[3.25] Ice Dancing Queen - Icestorm/Cyclone/CI - Viable For Everything

Just talking about going back to my Witch is making me horny.

The Runegraft of the Jeweller with

10% increased Damage for each unlinked Socket in Equipped Two handed Weapon

might also be worth a look? But I haven't found a good mastery to replace.

I will probably stick to the Trickster for now, since I wanna delete the new Pinnacle bosses, but some kind of dual-setup could be cool!

Also, did I read the patch notes right? Stone Golem gives 20% increased (global) Defences? That sounds insane.

On your Youtube you're sometimes self casting. With the Elementalist changes, how good will a self cast Ele-Starter be? Thinking about Golems -> Exposure -> Shock/new Freeze nodes.

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Maaster#6254 wrote:

I will probably stick to the Trickster for now, since I wanna delete the new Pinnacle bosses, but some kind of dual-setup could be cool!

Also, did I read the patch notes right? Stone Golem gives 20% increased (global) Defences? That sounds insane.

Meh. On non-minion builds, keeping Golems alive more than half a second under fire is impossible. An elementalist version *might* be able to profit from it, but not the Trickster, that's for sure, especially with the need to manually resummon it each time. Usual workaround is an auto-cast wand, but we can't use it on this build. And I don't think a CWDT setup would be worth it over the other gems we have right now.

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Tandrial#6287 wrote:

The Runegraft of the Jeweller with

10% increased Damage for each unlinked Socket in Equipped Two handed Weapon

might also be worth a look? But I haven't found a good mastery to replace.

'Increased', not 'more' damage. This build has over 1500% increased damage already. This is also why we don't bother using Sulphur flasks (40% inc dmg).

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Dahoman#5878 wrote:

On your Youtube you're sometimes self casting. With the Elementalist changes, how good will a self cast Ele-Starter be? Thinking about Golems -> Exposure -> Shock/new Freeze nodes.

Tbh elementalist with buffed golem etc looks really fun. I wonder how this build can perform with it using self casting? with insane aoe inc, cast speed etc and tankiness? Idk if Kelvynn can cook something up with it.

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Maaster#6254 wrote:

I will probably stick to the Trickster for now, since I wanna delete the new Pinnacle bosses, but some kind of dual-setup could be cool!

Also, did I read the patch notes right? Stone Golem gives 20% increased (global) Defences? That sounds insane.

Not really. Increased, not MORE. Godly 3.25 PoB goes from 18.5k to 19k ES. And it's even less with budget items.

Any chance you're working on one for PoE2? Whispering Ice just came out yesterday :P

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Dahoman#5878 wrote:

On your Youtube you're sometimes self casting. With the Elementalist changes, how good will a self cast Ele-Starter be? Thinking about Golems -> Exposure -> Shock/new Freeze nodes.

Self-casting is only good for bosses. It's way too slow for mapping. Elementalist does much less damage than Trickster and doesn't have any of the wonderful Trickster defenses.

The only reason to play anything than Trickster would be the Occultist explosions.