[2.2] A Storm of Ice and Fire - Avatar of Fire CI Whispering Ice - Uber Viable!

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Dynasteuo 님이 작성:

Baalor, have you considered using Iron Will over Hypothermia?



The increase in damage is significantly more if you can cope with the loss of chill duration and % to freeze.



Would it be worth it in the long run or are you using Hypothermia for a reason other than I can think of?


Thanks!

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Ashnazg01 님이 작성:

I am not sure if this was already raised in this thread, but for 4 skillpoints, why not pick up Whispers of Doom for 1 more curse, and use flammability on top of temp chains?

That should give a hefty damage boost in most circumstances (those 4 points can come out of the jewel node near Ghost Reaver)

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Baalorlord 님이 작성:

I have 225 str, so Iron Will would provide roughly 85% increased spell damage. I can't imagine that this is better than the 40% more of hypothermia, though I admit I haven't thoroughly crunched the numbers on that.

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Thanks for the build Baalor. You inspired me to level up a Scion and give it a try instead of pushing my Witch any further. I adopted the same build I had (2x Perandus, Astramentis, Doryani's cold belt, Vertex, Asenath's, Sin Trek and a rare robe that I straight swapped because I got lucky on having cold resist roll on it).

I'm at 83 now and my Witch was at 88. So far, I've far surpassed both damage and my survivability is on par. I also leveled without having to respec the tree, though I did go for a cold variant with more freeze as I found yours to be very poor on the CC front, but with the power of WI, once you hit 33, I really don't think you need a leveling variant on the tree. Cold may not output the same damage, but for clearing, it means you can run a lot lighter on defense. I also took the node on the second bandits just so I could play with the tree a bit more.

I'm not even needing to use Clarity for mana, my res is capped and only had to use one jewel to do it (won't even need it if I go with rare gloves) and didn't even need to take Faith and Steel. My Int is 1600+ and I've still got a fair bit of nodes I can nab.

I don't think I'm going to take US and rely more on Practical Application instead. I may take Heart of Oak as I've pressed down into that area to nab all the Dex to convert to Int. US seems just too costly and I think I can play around the stun locks (or try to till they infuriate me enough to not be so stubborn).

Honestly, I think Scion is in a way better spot to run WI. I had a super hard time with my Witch capping res without losing dps. Every jewel needed 10 all res and in some cases more. I even needed cold res on my armor. But with Scion, I rolled it off for more ES :) I would encourage anyone running a Witch to switch. Even my mana regen is in a way better place with far less effort and nodes.

I was lucky to get my WI staff before they ballooned in price. Nabbed it for 5 ex, now I see most are ~12 for a good one. Yikes!

I'll link my tree in case you are interested in the variant I put together. What I would like to do is get rid of Asenath's for a rare. I'd like to self cast Frostbite instead of TC, which would give me about 43% chance of freezing, more than enough to lock down anything that isn't immune. The rest I can kite. I could also boost my defenses and my dps would get a huge bump as well. Lots of possibilities with this build, so excited to keep playing.

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Edit: Been experimenting with Doedre's Tenure (got a gg for 1c) and since I run faster casting, I don't even notice the 20% casting speed drop. The damage is insane. 50% to spell damage and I can now cast any curse I want. Been playing with Poacher's Mark to get that speed loss back (and it gives me n additional 12% boost to damage with the frenzy charges) but I'm still thinking Frostbite is the way to go.

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JustBeingZack 님이 작성:

How have your Uber Atziri runs gone so far?