[2.0.2 Warbands] CI - Whispering Ice + Emberwake + Pyre
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Introduction
Hi, this is my first build guide so feel free to leave any comments, questions, or suggestions! The basis of the build is the Emberwake Ring. We use it to deal massive amounts of burn damage on targets. I use whispering ice as my main damage ability as well as pyre to convert it to fire. I feel icestorm is the right skill to use due to it's high amount of hits and crazy scaling (imo best scaling ability for aoe spell). THIS IS A SOFTCORE BUILD I have not tested this build on HC and it could work, however some passive tree changes may be beneficial. Passive skill tree
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Level 75 end game Build
http://poeurl.com/zwGH3M1 Level 100 GG build http://poeurl.com/zwGHWl9 In the jewel socket heading to foresight put in an "Energy From Within" jewel to convert melding to pure ES. In the skill tree we do not grab the main cold wheel because cold penetration does not help us. Ghost reaver and zealot's oath are defensive options but I do not personally use them. I feel a high amount of ES with 3 endurance charges are enough defenses for softcore. My Gear
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Recommended Gear
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Armour
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For gear, you need the whispering ice staff, emberwake ring, and pyre ring to get started. THESE ARE MANDATORY.
On the rest of your gear prioritize Max Res > ES = INT > Mana > Ele Weak Res. Personally I use Asenath's gloves to temp chains on hit. The corrupt you would want is ele weak on hit to increase both the original hit damage and the burn damage. You could alternatively just use another gloves with one of these corrupts and single curse. Flasks
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I use 2 granites, 2 mana flasks, and one quicksilver.
The granites should have one of the two non-crit recovery methods, either charge recovery or increased charges. It is nice for at least one of your flasks to have armour. For mana flasks, I like to use catalysed because we use mana so fast. For the quicksilver should have either charge recovery or increased charges with the suffix being remove curses. For suffixes on the mana flasks and the leftover granite I use remove shock, remove freeze, and remove bleed. You could drop the remove shock for another iron skin but I don't find the extra armour necessary and remove shock is nice. Gems
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Auras
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The auras I use are Herald of Ice, Arctic Armour, and Discipline. I use herald of ice because we are scaling both cold and fire and pyre converts it. This means it does the most dmg out of any herald. If you'd prefer, you could swap for lightning to add some diversity.
This reserves 80% of my mana. This means mana is an important resource. Because of this, mana on gear does matter. If you have the currency for it supporting these by an enlighten gem would help our mana a lot. If you have one, you could drop one or maybe both of the mana flasks used. Supports
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For support gems, there are 9 options: Increased Burning Damage, Chance to Ignite, Increased AOE, Increased Duration, Spell Echo, Faster Casting, Conc. Effect, Fire Penetration, and Ele Prolif.
Since WI's change, we need increased duration. Faster casting and spell echo are obvious choices. The majority of our ignite chance comes from the support gem so that is a requirement as well. This leaves us with two slots for 5 gems. Personally, I use increased burning damage and increased aoe, swapping inc aoe for conc. for boss fights. Feel free to use any 2 of these 5 gems. Movement
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For movement, use lightning warp with faster casting and reduced duration.
Defences
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Use enduring cry + immortal call + vaal disc + increased duration + faster casting. Use enduring cry to keep endurance charges at 3 and vaal disc as well as immortal call as OH %&$# casts.
Golem
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I use the chaos golem. The defenses are nice, not much else to say. If you prefer damage, go ahead and use the fire golem.
Leftover gems
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You may notice that with the three auras, the golem, the defenses, the support gems, and the movement gems we have some leftover slots. Overall, you have 7 slots left. Use these to level other gems or maybe add some QOL gems. Examples of these would be running both flame dash and lightning warp and using ele res and life on your golem.
Bandits
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Personally I take all the skill points. You could alternatively get the cast speed and/or the endurance charge.
DPS
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Please note these calculations are for my level 75 char using asenath's with no corrupt and only 550 int. This is his skill tree: http://poeurl.com/zwATyzp
We use the formula "(pi*(10*a+2)^2)/(pi*(25*a)^2) where a = 0.9 (our aoe modifier) to determine that ~24% of icestorm shots hit (AID * 10 * .24) * (Duration / Cast Time) This is the damage for just the base hits. My calculation with my current build is 25.3k DPS not including ignites For ignites we take the same thing to calculate hits per second first. We are going to call this X. This represents the amount of ignites we will have on the target after we stack up our icestorms. (10 * .24) * (Duration / Cast Time)) * chance to ignite * ignite duration = X Now to calculate the damage we will deal. (AID * .2 (burn deals 1/5 of the original hits damage) * (1 - (1-(increased burning damage * .2 (emberwake penalty)) + increased fire damage + increased damage + increased elemental damage + increased damage over time * area damage) * X = Burn DPS The calculation for my char's returns 86.5k ignite dps This means adding them together that my level 75 char with only 550 int is doing a total of 111.8k sustained DPS against bosses. This also is not accounting for herald of ice damage, a fire golem, or additional jewel stats. Pros and Cons
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Pros
High Small AOE DPS on bosses Can continue ahead while icestorms finish enemies off Can be used while leveling Applies both chill and temp chains on hit Crazy single-target with conc Giant AOE withn inc. aoe Cons Low int for WI build Low single-target without conc Requires 2 semi-expensive uniques to get started Needs mana investment Video
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Keep in mind this is a level 75 character with only 550 int. Optimised gear could be significantly higher dps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2pX7yiheSM Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed :) Last edited by Phelnax on Aug 28, 2015, 6:06:38 PM
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First thing first, we would like to see some video run of your build, mate. 550 int is really low for WI build so I'm a bit curious to see how it will do in real run.
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" Increases are additive not multiplicative. Burning damage might be much lower than you thought. The assumption that a third of the icestorm shards are gonna hit a boss seems too high i think. | |
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Now that lightning warp works with reduced duration again it is now the prioritized move skill. Fixed more calculation errors. Added a "My Gear" section Last edited by Phelnax on Aug 27, 2015, 9:38:49 PM
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Hi nice idea
I have come up with a similar build, not made a guide yet, but with 2 very important changes! You need to replace "Pyre" with "The_Taming"! http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/The_Taming And that rare helmet with the "The Three Dragons"! http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/The_Three_Dragons This will massively increase the dmg output! The 3 dragons make cold ignite and the taming will incresse dmg for every ignite! The longer the fight the more dmg you put out! Implement it in your build, if you like just give em credit :-) If you like you build as is, i would then suggest getting "Black Sun Crest" with 15% int http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Black_Sun_Crest That is massive!! |
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