[3.28] Ice Dancing God - Icestorm/Cyclone/CI - Viable For Everything

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Cjin#1011 wrote:

Today we are here to answer a question as old as the first time Occultist rose and blew everything up with Profane Bloom.

"How much damage are you willing to sacrifice in order to be able to make everything go BOOM!?"

The answer is: YES!

Since I sold my crafted belt and helm overnight, I snarfed one for just 1 div. Tooltip dps went from 20.9k to 19.5k. Let's see how it is in practice.

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HAHAHAHA DO IT HAHAHHHahAHAHAHA! Thanks, Cjin, you da man!

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I hope everyone picked up their %int corrupted belt in time! The cheapest is now up to 10 div. Quite a few disappeared, so I am hoping the WI brigade snarfed them.

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Cjin#1011 wrote:

Today we are here to answer a question as old as the first time Occultist rose and blew everything up with Profane Bloom.

"How much damage are you willing to sacrifice in order to be able to make everything go BOOM!?"

The answer is: YES!

OMG!!

Suddenly, this league is GREAT! It wasn't too bad even with the ES nerf, but now it's all worth it. And we can have a swap belt for uber boss killing.

BTW, you can definitely have Discipline and Zealotry together. Just take the 8% MRE node near CI and buy Enlighten lv 3.

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Cjin#1011 wrote:

Today we are here to answer a question as old as the first time Occultist rose and blew everything up with Profane Bloom.

"How much damage are you willing to sacrifice in order to be able to make everything go BOOM!?"

The answer is: YES!

never thought i would take a single stat item in exchange for a crapload of int, but it was absolutely worth it.

breach&beoynd is really fun when the whole screen explodes several times over every second.


great tip!

Just FYI, there are intermittent opportunities to arbitrage the following cards: The Dragon's Heart, Wealth and Power, and The Enlightened.

Buy the cards with chaos, turn in for gem, sell gem for divines, sell divines for chaos, LOOP.

Each cycle is generally profitable -- as long as the gem price doesn't drop by 1 divine or the card price spikes up. So be careful. This is not investment advice. This information is provided for educational purposes only.

As a data point, the Dragon's Heart card price varied today from 116c to 144c over the course of 5 minutes, so you can be sure others are playing the same game.

(I dropped the Heart card, checked prices, and said, WHOA.)

I'm loving the new Atlas so much! Over-sustaining T16 maps is so easy that you can farm any endgame content by simply running straight to the boss, and then doing the boss again if it's in range of the mirage. City Square is the best map for that. You get double the bosses and whatever Guardians you want about half of the time. For double the maps and frags.

PSA: You no longer need to kill Uber Elder to get the last voidstone. You just need to kill the Shaper and the Elder separately. Super easy!

The boss of this league is a total pushover. And he's the one who drops the new belt. To get the key (The Black Barya) you kill Ridan who randomly spawns near the mirage. And there is also a random option to have him spawn with the bosses inside the mirage if they are in range (City Square is LOVE!).

New video: Saresh

About the Volatile Vaal Orb and 22% Int WI

What that orb does (from the wiki):
1. Keeps or destroys the item (50/50).
2. If not destroyed, divine numeric properties (random 14-18% Int).
3. If not destroyed, multiply the values by a random 0.78-1.22 and round to the nearest integer.

In order to get a 22% Int staff, you need that final roll to be at least 1.20 (that results in 21.6% rounded to 22%).

That means, out of the 45 possible values between 0.78 and 1.22, you need to hit one of the top 3: 1.20, 1.21, or 1.22.

Overall, you need to get lucky with:
- 1/2 chance not to destroy the item
- 1/5 chance to roll 18%
- 3/45 = 1/15 chance to roll 1.20-1.22

And the chance to get that 22% Int staff is:
1 / (2 * 5 * 15) = 1 / 150

Volatile Vaal Orb is currently priced at ~1 div.

Good luck, exile!

Loving it! So far lvl 79, already doing t3/4 and the build feels suuper fun in all meanings. It has sustain, the dps with the new belt seems to be more than enough and the play style.. its.. perfect :)

Deaths: 28
Kills: no idea lolz xd

P.S How you cast div, clarity, zea and purity? Even with e3 and the extra nods on the tree path of building says you dont have enough mana.

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FlameII#2877 wrote:

P.S How you cast div, clarity, zea and purity? Even with e3 and the extra nods on the tree path of building says you dont have enough mana.

Mana scales from Int. At lv 79 your Int is probably still too low. Also, check that you didn't forget to take the 12% Mana Reservation Efficiency option on the Mana Mastery.

If you are importing my character, disable Aspect of the Spider in Skills. I have it on the ring but I'm not using it currenty.

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FlameII#2877 wrote:

Loving it! So far lvl 79, already doing t3/4 and the build feels suuper fun in all meanings. It has sustain, the dps with the new belt seems to be more than enough and the play style.. its.. perfect :)

Deaths: 28
Kills: no idea lolz xd

P.S How you cast div, clarity, zea and purity? Even with e3 and the extra nods on the tree path of building says you dont have enough mana.

You are missing 12% MRE from Mana Mastery. You don't need mana recoup from there because you have it in Watcher's Eye.