[3.20] Ice Dancing Queen - Icestorm/Cyclone/CI - Viable For Everything

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Kelvynn wrote:

I finally decided to upgrade my gear from the cheap stuff to something more serious. I've done the entire endgame with 2.2k Int and 9k ES, thanks to the self-casting goodness. Eventually I've sold enough loot to accumulate about 10 ex and wanted to try crafting some serious gear. Market prices are completely bonkers anyway.

I love Harvest and Betrayal. I take the Atlas passives for them and use them in crafting.

1c base. ilvl 77-79 Hubris Circlet with no influence.

Step 1: Use Deafening Essence of Spite (51+ Int suffix) until you get a T2 resistance suffix (42%+). If there is a 3rd suffix, annul it. If you annul Int or res - start over.

Step 2: Craft a junk suffix and Harvest 'reforge keep suffixes' (Wild Spikeback or Primal Scrabbler) until you get a decent flat +ES (T1-2) or %ES (T2-3). The idea is that you roll one of these things and can craft the other one.

Step 3: Now you need the item to have 2 prefixes. If it has only 1 prefix - use Leo in Research for 1 free ex slam (or just an exalted orb if that's easier for you). If it has 3 prefixes - annul one. If you annul Int or res - start over. If you annul the good ES prefix - go back to step 2.

Step 4: Craft the missing ES prefix (flat or %ES). Now the item has a decent amount of ES, 3 prefixes and 2 suffixes.

Step 5: Hunter slam guarantees a %Int suffix (this is the only possible Hunter suffix for ilvl 77-79). You get either T1 (9-10%) or T2 (7-8%). If the result is not perfect, just use it until you craft a better one.

In my case, I ended up with 1 prefix on step 3 and got very lucky with Leo - he gave me a T1 hybrid %ES.

Step 1: Can start with an ilvl 77-79 Vaal Regalia base with no influence and then fossil craft it with Dense+Fundamental until you get a decent ES and a flat Int suffix. ES and Int must roll naturally, you cannot craft them yourself. Or skip that and just buy one with those stats - such chests are not very rare or expensive.

Step 2: You need to have 1 suffix - the flat Int. Can try annulling extra suffixes. I bought and annulled 2 or 3 chests until I got 1 suffix without losing ES.

Step 3: If it has only 2 prefixes - craft a junk prefix. And then Crusader slam it. Unlike the helmet, the chance of getting %int suffix is not guaranteed, it's 1/3. If you don't get it - find another base and try again.

Step 4: Craft 6% Attr. Unveil chests with 'Hillock's Veil' mod to unlock this craft. Or just find somebody who has it.

You can try Dense+Fundamental fossils on the influenced regalia, but it seems like a low chance to me. At least I haven't had any success with that.

Last league it took me 5 Crusader slams to get %int. This league I got lucky on the first try.

Just some regular gloves with decent ES, T1 Int and at least 1 good res mod. Don't bother crafting them, just buy. ES on gloves is not very important, they can't have as much ES as chest or helmet. So just buy what you can afford.

This is also the only item that we can use the Eldritch currency on. Use the red currency to get Unnerve on Hit. Use the blue currency to get Damage per Int. I found those to be the best mods.

Synthesized 15% Int belts are cheap. This was my very first non-trivial upgrade.

Step 1: Scour the base and use 4 Intrinsic Catalysts to make it 20q (18% Int).

Step 2: Use Deafening Essence of Spite to get 51+ Int suffix. Depending on your other gear, you may want to keep rolling it until you get a specific 2nd suffix (res or Str).

Step 3: Annul until you get an empty prefix. Optionally an empty suffix too. If you annul Int or the other important suffix - start over. Empty suffix can be used to beast-craft Aspect of the Spider. Empty prefix is used to craft hybrid +ES/armour.

Most of the time, this is where you want to have Aspect of the Spider. It's the easiest and most convenient place for it.

I started with just 1 Spite essence and Aspect of the Spider on the belt. But later on I needed Str to upgrade from Astramentis to a rare amulet. I rerolled the belt with Spites until I got Str, but randomly got a decent res mod too. So then I kept the belt and crafted Aspect elsewhere.

Don't bother crafting the amulet yourself. It's too expensive, and the chance is too low. Just buy one with %int and Damage Per Int for 3-5 ex. They are by-products of high level crafting. Pro crafters spend huge amounts of currency to create mirror tier amulets with double attribute mods and damage. In doing so they produce a whole lot of sellable failures that are good enough for this build.

You want an empty suffix to craft some attributes. Replacing Astramentis means losing a lot of Str and Dex. But you want to have at least 111 Dex and about as much Str for the gems.

Rings should be upgraded last. Their purpose is to round up the stats and resists. The best ones are crafted on the synthesized 6% Int base with Deafening Essence of Spite. That base is very expensive. Sometimes you can also get lucky with double corruption in the Temple, or Gwen. Or just find something randomly good on the market. Just don't start with the rings. Do everything else first.

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Anyway, I'm pretty much done with the gear now. If I get lucky with drops before finishing the 40 challenges, I might end up buying one of those godly 2-mod amulets. But my current 2.8k Int is already a massive overkill.

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phantom_god wrote:

how big is the 1% dmg per 15 int? cus i got an ammy with
31 all attrubite
54 int and 15% int so thats 85 int on top of 15% int
do you think increaed per 15 int with 14% int is better?

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Aughyssul wrote:

This build caught my eye, since the gameplay videos sorta remind me of 3.14 BF/BB raider when it comes to tankiness, but with cyclone. Which just sounds great tbh.

I was wondering how this build performed early league. The guide states that early bosses can take a long time/use a lot of portals, but the videos with a 10ex investment are the bosses just straight up melting.

Basically, I want a build that can cruise through to T16s on league start weekend with minimal investment (buying a few cheap uniques is fine), but that I can get to faceroll endgame bosses with minimal (10-15 ex) investment over the next few days. Does that sound like something this build can do?

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Aughyssul wrote:

The guide states that early bosses can take a long time/use a lot of portals

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Basically, I want a build that can cruise through to T16s on league start weekend with minimal investment (buying a few cheap uniques is fine), but that I can get to faceroll endgame bosses with minimal (10-15 ex) investment over the next few days. Does that sound like something this build can do?

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Eag1e wrote:

ok, trying out this build and so far, seems fun.

any opinions on how i can improve it?

1.5k int and 10.2k energy shield so far at level 84


my gears so far

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phantom_god wrote:

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Eag1e wrote:

ok, trying out this build and so far, seems fun.

any opinions on how i can improve it?

1.5k int and 10.2k energy shield so far at level 84


my gears so far

from the look of ur gear you invested a lot of currency into bad things cus helm with power siphon is pretty expnsive your missing a lot of jewels to swap from str/dex to int and %int rings and INT in the rings not just resist i am confused what is going in with thos gloves and you can get %int imliect belt

and not sure what is oging on with the unnatual instinct and 1 with insane courrpt