How to skill the ice witch early game.

I created a little introduction video on how to skill the ice witch early on. You can find the main thread here: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/6905/highlight/

At the moment I am leveling a fire witch and I have to say... WOW. Terrible, terrible damage. Will need to see how that damage scales into higher levels, though. But to give you an idea: I killed lvl 18 quest bosses as a level 12 fire witch easily. ^^

So stay tuned!

Good video and good points about the skill trees.

witch seems OP from what i read

Thank you Starcraft42 for this guide. Can't wait to try it. Looks very well made.

loved that vid man, good choice on ur build im going to try that out soon as i get my beta key

Hey Starcraft, Have you made any new video as the skill tree seem to have changed quite abit, won an account before and i've got no idea how to start of :P

Can anyone make if not a video, some screenshots with the new skill tree, maybe encircling the skills that ought to be taken for a full ice witch?

A lot has changed since then, including the skill tree that looks pretty much different, skills like the critical hit rating, are harder to be found there is also more of them, for weapons or separately for spells...and many more.

Thank you for the video and your concept of the witch. Even though I started peo after the new skilltree was released, the video helped me a lot to get an idea on whats possible with the witch.

I started my witch with the Int based circle on the left hand side starting with spell damage followed by castspeed, crit and aoe range. After i saw this vid i focused on the crit based skills on the right hand side (25% Mana reg followed by crit strike chance and crit dmg multiplier). Then i build up my Energyshield (skilled some health % on the way).
Thats where i am currently at with lvl.40:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/545/skillsf.jpg/

It works pretty damn good, so i think i will go on that route. I like it cause i dont have to focus on a type of elementary dmg.
I cant tell if its still as good as it was, cause i just started and got no alts to compare with. The dmg is quite good as well as my survivability. I didnt try HC yet, but i guess with this build i could do it.

Whats next:
I will improve my shield recharge delay with the skills marked by the orange "1" and make my way to the orange "2" for further critmodifiers. To reach the circle at "2" i will get some additional Spell Dmg and Cast Speed "on the fly". I plan to complete the crit circle "2" by lvl 60 (or 55 if i deside to do the shield "1" afterwards).

So in my book the crit/energyshield concept still works very well. You just adjust it to the new skilltree, which is pretty easy.

this certainly is the noob to advanced start with this video over here. Thanks for posting and keep up the G job ;)

Skilltree changed again, my last statement still stands:

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hasufel wrote:

So in my book the crit/energyshield concept still works very well. You just adjust it to the new skilltree, which is pretty easy.

If you use a lot of passive Energy Shield aswell as Reduced Recharge Delay def is cool. % Max Shield rocks.
Works excellent with Ice Spear. My problem is, I realy like the shock nova. Crit setup doenst help much bc of the low base crit of the nova. I also tend to suicide kite :D

Maybe my next try will be lightning, add dmg, hp and energy shield, completely neglecting crit. Maybe even shield oriented to be able to take some more hits while kiting.