[3.11] Aquarism's Ice Shot [All Content]

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RaveHeart1985 wrote:

Thank you, bro. That already helped a lot!

I did some min/maxing yesterday and changed the following:
// Kaom's Roots with high life + avoid attack
// Took Alira as reward
// Got a second taming
// Changed my tree a bit in order to take an extra intelligence node, 'cause my intellegence is low (just like in real life 😂)
// Lowered the herald of thunder level

Now my resists are looking a little better and my damage went up. My life more or less stayed the same. Now I have about 4 exalts left.

I have a couple of questions though:
// For higher quality on my bow, I have to corrupt it, right? Not sure if I wanna do that...
// I am thinking of the following setup for my two four links:
A temp chains + CoH + incr. duration + herald of thunder (pretty sure about that)
B precision + hatred + enlighten + vaal haste
Or would herald of ice be more useful??
B2 hatred + herald of ice + enlighten + vaal haste (or molten shell maybe)
Maybe you could help my with that.

the quality of the bow can be increased by making use of Hillock when he's the captain of Transportation. You can buy this service but i'd be careful as you're trading the bow to someone and then use the crafting table themselves. I believe molten shell requires large armour and hp so I wouldn't suggest that. I would 100% recommend Hatred, Herald of Ice and precision as the three buffs you use. You can keep the precision level low to keep your mana above ~100. Are you reserving mana with Haste? I'd only use the Vaal version of it, so you can use Herald of ice.

Herald of Ice synergises incredibly well our projectiles to have the inpulsa effect when we shatter enemies.

Thanks again! I only use herald of thunder for procing the temp chains selfcurse. I could use herald of ice, which makes more sense in this build, but I heard that herald of thunder is more reliable for procing the curse on hit. What do you think in this scenario?
How about hot + hoi + hatred?

I might try the hillock syndicate thing myself, but I need to inform myself about it. I mostly just click some random thing, since I just got back into the game and am completely overwhelmed by all the information.

Ok, I've devoted some time and with all the helpful info in this thread I've managed to get my Deadeye to a pretty satisfactory level.

I had about 15-20 ex to spend (the only thing I had from before was my amulet and boots) so I couldn't get it to an even near perfect level, still missing:

Frenzy on quiver + frenzy points in tree
Watcher's eye
Better gloves
Better amulet
no life on my eye jewel in my belt

even levels in skill gems (I've leveled inspiration to 19 only in the last 2 days)


but it still deletes (non-rare, non-vaaled for now) T16 bosses/metamorphs in like 4-7 seconds most of the time (provided it's not some nasty metamorph I REALLY have to run around for) and it feels pretty safe most of the time (managed to get a bit above 5.6k life). The Mark of the Elder + shaper ring with assasins mark is actually quite insane, I've used The Taming before and it seems that it definitely underperforms (I'm guessing high-health bosses and stuff just doesn't get shocked consistently enough with only a few lightning damage mods on jewels) compared to this combo.

Haven't really gotten to spawning another round of conquerors (only A6 for now - I'm super slow since this is my first league) but I'm pretty sure them and Sirus will be very doable with this level of damage.

Will definitely try to push this char now and farm more since there's loads of upgrades for me ATM (better optimizations of jewels/resists so I can pick up more chaos res, getting frenzy+charges in there, better gloves/boots, a better assassins mark ring etc) - all in all I'm very happy with all the useful info provided in this thread.

Remembering how it took me like 30-45s to kill a map boss on T15 and probably twice that to kill juiced up metamorphs is just super painful compared to now.

Anyone know best way to minimize mana reserved?
HOI + Hatred + Aspect of {Cat/Spider}? Do I need to pick up -mana reserve nodes?

Lastly, can anyone quickly confirm Pandemonius with Catalyst is better than a rare CritMulti ammy? I tried to POB, seems Pandemonius lowers DPS, but the blind would be good against Meta/Bosses?

Hi aquarism.

Thanks for this bud guide.

I am now at lvl 92 but i cant see how to have the dps to do t16 without dying .... can someone check my build on my profile and help me on details of what i am doong wrong.

Thanks again all.

Hey, I've followed every step in this guide and all that, but my mana pool is only 39 with an enlighten gem lvl 3 and Hatred and Herald of Ice as my only auras, does anyone know what the problem is? Because i can barely shoot out an ice shot without going oom and if i dont use Mana on my quiver, its to low mana pool to even use Ice Shot?

Overall, very nice guide

Hi guys,

Same for me, iv never died as much as with this build. We gain time for clearing dat sure, but we lose time dying all the time. OS, OS, OS, OS and OS

@Tamerofthesea

I believe it is because your helmet which you have those gems socketed in has "gems are supported by level 20 increased area of effect" which is multiplying the reserve cost. You can either get a different helmet, or what makes more sense is to move the hatred/herald/enlighten setup to your gloves and move the frost bomb setup to your helmet (which would also benefit from the level 20 area effect support).

How do you get about 110+str Btw,i had to use 2 skill points to get +30 int and +30 str

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Talky2 wrote:

How do you get about 110+str Btw,i had to use 2 skill points to get +30 int and +30 str

You are using gear that gives you 0 attributes on rings amulet and belt... don't be surprised if you're missing stats then oO