[3.24] Icicle Mines / Eye of Winter Deadeye - Cheap / League Starter / Fast Mapper / 1st Day T16

- This build works very well to complete the Atlas at league start and farm maps fast
- This build is a mapper, it's NOT a bosser
- I've been league starting with it over 10 times already
- It doesn't require any specific items
- It's able to progress the entire Atlas 1st day of league
- It's able to farm T16 maps 1st day of league with only a few chaos invested
- No skill or flask timing needed
- Room to level other gems
- Only 1 skill setup
- 4500 life & 100% spell suppression pretty early already
- Great freeze uptime (makes mapping quite safe)
- Doesn't really require Uber Lab! (it's only a small & situational defence bonus)

This version of the build is the cheap, league start atlas completion + mapping version. It's squishy, but freeze helps a lot :). You can make the build tanky and also increase the single target dps many, many times, if you invest into it. Some players were playing Icicle Deadeye to do "No Hit" Sanctums. It's also a good choice, if you're looking forward to make a bow build later. Then you already have a Deadeye :) and can just farm currency with it, until you have saved enough currency to craft or buy everything you need for your bow build. This works really good, because you are not required to invest into this build to be able to farm T14-16 maps.

Note: As Ranger, you can't buy Icicle Mine in Act 1 already. You have to ask someone else to buy it for you in the end of Act 1 - or get one from trade. Or you use something else till Act 3 Library Quest ("A Fixture Of Fate". It's located in The Library in The Imperial Gardens. There you can buy Icicle, EoW, Charged Mines, ...). I recorded a full Act 1 to Act 3 Library run for you, see under "Videos" further down. BUT: If you wait until Library, the gem will be level 1 and you should level it a bit, before you switch! I highly recommend to get one at level 12 or as early as possible and level it during the early acts already!
I also recorded a full Act 1 - Act 10 run. The gem & tree progression of this run is posted further down.

- new Mine Mastery, "Detonate Mines is Triggered while you are moving"
(I tested it and I don't like it. It's detonating mines way too slow. But Automation gem + Detonate Mines gem works quite good!)

- basic Tattoos are back (Tattoo of the Ramako Sniper now provides 5% projectile Speed)
(you should use them!)

- 2k eva/armour hybrid chest w/o life mods (dense fossil on hybrid base)
- Hatred + Skitterbots + Determination
- Jade + Granite
- Immortal Flesh belt
- Enlighten 3 + rmr corruption (there are many other options too)
- Survivalist + Eva Mastery (100% inc eva from body armour)

Day 1: 10 hours after league start, Exarch + Eater (2 Voidstones) done, Atlas almost done, 1st player @ T17 Citadel map (and 1st player to fail it too :D)
https://pobb.in/_N7nCI4J8Ck-

Day 2:
https://pobb.in/bDoV8tIoo127

Day 4:
https://pobb.in/pHXcDriDHiK8

Day 5:
https://pobb.in/PZgM03DAZiIX

End of Week 1:
https://pobb.in/Mk419mK8JeDy

Final one for this league. MB, Nimis, 0 mana cost
https://pobb.in/vu40r2lunB8s

Day 1 about 9 hours after league start:
(Uber Lab, 2 Voidstones (Exarch + Eater), 7 fav map drop slots, vast majority of maps completed)
https://pobb.in/W-XRt9wXZ8pm

Day 2:
https://pobb.in/otjR_tc-nwP_

Day 3:
No upgrades. Here are some cool charms and jewels I'm looking at:

Day 4:
https://pobb.in/WLy4rIeIFWzP

Day 4, another update:
https://pobb.in/he7yMkdXBjjW

Day 5:

Day 6:
https://pobb.in/QZDEb22mN4Ge

Week 2:
https://pobb.in/lh1kMsp_S0m0

Day 1, Atlas done (112/115, missing 3 unique maps), 6 Favoured map slots unlocked):

Day 2:

Day 3:

Day 4:

Day 5:

Day 6+:

My Gear Progress - Day 1 - (+Passive Tree & Atlas)
(already farming T15 Tropical Island + T16 Coves, Searing + Eater down)

My Gear Progress - Day 2

My Gear - Day 4

My Gear - Day 7 - (+ my current Atlas Tree)

My Gear - Day 9

- Same Tree & Gear ...
- Only 2 gems are different!
- Icicle: feels a bit nicer and safer during mapping; slightly better clear; mobs die faster/immediately on the entire screen; better freeze uptime
- EoW: higher single target dps

- rare items with life + resists work fine
- any wands or sceptres with some of these mods: crit chance for spells, crit multi, +1cold/+1all, damage to spells, spell/cold/ele/mine damage, crafted mine throwing speed

Cheap uniques that I buy as soon as I have a few Chaos Orbs:
1. Bitterdream (for 3-link Icicle, works fine till T16!)
2. Mutewind Whispersteps
3. Heatshiver

"Act 1-10" has a menu to switch between gems / tree!


