[0.9.11] Ice Witch CI crit build

Does anyone here use both clarity and discipline with this type of build? I see people swear by clarity but honestly I dont notice a difference for how much mana it reserves.

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muccmaster wrote:

Does anyone here use both clarity and discipline with this type of build? I see people swear by clarity but honestly I dont notice a difference for how much mana it reserves.

Ye i run them both no problem

I prefer branching out for more energy shield nodes on my CI witch, but to each their own.

What would you drop for it? Crit chance or crit multiplier. I just dont know whether to go extreme crit or more ES. I am just too afraid that this char will die on the last diff all the time ;)

What would be good late game gems for this build?

Just want to show you the build I am currently aiming for. It is very similar to the OPs build just with more ES and less crit multiplier. I don't want to do the same mistake as on my last chars who all didn't have enough survivabilty for the last difficulty.


What do you think about it? Will it have enough ES to get up close for using freezing pulse? With CI I will have 159% increased energy shield and all the ES recovery passives.

Does crit chance stack with increase freeze chance when doing a freeze roll calculation?

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muccmaster wrote:

Does anyone here use both clarity and discipline with this type of build? I see people swear by clarity but honestly I dont notice a difference for how much mana it reserves.

Clarity is really good IMO - I didn't use Clarity until about level 50 because I didn't have a gem until then and was heavily reliant on flasks. Once I had the gem and levelled it up a bit then yeah, mana pool is tiny but you regen so much it's virtually impossible to run out and you can use those wasted mana flask slots on diamond flasks instead.

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Torgen wrote:

Just want to show you the build I am currently aiming for. It is very similar to the OPs build just with more ES and less crit multiplier. I don't want to do the same mistake as on my last chars who all didn't have enough survivabilty for the last difficulty.

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http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAQMB7de5eGBHBMmDiLKqiIGjOpkmuOWCqinENRjrK1byCTuCqXRBG6KTXJYcZWoy6rnsIXnaevU5uo_9mG3TvSG7Vs3KZmNJRzicBybKlj-eX01NM76rdwAWCfBhaxSlYrN_CGLA5Mg5MAFjOr_IBaqbVT94XJ7Esyd5XAui6O3ZeEiW5Ez0mOIcHFGHTcrpT-_Au5f3iU9DWX3DlV__iEUxTnNtYcUTe5b5fehJOBvTuL_3IyC5jCqIduhAdO1fm7mILNfCC7CmEewa68s9n3TyHLgsgiTMmwQax_Ndvam_B2KcxUTNDfBgBeTogyOHnkkHi78K31q3a9W2JNgrxx9hH3yGyhlCTNa82Qkd2YfeJZNMr_VDZ8KXpwDOa0iMWT7vnCM8rA==

What do you think about it? Will it have enough ES to get up close for using freezing pulse? With CI I will have 159% increased energy shield and all the ES recovery passives.

Yeah that should be plenty - my build is virtually identical to that in terms of ES nodes except I didn't bother taking the 2 ES shield delays nodes just to the left of Nullifcation and never felt shield was lacking.

At the moment my clarity is on lvl 5 and dont level it up anymore because I still have to use pots now and then. If I had an even lower manapool I would have to drink a pot after totem and curse to go on using freezing pulse.

Would you recommend leveling it up even more? Does the mana reservation:regen ratio change to the better or does it always stay the same?

Does this build works for solo endgame? or is for only coop play and for soloing is better a necro build?