[3.1] The Blinding Blizzard - Whispering Ice Berserker - Viable for Most Everything

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Med1umentor wrote:

When he said that we can leech ES again, he meant taht new VP works with ES again, so it's 40% capped, same as life.

But the problem is position in the tree, so... you character will be gimped in another way.

So VP works with ES again? That's good news, if not for this league then for 3.2 when Ascendancy gets reworked. 40% ES leech isn't that bad, and pathing to the new VP isn't very expensive. I'll take a look in Standard and/or PoB and see how much ES we can actually get.

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Zelvas wrote:

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Kelvynn wrote:

The Elder fight seems totally stupid.

Can you make a video how to handle it as WI? I got him on my atlas in a t8 map but I'm stupidly scared to even attempt it. His guardians were a joke.

Will do when I spawn him again. Trying to get him in red maps now.

New video: Early 3.1 Gameplay

The league is just starting for me. Lv 89 currently, with lv 19 gems, working my way through the Atlas. This is how T15 goes with enough mods to make it 113% IIQ, 51% IIR and 33% packsize.

That new boss from Act 9 that they put there instead of Malachai is a big joke. When I did this map the 1st time (corrupted) it kept running away, spawning scorpions, coming back and instantly running away again. This time (the 2nd run) it died so fast that I didn't notice it and kept expecting the scorpions.

I'm saving T16 for when my gems are lv 20, so T15 is the highest I run right now.

Hi Kel

i see two things in your video. First your playstyle is totally different to the 3.0 style, and now i think thats the reason i die to often for my taste.
i play more tanky also i cant use sc because the client crashs all 4 to 5 minutes. so with ew i stay more in the groups.

And the second. You have the same totaly bullshit return in maps also with really high quantity and qual. it s a joke what boss drops. And buying maps is a pain as i wsp 10 people to get 2 or 3 maps.

hit this day hopefully 90 what neet more time as expectet as i died 3 times yesterday by desync. the frankfurt and london gateway was really shitty.

AND i really hate that ggg dont get it to make leages stable and in the 2 leages bevor there is a big demotivation of extremly annoying bugs. First harbinger. They dont fix the crash if i make a harb map allone til end of leage and now the client crashs with sc.

since closed beta they never had that big crashes such a long time.

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ichbinwerichbi wrote:

Hi Kel

i see two things in your video. First your playstyle is totally different to the 3.0 style, and now i think thats the reason i die to often for my taste.
i play more tanky also i cant use sc because the client crashs all 4 to 5 minutes. so with ew i stay more in the groups.

And the second. You have the same totaly bullshit return in maps also with really high quantity and qual. it s a joke what boss drops. And buying maps is a pain as i wsp 10 people to get 2 or 3 maps.

hit this day hopefully 90 what neet more time as expectet as i died 3 times yesterday by desync. the frankfurt and london gateway was really shitty.

AND i really hate that ggg dont get it to make leages stable and in the 2 leages bevor there is a big demotivation of extremly annoying bugs. First harbinger. They dont fix the crash if i make a harb map allone til end of leage and now the client crashs with sc.

since closed beta they never had that big crashes such a long time.

Of course the play style is somewhat different in 3.1 with SC. It makes clearing so much more fun, this build has a more decent clear speed than it had in 3.0. If Beachhead was still around in this league, I'd been lv 96-97 in 1 week with SC. It's not 'totally' different though, just faster.

If your computer can't handle SC then that's a problem :( Losing this huge clearing bonus would be no fun. More so if you group with people whose video cards can't handle SC Icestorm. I don't group with those who can't deal with Icestorm. Usually if they can't handle it then it doesn't matter SC or no SC. I wish GGG would optimize Icestorm graphics one day...

Nothing I can do about internet issues either. I've died 55 times total on this char, but most of those were in the first 2 days that I got to play before the break - exploring the Abysses at low levels. I see that they nerfed most of that crazy stuff now. And I'm not trying to be careful either - just having fun and learning new bosses.

Map drops don't depend on the build. Now that Astramentis is optional, you can use Bisco's if you really want more loot. I've been only buying some maps that I haven't completed yet for the Atlas, nothing high tier, just the filler. I'm almost to 100/157 now after just a few days. Sounds fine to me.

