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

32k armour? even though you dont have 1 item with + armour? i take it u had flasks on while taking the stat screenshot?

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Jarvo wrote:

32k armour? even though you dont have 1 item with + armour? i take it u had flasks on while taking the stat screenshot?

yes

well the nodes u have taken are litrally identical to what i have already got although i have taken CI. Although now im going to start saving for the chest armour and change to this build once i can afford too. tired of doing 1.5kx3 :D

do you have much issue with chaos dmg as u have -44 res?

Do you believe that the ring is mandatory? as i have all 5 flasks with remove freeze and chill anyway?

also isnt a prism guardian shield a great option? nearly 50 all res blood magic aura with +1 lvl and reduce mana by 25% - put 3 auras in here and your sorted? or am i missing something? (obviously u sacrifice quite a bit of ES to use this - but this can be made up by using a pure ES helm instead?)

or even rise of the phoenix?
has max fire res 8%
6.0 regen life
all res
lotsa fire res
movement speed
cant be ignited

there are a few others which could be handy as well for this build?

Can u filming some videos for ur gameplaying

Really interesting in how fast is 60K DPS rush a map

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four4444tw wrote:

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iono wrote:

1) You can cast rf with +2 to fire (and +1 to all if you can get it on the same piece), then weapon swap and keep the effect.

2) Theres a life regen node 2 points away that you can get if you have trouble sustaining RF due to bad gear or stacking iiq/iir (It's next to body and soul in the templar area.)


ps. I run dual spork totems and use a ruby flask as a mini ES pot :d

also conveniently makes fire damage do almost nothing

I do use weapon swap

I assumed you did; my post is directed at everyone else (and are things you should probably put in the guide).

I'll have my FB variation done in another day or two. The spec below with Power Charge on Crit in your links looks pretty good. I'm too orb poor to try it myself right now.

Well, I do appreciate the help! I'm still working with a level 18 FP and pretty much level 18 everything else linked to it.. but doing about 5K dps per pulse. I went the survivability route and have 6.5K ES, 500 HP, and 85 all ele res. Still afraid to lose the springleaf shield, though with just vitality (lvl18) I don't take any dmg from RF. I'm just liking the 6% regen until I can find a 450ish ES shield with spell dmg/crit and all that fun stuff.


The suggestions were very helpful and this is an insanely fun build. I didn't take hardly any increased dmg nodes but I do more than a lot of CI witches who have them. Almost hit the same amount of ES too (perhaps I only know shitty CI witches).

Pro-tip! Low-life light sucks, this I know! I didn't want to run any crypt or dungeon type maps for the longest time. I have a BenQ xl2420t monitor that utilizes black equalizer. I turned that all the way up and set my brightness on my gfx card. (NVIDIA control panel) and it makes a HUGE difference. I can see everything now, if not more than my normal life build. Try the NVIDIA brightness settings even if you don't have the BenQ monitor, pretty easy to toggle.



Also, can you explain the charges or whatever else you use to boost your DPS? The last two aura thingys on your screen shot. As I said, I'm still pretty new... I think blood rage? What's the best way to use these?

i need some help here quite similar to your dps build but running short on ES at only about 6k with discilpline on and 8-9k dps with GMP.also i still lose some life with using RF.need help about the allocation of gems as well.

I use the same build and want to warn people that all is not rosy when it comes to end-game maps.

Status ailments are really annoying to say the least, especially if you do maps in a large party where mobs don't die very quickly. It's not fun getting chilled every time you are hit with cold damage, or quickly getting shock stacked from lightning damage. Good luck against some bosses like Temple Piety. While you may be able to quickly zerg her down when solo, in a party you will likely have to stay back and let the ranged party members take her out.

There are many map mods and combinations thereof that make it difficult to use RF: blood magic, half regen, no regen, -max resists, elemental weakness, vulnerability. There are a variety of workarounds, such as using mana pots, overcapping your fire resists, using a Springleaf/Saffels/Rise of the Phoenix shield, toggling RF on/off with a dispels burning flask, letting your ES degen and relying on your life leech to keep replenishing it, etc. Of course, you can also run the map w/o using RF if you don't mind losing a significant amount of damage.

I don't think Freezing Pulse is the best skill to use in a RF/PA build that is keen on doing the highest level end-game maps. Since the pulse dissipates with range, you need to be in close range (essentially melee range for the best damage output). Because of this, you will be taking lots of hits. Combine this with the mechanics of status ailments (calculated based on your max HP), and it makes for some tough times.

Finished my Fireball version of this spec.

There are a few nitpickery things I can do with passives/gear/gems/links. For instance pick up a Hrimnor's Resolve helm for fire dmg and chill resist, rainbowstrides, play with GMP/mana pots, mess with Blast Radius/Amplify. I could get a little crazy...5/6L Shiver/Ice Spear Totem/Elemental Equilibrium/Added Light Damage/Serpent Stance/Static Blows and pick up monster ES helm/boots (way too orb poor to try this anytime soon...but sounds awesome).

I decided to post here instead of making my own guide. Posting my own guide would be of little use as I essentially copied the majority of the passives/gem combos/items in this guide. @OP Thanks for making this thread, your guide was an excellent template to work from. I'm not posting to steal thunder, argue what is "better", or posting #'s to inflate e-peenery. Simply showing another option of this spec for those interested. I will say that this spec is super fun.

STATS

HP/ES/Mana:
678 HP
6600 ES (low will try to upgrade helm to hit 7-7.5k)
190mana regen
480 usuable mana

DPS
11k with Fire Pen
14K with Faster Casting
I prefer Fire Pen as it's more mana efficient. Worst scenario = dmg to fastcast, best scenario (curse immune/resist fire) waaay more damage.

Auras:
Into HP-Vit-Pur-Haste-Low lvl grace
Into mana-Clar-disc
Blood Raging it up as well.

Gear


Spec

I need EVERY point of Dex/Str in my passives, even blessed my belt from 35 to 29. I also need the 1% regen, ES does not move with RF and Blood Rage up...without that 1% it'd slowly degen.

P.S. This is far from "perfect" tweaks welcomed!