[3.21] ShakCentral's Cold DoT Elementalist For Everyone

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Chubbypuppy escreveu:

I found this guy playing SSFHC winterbrands ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CG1eT7kAFw ) and his comments say swift affliction is very bad for DPS. When I asked why, he says:

"On wintertide brand you wanna stack duration and cast speed (for stage frequency gain) as much as possible, for example - with average gear you reach 8 hits per second or 0.12 activations per second on tooltip screen, your brand attached duration is 6 second, for max DoT dps you need 20 stages (1 stage - 20% more dmg for brand), so with this numbers for max stages you need 2.4 seconds and with overall 6 seconds duration you will have 3.6 seconds of damage with full stages and "wintertide end's" debuff at the end (this debuff deals extra area cold damage over time (value copied from the removed "Wintertide" debuff) so its basically 4th brand for a 2-3 seconds). Swift affliction will reduce duration by 25% (and its not reduce its less that much worse) and lower your overall damage of a single brand (instead of 6 seconds you will have 4.5 second attached duration) and you need to recast brand often/wait again 2.4 sec for max stages, and it affect on "wintertide end's" debuff durations too. So i prefer to avoid swift affliction in WTB setups."

TLDR basically swift affliction makes the brand duration too short to reach max stacks, so a DPS loss. He also says a new brand will push off an existing brand and starts with 0 stacks, thus a DPS loss as well.

What do you think about his comments?

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ndrobinson escreveu:

Really excited to play this for 3.17!

I absolutely love the wand crafting method. Really clever process to guarantee a result in a game where so much of crafting feels random.

I'm going to be playing this in SSF, so the Demon's Horn option seems unlikely... Do you think it's at all viable to farm those div cards in delve?

Also may take me a little while to accumulate the essences and 4 ex orbs for the bench crafting. In the mean time what do you think the best method is for a starter wand? Would you go after harvest cold rolls, frigid fossils, or just alt spam a level 2 wand and settle for +cold gems and a bench craft mod?

Additionally, any other mods you think are useful even if not optimal? I saw you mentioned avoiding +cold damage to spells. Is it completely useless, or just suboptimal? And does spell crit have any effect on the build?

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hadc escreveu:

As for avoiding “+Cold Dmg to spell”, it’s outdated. It was necessary before when this build use Elemental Equilibrium. Now I’d even try to get +Cold DMG to spell to scale the hit dmg. Cheers!

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Rufus_Scipio escreveu:

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hadc escreveu:

As for avoiding “+Cold Dmg to spell”, it’s outdated. It was necessary before when this build use Elemental Equilibrium. Now I’d even try to get +Cold DMG to spell to scale the hit dmg. Cheers!

So, are you saying that "+Cold Dmg to spell" is an outdated admonition given that we no longer have EE? In other words, it might be OK to take if there are no other options at the time? You said +Cold Dmg to spell would scale the HIT damage, does it not affect the DoT?

This is only my third character, cyclone and toxic rain being the others, and I have just gotten to Act 10 with this build and it's dropping everything like a bug zapper on a hot summer night.

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ndrobinson escreveu:

I'm going to be playing this in SSF, so the Demon's Horn option seems unlikely... Do you think it's at all viable to farm those div cards in delve?

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toize escreveu:

hi, i'm new to PoE and want to use the leveling filter for this. but i have no idea what "folder" to copy the custom mp3 files into. the only folder i see is

C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\My Games\Path of Exile\OnlineFilters

i put the files into the online filters folder and i just get "line 2038 invalid sound filepath 5link.mp3

i'm superrr confused.