[0.10.0] Double Hex Coldfire Crit Caster Shadow

Could the 2 ele nodes and 3 projectile damage nodes in the starter area be replaced with lord of the dead the 2 cast speed nodes and spell damage nodes for a minimal loss in DPS in exchange for more tanks/cast speed or is the dps increase significant from the projectile nodes compared to casting speed?

Point on contention: in a crit build with realistic stats from both gear and passives, 80% crit dagger is superior in DPS to a 20% wand. It's not a huge difference though.

(tested with my high lvl cold crit character and white wand/dagger)

EDIT: Thoughts on the crazy staff cluster near the curse nodes? Probably not worth the defense loss I suppose :p

Any thoughts on what minions I should use? Zombies until I get a low enough cast time to make skeletons quick to summon before a battle? Totem is out of the question as I am using the glacial spear spell totem for CC.

I wonder if it would be possible to convert this to a low health build instead of a CI one (i'm not fond of CI), since the pain attunement node is just right there to take...

In other words: are the current defenses enough to support a low health build? I guess yes, since of all the ES nodes you still got to support a CI build.

Any high level who want to try (just needs a respec point)

Can we get an update for the new CI passives?

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Kemeras wrote:

Can we get an update for the new CI passives?

done :)

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Invalesco wrote:

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Kemeras wrote:

Can we get an update for the new CI passives?

done :)

Thanks for the quick update! Does the build no longer require 111 points, or are we free to distribute them anywhere? Also the alternative cold-crit build was not updated. Thanks for all of your hard work!

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Kemeras wrote:

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Invalesco wrote:

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Kemeras wrote:

Can we get an update for the new CI passives?

done :)

Thanks for the quick update! Does the build no longer require 111 points, or are we free to distribute them anywhere? Also the alternative cold-crit build was not updated. Thanks for all of your hard work!

ah sorry about that, done and done! Yup, you're free to distribute your points :) i think you'll find that the 4 new ES nodes will provide more ES than the 6 points it took to grab the 5x8% ES nodes.

While cool, does this actually do more damage than pure Cold? I mean, except the Burning damage (which obviously is a LOT).

Real men use Windscream as well, then you get 3 curses!...I think... :P