[3.9] ICE NOVA GUARDIAN. INSANE DPS. INSANE DEFENSE. BUILD OF THE LEAGUE.

It's taken me ages... damn you RL

But finally farmed enough for a jewel.

I also did a bit of crafting pretty pleased with the results.

First attempt at Cull/Unnerve gloves


Second attempt at Tailwind/Elusive boots. Got stun as the 3rd suffix and hit the annul :)

Done with this build, whisper me in game if you need anything, i post my gear in P16 I think, im selling all :)...

Perfect balance in this build. thanks magdo

What's a good alternative to Memory Vault, playing HC Meta and memory vault is minimum 25 ex vs the 30c in softcore

if memory vault is 25 exa how much is 6 link shavs ? 100 exa ? xDD

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Kimbroslice wrote:

Hey man. Liking the build so far. I'm just a little confused on what my next upgrade should be with my current setup. I know my boots are trash but I haven't found any tailwind ones I can craft on yet. I have about 18ex leftover after picking up Bottled Faith.

Spoiler

Would the Cyclopean Coil variant be a defensive upgrade or downgrade over what I am currently using?

Yes get coil. Ignite/shock immunity is huge.

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BonanzaI wrote:

Hello there, :)

this build insanely good and fun to play

i'm looking to upgrade my watcher's eye but i'm not sure what would be better

A:
Critical Strikes Penetrate 8% of Enemy Elemental Resistances while affected by Zealotry

Or.

B
increased Critical Strike Chance against Enemies on Consecrated Ground while affected by Zealotry




Keep up the great work! :)

POB it. I used crit chance on cons ground.

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Mustlord59 wrote:

Hey, pretty much have all the items for this build, but i do have a question about blighted maps do i run faster proj or faster casting for my frostbolt setup? and do i run inc aoe or conc effect for my frostnova. I feel that blighted bosses take quite a while to kill

Blighted maps slower proj is fine in frostbolt. They aren't very hard just worry about bosses.

Been slowly progressing with this build, and it's been going quite well. What do you think I should save for next? There's definitely room for improvement on most of my gear, but I'm looking for what would give me the most bang for my buck. I have roughly 11-12ex, but will continue to save :D

Character: Everywitnessneedsanorgy

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Ace_007 wrote:

Been slowly progressing with this build, and it's been going quite well. What do you think I should save for next? There's definitely room for improvement on most of my gear, but I'm looking for what would give me the most bang for my buck. I have roughly 11-12ex, but will continue to save :D

Character: Everywitnessneedsanorgy

Corrupted blood immunity on something that's not Frozen Trail (you want corrupted blood for sirus but you dont want frozen trail)

Awakened added cold (lvl 5 only) instead of hypothermia
Start leveling awakened cold pen
Awakened AOE is some extra dmg for clearing
Gmp quality for cast speed
Faster casting quality
Watcher's eye
Fix Resist/STR so you can use Cyclopean Coil instead for perma shock immunity.

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maddognils wrote:

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Ace_007 wrote:

Been slowly progressing with this build, and it's been going quite well. What do you think I should save for next? There's definitely room for improvement on most of my gear, but I'm looking for what would give me the most bang for my buck. I have roughly 11-12ex, but will continue to save :D

Character: Everywitnessneedsanorgy

Corrupted blood immunity on something that's not Frozen Trail (you want corrupted blood for sirus but you dont want frozen trail)

Awakened added cold (lvl 5 only) instead of hypothermia
Start leveling awakened cold pen
Awakened AOE is some extra dmg for clearing
Gmp quality for cast speed
Faster casting quality
Watcher's eye
Fix Resist/STR so you can use Cyclopean Coil instead for perma shock immunity.

I do have a backup jewel with corrupted blood immunity that I swap out for Sirus. Ring and gloves will need to be changed for Cyclopean, so I'll start shopping for those. Thanks for taking a look, and thanks for the guide.

Love the build so far. This was exactly what i was looking for. I was running a variant of the "perfect ice nova Heiro" 50% mom corrupted soul version but this is exactly what I needed. I would gladly give up 4k eHP and about 2million per ice nova POB DPS (overkill DPS you need for nothing in the entire game) for 38k Armour and stun immunity.

Playing with the gear with one more level and getting some 28% qualities from Jun I should break 10k ES without the clarity eye and am over 2million DPS per nova still without frost bomb applied.

Looking at jewels rather than the extra ES which is no doubt huge I am also curious to try out the discipline ES on hit. That seems like insane sustain. Has anyone tried that out?

Gear for reference linked below. Not home so cannot take out jewels to link but pretty much in line with what was suggested. I wasn't sure about it buit did end up going with unnatural instinct because otherwise there was no way to make 10k ES happen without the clarity eye. Loving the build so far about 1 day in post respec from heiro.

Oh one thing I did do. I really like mapping with both faster casting and faster/slower proj so I went with a curse on hit frostbite ring. It is working out so far well but did take some work to still break 10k es without jewel.

One more edit. Coil can be qualitied for another 4% inc attributes and dream frags can be qualitied for mana both of which can be pretty nice upgrades in you have the money. Just figured Id mention as they did not jump out to me as would work with quality and its not always obvious what would and would not work.