Path of Exile

Pyros_sl said:

Don't know how'd the build work out though, spells tend to not mix too good with attacks builds. Cold Snap is pretty decent, but the cooldown makes it annoying, you'll need to run multiple gems to bypass that, unless you plan on getting Voll's Protector for power charges. Could work but you lose a large amount of stats from the chest, including a lot of mana you don't have in this build. Could grab Eldritch Battery though I guess.

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I think it'd be worth looking at EK instead of Cold Snap. It would be a significant change to the build, but EK is still a spell and you'd want to use dagger/shield, or maybe wand/shield in the long run. I linked one variant of it a page or so back, but I'm sure there's other things you can do with EK besides just combining it with Eldritch Battery, Bear Trap (this is skill is godly btw, for anyone who has never tried it), etc.

Pyros_sl said:

Another mistake is those 6% cold nodes. These are nodes you want to avoid. 6% isn't a good investment unless it leads to a bigger node. Cut most of these.

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I'm playing a Lightning Witch (lvl 29 using Arc for 2+ mobs and Power Syphon for single target), so this may not be valid, but I did some calculations and a +6% base damage increase is good value for points. The problem with Crit chance and crit damage increase nodes is that you need a lot of them before they start paying off, and even then you're just in the range of a couple % damage per skill point.

yeah the 6% nodes are pretty by themselves. especially to 1 element.
you have to remember all +damage are added.
Lets say you have a 200 damage skill. Pulse. +20% elemental, +10% spell power, +20% cold. Those all add for +50%. giving you a 300 damage pulse.

+176% in thathttp://www.pathofexile.com/passive-s...wXVCKBwfOiow==build from passives alone.
Probably another +70% on weapon? And pulse/cold pen can have more +damage as well.
A single 6% difference is pretty tiny.
200*3.46= 692 or 680

Crit is directly related to how much crit multiplier you have of course.



Spell damage and crit scale of each other as well, obviously as well. If you have +300 spell damage, and only 10% crit. crit is going to be very useful. while if you have +200% crit, and 300% crit multi, and only +50% spell, then spell damage will be ideal.



This is my crit/cold witchs current.
http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-s...10VXzO6-RfKg==

No +damage passives yet. Relying on weapon/skill/gear so far for that.
My pulse is like 25% crit chance for +450 crit multiplier.
2 fitness give 54 str, for spell totem, purity. as well as life.
95% es recovery.
Deep thoughts wasn't part of my original plan, but I couldn't afford 3 auras, so grabbed it for more mana. Its still tight, more int nodes and better gear will allow, purity, disc, and clarity all the time.
I'm at like 55mana/s regen at level 46.
30ish evade, 900ish ES. dont remember exacts, changes as I swap gear of course.

next priority is shocking blows and divine toughness.
End gamish. alot of the obvious extras are up for grabs.
http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-s...-dFvMmPELD34Q=

Current skills.
Pulse/lmp/faster proj.
Spear/crit damage/cold pen(12%)
arc/spelltotem/faster cast (faster cast is really needed on spell totems now)
disc/clarity (cant afford purity realistically atm)
firestorm.
elem weakness.

Upgrades will be elem proliferation for arc totem. temporal chains+elem weakness.
added lit or faster cast for pulse. mana for all 3 auras.


High precedence on defense on gear. 75% elem resists, 25% chaos in cruel. life and life regen





Spear is good on totems, with LMP. I've considered it. the totem nerf, hurt arc totem pretty bad.

Kyougou_sl said:

Thanks for the help Pyros.
I was also considering if it was feasible to forgo blood magic, instead use blood magic support gems on the skills I want to use, then use my mana for purity and maybe some more auras if I can fit them.

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How do auras like hatred work with blood magic? Do they reserve 30% of your hitpoints?

The nice thing about Cold Snap is that it does complement a melee build, if used for that purpose. A fight typically goes: Round up monsters, get them packed together, then Cold Snap and then mop them up with Double Strike. It has pretty high damage and a high freeze rate, and it casts fast with no cast speed investment.

The only other two skills I think I'm going to need for the build are Phase Run (if it gets put back in) and Shield Charge, for closing distance on monsters.

And thanks for the pointers, Pyros. I'm incorporating a few of your suggestions.

Are 6S weapons and armors worth anything for trading or should I just vendor them for the 7 jeweler's orbs?

So sad, lost a beast ass bow mara at 52 to that Brutus clone on the way to creul Piety. I was kiting him around the pillars and he chain hooked pulled me inside of a pillar and I got stuck and he 1 shot me haha.

Pyros_sl said:

They used to be worth a bit on closed beta cause people had amassed a large amount of fusings and shit so they could actually bother trying, but atm I wouldn't say they're worth anything unless they happen to be rare with good stats too. It's possible to get a 5L out of a 6S without too many using but it could also take 100fusings, and at that price you could probably just buy a 5L. I haven't been keeping them, I sometimes see some ppl trying to sell them but not sure they do or for what price. I generally pop a fusing on them see if I get lucky, then sell them, 4jewelers is a fusing so it's still a gain of 3 jewelers even if you use a fusing, and who knows I could be lucky once.

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I went to trade chat with 2 level 50 6S armors just to see if I could get any bites. Was able to sell one of em for 2 chaos and 1 alch. Don't know if I found a sucker or what but I guess people are buying them already.

Skrigg_sl said:

So sad, lost a beast ass bow mara at 52 to that Brutus clone on the way to creul Piety. I was kiting him around the pillars and he chain hooked pulled me inside of a pillar and I got stuck and he 1 shot me haha.

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The #1 ranked HC just died a few hours ago; supposedly he one-shotted himself on a reflect mob. If that makes you feel any better.

Edit: Kripp just died; RIP the top two haha.

That's cause Kripp get's so fucking greedy with loot. He died like that in Diablo like 3 times too. Wakandan needs to wait 5 seconds and not get 1shot from the most obvious shit. I'm sure his friends aren't going to steal his loot.

That said..
How does Evasion work in this game? Is it worth it looking into it, or is it just far too risky?

xzi_sl said:

That's cause Kripp get's so fucking greedy with loot. He died like that in Diablo like 3 times too. Wakandan needs to wait 5 seconds and not get 1shot from the most obvious shit. I'm sure his friends aren't going to steal his loot.

That said..
How does Evasion work in this game? Is it worth it looking into it, or is it just far too risky?

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Evasion is fine with HP. Similar to armor is fine with HP.

Though most builds you'll see sticks to the tried and true armor over evasion, but as long as you have the HP to sustain it then either should work.

How does rushing/PLing in this game work? I haven't seen any info on what happens with exp in groups with people certain levels higher/lower than you.

I have a friend I'm trying to catch up, is it better to just rush him through quests and have him go group exp by himself or can I rush him in higher difficulties with him just sitting back?