[3.24] Frostbolt/Ice Nova Hierophant | 100m DPS | All Content

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benbs123 wrote:
I have been doing my MoM math poorly then. Interestingly enough, I sit comfortable with a 50% raito however. Maybe its because of all the mana regen I have.


Yeah, decent regen alleviates this problem in most cases with multiple small hits, but you do lose roughly 2k EHP against a single big hit by reserving 50% of your Mana.
Hi! I´m thinking to get Arcane Blessing over Conviction of Power, just to get the Elemental imunity to ailments while I have arcane surge.
Is this change good? or Conviction of Power is too OP to skip?
Hey everyone, I had 2 questions.

Why are the budget and standard pob's diffefent in terms of passive tree? Can I just level using the standard one?

Also, does anyone know what the best leveling setup in general would be? I don't know if switching over to vortext at act 3 is gonna feel good, would be nice of someone has got some recommendations!
Hey guys i just want to update on my experience with this build.
it is the most fun ive had in poe and i got 4k hours +
https://pastebin.com/d4eCmV75
can someone take a look to see where i can improve
i went farruls fur route.
i have i believe 8.4k ehp with my mom and shield.
500 crit multi
capped crit chance with flasks
and near 6 cast rate.
anyone see where i can improve?

im thinking i could drop cold snap and just go zealotry and enlighten
Last edited by Nocstar on Jan 5, 2020, 6:27:04 AM
If you're happy with the EHP loss you can do that. Cold Snap with Bonechill/Unbound should be like 20% more damage for enemies chilled in chilling area (which doesn't apply to metamorphs right now anyways I think) and Zealotry makes up for that with one less button to click.
can you kill sirus with the budget version ?
When swaping from Bugdet to Non-Bugdet, what route do You guys recommend ?
Messed around a bit with the low life mana guardian version of this build. So far it's very comparable. My first impression is the mana guardian damage is a little lower but the tankiness is a lot higher with the huge molten shells. Nothing calculated in PoB that's just how it feels to me.

I expect mana guardian will be dumpstered by GGG's nerf bat at end of league but maybe ice nova itself will survive and hierophant will be fine.
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DiabloImmoral wrote:
Wouldn't Arcane Capacitor keep overwriting your ~level 7 arcane surge with level 1 on kill, making it way less good than advertised? Only a 15% dmg/cast at max stacks over 13% with a normal lvl 7 gem on frostbolt.

Shocking Conflux seems pretty great on helmet. I tried rolling a bunch but never got it. 37.5% uptime on a guaranteed shock with this build's damage levels that lasts 2 seconds I think. Probably 10% more damage on average which should be like 2 added damage roll's worth.

A plain Hunter helmet with shocking conflux/cold damage prefix/delve -9% resist should outdo any non-insane 40% ice nova helm and you'd get like 300 fossil rolls at it for the same price as an ice nova helm ilvl80+....

Edit: Oh since curse on hit has always been funky with minions I'd test before assuming Awakened Curse on Hit will apply two curses that way. When you "apply" Assassin's Mark with your Ice Nova hit it will check your base curse limit of one and might overwrite your dual curse. You might have to just use a 6 link frostbolt setup with awakened curse on hit + 2 curses linked and ditch the assmark ring.


Arcane Capacitor (and Arcane Blessing from ascendancy) will not overwrite your Level 7 Arcane Surge Support. PoE will always prioritize the higher level Arcane Surge.

I'm only running Arcane Capacitor b/c I need the mana. It's decent damage but not worth it if you already have enough mana.

Arcane Blessing is worth considering and I do use it in the Delve Build. But if you drop anti-freeze then you have to be wary of getting frozen without Arcane Surge. You also won't get endurance charges.

I haven't played LL/CI version so I can't say much about advantages/disadvantages. My impression was that it's more damage but less defenses, I could be wrong though.

You can check my current profile for what I call the "Premium Build." It's basically finalized except I don't have an Awakened Spell Echo. I plan to add it to the slides soon. It's more expensive, higher DPS, and faster than Standard Build, but slightly less defensive. You can check my profile for it (note, I swap Cinderswallow/Life Flask for mapping/bossing respectively).

3.9 updated video showcase is also coming soon.
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Arcinde wrote:
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DiabloImmoral wrote:
Wouldn't Arcane Capacitor keep overwriting your ~level 7 arcane surge with level 1 on kill, making it way less good than advertised? Only a 15% dmg/cast at max stacks over 13% with a normal lvl 7 gem on frostbolt.

Shocking Conflux seems pretty great on helmet. I tried rolling a bunch but never got it. 37.5% uptime on a guaranteed shock with this build's damage levels that lasts 2 seconds I think. Probably 10% more damage on average which should be like 2 added damage roll's worth.

A plain Hunter helmet with shocking conflux/cold damage prefix/delve -9% resist should outdo any non-insane 40% ice nova helm and you'd get like 300 fossil rolls at it for the same price as an ice nova helm ilvl80+....

Edit: Oh since curse on hit has always been funky with minions I'd test before assuming Awakened Curse on Hit will apply two curses that way. When you "apply" Assassin's Mark with your Ice Nova hit it will check your base curse limit of one and might overwrite your dual curse. You might have to just use a 6 link frostbolt setup with awakened curse on hit + 2 curses linked and ditch the assmark ring.


Arcane Capacitor (and Arcane Blessing from ascendancy) will not overwrite your Level 7 Arcane Surge Support. PoE will always prioritize the higher level Arcane Surge.

I'm only running Arcane Capacitor b/c I need the mana. It's decent damage but not worth it if you already have enough mana.

Arcane Blessing is worth considering and I do use it in the Delve Build. But if you drop anti-freeze then you have to be wary of getting frozen without Arcane Surge. You also won't get endurance charges.

I haven't played LL/CI version so I can't say much about advantages/disadvantages. My impression was that it's more damage but less defenses, I could be wrong though.

You can check my current profile for what I call the "Premium Build." It's basically finalized except I don't have an Awakened Spell Echo. I plan to add it to the slides soon. It's more expensive, higher DPS, and faster than Standard Build, but slightly less defensive. You can check my profile for it (note, I swap Cinderswallow/Life Flask for mapping/bossing respectively).

3.9 updated video showcase is also coming soon.


Confused about why you use zealotry over hatred. You just want to create more consecrated ground? Bottled faith already had a disgusting area and it's always up in 90% of senarios.

I also highly suggest looking into shocking Conflux. If you sort by dps on ica nova on poe.ninja, you and I are competing for top dps.

We have basically the same EHP, but my damage is a little higher. I dropped unbound ailments and cold snap and got awakened curse on hit with frostbite. Tons of damage from that. I use essence worm when I deep delve or when I feel the need for more Mana.

All in all, I've gotta give it to you man. You helped me out immensely with this build and I couldn't have gotten this far without your suggestions. Cheers.

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