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

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Kelvynn написал:

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GladiatorUA написал:

Warning about Volcano(t14) boss. He is somewhat tough for this build without prep.

- It's a totem, so it's immune to curses. Life leech is not the issue, because it summons a lot of smaller totems, but mana is.
- AFAIK, totems are also immune to crits, so no buff from keystone.
- It has Elemental Equilibrium and blasts you with frost and fire shredding your resists.

Ruby and/or maybe Saphire flasks are required. Mana flask can be nice. Switch Blasphemy for Purity of fire. Avoid -resist and Ele Weakness map mods. Get a non-curse ring, preferably to overcap resists.

I haven't noticed any changes to the Volcano boss. It's trivial to me, no need for any special prep/flasks. The standard 'roflstomp' approach works fine. Did you have some unusual mods perhaps?

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Shiverwarp написал:

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Kelvynn написал:

I don't remember doing it on my Witch. My lv 75 Templar died to his reflect the very first time I met him since I didn't expect it at all. But the boss died to Icestorm he cast anyway. I'll check it out on the Witch tonight and let you know.

Thanks much! I feel like he may be one of the things I'll have to avoid while playing Hardcore.

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Endactam написал:

100% cold? Well that's good to know. I have so far not had any use for Auxium as a single heat flask has been enough for every previous boss / all trash mobs 100%. I can always swap out my belt for this / hydra.

Same with orb, never had a use for it as dps and leech was never an issue. The 25% resistance peneration wasn't worth the "oh crap" button to me. It will be in this fight.

Dodging all his attacks from mid range would be super easy with a high speed movement ability or > 50% move speed. I wasn't aware he didn't smash if you stayed in melee range, that's also good to know.

So you run 5x heat flasks in this fight? Sulfur just for the # of uses?

<<Now have the orb in my build to get comfortable using it before my next try>>
Also... last league played a pathfinder so guzzling flasks is muscle memoried.

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Kelvynn написал:

Orb is used not as much for 25% resist penetration as for the 40% MORE damage buff from EO! Are you saying you got all the way to the Shaper without using half of your DPS potential? Daaaaamn.

I use 4x sulphur/heat + 1 sulphur/staunch because you can get bled by a random corrupted blood pack while clearing to the minis. But if you are careful enough you can go with 5x heat.

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SupervAn написал:

this standard build is so bad and not tanky at all, good leech will get u oneshoted anyway and the belt is the most worthless piece of shit.

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Endactam написал:

<Edit> Ahh i see each hit from orb of storms is it's own crit roll rather than the 5% chance per cast of icestorm.
<Edit> And I've been running /w item rarity even on the chimera/hydra/minotaur fight without orb of storms. This build is good ^^.

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RoCKeTs написал:

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partyboy79 написал:

1st izaro phase was fine, the second one, I've been one shot in the start of the fight with his wave (radiant slash). Got 6,7k es for the moment.

Have you clicked the charge disruptor ?

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partyboy79 написал:

1st izaro phase was fine, the second one, I've been one shot in the start of the fight with his wave (radiant slash). Got 6,7k es for the moment.

What is your technique to fight him ?

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Kelvynn написал:

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Shiverwarp написал:

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SupervAn написал:

8k es can you facetank strongest vagan with high critmod and light dmg?

can you do promenade thorn boss?

Ah the promenade lightning thorns was one I was curious about as well.

Promenade?? That's not reflecting spells, or has such a small amount of reflect that it doesn't matter. I've done that the other night on my Templar and didn't even notice it.

Vagan? LOL. He dies in 1-3 sec regardless of his abilities. Pop the Orb and pre-cast Icestorms on him before clicking on Begin.

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Kelvynn написал:

Ok, I've just done Racecourse, twice. There are 3 bosses: a dog, a bull and a knife thrower dude. The 1st time they died in 5 sec cause I used the 'roflstomp' approach :) That must have been why I didn't know there was a reflect before. So then the 2nd time I waited and looks like the bull gets a very nice looking sun-shaped reflect buff. He telegraphs it a couple sec in advance by glowing some other yellow thing around him. And then his reflect buff lasts about 2-3 sec, very brief. My Templar managed to die to that before I thought to hit the Ruby flask.

With the Witch I killed off the other 2 bosses carefully while the golems tanked the bull, and then tested the reflect. The reflect was not a big deal, although my ES was going down until I popped a Ruby flask.

The thing is, there are 3 bosses, with about the same amount of life, and they stay together. That's 3 sources of leech. 4 sources of leech is enough to outleech the 100% reflect at Atziri. Simply leap onto the knife guy, the other 2 will charge you. And then it doesn't matter if they live long enough for the bull to use the reflect or not - you are hitting all 3 of them and won't even notice the reflect on the Witch.

Of course, in HC I wouldn't farm that map after completing it for the bonus kill once. Just like Waterways, or Core. No reason to tempt fate. ;)