[2.6] The Curse Whisperer - Tri-Curse CI Whispering Ice Elementalist - Viable for Everything

this build only needs a 5link 6slots chest right? since arctic armor doesnt benefit from anything.

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Kelvynn wrote:

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SaintLucifer wrote:

Been trying for like weeks to upgrade my gear with no success, so i was wondering, would any of the other 2 variants be able to reach end game with really crappy gear instead? So far i can't even reliable do tier 10 maps with what i have on my witch version, so would like to know if the others are more durable please.

This is the gear i have so far:

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331 ES chest? Eep! Are you playing self-found? This build is not good for self-found, unless you craft everything yourself, or something. You can easily find better items on poe.trade for cheap. See a post 2 pages above that even has a link for chest armor search. All versions of the build require at least 20-30 chaos orbs to get to the red maps, and at least 5-6 exalts to proceed into T16 (with current prices). You can start farming Uber Lab with probably 50c worth of gear, and that'll get you the currency to proceed from there.

Saw that post, tried contacting the first 10 or so people on it, they were all either gone from the league (since this is the last month) or 24/7 afk for some reason (price fixers?). After that point the prices just started going too insane for me, like 120 ex and over. So yeah, so far i'm playing self found. Gotta love the "Pleasing social interaction and trade experience" you get when using poe.trade.

Did you tried to play with Avatar of Fire and Cold to fire gem and switch to another ring? worth the loss of one supp gems?

dude, DUDE! ... zerker, CI, ZO, ghost reaver, potential for going crit with flask+crit gem support at ~lvl92. sure, int is also a suffix but it's not much of a hindrance.

leech on ascendancy, stun immune on ascendancy, 40% more dmg on ascendancy. that's the meta.

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too bad savage hit does not work with es, only life :)

Hi.
Is it ok to have quality on CWDT lv1 and Ball Lightning lv4?

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ScottEvill wrote:

Hi.
Is it ok to have quality on CWDT lv1 and Ball Lightning lv4?

Yeah you can have quality on it, it will not affect the level of the gems and so don't affect the trigger conditions.

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Millennium wrote:

Is there a place for Vaal Discipline in the build?

Not in the main setup. You don't need it either. But for the several top bosses where Purity is used (see Boss Guide) and curses are applied via the Orb, you have 2 free sockets that can be used for Vaal Disc. Example: the Shaper.

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noobstaa wrote:

Did you tried to play with Avatar of Fire and Cold to fire gem and switch to another ring? worth the loss of one supp gems?

AoF+CtF+Perandus Signet was the starting point of this whole build and is still used in the Scion version. But it only works with very high Int. I'm not sure where exactly the threshold is, somewhere around 1800 Int probably. If you have that much Int AND can max your resists without Pyre then you can get more DPS/ES with AoF+CtF+Perandus. Otherwise (which is the case for the non-Scion versions with non-godly gear) Pyre+CD+2 points works better.

I got some gear upgrades but i got a question about the helmet. Currently i have a nice 200 ES helmet with some INT on it but i been wondering how important the Crest Helmet would be, is it really worth losing around 1k ES just for it? Right now i got around 7.8k ES and 1.252 INT, without the helmet i will go down to around 6.5k ES.

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kreca73 wrote:

dude, DUDE! ... zerker, CI, ZO, ghost reaver, potential for going crit with flask+crit gem support at ~lvl92. sure, int is also a suffix but it's not much of a hindrance.

leech on ascendancy, stun immune on ascendancy, 40% more dmg on ascendancy. that's the meta.

rough planner:

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https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAECAL8IJDenbeDY-F9f0CGQ6hB7jCUnXUlnm64-xq48LYNfC2GvbGjyg8y3PkGH-eiCxyj6V8kNfLiTHNyPGuvupwidrhps98HYJI9Gm6EYangvfOVYBx0Ur402xR8CBAdMs9Af7-tFfg5cavrr5F8ql5VSU5f0PV9tGS0flSDB86Kjf8bBxewYLL8V14auVmOP-vDVSVHQ0F9qEZYOSLcw6FomiF3yKwoRL1F0jummmY5k96a2-gxfHKdTpZy-DR88KPfXhEhca8NtVkiTJ76KoS8=

Berserker has been proposed before. I even considered it for 2.4 before deciding that Inquisitor is more interesting. I might consider it again for 2.5.

ZO instead of VP? That's not going to work against the endgame bosses. Non-instant leech has been FUBAR since 2.0 and only works when you have another serious defensive mechanic. We don't have one. Savage Hit does not work with CI, if you take ANY life damage you are dead.

Stuff 'if you've killed recently' doesn't work against a lot of bosses. There is often nothing to kill 'recently'. Relying on flasks would require a way to replenish them in boss fights. That works with crit builds. But I haven't seen any good way to go crit with WI yet.

Your tree would result in a very low Int, I think. If you want to be efficient with WI you need Int. Lots of it.

Anyway, Berserker is one of the possibilities to consider adapting this build to. But it would need a lot of serious thinking and trying.