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

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Kelvynn написал:

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_phlv_ написал:

Question: What is a reason to keep Leap Slam if you kicked out Fortify in favor of Vigillant Strike? Isn't better Flame Dash?

Yes. Leap Slam has better distance and doesn't require an obstacle-free direct line. Technically, nothing stops you from using Lightning Warp for teleporting almost anywhere on the screen (very useful in the Lab), and it would trigger Mastermind as well, but we use extended duration and can't give LW any support, so it's ridiculously slow.

Hmmm I'm finding Flame Dash really, really cool. It can teleport me through some obstacles, at least those which are below or above me. It's pretty fast together with Faster Casting, actually faster than Leap Slam.

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nullisecundus написал:

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Kelvynn написал:

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_phlv_ написал:

Question: What is a reason to keep Leap Slam if you kicked out Fortify in favor of Vigillant Strike? Isn't better Flame Dash?

Yes. Leap Slam has better distance and doesn't require an obstacle-free direct line. Technically, nothing stops you from using Lightning Warp for teleporting almost anywhere on the screen (very useful in the Lab), and it would trigger Mastermind as well, but we use extended duration and can't give LW any support, so it's ridiculously slow.

Kelvynn man, first of all, let me say I am enjoying your build very much.

However, I am having some very quick deaths in some places you seem to be facetanking happily on the videos (like Chimera, Phoenix - you sit on the discharge while I die if he is in my screen somewhere)

So my profile is open, could you please have a look and tell me what it is I am doing wrong?

So judging by posts after mine I think mine received no replies because people thought I was being lazy by not linking my items but I simply did not know how to do it, let me try now:





So these are my items, I can get just over 8k ES with this, do you think my sudden death problems are mostly attributable to this? Or am I doing something wrong? Thanks in advance.

Im following this build and im lvl55 at the moment.

Im starting Merc run now but i im constantly dying due to stunt.

Im i doing something wrong, can anyone help.

Sorry for asking a noob question. But what does ball lightning actually do? I do not have the full setup yet but I am wondering what the use of a 16 damage spell on damage taken adds to this build? Clearly I am not seeing something, is it applying shock or something?

Yes

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KAJed написал:

Why am I confused? How does this build end up with 3 active curses?

1 default curse, +1 from the whispers of doom passive, +1 from the doedres damning ring.

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madmenyo написал:

Sorry for asking a noob question. But what does ball lightning actually do? I do not have the full setup yet but I am wondering what the use of a 16 damage spell on damage taken adds to this build? Clearly I am not seeing something, is it applying shock or something?

read the guide... using a ball lightning - curse on hit setup in between cwdt and the actual curses means that we can apply high-level curses with a low level cwdt, i.e. the curses will get applied very reliably.

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KAJed написал:

Why am I confused? How does this build end up with 3 active curses?

I'm confused as well.

I see doedre's ring for one additional, but don't see anywhere that allows a third.

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Teiran написал:

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KAJed написал:

Why am I confused? How does this build end up with 3 active curses?

I'm confused as well.

I see doedre's ring for one additional, but don't see anywhere that allows a third.

U get the third curse from the passive "whispers of doom", North west of the witch start at the top.

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frankiedux написал:

Im following this build and im lvl55 at the moment.

Im starting Merc run now but i im constantly dying due to stunt.

Im i doing something wrong, can anyone help.

U probably meant to say "stun"? If that is your problem, try to take the passive "Unwavering Stance", south of the marauder start nodes. U'll never get stunned again.

Sorry for the stupid question and for not reading through the 300 pages first but.. I see mention of both Conc Effect and Elemental Focus and I See people in this thread with one or the other equipped but i'm not sure which is better?

In the original topic it is said "Your staff should be at least 4S / 2L and have these gems in it, in the order of importance: Scorching Ray, Cast while Channelling, Life Leech, Elemental Focus, Controlled Destruction (5S), Cold To Fire (6S)." However OP has CE instead of EF..

Any advise? Thanks!

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nullisecundus написал:

However, I am having some very quick deaths in some places you seem to be facetanking happily on the videos (like Chimera, Phoenix - you sit on the discharge while I die if he is in my screen somewhere)

So my profile is open, could you please have a look and tell me what it is I am doing wrong?

You are trying to use more curses than your character can apply. Looks like you are overwriting Enfeeble with Flammability. Things may be dying faster that way, but they hit you harder.

I recommend replacing that Flammability gem with Enhance since you have a 6L armor.

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Drazzt написал:

I had a question: I'm level 69 now, and I have all the nodes sorted so far, but as far as the travel down to diamond skin and the jewel node there, did you just add the str nodes as you got the points? My first two spare went into faith and steel as my resists needed a little boost, and can happily respec if needed, but 8 nodes of str without conversion seems a little wasted, would I be better off going into some ES nodes and respeccing once I can get the second brute force solution?

There is a moment just before you take the Marauder area socket when you have 7 Str nodes unconverted. And then you gain up to 64 Int at the next level. That's normal. Why does it matter? You should be in the Lake gaining a level every N minutes. It's even fine to have non-maxed resists at the same time. Nothing can hurt you there, skip Voll if your items aren't good enough to kill him in less than 15 sec yet. Just level up.

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Rnew1990 написал:

is it really worth it to drop vaal disp for Enchance in my 6L chest?

Yes. Vaal Disc is almost worthless now anyway. Good curses are good.

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dieh написал:

Sorry for the stupid question and for not reading through the 300 pages first but.. I see mention of both Conc Effect and Elemental Focus and I See people in this thread with one or the other equipped but i'm not sure which is better?

CE is better for the bosses, EF is better for trash clearing, although the difference became smaller in 2.6 and you can clear with CE just fine now.

In Standard you can use both of them with legacy Pyre (instead of AoF+CtF+Perandus).

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In the original topic it is said "Your staff should be at least 4S / 2L and have these gems in it, in the order of importance: Scorching Ray, Cast while Channelling, Life Leech, Elemental Focus, Controlled Destruction (5S), Cold To Fire (6S)."

That's while leveling. Those gems make the most sense at that level.