[3.6] The Blizz Sorc - Icestorm/Winter Orb CI Occultist - Viable For Everything

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Sachiru schrieb:

Would it be possible to run this with Malediction and Vile Bastion instead, then do something like Herald of Ice + Curse on Hit + Assassin's Mark + Enfeeble/Frostbite and a little bit of increased critical?

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Jonxxpl schrieb:

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Sachiru schrieb:

Would it be possible to run this with Malediction and Vile Bastion instead, then do something like Herald of Ice + Curse on Hit + Assassin's Mark + Enfeeble/Frostbite and a little bit of increased critical?

I think you mean malediction and profane bloom. Build is already using vile bastion iirc. Assassin's Mark is wasted because we're not a crit build. Herald with curse could work just note that it means you won't have that curse reliably on bosses.

What I've done last league when doing this route is getting warlord's mark on hit ring and dropping leech gem, warlord's leech was still enough imo, damage went up a lot thanks to additional support, and profane bloom made clear speed go throught the roof with winter orb clearing by itself, didn't need to actually channel icestorm to kill stuff in t16's. Was running phase run too so I was running pretty fast and worb was keeping up. Endurance Charges were pretty nice too, sure you don't have them on bosses with no adds, but it helped a lot against syndicate encounters. Now, new patch adds new es leech gem with really good damage too, so warlord's mark probably won't be as good, but it's still an option if you want to go malediction.

An even better thing would be getting gloves with enfeeble implicit corruption, but that's gonna be hard to find with stats that we need.

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Kelvynn schrieb:

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iamCytosine schrieb:

any chance you'll update for 3.6? I really wanna play this :D

It will be updated for 3.6 before the league starts.

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Jonxxpl schrieb:

That's a possibility. Just note that bosses like shaper and his guardians have reduced curse effectiveness on them, with new patch it's 66% (was 80 iirc) reduced curse effect and it means no int and no potential increased int corrupt on that ring, so idk if it's worth it.

We'd benefit from zealotry, but it's 50% reserved mana, we're already using discipline and herald/arctic armour. Could technically go low life shavs along with enlightens for more auras though, I've did it in the past to have enfeeble on blasphemy and it was pretty good. But it's really hard to fit all the gems then, we struggle with sockets as is.

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Jonxxpl schrieb:

No idea, but we now have a lot of points to spare, since we don't go to vp anymore. Also one could consider getting assassin's mark on hit shaped ring, with other beneficial stats like int if you were to go crit. Then again, crit chance isn't the only thing you need to make crit work, you still need a lot of crit multi, to make it worth picking over elemental overload.

About consecrated ground, could always run sulphur flask, zealot's oath might be good idea anyway, since VP is no longer blocking it.

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Sachiru schrieb:

In that case, can we then go with Mark of Submission + Frostbite, then CwDT Ball Lightning + Enfeeble? That way we have a pseudo-"Damage Penetrates 44% of cold resistance" effect on our spells.

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Kirian42 schrieb:

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Sachiru schrieb:

In that case, can we then go with Mark of Submission + Frostbite, then CwDT Ball Lightning + Enfeeble? That way we have a pseudo-"Damage Penetrates 44% of cold resistance" effect on our spells.

Are you going to take a new node to grant a second Curse?