[2.2] AoE Cold Saboteur - Massive Glacial Cascade Mines/Ice Traps | SC | Stupid Cheap | Easy PvP
 Intro This build is a cheap, effective and fun way to get yourself established in a new league. It mainly uses 2 huge aoe skills, glacial cascade mines and ice traps, to clear your screen off of any enemies be they mobs, bosses, or other exiles in the arena. Also, by cheap I mean REALLY cheap. You can effectively start this build with under 1 chaos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zupn9SCIJ3Q Pros
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-Fast clear speed
-Tremor rods are dirt cheap -Effective even with 4 links -Gr8 penetration -Effective farming for low to mid tier maps -Great burst damage: W/ 6PC's, 12 Traps, 11 Mines and everything hitting just once is 150k+ Damage -Frost Bomb and Frostbite reduce Cold Resist by 65% -No Reflect Damage aside from Frost Bomb. Cons
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-Rough leveling process
-Little to no physical mitigation -Struggles with high HP bosses -Mana issues (debatable) -Multiple skills needed Defenses I'm probably going to sacrifice something and go into Acrobatics for dodge/spelldodge + stibnite flask for avoiding most physical damage (Will update when I get there).
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 Offensive Skills Ice Trap x12 + Glacial Cascade x11 (x2 detonations)
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ICE TRAP (136% AoE)
 GLACIAL CASCADE (107% AOE)  Gear
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Essential Gear
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The Tremor Rod is one of the most useful and the only Mine item in the game. While it has a 'less' mine damage multiplier, it allows you to activate mines twice. This is especially useful when you're moving quickly from pack to pack, as you lay half your mines, detonate, then move on and lay another set, effectively leapfrogging with them. It is also ridiculously cheap, I found a top roll on poe.trade for 1 alch.
Luxury Gear
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Costs around 1 Exalt and is just overall really good for this build. BUT; you don't need this item to make the build work, it only improves what's already there. I recently bought one of these for 20 chaos (probably overpaid) but it is also an unnecessary but useful addition to clearing. More Glacial Cascade AoE = more effective clearing Voidbringers are tricky. You don't benefit from the ES on kill and it makes it much harder to maintain mana, but I really love that crit chance; and with a 384% crit multiplier the more the better. Also going to want to get an Atziri's step for dodge later on My Shit
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The rest is just life, resists and movement speed.
Flasks
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Skills
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Weapon 4L Glacial Cascade Remote Mine (Tremor Rod) Minefield Trap & Mine Damage Elemental Focus 5L:Reduced Mana 6L:Increased AoE or Critical Damage or Controlled Destruction Chest 4L Ice Trap Multiple Traps Cluster Traps Increased AoE 5L:Hypothermia 6L:Trap & Mine Damage Helm/Boots 4L Cast when damage taken (low level) Immortal Call (low level) Increased Duration Vaal Clarity (high level) 4L Lightning Warp Less Duration Faster Casting Chaos Golem Gloves 4L Frost Bomb Frostbite Increased AoE Rallying Cry Tree For the Saboteur Ascendancy class, Bomb specialist is the absolute MUST have. 44% Increased AoE and 96% Increased Damage are absolutely HUGE.
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https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAYDAAQHBLMFtQceCNQN0Q5IDo4RlhHCE3EWQBZvGjgbyB0UIG4jXyaVJy8qCy0fMHEyGDY9Nxc6QjpYOtg8BT1fRXxJUUt4TLNQMFJTUzFVS1XGWK5Z813yXqVfKmHiYk9irGNDZp5o8myMcFFwUnIPc212b3xLfrB_xoKbg9uFfYnTjDaNv45kj0aQVZUglS6WdJeVl5eX9Jo7m5qboZ2qndmf36BDogCio6yYswO0OLTFtvq3dbkGwGbBxcHzwuzJBtAf1CPYVNte2-fdqONq44TlGevk7DjuFe987-vwH_DV8Pn2n_em99f60vv1
Bandits: Oak - Skillpoint - Alira Leveling It's not the fastest method, but I used Orb of Storms and spark, until I was able to start using ice trap, and then fully switched to traps/mines once I got to lvl 45, a Tremor Rod, and both Clever Construction/Volatile Mines Nodes. Gameplay For Trash clearing: 1)Throw 2 sets of 6 Ice traps 2)Lay 1-2 sets of mines before the traps set 3)Detonate 4)(If not clear) Throw another 2 sets of traps 5)(If not at 11 mines] lay mines till at 11 6)Detonate 7)Quicksilver and run to next pack For Bosses: 1)Frost Bomb and Frostbite for -65% Cold Resistance 2)Traps 3)Mines 4)Detonate 5)Traps 6)Detonate -If a strong enemy gets too close use a stibnite flask. -Always keep up your mana flask and Rallying Cry to compensate for high cost of mines. -The exception to the last tip is when there is a massive group of mobs or a boss, which is when you should use Vaal Clarity (16 seconds of no mana costs) and just go ham. Thanks for taking the time to Read this. First Written Guide. Last edited by SunstoneXIII on Mar 16, 2016, 1:11:45 PM Last bumped on Oct 31, 2016, 8:19:05 AM
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Dude your build looks fun as hell. I am going to respec my shadow and give it a shot. Also I love the character you put into your vids. Thanks for sharing build !
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Lvling with this build owns! thx for this guide.
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is this build uber viable ?
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" I haven't tried yet. " " Thanks :) |
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Inspired by the video you made last week I find this one of the funniest builds i have played thus far.. Thank you,
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Lavianga's Spirit very nice for this build, i think ))
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Hey just saw your build and totally started a new character following it. Reaching the higher level is a bit slow but I can already see that it is worth it.
However seeing that you don't use any auras that reserve mana, I figured that Clear Mind would be a perfect jewel choice for even more spell damage. What do you think? Last edited by RPOD on Mar 19, 2016, 5:44:55 AM
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Hey, just wondering if the belt - Sunblast Cloth Belt - would be any good for this build. Btw great build. I've just started not too long ago and in the video it seems amazing for clears and big groups.
Last edited by Josh4u2c on Mar 19, 2016, 8:07:50 PM
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" It's not a bad choice for leveling, but the movement speed reduction kind of hurts :( " Yep, that's the only reason why I'm using no auras atm :) If I can pull enough resist, I'm hoping to go essence worm with grace to get that big evasion bonus but still be able to use clear mind. " Sunblast probably better for pure trappers, but that's basically what you'll be until you have the right passives/gear for mines. And yeah, its great for mid tier map clearing just to build up some currency. |
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