't have pictures on tanky version atm


I've received comments like "this build is so gear dependent"!!!
Therefore I will do a gear downgrade test

4L FP with NO WEAPON gives me 18k dps and having that extra 2 L and a decent weapon bump your dps 4 times, but think it this way...any other build allows you to run around naked and still perform above average?

Map performance
The only mods that I cannot do is -max resist with reflect
even blood magic is doable, bring 2 hp pots and last hit with high dps

4/7 update
found a maligaro and tried out gmp, gmp is viable using a mana pot
which boosts my dps up to 80k, lowering my es to 7200... but personally I prefer 60k using gmp and es glove to have 8k es, just so I can be lazy and spam without needing to pay attention to mana and reflect mobs

4/9 update
removing '%cold damage' nodes to 'critical multiplier' nodes, after testings they give higher dps.

4/10 update
I would like to find someone that can film a few of my map runs...just because I srsly don't know how to lol. Tried Frap but failed. send me a pm if you want to help thanks

4/11 update
currently working on 'range version' with fireball/ice spear. For fireball information please see end of page 5 thanks to GameOfThrones

ignore that part i wrote earlier..


maybe u can help me out adjusting my arc witch wich is currently level 82, i would send u build link via message


but so far i like ur build, expect that without shavron it wont work :)

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ibase wrote:

ignore that part i wrote earlier..


maybe u can help me out adjusting my arc witch wich is currently level 82, i would send u build link via message


but so far i like ur build, expect that without shavron it wont work :)

Why exactly?
Swapping out Shavron to ES chest gives you much more ES.
Then you remove Evasion and Energy shield nodes, which are not effective anyway, and take CI and all the ES nodes behind it.
The last ES node gives you +20% to ALL your ES you have, including the one you get from other nodes, so getting just this one node will give you a huge ES boost.

Basically you get even more survivability at the expense of damage, and not being able to run some maps like blood magic.

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Araycan wrote:

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ibase wrote:

ignore that part i wrote earlier..


maybe u can help me out adjusting my arc witch wich is currently level 82, i would send u build link via message


but so far i like ur build, expect that without shavron it wont work :)

Why exactly?
Swapping out Shavron to ES chest gives you much more ES.
Then you remove Evasion and Energy shield nodes, which are not effective anyway, and take CI and all the ES nodes behind it.
The last ES node gives you +20% to ALL your ES you have, including the one you get from other nodes, so getting just this one node will give you a huge ES boost.

Basically you get even more survivability at the expense of damage, and not being able to run some maps like blood magic.

it's RF+PA build, which doesn't work with CI, so shawronnes wrappings is absolute must fro this build...

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20% Freezing Pulse is a must
lvl 20 gems will help a lot, buy them from other players, usually 2 chaos or a bit more

You mean 2 exalt? :D 2 chaos for 20 freezy pulse that is a pretty sweat deal hehe.

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exile1985 wrote:

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20% Freezing Pulse is a must
lvl 20 gems will help a lot, buy them from other players, usually 2 chaos or a bit more

You mean 2 exalt? :D 2 chaos for 20 freezy pulse that is a pretty sweat deal hehe.

lvl 20 clarity/purity/discpline etc

and yea 20% lvl 20 FP 2 exalted

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Araycan wrote:

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ibase wrote:

ignore that part i wrote earlier..


maybe u can help me out adjusting my arc witch wich is currently level 82, i would send u build link via message


but so far i like ur build, expect that without shavron it wont work :)

Why exactly?
Swapping out Shavron to ES chest gives you much more ES.
Then you remove Evasion and Energy shield nodes, which are not effective anyway, and take CI and all the ES nodes behind it.
The last ES node gives you +20% to ALL your ES you have, including the one you get from other nodes, so getting just this one node will give you a huge ES boost.

Basically you get even more survivability at the expense of damage, and not being able to run some maps like blood magic.

CI build with the same standard of gear can have close to 15k Es but with 3-4 times less dps
when it comes to "whats the best build with the highest C/P ratio (cost/performance)" you definitely can't give up RF/PA for their insanely high dps scaling. Double ES(8k to 15k) or Triple DPS(20k to 60k)...I think the answer is clear, not to mention pa allows you to run 6-7 auras

Meanwhile, if you build around RF/PA you can still adjust your character to a much tankier version while maintaining decent dps. On the other hand, to achieve high dps with CI is way way more difficult because of its poor scaling dmg-wise

please help me out what does RF/PA stand for ?

Thanks for explanation, guess I will look at some other guides that use CI.
Shavronne armor costs way more than I can spend now.

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xthbx wrote:

please help me out what does RF/PA stand for ?

Righteous Fire (skill) and Pain Attunement (node)

I'm running something similar on hardcore and it's very nice. Granted it *should* be nice when you're using 40+ exalt worth of gear. :P