Challenge, make a build. (Winners get 10ex)

What's the chalenge ?

Create an original build that profit at maximum from herald of ice.
It must be fun to play. It can require unique.
It will be a build i will use with a level 75 (around shadow) and then level it to around 85.
It must work for 70 to 76 maps smoothly.

(My budget doesn't allow a miror item, but i own a shavronne and atziri acuity. I also have some other currencies. It is not mandatory to be low life, or CI, it can be life or whatever.

Can be physical or Elemental, can be spell, ranged or melee and it can be dual wield, shield, bow or staves. (No 2hand maces or axe, sword please !)

If you want to put some lore around it... go ahead ! Maybe create a story for the character ?

If the build is [budget] you earn points (my points !) so new'ish' players could try it ! (If so, remember Herald of Ice is a reward from after crematorium in Cruel for Shadow)

It has to be unique build.

Finnaly : the only judge is me.

Hey,
ok lets try to get something "easy".
Lets call this build: Frosty Death
Catchy name, isnt it? ;)

A MAJOR BUT!
Its a DUELIST - but in the end there is a small Shadow build!

Ok first of all,
if we want enemies to shatter we need high dps/crit.
Now we got to choose either if we go for malee, range or casting...
Malee u said? Ok

Lets do a Double Strike Build:
Since its a malee build we want to survive.
Therefore i picked Iron Reflexes, Unwavering Stance and Leather and Steel.
Since we profit from both: Evasion and Armor its a good start!
I decided to do a dual wield build to increase the dmg output from the beginning while sustaining high dps! The weapon choice is urs since i put the skillpoints into phy attack nodes!


83 Points


Summary w/o Bandits:

Base Stats


Defense


Dmg


GEMS and Skills
4L Main Attack:


4L Single Target:


Auras:


Movement:


Bandits:


Flasks:
At least 1 Granite for Panic Action!

Thats all thx for ur time!

PS:
Frozen Tornado(! Shadow !)
83 Points


4L Attack:


Auras:


Defense:


Bandits:

reserved.

Hellô XracKS.

I very specified it to be a build from shadow. The first thing you make is completly out of that range. Since the build will be made out of a full respect char, i won't level a duelist for it. Also : double strike doesn't profit from dual wielding, only switch it to Dual Strike and it would be significantly better.

It is nor not what i am looking for ! Thanks for your try ! Maybe you could work on something and get back !

ps : i will comment your ps when i'll get some motivations ! Thanks for your early work !

yeah sry for that didnt realized it but nvm :D
the ps is at least a shadow build that should be fine

Build: Semi-Budget Crit Pulser

Concept/TL;DR: Take full advantage of Herald of Ice's synergy with a fast hitting cold spell (the recently buffed Freezing pulse) utilizing crit to reach incredible DPS and freeze/shatter mobs all while maintaining very high survivability through crowd control, avoidance mitigation, and high health. Without breaking the bank.

Main Skills: Freezing Pulse, Herald of Ice

Damage: High damage is obtained in the following way:

- Freezing pulse was buffed in 1.2. This build gives around +570% damage to cold projectile spells with a ~50% chance to crit for FP with a combined total of 500% crit multiplier.

- Each cast of freezing pulse hits up to 5 times. Each of these 5 hits will gain the damage boost of Herald of Ice. In essence this acts like a ~35% multiplier to our damage, on top of all other damage boosts. Also Each of these 5 hits has an independent chance to freeze the mobs, if it doesn't crit.

- Herald of Ice, in addition to the damage it adds to freezing pulse, the "on shatter" effect is boosted in a 5L with concentrated effect, increased AoE, cold penetration, and reduced mana. With all of our boosts to cold damage this will shed mobs like a hot(cold) knife through butter. It will likely kill any that survived the initial assault which will cause a chain reaction. as soon as one mob dies, it's pretty much over.