Act 1-10 Pconc into Icicle:
https://pobb.in/HXpwIbYJmD6x

League start / day 1-2 / viable to complete entire Atlas:
https://pobb.in/-U8MbAcoV47U

Mid-budget / ~15 div version (15 div without Nimis):
https://pobb.in/BL3KTABga1MY

My TotA League gear (twice as much dps as mid-budget):
https://pobb.in/AxgWHAEk1e6d

You can get Path of Building here:
https://pathofbuilding.community/

Notes:
- you can often buy a level 21 Icicle Mine gem for 10c - 20c a few days after league start
Mid-budget version notes:
- 2 socket shroud (3 is possible) and +8 boots (+9 is possible)
- you may get poison / ignite immunity
- you may get some chaos res too (I don't need it for the content I farm)

Act 1-10 Pconc into Icicle: https://pobb.in/6O8y08UjIqmf

Campaign, before you have pierce / chain:
4-L Icicle: Icicle + Pierce + Trap and Mine Damage + Minefield

If you have pierce or chain:
4-L Icicle: Icicle + Trap and Mine Damage + Minefield + Charged Mines

3-L Icicle in Bitterdream: Icicle Mine + Minefield + Charged Mines

6-L Icicle: Icicle + Charged Mines + Trap and Mine Damage + Minefield + Increased Critical Strikes + Inspiration

6-L Eye of Winter: EoW + Blastchain Mine + Charged Mines + Minefield + Trap and Mine Damage + Increased Critical Strikes

Other:
- Hatred
- Summon Skitterbots (+ Bonechill, not needed in Bitterdream setup)
- Flame Dash + Faster Casting or any movement skill you like
- Cast on Death + Portal (saves so much time!)
- cwdt lvl 2 + Steelskin lvl 11
- Arcanist Brand + Assassin's Mark + Frost Bomb (vs. bosses)

You can use Sniper's Mark instead of Assassin's Mark, as soon as you have a very high crit chance (check & compare it in PoB).

You can use Determination and/or Grace, if you want to get more tanky. In order to be able to use different/more auras, you may get a matching reservation enchant on your helm or even use a rare helm with Essence RMR + RMR implicit. Another option is the RMR corruption (socketed gems get reservation multiplier). More options: Enlighten Gem, Annoint on amulet and new Reservation Mastery.

My favorite flask setup I've been running for many leagues now:

I'm not using the Silver (Onslaught) flask in the beginning of the league. I usually start with a Diamond/Granite/Jade (depending on what I benefit most from).
Even later, you may use Granite (instead of Silver) or Granite+Jade (instead of Silver+Quartz), if you want to get more tanky.

Pls check the Path of Building section further up. You don't have to import it into PoB, you can just open the links in your browser too.

Deadeye:
1. Gathering Winds (Tailwind)
2. Ricochet (Chain)
3. Endless Munitions (+2 Proj) /// or Focal Point (Mark effect)
4. Wind Ward /// or Focal Point (Mark effect)

If you want to increase your single target dps, you can take Focal Point (Mark effect) instead of Endless Munitions (+2 Proj) or Wind Ward.

Help Alira

My favorite setup: Soul of Arakaali + Soul of Abberath
Also unlock their bonuses!

Searches (switch from Standard to League, when League is live):

Bitterdream (new version):
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Standard/XEbLKOWUP
Mutewind Whispersteps:
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Standard/nRnwzH0
Heatshiver (new version):
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Standard/QlQogOOfw
Temple mod gloves:
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Standard/LgoKZP5cn
Fractured +1 base (i76+) - you can just switch it to dagger / wand / sceptre:
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Standard/V2W0RyPup
Stygian Vise base (i72+):
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Standard/bMOaew2cL
+7 March of the Legion:
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Standard/QeRg2lpHw

How to craft the bases:

Gloves:
- buy gloves with xx % dmg with hits vs. chilled enemies and another resist or high life and either open prefix or suffix to be able to add a craft on the crafting bench too
- use eldritch currency (ember and ichor) to add implicit mods
- league start: use low tier eldritch currency and stop at any useful mod

Belt:
- buy high ilvl stygian vise and use Deafening Essence of Zeal (always adds 18-21% mine throwing speed) until you get something useful
- if you can't afford the highest tier of the essence, use one tier lower (Shrieking Essence of Zeal)

Sceptre / Dagger / Wand:
- buy high ilvl sceptre with FRACTURED +1 cold or +1 all
- the mod has to be fractured! this will make it permanent (i't will never disappear when you craft)
- use Deafening Essence of Woe on it (always adds 83-94% increased Spell Damage), until you hit something "decent" (for example high spell crit chance + any tier of crit multi or mid-high flat ele damage to any element)
- craft mine throwing speed on it on the crafting bench

+2 Cold Skills Amulet with T1 Crit Multi:
https://youtu.be/GSH0bt6UK7w

1. As soon as I have 2 chaos: Portal (link with Cast on Death, it will save you a lot of time!)
2. When I start mapping: Bitterdream, Mutewind Whispersteps (about 4 chaos each)
3. just identify rare items and replace your rares with better ones (life, resists)
4. fix your flask setup (doesn't need to be perfect yet...)
5. As soon as you start to accumulate chaos/divines:
- Heatshiver ! ! !
- level 21 Icicle Mine gem
- decent sceptre / dagger / or wand, if you already use Rathpith
- setup 1: +2 or +4 chest
- setup 2 (I prefer this one): shroud of the lightless + march of the legion + rathpith globe + dissolution of the flesh

- it's fine to run your first white maps magic
- buy maps from Kirac
- use your Kirac missions
- buy Chance Orbs if you don't have any to buy more maps from Kirac
- skill map drop chance passives in your Atlas Tree first

My tree for the Necropolis League start Atlas progression part step-by-step:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C12xMtLS18

My plan for Necropolis League start:

Day 1-4: Red Altars + Blight + Niko (just for move / dps buff) + Shrines + map drop / Guardian map drop / Conqueror map drop nodes

Day 5+: Delirium + Beyond instead of Blight

The vast majority of my currency / profit is split among:
1. Currency tab
2. Eldritch Currency
3. Shaper, Elder, Conqueror map drops
4. Eldritch Invitations (guaranteed drop every 14(28) maps)
5. whatever league mechanic you skill (Blight = Blighted maps + silver/golden oils, Deli = Deli orbs + Simulacrums, ...)

Every day I take a short break to convert this to chaos/divines.