Why do i always die on maps ?

I farmed docks till level 74.

When I do maps I die too much too.

So I am stuck on level 74 lol
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realatomicpanda wrote:

Put up skelly totem / decoy totem, then kill things.


This is a good advice. A summon skeletons/spell totem/fast cast is an awesome combination for safety.
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My ColdCrit witch has 1800 HP and 1500 ES, my Pulse DPS is 2500.

I own maps. Really no challenge at all, assuming I avoid specific mods that would be a problem.

Here's what I think is wrong...

a) Why Added Lightning Damage on your Pulse? This is not helping. You'd be better using Cold Penetration or Crit Chance or something to increase your Cold Damage (and thus your freezing)

b) LMP > GMP on Pulse. This is contentious but I am 100% sure LMP is better. Even if you manage to get 4 of your Pulses hitting with GMP, the fact is that 3 * LMP damage > 4 * GMP damage

c) Cold Snap is the best cold spell in the game and massively increases the survivability of a Cold caster. It will freeze enemies better than anything else.

d) No long range attack. At all. Your Pulse is 7% quality therefore it needs Faster Projectiles linked to give it a decent range. As it is you are only effective up close to enemies - ouch. Extend your Pulse range (use Faster Projectiles or get a high quality one). You should also add Ice Spear for long range nukage. It gets all the same bonuses as Pulse but will easily out-damage it from a safer distance (assuming your Crit stats are high enough).

e) You do not have an Elemental Proliferation gem anywhere. Add that one gem and you will freeze MUCH more and die MUCH less. Put it on Cold Snap is my advice. Entire screen frozen all the time is the net result.
Did you know level 91 is the halfway point to level 100? This means that a softcore character dying ONCE at level 85+ can lose many days of progress.
Last edited by GhostlightX#1022 on Apr 5, 2013, 6:09:01 AM
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GhostlightX wrote:


a) Why Added Lightning Damage on your Pulse? This is not helping. You'd be better using Cold Penetration or Crit Chance or something to increase your Cold Damage (and thus your freezing)

b) LMP > GMP on Pulse. This is contentious but I am 100% sure LMP is better. Even if you manage to get 4 of your Pulses hitting with GMP, the fact is that 3 * LMP damage > 4 * GMP damage

c) Cold Snap is the best cold spell in the game and massively increases the survivability of a Cold caster. It will freeze enemies better than anything else.

d) No long range attack. At all. Your Pulse is 7% quality therefore it needs Faster Projectiles linked to give it a decent range. As it is you are only effective up close to enemies - ouch. Extend your Pulse range (use Faster Projectiles or get a high quality one). You should also add Ice Spear for long range nukage. It gets all the same bonuses as Pulse but will easily out-damage it from a safer distance (assuming your Crit stats are high enough).

e) You do not have an Elemental Proliferation gem anywhere. Add that one gem and you will freeze MUCH more and die MUCH less. Put it on Cold Snap is my advice. Entire screen frozen all the time is the net result.


It's not my build but:
a) when you critical strike with a skill and you hit your target with 3 projectiles, you instantly create shock stacks, increasing your damage with up to 120% (requires high lightning damage though or high critical multiplier to be work).

b) GMP gives bigger spread, allows you to hit more targets and freeze more targets without needing elemental proliferation.

c) not sure what this info is for. if you want defense then a ice nova totem would be even better.

d) true, you need atleast 15% quality or faster projectiles for FP to be effective at range. Ice spear is optional, not required.

e) you dont need elemental proliferation as he uses GMP hitting all targets. If he rolls a crit, everything he hits will be frozen. EP wont do anything. The only thing it is good for is spreading chilled and triggering non-crit effects (from passive tree), which doesnt do anything because their duration is too short unless you crit.

a) No you don't, which is why I asked. Only the Lighting damage counts, which for an added Lightning damage gem is tiny. You will not do sufficient Lightning damage to proc the Shock (you need to do 1.1% of target's max HP), or if you do, the duration will be so short you won't get the benefit. Unless your gear is really really good, ofc.

b) Whatever. I found GMP a huge performance loss when I tried it over LMP, and it was a 14% quality one as well.

c) This info is here because I was answering a Cold witch who stated he has survivability issues in maps. Cold witches have some of the highest survivability in the game. Anyway, Cold Snap > all when it comes to surviving as Cold because it has a huge extra chance to freeze.

d) The reason he is dying is obvious. He is using a Pulse with no effective range and no long range nukes. He needs more range. Ice Spear is an obvious choice and it out-damages Pulse.

e) Again, GMP hitting all targets is NOTHING compared to a Cold Snap with Proliferation. I assume you know how proliferation works? If I CS a single enemy and get it frozen for 8 seconds, anything that then walks with X yards of that target will simply freeze. That is, for 8 seconds after I actually cast the spell that froze the target, anything else coming near will freeze without me doing anything further. This is simply much more powerful than not having a Proliferation gem. If he is having survival issues, this will immediately overcome them.
Did you know level 91 is the halfway point to level 100? This means that a softcore character dying ONCE at level 85+ can lose many days of progress.
Last edited by GhostlightX#1022 on Apr 5, 2013, 10:45:11 AM

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