[0.9.11] Ice Witch CI crit build

Hi there..

Just wanted to ask few questions:

1) Beside Clarity and Discipline, which auras shouls i run? Should i get other mana-reserve skills such as Tempest Shield?
2) Elemental or Crit Weakness? They both give similar results..
3) Freezing pulse..should i link LMP to it or is it not necessary? I'm using LMP on Freezing Pulse

Hey guys, this is my current witch, I didn't followed this guide but decided to build a cold witch and came to similiar conclusions I see.

Now I'm Act1 cruel, and have died sometimes, but overall I deal good dmg (2 shotting(3 rarely) almost everything with Ice spear), I just feel I took CI too early, but managed to get 1k ES and resistances around 40% (I wasn't aware of the possibility of killing all 3 bandits and got the +8 res unfortunatly).

This is my skill tree now:


On the other hand, this is the plan:


I'm focusing on Energy Shield - Critical chance - Cold damage. And I plan to take the curses nodes, as I really like the benefits curses can provide..
I'm using Ice spear (long range, high chance to freeze, high dmg), Cold snap (good to freeze as weel, cooldown), Freezing pulse (to quickly take care of large groups of white-mobs). I plan to use +crit chance and + crit dmg support gems, elemental proliferation seems good as well for pve (I'd like to make a build good also for pvp) and may be faster cast time.. I also use elemental weakness (+ dmg, extra chance to status aliments), enfeeble (-30% dmg taken..). And as I know there are uniques that grant a third extra curse I may very well go for Crit weakness, even if it requires dexterity (I stayed intelligence-based for everything else). Discipline and Clarity my auras (i reach 40 mana regen, being able to spam everything, even with a small amount of mana left). Than frost wall rarely useful but probably very important sometimes and for pvp.. increased duration may be needed.

Here my equipment.. decent

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Criticisms are well accepted!!

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Prostasisx wrote:

Also keep in mind - while I'm playing - I'm trying to see how this game handles solo leveling/progression. So I'm not trading items in chat, and I'm only using items that are found by either myself, or someone I'm in a party with... one of my biggest gripes with D3 was not being able to progress solo, so I'm attempting to compare that to PoE - and see at what level this is no longer feasable. in D3, it was around 50-55, with a ton of heartache leading up to it from 40-50.

An ice witch is one of the strongest builds currently in the game. You will be able to handle most of the content (exception being certain map mods rolled together) solo.

Hey guys i wanted to show my witch thus far, the gears are not exactly what i want but its hard to get it really..

This is the build


Heres my gear


Iv already finised all difficulties and i did about 3 maps, tho i didnt know what i was doing at first so i failed, the others were much easyer somehow.

With the current gear all my res are 75%
Freezing pulse crit chance is 30%~ and ice spear totem is 36% , what i want to do with this is move the totem to the armor and give it more mods, and put freezing pulse either on gloves or shield(i dont know if shields have 6 slots?) and give the pulse crit chance gem, if shield has 6 slots i can put chance damage and electric dmg. Besides all that i have.

I have 4000 energy shield and got CI when i had 2k ES with the aura, its clever to do it at this time trust me.

My mana is 750 and can use about 300 of it and its more then enough to support my skills.

Untill i got a hand of it i was using Ice spear with lesser as main and totem with ice nova but i have to say, when i switched to greated projectiles totem and freezing pulse as main skill, god i became so OP if i did this in the begining (tho i didnt have those gems then) i probably would have not died at all. So far i died less then 5 times i think.

The only problem with this build is that its so OP, my client crashes if i overuse my skills lol, and no thats just me and my ancient laptop.

PS: i only got resistances from bandits but if ur smart id recommend get the mana! or pasives, but mana is very important especially in the begining. The idea i had in mind when i got only +8% res from bandits was "to not have" any +res on my gear and have something better instead