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

After another look in PoB, it appears that BBD can indeed replace Rational Doctrine for a bigger benefit than Natural Affinity. RD gives you about 10% MORE damage. NA gives 20% (plus 10% less damage taken) after standing still for 5 sec. But even half of that is already better than RD. And standing still for at least 2-3 sec is very easy in any boss fight.

Replacing RD with BBD gives you 13% MORE damage. I guess that is worth spending 70-80 div when you have everything else.

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kernel4812#4038 schrieb:

Alternatively, we can replace Fertile Mind on the right side of the tree.
This will give us a little dexterity (if it's too difficult to cap stats directly) and ~150 int on the top, allowing us to keep Natural Affinity.
Still a good addition to damage and survivability (WE WANT MORE, WE NEED MORE!!!)

Who will care about dexterity in the endgame, though? xD

Replacing Fertile Mind gives only 8% MORE damage (down from 13% MORE on replacing RD). And you lose about 500 ES from lower total Int compared to RD replacement.

You do gain ~20 Dex that may or may not help meeting the Dex requirement on the chest. But that's probably not the best way to do it.

Well, crap! I forgot to un-check Profane Ground in Configuration when replacing Rational Doctrine. That jewel actually gives us 15% MORE damage and is the most valuable among the ones considered here. Not replacing it.

So then the choice is between Natural Affinity and Fertile Mind. With the latter being the better option.

Replacing FM with BBD gives you ~9% MORE damage, ~900 ES, and ~22 Dex.

For a small price of only ~70-85 div... Diminishing returns are really diminishing when it comes to the final touches on the full build.