[2.6] The Curse Whisperer - Tri-Curse CI Whispering Ice Elementalist - Viable for Everything
" the things is, a lot of builds that get rekt in th ES version can still go life. if you are good with mechanics you can go 4.5k life and avoid 99% of one shots. sadly that's not the same case for wi. i mean, unless the 3.0 tree comes with some pathing improvements to get more life or at least more dps, wi will be a novelty build for guys with mirror tier gear and high lvl toons. :) i did play most of legacy league on 8k es with wi but i didn't have to worry about a lot of stuff. with 8k life pool and vp... gl doing lab. that's if you get 8k hp. i don't think even the new hybrid life rolls will help much. |
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awesome guide. grea job. it says whispering ice staff is lvl 33 though. the guide mentions lvl 39 everywhere. did it use to require lvl 39 to equip?
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" no, but you will really struggle to sustain the mana cost of icestorm at lvl 33. and the cast speed is painfully slow at that level. at lvl 38, you gain access to cwc, which solves the mana and cast speed issue. at lvl 39, you can equip the icetomb chest and the doedres helmet, which buff your ES a lot and add a good chunk of int. therefore, kelvynn some time ago changed his guide to recommend the switch to WI at lvl 39 (instead of 33 as in earlier iterations). Последняя редакция: Black_Gun#7476. Время: 21 мая 2017 г., 17:54:31
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" alright thanks for clearing that up (for other users aswell wondering the same) |
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the new scion elementalist and raider ascendancies look nice. maybe scion is an option again. but yeah, the question remains if this build will be worthwhile at all after the axing of vaal pact. currently, I'm still assuming that life based mom berserker is the (only) way to go in 3.0...
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" My initial testing indicates that Life/AR/MoM is viable. Just need more Life. With the buffs to gear mods in 3.0 and hopefully some good changes in the tree it can be fine with more than just Berserker. Zerker leech is awesome, but he also takes significantly more damage than Elementalist. Последняя редакция: Kelvynn#6607. Время: 23 мая 2017 г., 12:08:07
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I really dont see elementalist being worth it in 3.0. Going life means that more passive point have to be spent on life nodes, which means less points for offense. This, in turn, means a loss of damage. Berserker offers four(!) additional advantages in 3.0 that it didnt have in the 2.6 CI setups:
1.: 100% leech from cloaked in savagery, which means that nothing outside of oneshots can kill us. 2.: a huge leech rate from cloaked in savagery which completely negates reflect. 3.: the huge leech rate from cloaked in savagery allows us to skip the warlords mark curse which frees up one ring slot or 4 passive points. 4.: the huge leech rate also means we dont need the life leech gem anymore, which allows us to make up for the lost damage from having to spend more passive points on ehp by getting an additional damage multiplier. those points all work in favour of berserker over elementalist and werent a factor until now. IMHO, this tilts the "class balance" for WI strongly in favour of berserker. Последняя редакция: Black_Gun#7476. Время: 24 мая 2017 г., 12:09:49
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Yes, as it stands right now, if you try Life in 2.6, Berserker is the way to go. But we don't know the extent of the changes in 3.0 yet. Elementalist still has 3 major advantages over Berserker:
1. Mastermind penetration. Roughly counters Aspect of Carnage. 2. Tons of increased elemental damage. Roughly counters an extra gem. 3. Paragon defenses. Compensates for the extra leech. My experimental Life/MoM zerker has 9k Icestorm tooltip even after trading a lot of DPS for Life. But he kills T16 bosses visibly slower than my current league Elementalist with 7k tooltip. The offensive mechanics of this class are really, really good. So if it can get enough Life to survive in 3.0 without zerker-esque leech it will be fine. The fact that T1 Life on gear will increase by a lot in 3.0 - that alone might just be enough. Последняя редакция: Kelvynn#6607. Время: 24 мая 2017 г., 15:47:06
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will it still be viable to play with ES on 3.0.0?
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" No. You will not be able to leech ES efficiently in 3.0. If you still want to play with ES after the nerf, Occultist is probably the way to go. But it's a different play style. |
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