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Lachis escreveu:

Alright so here we go:

1. Dont get throatseeker, DO get blood thirst. Get crit multi from shadow and arcane potency from templar. The reason is that if you want to use the Increased Critical Damage gem then you don't want to have a lot of crit multi already so it will be much more effective to use. For the same amount of points as throatseeker you can get both bloodthirsts.

2. Get body and soul if you are a hybrid, nullification if you are CI. Hybrids who wear armor gear will benefit hugely from Body and Soul, and the resists are worth it.

3. Armor: I don't think your opinion on armor is the best one. Dmg Reduction does diminish with greater hits, but against the bosses in this game you should never get hit. The things that are going to 1 shot you are chaos dmg, alchemists, explosions, stun locked chargers. You should stack armor regardless because not stacking armor as a non-ci character means that you could get killed by the "white" monsters AS WELL AS the spike dmg. The diminishing return is worth it. Something that is gonna 1 shot you will 1 shot you regardless (as you noted in your guide).

4: Support gems:
LMP is a must. There is a huge argument between this and GMP and which is better for Freezing pulse. GMP is harder to shock stack and if you dont have a big pack of mobs it does less dmg.

Faster Casting - if you have cast speed on gear and in your talent tree don't use this.

Cold pen - Use this if you aren't using faster casting.

Added chaos vs added lightning: You get more flat damage from added chaos. In order to do more dmg with added lightning you need to spec into static blows and have some cast speed.

Life leech vs mana leech - have both of them leveled and switch accordingly

Blood magic - Late game option when you want to maximize auras, must run life leech with this.

Iron will - if you are going a str build this would work

Faster projectiles - useless gem. Get a qual freezing pulse.

I don't like crit dmg or crit chance honestly since you are investing in your talent tree heavily in these areas.

5: I think the sample builds you posted are really squishy. Even in softcore at high levels people might still die and not gain any traction experience wise.

Here is another version of a hybrid build: The damage is slightly less, but the survivability is through the roof. Hybrid

I don't really like CI so I wont post a CI build.


Hopefully this helps some people get a different look :)

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GhostlightX escreveu:

OK Freezing Pulse is your main nuke? In that case support it as follows:

a) Faster Projectiles: no brainer, it almost doubles the effective range. This gem is a MUST-have

b) Cold Penetration > all for boosting the damage of any Cold spell. Unlike abilities that % reduce cold resistance, Penetration is a flat subtraction, and can go below zero. Hence if you have 30% Cold Pen and the target has 10% Cold resist, your normal cold damage is boosted by 20%. That 20% more Cold damage when your cold damage is already super-boosted by your passives > any other extra Damage you could tag on such as 3-60 Lightning. I've tested this and the only other support that can come close in dps terms is Added Cold Damage itself (because it gets boosted by your passives). Furthermore, the more Cold damage you deal, the longer things stay frozen, so diluting or reducing your Cold damage is always bad.

c) LMP , GMP if you want, I dislike them on FP though

Other Contenders
Elemental Proliferation is decent, but works MUCH better on Cold Snap
Increased Critical Chance (flat DPS increase). Good but not as good as Cold Penetration
Life on Hit (though very costly in mana)

As for the curse to use....Frostbite only when you are facerolling / no danger of dying anyway. When things get genuinely dangerous you probably want Enfeeble or Temporal Chains instead.

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GhostlightX escreveu:

Are you sure about that? I read elsewhere that curses can only be supported by Increased Area of Effect and Reduced Mana and that no other support could boost them?? If this works it could be interesting. As I said I swapped out of using Frostbite some time back because Enfeeble or Temporal Chains is plain safer, but if Frostbite + Cold Penetration works, then Enfeeble + Cold Penetration should work as well, right? Anyone?

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GhostlightX escreveu:

Bummer.

btw Increased Duration works with curses as well.

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InfamousChris escreveu:

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GhostlightX escreveu:

Bummer.

btw Increased Duration works with curses as well.

Wouldn't Hex Master be a better alternative?

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InfamousChris escreveu:

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GhostlightX escreveu:

Bummer.

btw Increased Duration works with curses as well.

Wouldn't Hex Master be a better alternative?