Which witch builds will work well in end game?

Hey all! I'd love to start a Witch, and enjoying a heavy Frost focus right now, though around level 35 it's starting to get tough. I think I may have messed up somewhere so I'm thinking of restarting.

I'd love to hear some builds, anything from standard to 'creative' which are successful in end-game.

I've run in to a lot that "should work" but it would be reassuring to hear some that "do work" instead. :-)

I've heard good things about frost crit builds and minion builds, and I'm open to anything else!

Standard CI Ice Witch build will work; Freeze Pulse MG builds are very good if you have the correct spells to use it, and Ice Spear is pretty much sick as hell with the correct crit build.


Fire is abit more tricky to get working.

How about lightning?

Lightning might be interesting in groups by being a crit debuffer to increase damage on enemies.

Edit: Dupe

I'd LOVE a lightning witch, but the skill set seems so limited.

Breaking it down...

Spark is random at range and only semi-reliable up close.

Shock Nova has a similar issue with the whole doughnut "center takes no damage" thing.

The lightning shield spell requires you to block a lot and take damage, which seems tricky for an elemental build.

I think heavy lightning chars are totally possible, but Lightning Strike and Lightning Arrow are completely different specs and seem much more successful. :-/

Have you built a lightning witch that's working? I'd love to hear about it

I use a CI fire crit build and don't have any issues.

Well I did a map with neg. 50% mana & ES regen while having permanent Temporal Chains on me neg. 20% to resist all and monsters do 90% more cold damage.

That was the hardest map I've done but still completed it.

I'd love to see your tree and skills if you get a chance.

Fire seems great, though lacking in control. Both fire storm and fire ball feel pretty powerful.

Basically I cast elemental weakness and temporal chains on a room then blast the hell out of it.