Caster CI / GR Leech Pathetic / Broken Builds

Are you playing ball lightning with knockback attached to it?

Some extra defense in the form of CC might do the trick for you. A mate of mine is playing this and it's doing a supreme job of keeping him safe.

Though he is playing life based, the point is he keeps pushing all the content away from him so he rarely get's touched.

Not to mention knockback actually functions like a "MORE" multiplier on ball lightning so it isn't really a serious dps loss.(on the tooltip it is, but since creeps travel with your ball backwards, they get repeatedly hit more often)

Just a thought, maybe worth testing.

Peace and have fun,

-Boem-

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Boem wrote:

Are you playing ball lightning with knockback attached to it?

Some extra defense in the form of CC might do the trick for you. A mate of mine is playing this and it's doing a supreme job of keeping him safe.

Though he is playing life based, the point is he keeps pushing all the content away from him so he rarely get's touched.

Not to mention knockback actually functions like a "MORE" multiplier on ball lightning so it isn't really a serious dps loss.(on the tooltip it is, but since creeps travel with your ball backwards, they get repeatedly hit more often)

Just a thought, maybe worth testing.

Peace and have fun,

-Boem-

I'll try it out man, thanks for the suggestion!

BTW I didn't mean to imply that I was crying in that other post haha. By salt in my eyes I meant like somebody holding them open Clockwork Orange-style and shaking salt into them.

Basically the only way to get elemental leech that's meaningful is to use a life leech gem. It's virtually required for all CI spell builds. Without it there's no way you can sustain, unless you somehow get 10+% life regen per second. Or some serious crowd control, such as knockback, which doesn't work for all builds.

I would really like it if they put in some elemental leech nodes. Right now it's pretty much indefeasible without the life leech gem.

I know what you mean.
I've been playing on my Witch for quite a while now, and monsters just seem to resist my attacks a lot more.
Bosses take forever aswell.

Now I don't see why mages would, from now on, NEED to have a Life Leech gem linked to their gear along with 2 big skill nodes (GR and Vaal Pact). This makes a lot of builds much, MUCH weaker and unplayable.

Not to forget, the builds this affects are the most common, simple, fun and effective builds. The ones you recommend your friends to make when they start playing and want to gather some currency.

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fae76 wrote:

Want a challenge? Try to level as ES and beat Cruel Dominus without constantly portal out. If you manage try A4 bosses. Use whatever defenses and skills you want as long as it's a CI based toon... When you manage, PLEASE come back and share your insights and build with us!

My frst high level character ever whas a CI, its realy one of most tanky build i ever seen.
It will be no problem recreating this build tho i dont clame it to be perfect DPS and what not as it is mainly made for testing. The way i playd it whas whit loot of freez chance and freez duration, one cast and you freez whole screan.
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1190888


You will need to use
https://poebuilder.com/
to translate link to see old skill tree.

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nEVER_BoRN wrote:

My frst high level character ever whas a CI, its realy one of most tanky build i ever seen.
It will be no problem recreating this build tho i dont clame it to be perfect DPS and what not as it is mainly made for testing. The way i playd it whas whit loot of freez chance and freez duration, one cast and you freez whole screan.
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1190888


You will need to use
https://poebuilder.com/
to translate link to see old skill tree.

I'm playing a cold-snapper with proliferation myself right now and the plan is to go low-life and later righteous fire. It works very well for normal content where I rarely get hit. The problem however starts as soon as I'm not able to freeze and of course this applies to most bosses. Even with all my regen (remember I'm working towards righteous fire) plus life-leech and Doriani's belt I cannot regain ES fast enough. Maybe things would look different if I had very good hybrid gear but I don't and hence with exception of the shield use pure ES gear. Therefore investing points into armour or evasion seems like a waste. With low-life, I will get grace, which seems the better and more efficient way.

Well in this instance going armor actualy help a loot, mainly you ES on block from AA is tied to your armor.
So in pinch you use graniter and insted of ralaying on regeneration only you gain masive bost from Aegis Aurora.
There is also uniq flask that grant armor and block chance so even beter.
Armor give 25% less ele damage taken and belt give -5% ele resistance (and 40% armor), generaly armor -25 less is mor efficient the less resistance you have and alos AA give +5% on cold resist so going cold skill is even beter agens reflect.

Evasion is clanky and same go for ES, the way i make build is besicle best you can get, realy realy strong effective life.

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nEVER_BoRN wrote:

So in pinch you use graniter and insted of ralaying on regeneration only you gain masive bost from Aegis Aurora.

Aegis Aurora is an item you specifically build around. Aegis and Rumi's are not exactly common drops either, 99% of the player base will never see either of them in a 3 months league. But I agree it's a very strong defense.

As for Arctic Armour I rather go Discipline + Grace (or Discipline + Determination if I build for Aegis). Most caster builds need Clarity on top of that. If you don't go the aura route there is no room for AA or any offensive aura. If I play a caster I always kite (except for Incinerate and Flameblast). Hence, AA does not provide any defense most of the time. Grace, Determination and Mind over Matter do.

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nEVER_BoRN wrote:

Armor give 25% less ele damage taken

No, armour mitigates physical damage only

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nEVER_BoRN wrote:

AA give +5% on cold resist

This is wrong too or the wiki has not been updated for 2.0

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fae76 wrote:

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nEVER_BoRN wrote:

Armor give 25% less ele damage taken

I whas refering for this combination


Also idk if AA is legacy now


Also my weapon on build is old .. this is mor like it

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nEVER_BoRN wrote:

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fae76 wrote:

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nEVER_BoRN wrote:

Armor give 25% less ele damage taken

I whas refering for this combination

Interesting gear combination, but its more for an attack build than a caster. Regen is one thing but leech is totally another thing when going a caster with CI / GR.