[3.6] The Blizz Sorc - Icestorm/Winter Orb CI Occultist - Viable For Everything

Zana "Complete the Labyrinth Trial" missions helped me a lot to get all trials. Still didn't have time to do the lab but I'll do it this week.

Now the question is: should I respec in order to get Profane bloom? And in this case should I remove Herald of ice?... chill/freeze immunity is nice to have, especially in HC, but well

Ello iam rly enjoying this build(2.1K int,12K ES), currently at lvl 99.5 hopefuly i will finish 100 soon. Ive made some changes which helped me alot. My gear isnt top-notch iam still looking for better chest piece but those what i like are around 30ex and iam not sure if i want to spend almost all my currency on it. So.....


tested many times and cold pene isnt best option here, controlled destruction/ele focus is waaaay better(staff still make chilling ground ignoring ele focus, thanks to that mobs are chilled and hypotermia procs properly + chill and freeze from winter orb) life leech gem is big damage loss and with watcher's eye with ES gain on enemy hit/discipline + 1.4% leech/vitality i have no issues at all facetanking pure chayula/shaper/uber.
and ofc on boss i switch spell cascade for conc effect


on uber, maybe uber atziri i switch frostbite for enfeeble but most the time i dont i just like moar deeps.


most of my gear is standart stuff(iam lazy so i went for unset ring where i have vigilant strike for bosses and portal for all other mapping etc.) big upgrade in dmg is boots setup with vortex+bonechill+arcane surge, on T13 and lower maps i just run and spam vortex and everything die. Golem switched for frost bomb in lvl 20 cwdt setup, 4% reduction is...meh, iam either full hp constant leech or instakilled by something ridiculous which didnt happend for very long time to me. After fight i quickly remove blood rage from link and iam fine(after few deaths when i killed boss and slowly died to BL aferwards)

i also did adjustments in skill tree, ditched trickery and 2int nodes along with it and went for potency of will, in combination with exceptional performance and almost 2.1K int my icestorm have 8.6s duration so if target wont move for 8 sec...you can imagine how dmg skyrocket.
Also Might of the meek jewel is VERY good if you use it on top jewel spot under breath of rime/heart of ice circle, you must sacrifice frost walker for it, but its 100% worth to do and you save 2 talent points.

this is my way to go, hope i inspired someone...
if needed ask me anything :)

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Laraléy wrote:

Heya, I just got to 91 and was wondering how people got their int so high as 2K+. I'm sitting at 1.7K with 9K ES and most all of my gear has 50+ int on it. Is it just way too expensive to get it that high or am I missing something?

I would say first, that 2.4k was achieved on Scion, that have about 80 additional flat int due to ascendancy options, and have much more skill points too to get some flat int. Occultists would have less.
Other than that - it's %int or % attributes. And yeah, you forgot about such thing as corruption. You can corrupt rings to get "5-6% int and dex" or "5-6% int and str" implicit, and if you really lucky and double corrupt for both of them, it would be "12% int and 6% dex and str" on ring. You can corrupt any jewelery that way (rings, amulets, belts).
It's not gonna be easy, but those things do their work :)

Oh, and also in that league we can have crafted "6% increased attributes" in addition to shaper's affix "12% increased int", to get even more.

You can also convert amulets into talismans (12-16% inc attributes if you get a three rat talisman) thanks to Jorgin in research safehouse
(seems it doesn't work on shaper amulets though)

Too bad I don't have enough time to play a lot this league, so many possibilities with delve/temple/bestiary/betrayal

Any suggestions? I'm still having trouble with reflect maps even with correct pantheon. I'm currently looking to replace my boots ASAP but the color scheme for the CoDT is horrific to obtain I've found. Also thinking of looking for max stat staff. My second staff I don't actually use at the moment it's just holding gems for me. I really enjoy using vaal cold snap with this build as it provides nice clear speed for the garbage by just maxing winter orb stacks, popping vaal cold snap and running with phasing/speed.

