Cold-crit CI witch build

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woodyfly написал:

There seems to be 2 primary ways of skilling a cold witch: speedcast nodes vs damage nodes.

I HIGHLY prefer the damage route over cast speed, why? Cast speed EATS your mana pool. A damage build will put out roughly the same dps as a cast speed build BUT it will considerably help your mana pool. End of story.

But you have Mana Flasks...

Also Cast Speed increases your chances of Freezing

If anyone (especially Slurms!) could take a look at this which I'm using at the moment and suggest improvements it would be much appreciated.

Passive skill tree build at level 78


The area I'm not sure about is if it's worth heading down through all those dex nodes for an extra 110% crit multiplier but I also pick up 2 extra frenzy charges along the way so it seems decent. I don't have a huge amount of crit on my gear so I would swap out some 15% crit nodes for 3% cast speed nodes when I get more crit(I have 30% crit at the moment with just over 900% crit multiplier which seems a good balance between the two).

I think I will go for something similar in OB - I took 3 of the resistance rewards this time which I won't bother doing in OB so I'll probably use two of those on an extra 30 dex & 30 str to give 74 base str and 104 dex. It's really jarring at the moment when I swap to mf gear I also have to put in lower levelled gems because of the requirements of the levelled ones.

Only using a 5L at the moment so mana isn't a problem with Mana Leech even without mana regen nodes or Clarity, with a 6L i'd probably go with added cold or chaos damage and go for some more mana nodes if required. Suppose I could get Faster Projectiles instead which is much cheaper.

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crimsonedge11 написал:

Slayer, can you post an updated build for the new skill tree?

Seconded (if you have time to redo it). Would like to compare against mine, never saw it before the recent skill tree wipe.

Going to work soon and would rather lvl my shadow for a bit. Only working for 6 hours today, will post what I believe will be my OB build when I get back. Will make it fairly detailed as I will be changing some things, and will explain why.

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SL4Y3R написал:

Going to work soon and would rather lvl my shadow for a bit. Only working for 6 hours today, will post what I believe will be my OB build when I get back. Will make it fairly detailed as I will be changing some things, and will explain why.

I can't wait ^_^
Again, with cast speed vs crit nodes. I believe late game you need more cast speed cos most gear and flask provide enough crit. But early game is hard to get crit chance unless you use dagger.

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SL4Y3R написал:

Going to work soon and would rather lvl my shadow for a bit. Only working for 6 hours today, will post what I believe will be my OB build when I get back. Will make it fairly detailed as I will be changing some things, and will explain why.

Ah nice one

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SL4Y3R написал:

Going to work soon and would rather lvl my shadow for a bit. Only working for 6 hours today, will post what I believe will be my OB build when I get back. Will make it fairly detailed as I will be changing some things, and will explain why.

Post the build asap!

Ok, here we go. (All builds built around assumption that you kill all bandits)

If my math hold true, lol, and it may not.

lvl 74



Many of you will notice that this build does not grab the 2% cast nodes. These nodes scare me a little bit in the beginning. 2% is rather low for one point, so I think come OB, I will wait to grab them.

lvl80



Grabbed the two 2% nodes + some nearby crit chance.

lvl83



This is the new addition. And here's why. Many of you may not be able to grab this node. This node will be a pure luxury for those who are fortunate to get a 6L. My setup in terms of links has always been: FP + Fast Cast + Crit Dmg + LMP + Mana Leech (5th slot) + Usually IIR, but with a leveled chaos dmg gem for when I want to see how high I can get my DPS for fun.

Here's the problem. I've used IIR mainly because I can farm 6 man instances by myself if I please. Yes, this is thru multiboxing, so check your attitude at the door if you have a problem with this. Since I personally already had enough IIQ from the boosted instance, more IIQ wasn't a priority. However, lately I am more concerned about end game PvP, in which case I believe GR will be nice to have. So, thus the 6L setup would include Life Leech. Which, when not PvPing can be switched out to IIQ. Further, should GGG decide to change how I multibox and take away that ability. I can keep using my setup.

What about IIR than? And chaos farming? Well, I've been thinking, depending on where the viable farming area is in A3, that I MAY be able to get around this by switching out my Crit Dmg gem for IIR. This would be solely for farming. Usually I do this to be able to farm for my fusings for my 6L. So, essentially, I'm covering both MF gems by having BBBGGR (which wont be the easiest to get).

If you do not care about farming or PvP whatsoever. And are only in it for exp. Than I would suggest the 6th slot, should you get one, be for Faster Projectiles. It's a great gem, just not a color that can be interchanged when needed.

Max Lvl



Something akin to this. Since I can only use 111 points in builder, it's basically throwing the rest into wherever you can find some nice dmg nodes.

While I could use more crit chance, unless they nerf diamond flasks, I'm not going to bother. Since with mana leech in place in 5L, my build usually has 4 diamonds + Granite. If I'm on a 50% regen map, some diamonds get replaced with Mana Flasks.

Depending on what stats I have, specifically Mana/Int, I may end up ditching 2 points in Mana or however I can find it to grab Alchemist in the end.

Well, that's it everyone.

Cheers

EDIT: As a side note, if your end game gear rolls + dex, be very happy. As this can help knock out one of those +30 nodes.