[2.6] The Curse Whisperer - Tri-Curse CI Whispering Ice Elementalist - Viable for Everything

I am in love this this build.

The theory behind it is absolutely amazing and I've been running it as my second character this league (legacy), and just obliterating things and having fun with it.

With that said, there are a few things that I'm curious about and wanted to ask why you went specific ways with it in the tree. First, why grab Ele overload when crit chance is super low, and there is none being taken from the tree? Following that thought, why not grab more crit? The branch im looking at specifically is Trickery near the shadow area (which adds ele damage, crit and coming from the int node above cold hearted calculation you're getting all int nodes). Also, doom cast, all spell crit chance. Grabbing these in place of retribution/amplify seems logical with overload, which isnt to take away from retribution/amplify in any means, just that was the logical cut to me (the additional point comes from the lack of need of resistance from the tree due to gear supplying enough). Would love to hear your feedback, because the rest of this build has been super awesome.

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Skyhigh87 написал:

Okay now I'm curious if I have my CWDT - IC setup wrong, should CWDT also be lvl 1 and IC be lvl 4?

Please check the Links section. The curse setup requires those levels. The other CWDT (with IC and golems) should be lv 20 to be efficient with IC duration and timing.

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Beanst написал:

First, why grab Ele overload when crit chance is super low, and there is none being taken from the tree? Following that thought, why not grab more crit? The branch im looking at specifically is Trickery near the shadow area (which adds ele damage, crit and coming from the int node above cold hearted calculation you're getting all int nodes). Also, doom cast, all spell crit chance.

Answered in Q&A #12. There is no need for any crit nodes. Orb of Storms is just awesome like that.

Aight i need a little help here. I've just reached lvl 78 with unwavering stance and soon will get 79 for new belt or so, but idk what i should get first? a better armor with higher es, or clean crystal belt to craft myself or get aux belt? i have around 100c atm. I'm playing HC.

Chest first. Its the best Upgrade u can get.

Hello, I'm level 88 rn, got the core tree and an extra jewel socket for damage now I thought I got everything ready for late game but my ES is kinda low, 7.6k. I want to make it higher.

The best way would be to upgrade the belt, it has only +14 flat ES Prefix so I tried Essence crafting a better one, failed 4 times and decided to give up.

Now, the other options would be to get a +15% Increased Intelligence BSC, get level 20 Discipline or 21, spend 1 skill point on "Energy Shield and Mana Regeneration", starting witch node or Spend 2 points on "Foresight".

What would you guys suggest?

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Messiah_sin_x написал:

Hello, I'm level 88 rn, got the core tree and an extra jewel socket for damage now I thought I got everything ready for late game but my ES is kinda low, 7.6k. I want to make it higher.

The best way would be to upgrade the belt, it has only +14 flat ES Prefix so I tried Essence crafting a better one, failed 4 times and decided to give up.

Now, the other options would be to get a +15% Increased Intelligence BSC, get level 20 Discipline or 21, spend 1 skill point on "Energy Shield and Mana Regeneration", starting witch node or Spend 2 points on "Foresight".

What would you guys suggest?

get higher ES chest, boots and gloves, in that order. thats the main point responsible for your "low" ES. oh, and level helps a lot too. getting another 50 base int 4 levels down the road will boost your ES by something like 500...

Looking to replace my spare ring slot, is an opal ring a good option?

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ninjaxus написал:

Looking to replace my spare ring slot, is an opal ring a good option?

in the endgame, perandus signet usually is the best option. if you still need res on that ring slot, an opal ring with high int is probably your best bet.

So, this is my current gear, level 71. Doing pretty well. My biggest issue is I'm only sitting at 4.5k ES. Gloves are a little low, boots are pretty expensive with off colors and no Astramentis..because expensive :P

Does our ES increase dramatically once i get an Astra, Perandus Signet? I'd assume so simply because of the massive int bonus we gain..but wanted to know what kind of ES I should expect. Been having some close calls mapping(Thank you leech!)

Other than that..enjoying the build so far!

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Mech_ написал:

So, this is my current gear, level 71. Doing pretty well. My biggest issue is I'm only sitting at 4.5k ES. Gloves are a little low, boots are pretty expensive with off colors and no Astramentis..because expensive :P

Does our ES increase dramatically once i get an Astra, Perandus Signet? I'd assume so simply because of the massive int bonus we gain..but wanted to know what kind of ES I should expect. Been having some close calls mapping(Thank you leech!)

Other than that..enjoying the build so far!

Astramentis will help, but you're also missing Int on your gear (chest, hands, boots). Now int ES gear is stupidly expensive so there's no easy answer - it's just a lot more expensive to gear than a normal ES build, it caught me by surprise too. But you can pick up decent but not great gear at reasonable prices and maybe catch a bargain here or there if you set up poetrade to alert you to 50+int/40+ ele resist/es pieces.

But the build is very pricey, especially when changing gear means rejigging resists which might mean changing more than one piece at a time, and your old gear won't have a high resale value. Personally I'm using gems with +int/+dmg/+resists since if you can lower the amount of resists you need the gear can get a lot cheaper. But get used to looking for upgrades and seeing nothing for less than 5ex, in some cases 10+.