[3.20] Ice Dancing Queen - Icestorm/Cyclone/CI - Viable For Everything

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Graiaule schrieb:

Out of curiosity, any ideas on making the painful scion levelling experience better?

1. Learn how to use Galvanic Field/Lightning conduit/Overcharge until we get just before the Heart of Ice cluster. Hmm, Arc's not available to scions until act 3.

2. Do SRS/Melee splash/Zombies

3. No mines for me, trust me. I've tried.

4. ??

Just have to get to 33 expeditiously, and then we can relax.

It's just two acts until you get before the cold cluster. You might as well corpse spam them in soft-core. You can't equip the staff until lvl 33 anyway, which is generally around the start or middle of act 3.

Go with Spark, spec into the lightning cluster and when you get the staff, respec into ice. You'll probably not get Whispering ice on lvl 33 on league start this league, considering the unique changes. Btw, you don't even need those cold passives.

https://youtu.be/nUgBtH4CWdg

savee

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Graiaule schrieb:

Out of curiosity, any ideas on making the painful scion levelling experience better?

1. Learn how to use Galvanic Field/Lightning conduit/Overcharge until we get just before the Heart of Ice cluster. Hmm, Arc's not available to scions until act 3.

2. Do SRS/Melee splash/Zombies

3. No mines for me, trust me. I've tried.

4. ??

Just have to get to 33 expeditiously and then we can relax.

Wintertide Brand, just path over and grab the Brand master for "attach to new enemy every time they activate"

Edit: just checked, as the tree sits only takes lvl 15 to get brand reattach, then you are off to the races, until then the brand does decent damage with self cast.

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NCCIntrepid schrieb:

Wintertide Brand, just path over and grab the Brand master for "attach to new enemy every time they activate"

Edit: just checked, as the tree sits only takes lvl 15 to get brand reattach, then you are off to the races, until then the brand does decent damage with self cast.

Thanks -- I'll give it a shot. I'm planning the following links until I get the staff -- comments welcome

Wintertide Brand - Controlled Destr - Elem Focus - swift affliction - inspiration - hypothermia

Discipline - clarity - Purity of elem

arcane surge - frost bomb

frostblink

% spell damage and/or +1 to level of all cold spells

the usual freezing pulse until I hit 12 and get the brand.

You expecting to get a 6link before a whispering ice staff? :o
Is that good or bad luck then? :D

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Tides5 schrieb:

You expecting to get a 6link before a whispering ice staff? :o
Is that good or bad luck then? :D

What you mean? That Brutus is not dropping Tabula Rasa to you every league start?

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Cjin schrieb:

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Tides5 schrieb:

You expecting to get a 6link before a whispering ice staff? :o
Is that good or bad luck then? :D

What you mean? That Brutus is not dropping Tabula Rasa to you every league start?

Yeah, every league start in the last 3 leagues, I've gotten a ridiculously early tabula. I'm sure this will continue. Yup. Yup.

Seriously, we have no idea what the drop rate will be. So it seems prudent to plan for a late staff.

I did some PoB modelling and that set of skill gems seems to work well.

I've never played a Scion before and stumbled across this build. I've also never played a build where you don't need a 6L due to the skill being on the item. Reading the last few pages of the post and it doesn't look like too much has changed for this build going into 3.19.

I do plan on taking this build the distance and seeing how many challenges I can complete with it.

Just note that I personally am picking Scion this league due to requiring the 2% mana reservation on five of our jewels (and thus we need 100% stun immunity from the Occultist ascendancy) when we are min-maxing (see whiterockx's build for the hatred/cluster jewel tree (here's a copy https://pastebin.com/VeWAGYGx .)

hi whiterocks

I saw youre build variation as grainaule wrote about it. Can you tell me what is the benefit above the standard version ? I played last league the wich version and love the profane bloom effect as it makes clearing so much easyer. With scion its not possible (ok i get stun immunity but there are other ways to get them as wich).
Perhaps a small pro and con would be really fine, as i dont know what to play next league and dont like to make 2 chars. I prefere playing one char the whole league and optimise them

Tankfully waiting on a reply :-)