I'm estimating this build at around 75k DPS or higher (based on PoEbuilder.com)

Defense: I know you think this would have to be glass cannon right? Well here's all our defensive layers protecting us...

- Health, with +149% HP we will easily break 4.5k HP end-game

- Evasion/Dodge, arguably the strongest form of defense this build will have an estimated 30-40% evasion, 40% dodge, 46% spell dodge, 30% stun avoid, 8% elemental status avoid, with 15% block just as a cherry on top. I've ran this defensive setup in all my builds and they perform extremely well in end game maps.

- CWDT, This has extremely good synergy with evasion based defenses. Should you get hit, immortal call will make sure you get a few seconds of phys immunity. This will prevent you from getting insta-gibbed.

- Leech, We leech 3% of our DPS which is more than enough to sustain us through end-game maps with this high of DPS, no need for a life leech gem. The Leech will heal us in between hits which is amazing for evasion. Plus if you have Atziri's acuity it's instant leech so no need to worry about reflect in that case.

Finally to the meat of the build:

Link: http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgYARXyXl_v1tDjlGYw2Av5VS9-EYeJCwyaVXfIOSHDVY0MRlonTBx5wUpUuKgvw1fPqj_pJUbVI7Bjr9W1sN4HBxWSd53Q2PeTriELyHejWnarssONWgh4FtWKsbIyMCxSwjb_UI7l8TC1RRzBxEQ8XVOdUMHzdqNtenwGOPCT9jX1LeFAw0eRWSv_eI_Y6QkyzjYKeoU2So4qus1PUIoHuDkGW73pW-gVC0PXTfvzFAF59dWegGY7-uod27YO740p9CC7EopsmMgGyGc96Yet6Uw==

This is the level 85 build, for lvl 75-85 just remove a few of the HP nodes to the south side of the ranger tree and a remove a few cold damage nodes from witch.

Bandits:
Normal Oak
skill point
Merciless Alira

Gear:

- Weapons, Doryani's Catalyst x2. Crit + ele damage + cast speed. what's more want? These are pretty cheap, but until you get them you can substitute with dual wands.

3L: Lightning Warp + Faster Cast + Reduced Duration
3L: CWDT + Frost Wall + Enfeeble or frostbite

-Helm, Rime Gaze. very cheap, will give you cold damage and a 5L for Herald of Ice.

4L: Herald of Ice + Increased AoE + cold Penetration + Reduced mana (culling strike optional)

- Gloves, Any typical life + resist gloves will do, but if you have the money Atziri's acuity is BIS. Second to this would be Void bringer (assuming no mana issues). Maligaro's could also be used.

4L: (auras) use clarity if you need mana regen, purity of elements if you need resists, or Grace if everything else is taken care of. Depending on how much mana you need, you can also grab EB for 1 point and get discipline. This aspect is very flexible.

- Boots, Atziri's Step is pretty cheap and will give you 16% spell dodge which is extremely nice since we only run with 75% resists. Aside from those boots any life + resist will do. You could potentially use windscream and change frost wall to elemental weakness or enfeeble.

4L: CWDT + Enduring Cry + Immortal call + Increased Duration

- Chest, Any typical life + resist chest will do, but if you have the money a carcass jack would improve DPS, and a Belly of the beast would improve survivability although colors might be hard to roll. Evasion/ES would be best for rolling BBBBGG

4L: Freezing Pulse, GMP, Cold Penetration, Spell Echo
5L: Freezing Pulse, GMP, Cold Penetration, Spell Echo, Inc Critical Damage
6L: Freezing Pulse, GMP, Cold Penetration, Spell Echo, Inc Critical Damage, Power charge on Critical

- Belt, Doryani's invitation (cold) is fairly cheap and best for this build. Although any life + resistance belt is good.

- Accessories, you'll need resists and life primarily. If you are lucky/rich you can get cast speed, crit, and spell damage on these. If you want you can experiment with Romira's Banquet, gifts from above, or Berek's Pass.