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Vultai wrote:

So in 3.5, how's the performance hit with WI? I've read horror stories of even the beefiest GPU's dropping to single digit FPS with WI. I'm on a 1060, and want to enjoy smooth gameplay, so how's it fair now?

I can say what when you use to maximum this skill my 1080ti isn't enought for this game... I have drop to 20-30 fps... on maximum ofcourse... with 8x...

This game have very bad optimization...

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Nephentus wrote:

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Vultai wrote:

So in 3.5, how's the performance hit with WI? I've read horror stories of even the beefiest GPU's dropping to single digit FPS with WI. I'm on a 1060, and want to enjoy smooth gameplay, so how's it fair now?

I can say what when you use to maximum this skill my 1080ti isn't enought for this game... I have drop to 20-30 fps... on maximum ofcourse... with 8x...

This game have very bad optimization...

What processor do you have? This game seems far more CPU bound then processor bound, and I don't drop below 30-40 fps ever, with a 980ti

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Med1umentor wrote:

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Laraléy wrote:

Heya, I just got to 91 and was wondering how people got their int so high as 2K+. I'm sitting at 1.7K with 9K ES and most all of my gear has 50+ int on it. Is it just way too expensive to get it that high or am I missing something?

I would say first, that 2.4k was achieved on Scion, that have about 80 additional flat int due to ascendancy options, and have much more skill points too to get some flat int. Occultists would have less.
Other than that - it's %int or % attributes. And yeah, you forgot about such thing as corruption. You can corrupt rings to get "5-6% int and dex" or "5-6% int and str" implicit, and if you really lucky and double corrupt for both of them, it would be "12% int and 6% dex and str" on ring. You can corrupt any jewelery that way (rings, amulets, belts).
It's not gonna be easy, but those things do their work :)

Oh, and also in that league we can have crafted "6% increased attributes" in addition to shaper's affix "12% increased int", to get even more.

Occultist version can reach 2400+ int too, myself i am standing at 2312 atm and i dont even use a corrupted Astramentis with %int. For me the problem is that after 2300 int (i have 69% increased intelligence from gear+jewels) there are some big diminishing returns when stacking %int on the gear. More %int after this value wont increase the damage almost at all, tested in POB myself by switching a rare jewel with +15 int i am currently using with an Emperor Mastery jewel (7% attributes) and even if the int goes almost to 2400 the dmg almost doesn't even change.

Here is a great damage spreadsheet for people looking to see how many DPS Icestorm does.

Icestorm/Firestorm DPS Sheet

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lilianmarius wrote:

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Med1umentor wrote:

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Laraléy wrote:

Heya, I just got to 91 and was wondering how people got their int so high as 2K+. I'm sitting at 1.7K with 9K ES and most all of my gear has 50+ int on it. Is it just way too expensive to get it that high or am I missing something?

I would say first, that 2.4k was achieved on Scion, that have about 80 additional flat int due to ascendancy options, and have much more skill points too to get some flat int. Occultists would have less.
Other than that - it's %int or % attributes. And yeah, you forgot about such thing as corruption. You can corrupt rings to get "5-6% int and dex" or "5-6% int and str" implicit, and if you really lucky and double corrupt for both of them, it would be "12% int and 6% dex and str" on ring. You can corrupt any jewelery that way (rings, amulets, belts).
It's not gonna be easy, but those things do their work :)

Oh, and also in that league we can have crafted "6% increased attributes" in addition to shaper's affix "12% increased int", to get even more.

Occultist version can reach 2400+ int too, myself i am standing at 2312 atm and i dont even use a corrupted Astramentis with %int. For me the problem is that after 2300 int (i have 69% increased intelligence from gear+jewels) there are some big diminishing returns when stacking %int on the gear. More %int after this value wont increase the damage almost at all, tested in POB myself by switching a rare jewel with +15 int i am currently using with an Emperor Mastery jewel (7% attributes) and even if the int goes almost to 2400 the dmg almost doesn't even change.

Could you please link your gear? I would like to see some pointers cause right now I'm not really sure what to upgrade.