[3.20] Ice Dancing Queen - Icestorm/Cyclone/CI - Viable For Everything

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Graiaule 님이 작성:

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Averil62 님이 작성:

I assume all body armor has a suffix? Even if it's not open, I can craft the +% attributes over the existing suffix. I think that's right.

No. Affixes are additive only. I.e., you can go from 2 to 3 suffixes but you can't overwrite a suffix and change it to something else (awakener's orbs allow you to kind of do this but that creates a new item -- you still can't change an affix.)

Huh. Is there any way to tell if a piece of armor has a free affix, such that I could add the +% attributes? I tried purchasing some crap magic armor and had no problem doing so.

I just want to avoid a situation where I purchase some expensive body armor and can't add the +% attributes.

(This stuff kind of makes my head spin, I'm afraid.)

can anyone walk me through the pob for this as the damage seems way lower on pob then in game? pob is https://pastebin.com/37Zz3hk0 saying 500k dps at almost 2.9k int

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Averil62 님이 작성:

Huh. Is there any way to tell if a piece of armor has a free affix, such that I could add the +% attributes? I tried purchasing some crap magic armor and had no problem doing so.

I just want to avoid a situation where I purchase some expensive body armor and can't add the +% attributes.

(This stuff kind of makes my head spin, I'm afraid.)

You can search trade for # of empty suffixes (or prefixes if you want.) I'm sure you know you can hold down the alt key in the game to see the prefixes/suffixes on a piece (if you've enabled extended information.)

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/n2JdqWVu0 will give you chests with 500+ ES, a reasonable amount of int, and a free suffix.

Note you can also search for 2 free suffixes, which will enable a crusader orb slam. However the item must be a vanilla item (not already influenced in ANY way, as indicated by the symbol to the left of the item name. There should be NO symbol.) And don't forget to make sure all three prefixes are on (craft one if you have to) before slamming. (The 500 ES ensures there's at least two prefixes!)

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habsare24 님이 작성:

can anyone walk me through the pob for this as the damage seems way lower on pob then in game? pob is https://pastebin.com/37Zz3hk0 saying 500k dps at almost 2.9k int

POB damage is for one icestorm shard. We can do up to 25, some fraction of which hits the mob.

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Graiaule 님이 작성:

You can search trade for # of empty suffixes (or prefixes if you want.) I'm sure you know you can hold down the alt key in the game to see the prefixes/suffixes on a piece (if you've enabled extended information.)

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/n2JdqWVu0 will give you chests with 500+ ES, a reasonable amount of int, and a free suffix.

Thank you, as always. I will take a look.

Funny, the trade screen has a LOT more people offline than us used to. I assume this is because the new league is coming up.

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Averil62 님이 작성:

Funny, the trade screen has a LOT more people offline than us used to. I assume this is because the new league is coming up.

It's worse than you think. I cut off the search at 1 week. So you had ~10 items available. If you don't cut off the search, there are more than 100 available, nearly all offline, some for two months.

That's why league play is concentrated in the beginning. Lots of item choices and thus fairly cheap due to supply.

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Averil62 님이 작성:

Hm. I did buy a +130 or so int ring and tried it, but it resulted in a lower overall int, I think. I will try replacing the unique ring next. I do like the additional res.

Comparing the synthesised (or corrupted if very lucky) rings with an implicit +%int to the mirrored ones with typically over +150 flat int can be done via Path of Building (PoB). You can import your character there and then copy items from trade so you can directly compare before spending money on them and maybe wasting it.

The mirrored ones are usually (a lot) cheaper, plus if you snipe a good one you can get a lot of resists out of it, which might be worth even if it's a tiny loss in intellect.

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habsare24 님이 작성:

can anyone walk me through the pob for this as the damage seems way lower on pob then in game? pob is https://pastebin.com/37Zz3hk0 saying 500k dps at almost 2.9k int

The closest you can do is up the count of Icestorms to 25 under skills (only 5 icestorms at a time can be up, and an icicle drops once every 0.2s - 5 times per second, so 5*5 icicles per second).

For you, this brings you to a total of 27.5mil dps with the selfcast version and 14.4mil with the cyclone coc one.

Do keep in mind that the real dps will likely be lower because very few enemies will stay stationary long enough to actually get hit by all icicles like the calculation assumes.

@Drufearr -- oh thank you for pointing out that PoB feature! I had not noticed it before. Now I'm up to 55m dps, sweet! It's all about the numbers...

What do you guys think about this build in 3.20 with all those unique jewels gone / becoming much harder to obtain?