Advice on Incinerate with Arctic Armor build

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dlinnij wrote:

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The_x_ile wrote:

i had similar idea, but went for max blocking.
i also think if u want life build u pretty much have to get kahom... to not get stunned and so on.

if u want look at my thread:

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/517416

Such a brilliant idea to loose 6L for Incinerate with Kaoms Heart...
Unless you suggest him to go along with Searing touch, which makes this thread useless.
How would u make Incinerate effective with 4L?
Mandatory for Incinerate in my opinion is - Faster casting, LMP/GMP, Faster Projectiles,Mana Leech. All this makes u get 5L allready. Also Added Lightning damage is best option too.

did u even read what i wrote there? no

Do you know that Incinerate has 0% chance to crit. So you never crit except by casting "critical weakness" so Added Lightning Dmg is useless with this skill.

Incinerate - Faster Proj - Faster Casting - LMP / GMP is for me the best 4L possible. You can add then whatever you wants its going to work (mana/life leech - fire pen - chance to ignite - etc)

Why ?

Faster Proj: More AoE Range

Faster Casting: More Dmg & Reduce the time to climb up a stage so again more DPS

LMP / GMP: More AoE Width

You got a lot of sub-par skillnodes in there like the 6% increased fire damage and the 6% life nodes. You´d probably be better off by starting at the witch area if you really want to use the mana nodes there. Take a look at Aux´s AA build. He boosts his shield defenses as much as possible to get high ES value out of it which he can then convert into mana, that may be something for you.

Wow...I am feeling overwhelmed now. I really appreciate all the advice people. I did notice that Incinerate has no innate chance to crit.

Are the 6% nodes really that substandard? Maybe I will stare at the grid some more and see what appears better to me.

I wasn't really keen on the mana nodes in the witch area but wasn't sure where to take the build once I got to that point. I will definitely take a peek at Aux's AA build once I find it.

Thanks again for the tips and advice. All will be taken into consideration.

Hey all.

Just came across this thread - I've been running an incinerate/arctic armour witch as my main for several months - I run as a tank, nigh unkillable with 30K+ dps (about 70k theoretical max). I'm not going to bother posting a lot here since it's an old thread, but if anyone runs across it and wants advice/build tips, feel free to PM me.

Tref

Let me know how your end build looks like after you take in all the advice, I'm really curious to try it out myself.