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

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Zelvas wrote:

Abyss jewels can roll ES on hit so why use the watcher's eye?

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Zelvas wrote:

Abyss jewels can roll ES on hit so why use the watcher's eye?

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Kelvynn wrote:

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Zelvas wrote:

Any chance we could see a shaper / uber atziri video with CI?

edit: and speaking of CI, will the witch version get a comeback or is it inferior now that reflect is trivialized?

I was hoping to finish T16 and Shaper last night, but the instance crashes got me. Lost 3 T16 maps to crashes.

Looks like the high level SR may be causing it. The burning damage from it is non-trivial, and it somehow interferes with Icestorm damage and 'overkills' the mob, resulting in a crash. I posted a bug report with this GIF I made, but no idea when GGG will fix it.



For now I'm going to stick with SR lv 1 and hopefully get to the Shaper soon.

As for Uber Atziri, I'm not that rich yet to buy a Mortal set (remember, I've only started playing again in January). If anybody wants to donate a set and see how it goes - you are welcome :) Shouldn't really be any different from the old versions. Just have to be more careful with the trash. VP changes don't really matter for Uber Atziri. I've already annihilated Vaal Temple, although the Uber Trio is harder.

No idea yet if I'll get to reviving the Elementalist version in 3.1. I've already missed 1 month of the league, and GGG announced major Ascendancy changes in 3.2. Dunno if making a build for just a couple months would be worth it. After doing with everything on the Berserker, I'll check it out on my Witch in Standard and maybe post a PoB link if it works fine.

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Graiaule wrote:

The deaths are typically either one-shots with my ES already down somewhat, or I just can't leech enough in a full-screen mob scene of death dealers (usually from an opened Abyss.)

I'm not gonna worry about that right now; I've only been CI for a couple of days. Maybe it just requires retraining my reflexes...

Or maybe the Watcher's Eye gem I have doesn't actually work the way I am expecting. Yeah, let me try removing it and see what happens.
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This is weird. I took out my Watcher's Eye with the +ES on hit with Discipline, and (a) there was no visible loss in ES regen rate (b) the character felt more like my old CI build (i.e., immensely tanky.) Zero deaths in 55% of a level, and I was averaging a death every 30% or so before.

I know this is anecdotal information. And it could all just be RNG, too. I'll keep playing with the Watcher's Eye out for now and see how things go. Anyone want one, cheap?

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Yuzlol wrote:

But at the end i will definitly loose some dmg vs Marauder. At high end it was about 23k vs 18k dps. Loosing a dps gem rly hurts. it feels like the ele can compensate the lose of the more multiplier but not the dps gem for leech :/
So i'm not rly sure if ele still have some advantages beside Paragon (questionable), bit more reliable crits (buffed icegolem) and maybe the ele resist nodes with her ascendancy.
*cough*style*cough*

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Kelvynn wrote:

Hmm... I was going to ask if you were maybe just not leeching enough because you aren't producing enough hits or enough DPS. You have SC in a 4S swap weapon. So with your main weapon you may be not hitting the targets reliably, and your swap weapon is too weak.

To be honest, I haven't noticed a big difference after adding the Watcher's Eye either, so I'm starting to wonder if that gain on hit effect is capped...

Which jewel were you using?