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

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Dulaku wrote:

Hi, great build, first time leveled as CI and definitely the strongest build I've played so far.

A question though, even with ~8k ES I keep dying to Uberlab traps, have any survival tips?

Trap damage is proportional to your max HP (or ES), so it makes no difference if you run through them with 1K HP or 8K (in fact some speedrun builds only have like 2K total health). ES actually takes 40% less damage from traps to compensate for the fact that you have less armor and can't chug potions.

I also had a lot of trouble with traps initially, but eventually you learn all the possible layouts (there aren't that many of them) and will know where you can afford to run through and where the safe spots are.

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Kelvynn wrote:

not worth trading the chill/freeze protection of Auxium for.

Wrong. Auxium doesn't prevent you from getting chilled or frozen. You still need to keep a unfreeze flask. It's a worthless belt since the crystal belt is now added into the core game. The resists, insane ES, and other stats a rare belt offers far outweigh the Auxium and helps the build tremendously. Let it fucking go already.

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monkuar wrote:

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Kelvynn wrote:

not worth trading the chill/freeze protection of Auxium for.

Wrong. Auxium doesn't prevent you from getting chilled or frozen. You still need to keep a unfreeze flask. It's a worthless belt since the crystal belt is now added into the core game. The resists, insane ES, and other stats a rare belt offers far outweigh the Auxium and helps the build tremendously. Let it fucking go already.

While I agree that crystal belts are better along with the Int essence, it's wrong to say that Auxium does not prevent freeze. From the wiki: "If the duration would be below 0.3 seconds, the freeze effect is not applied."

Auxium helps with this particularly if you have a very large ES pool, which sadly this build doesn't really get. But it still helps against smaller hits, since we have almost no increased health at all to avoid getting frozen by every single small cold damage hit.

In a league without essences, a perfectly rolled Crystal belt has a maximum of 131 Energy shield. A perfect auxium has 90 (which would be much less expensive, crystal belts are insanely expensive, on EHC you're looking at 40 chaos just to get an ilevel 84 for crafting)

So really what a crystal belt offers you outside of essence is slightly more flexibility with resistances. If someone is having trouble with resistances, I'm sure they can make the call themselves that they can be diligent and pre-emptive with flasks, and make the switch.

No need to be a jackass about it. There's a reason these are guides and not "rules for playing the build" Adapt it how you see fit.

So I'm currently at lvl 85, 8200ES and 7000dps with Conc effect. I went with Occultist. There are still few things to improve, but could we possibly establish "what is enough" to tackle shaper? ES/DPS wise?

Does Mastermind proc of BL autocast or from Orb of Storms exclusively?

When i was looking at the scion Version of this build, the damage is double, 18 000 dps With conc and procs, and the witch Version 7-8 k.

HGow come you say witch do more dmg??

Witch Average Damage :

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teharos wrote:

Does Mastermind proc of BL autocast or from Orb of Storms exclusively?

Mastermind does not proc from triggered skills, only from ones you cast manually.

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paraply wrote:

When i was looking at the scion Version of this build, the damage is double, 18 000 dps With conc and procs, and the witch Version 7-8 k.

HGow come you say witch do more dmg??

You must have been looking at fully powered in-combat stats, with EO active. And probably from 2.2 (before the Ascendant Berserker nerf) or without Life Leech (it can be replaced with a DPS gem for easy content).

With the same setup and gear, the Witch'es avg Icestorm out of combat is at about 8k while the Scion's is at 9k. But the tooltip avg hit is NOT the DPS, it's only the avg dmg of 1 hit. Our DPS is much much higher than 8-9k. Due to Pendulum and Mastermind that kick in, the actual DPS of the Witch is higher than the Scion's.

I was looking for a new build after ripping again in EHC and decided to give this a try last night. Hot up to about lvl 40 and am now leveling as CI with about 1200ES. Super fun and surprisingly tanky. Though I'm basically skecthed out almost 100% of the time. Still loving it. Thanks for the fantastic step by step guide. Cheers.

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Moridin79 wrote:

I was looking for a new build after ripping again in EHC and decided to give this a try last night. Hot up to about lvl 40 and am now leveling as CI with about 1200ES. Super fun and surprisingly tanky. Though I'm basically skecthed out almost 100% of the time. Still loving it. Thanks for the fantastic step by step guide. Cheers.

Similar experience as well in EHC with the stress of the build. Haave to be on your toes, because if you aren't casting and leeching, it's very easy to die.

Fun though, made it to 87 so far.