New 0.9.12 Cold crit witch build?

Here is my current build - based mostly off of Kennae's pre-patch build. Currently working towards the center's crit nodes. I don't think I missed any near the witch area.

Why take those 5% spell dmg nodes near witch start? 6% projectile damage gives you more I think. And if not that, more crit certainly does.

Btw. that unique crown looks interesting. Didn't even remember there was one in the game. Arctic breath should work nicely with that. Or if you go fire thats insane with fireballs. Totem or no totem.

btw. how much is that hat worth? Don't think I have seen any sold in some time.

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kennae wrote:

Why take those 5% spell dmg nodes near witch start? 6% projectile damage gives you more I think. And if not that, more crit certainly does.

Btw. that unique crown looks interesting. Didn't even remember there was one in the game. Arctic breath should work nicely with that. Or if you go fire thats insane with fireballs. Totem or no totem.

btw. how much is that hat worth? Don't think I have seen any sold in some time.

I got the crown for 5 gcp and 3 alchs. I really just bought it for option value given I've rarely/ever seen it for sale and getting high level uniques is not common. I look forward to trying it out with arctic breath if/when I get one of those gems. It'd be awesome with fireball - if only the 10% cold was 10% fire!

Petrov.

My 2c:



The two most important bits of gear are a 60-80% Crit Dagger with high Spell Damage (80%+) & Spell Crit Damage (80%+), then either another dagger or an off-hand with similar stats. For added giggles get a 66% Crit Multiplier & 13% Cast Speed Amulet. There are several Crit Chance nodes left to grab as well but that all depends on how much Crit Chance you are comforatble with.

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Why take those 5% spell dmg nodes near witch start? 6% projectile damage gives you more I think. And if not that, more crit certainly does.

Projectile damage, Spell damage & Elemental damage simply get added together (for an elemental projectile spell that is) so you are correct in that a 6% Projectile Damage node would be better than a 5% Spell Damage node.

Disclaimer: I use Ice Spear which is pretty mana intensive with several Supports; hence the only mediocre amount of Cast Speed.

idfk how you guys get your dps so high, i have similar gear on my witch, close to identical build and my tooltip displays 1100dps on a FP connected to lmp.

You guys adding on crit weakness and under the influence of diamond flask to calculate? i feel weak.

And lol my ice spear gmp does, wait for it, 390dps in the tooltip.

i'm getting FP to 1600 (1750 with blood on) x 5 with gmp + faster casting + chaos damage. it's pretty easy to get it high really...
ice spear at 1100....with LMP.....
using this build right now


BTW would love to buy that rime gaze... XD

I finally got to higher numbers, my current tooltip shows 3500 dmg.
That's with Haste aura and 3 Frenzy charges from Blood Rage. I can just say that crit dmg is already counted into that so it's increasing it a lot, when I bought Maligaro's, dmg jumped by few hundreds :) Also my latest addition was personally crafted onyx amulet with 56% crit multiplier and cast speed, which also adds a lot in this build.

That dmg could be even higher if I would switch the IIQ and IIR gems for crit chance and crit multi gems.


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Does anyone still use voll's in these days?

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bingobill wrote:

idfk how you guys get your dps so high, i have similar gear on my witch, close to identical build and my tooltip displays 1100dps on a FP connected to lmp.

You guys adding on crit weakness and under the influence of diamond flask to calculate? i feel weak.

And lol my ice spear gmp does, wait for it, 390dps in the tooltip.

Unfortunately some people have the misguided notion that the tooltip is 'wrong' and start multiplying it by strange things to get their 'real DPS' which turns out to be entirely misleading.

The DPS figure already accurately takes into account your increased damage mods, crit mods & cast speed (including those provided by Support Gems, Gear & Passive allocation). Minus the exceptions listed below the tooltip information for both Freezing Pulse & Ice Spear is correct as Damager Per Second (Per Projectile).

1) The DPS tooltip does not take into account multiple projectiles so multiply by either x3 or x5 if using LMP or GMP.

2) It does not take into account the 600% Increased Crit Chance on the 2nd Form of Ice Spear. As a result it will under report the damage on this skill in 2nd Form mode - just how much the difference is depends on your current Crit Chance & Crit Multiplier stats. In my case to get the 2nd Form DPS I actually have to increase the tooltip DPS by 60%!

DPS on the skill tooltip does not take into account Diamond Flask or Curse usage since these are completly independant of the skills themselves. I wouldn't trust most people to modify their DPS to take these into account anyway.


A common error I've seen people make is assuming that say a 20% Spell Damage amulet will increase their 1500 DPS figure by 20% to 1800 DPS. This is clearly wrong; only the base damage, which is likely to be about 200, will increase by 20% which compounded with crit mods and cast speed mods might increase DPS by a more conservative 100-150 DPS.

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Balron wrote:

I finally got to higher numbers, my current tooltip shows 3500 dmg. That's with Haste aura and 3 Frenzy charges from Blood Rage.

Can you list these please (preferably with same items/passives as you listed above):

Freezing Pulse tooltip DPS without Haste/Blood Rage
Freezing Pulse tooltip DPS with just Haste active

Thanks :)


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