Hi Kel

Thanks for answer. You think its my grafik card. I have a gtx970 and can not believe that she cant handle that. It seems to me that the server makes problems.
If i have probs with the grafik card the client crashes and the portals are there.
If the instance crash the portals are gone.

the other feature is that the client freezes. Thats also nothing with my card.

i wrote endless with ggg and its not really icestorm its something with sr and interation with other skills.
But if you dont have issues its strange.

I have a i5 16 gb ram and the gtx 970. For the not really challenging grafik from poe that could not be a problem.

And map drops are really really bad for me. i have now 83 and only 4 red maps. And these maps i buy.
On the other side i have 2 ex and 3 divine drops this leage. Thats i didnd had til now.

New video: The Elder (Yellow Tier)

Spawned him in the yellow tier again. I had a lot of red maps under his influence, but he chose the lowest part of that area. Do I need to feed him T16 and the Shaper to spawn him in red tiers? Or am I just having bad luck? Let me know if anybody knows how to spawn him in the red tier.

The fight itself is very boring. PoEDB says he does physical damage and can shoot ice projectiles (but I haven't seen those yet, he doesn't live that long). So I used PoI just in case.

Just faceroll him when he is attackable, then kill portals/spawns for 3 friggin minutes, then finish him off. This time I knew that Zana would show up at the end and didn't die.

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Kelvynn wrote:

New video: The Elder (Yellow Tier)

Spawned him in the yellow tier again. I had a lot of red maps under his influence, but he chose the lowest part of that area. Do I need to feed him T16 and the Shaper to spawn him in red tiers? Or am I just having bad luck? Let me know if anybody knows how to spawn him in the red tier.

The fight itself is very boring. PoEDB says he does physical damage and can shoot ice projectiles (but I haven't seen those yet, he doesn't live that long). So I used PoI just in case.

Just faceroll him when he is attackable, then kill portals/spawns for 3 friggin minutes, then finish him off. This time I knew that Zana would show up at the end and didn't die.

Does anyone tried to farm elder without helping shaper?

I mean i remember when i saw on video when shaper was killed, and 2nd phase was just elder without restraint, but still same pushover as in 1st phase.
Maybe it would be faster than wait so much time, before shaper will do his thing.

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Med1umentor wrote:

Does anyone tried to farm elder without helping shaper?

I mean i remember when i saw on video when shaper was killed, and 2nd phase was just elder without restraint, but still same pushover as in 1st phase.
Maybe it would be faster than wait so much time, before shaper will do his thing.

Oh, that makes sense. I'll try it next time. I guess the adds can kill the Shaper and trigger the final phase faster. At least I hope they can kill him faster than in 3 min!

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Kelvynn wrote:

New video: The Elder (Yellow Tier)

Spawned him in the yellow tier again. I had a lot of red maps under his influence, but he chose the lowest part of that area. Do I need to feed him T16 and the Shaper to spawn him in red tiers? Or am I just having bad luck? Let me know if anybody knows how to spawn him in the red tier.

It seems random, I've had his influence on pretty much only yellow maps, and he himself jumped onto the only t11 next to it with all guardians on yellow maps.




This jewel might be worth checking out:

It's not too expensive compared to other watcher's eyes (got mine for 35c), there's also discipline version but it's ex at least.

Lately dropped vaal pact, and rearranged tree to get a lot of regen instead. 900/s with vitality, which we want already if we're to use jewel, sulphur flask which we are already using, and rejuv totem (but I'm not sure if I won't change it into something else soon, it's a pain to use it).

Dropped my Kaom's for Kintsugi so I can have cwdt-ic-id setup and more slots for other utilities. Probably can find better chest, but for now it seems good, I feel much less squishy overall, still got 5k hp. I did drop MoM, I just dislike it, it's fairly easy to get killed if you're not paying attention because you might not have enough mana to use movement skill and rip.

Anyway I'm mostly experimenting right now, cuz I was bored. :P

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Kelvynn wrote:

New video: The Elder (Yellow Tier)

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Graiaule wrote:

It's an easy fight for WI, man. The only non-obvious thing to worry about is to head to Zana at the end and hide in her shield after the Elder's been killed. Go do it, you'll be fine.

Thank you bois, I managed to scrap up enough courage to try him and made it out alive. And I was justly rewarded Now I just need a divine to get the attributes up