[3.0 Debeon's Dirge Ice Crash Raider]

Hey guys, wanted to make a build this season around this new weapon https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Debeon%27s_Dirge

I really enjoy the EQ style of play, jumping around and decimating hordes of enemies with point blank aoe rippage. Since Ice Crash has different mechanics than EQ and favors high attack speed, I opted for Raider for frenzy destruction and elemental annihilation with Avatar of the Veil.

This is still a work in progress, so if you guys have any suggestions, please, voice them, I am not the biggest expert when it comes to all the in game mechanics, so if you see a potential for higher dps or better survivability. Let me know.


Uniques for this build outside of axe:

https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/The_Halcyon

https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Debeon%27s_Dirge -Self explanatory, pure cold dmg nothing to convert

https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/The_Perfect_Form -I was between this, Carcass Jack, and Belly of the beast. Figured i'd give this a try as it fits the motif of the build, high evasion, evasion based off cold reissts which we are stacking anyways, phase acro, and Arctic armor reservation.

We will also be using Cold Steel jewel in the duelist area to convert all those juicy 2h and axe nodes to cold damage.

Tree:
https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/3.0.0/AAAABAIBAABeBS0FtQd1CC4M8hEvEYETyRR1Fr8XJhjbGY4hVSFgIuoj9iaVJyAqOCsKLIUs-y5TMHwyATOSNj031Dy-Ps9AoEHQQxNEnkd-Sn1NklFHU7tUR1VLVvpaGl3yXhNfcGEhYeJh62KsY6dlTWWnZ6BsCGyMbyd07XTxd9d4enj5elN6hHrve3R-3X8rgayDbYTFhNmE74dqh3aKIow2jX2NuY2_j2Caapsmm42btZ2qnsSly6a-qSepeamUrlCxfLIZtMW9Nr3mvqe_1cCmwuzDOsPmyMzPetCt02_TftQj2NXawdvn3D3dRt9v45_kaujW62PtP-2D7g7veu-P8Yr9bv5r


Links:

5L Chest: Ancestral protector-Added Cold-Faster attacks-Ele focus-Ele damage with attacks- Arctic armor as stand alone

6L: Ele dmg w/ attacks-added cold-cold pen-ice bite-Inc Aoe-Ice Crash

4Links:

-Leap slam-fortify-faster attacks- Enduring cry (needed for Weapon effects)
-CWDT-Immortal Call-Cold Snap-Frost bomb
-Blapshemy-Frost bite-Enlighten-Herald of ice

Videos should be coming within the next week.

Again, any and all feedback is welcomed!

I'm actually playing around with a similar build right now, since my old sweetheart Frost Blades is now too mainstream for my tastes.

I'm far from an expert though, so all I can offer are a few questions and some observations:
- Since breach uniques are really damn expensive right now(dat Pandemonius price D:), do you think Hyrri's Ire could work as a low-budget option to Perfect Form?
- I'm still not convinced by the AotV + Cold Steel choice. Is it really much more profitable than just stacking phys(which plays nice with the IC elemental conversion) and going Rapid Assault + AotC(or QI, if you'd rather) for the perma Onslaught(even more attack speed yay)? I can't do the math myself because I can't find Debeon's on POB :V

It could I suppose, and yeah me either so I can't play around with certain things. I was piecing this together and saw Matil running his charged dash build which had pretty darn good dmg with a similar setup on only a 5L. That's really the only indication/reinforcement I got that this could be good.

I updated my PoB to the latest, managed to find Ebeon's in it and dang, I'm convinced, that's a really great spot to leverage Cold Steel with a 2h axe.
Going for Onslaught(even just Rapid Assault) does seem to outclass AotV by a modest margin DPSwise, but idk, maybe the mobility and defensive bonuses do outclass it in the greater scheme of things.

So, yeah, this is looking really nice, I'd definitely be tempted to give it a go if I had the time and money to make it happen.

Using ele focus removes your chill effect which in turn makes Pandemonius not that appealing. Also Frostbite + all the penetration nodes on your tree is more than enough. I'd recommend Star of Wraeclast or The Halcyon if you want uniques, otherwise a rare one with life + res would be fine.

Also Arctic Armour doesn't work with Cyclone at all, so Perfect Form isn't that good.

Not using cyclone...

Removed Ele focus and replaced with inc aoe/conc effect since we cant move that far up left side of tree for more aoe.

Going to use Halcyon, seems to fit much better ty

Seems like it will work out, now I'm just hoping someone makes a cyclone raider build for this wep :) I love the shatter effect.

Mathil put one together that can be used for both Charge Dash/Cyclone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUN7-0VEzqk

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Furajiir wrote:

Mathil put one together that can be used for both Charge Dash/Cyclone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUN7-0VEzqk

Is it just me or does it seem like he just tosses builds out without optimizing them though?

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Not using cyclone...

Removed Ele focus and replaced with inc aoe/conc effect since we cant move that far up left side of tree for more aoe.

Going to use Halcyon, seems to fit much better ty

Lol sorry I got the cyclone idea stuck in my head somehow.
Actually after thinking about it again Halcyon sucks as well since we're going non-crit, so our freeze chance is pathetic. It's still gonna be decent when clearing maps, but I think a rare amulet with WED + life + resist will perform much better overall.