[3.1][SC] Poet Pulser

Dual wields The Poet's Pen for awesome clear. I run Freezing Pulse in one, and Arc in the other. Damaging scaling comes mostly from Grand Spectrum Viridian jewels and crit.

Bandits: Kill them all ;3

11 Points(Use Double Frozen Trails in those Jewel Sockets)
26 Points(Only do this if you have 3 Grand Spectrums)
45 Points(Respect Scion regen jewel socket for witch's if you want)

The points between here and the final tree are super flexible. I recommend saving Vaal Pact until you absolutely need the leech (plus, you need Uber lab to get VP anyways, so it'll be rough rushing that early).

112 Points

Path of Building: https://pastebin.com/QW27kxax

If you can't afford The Poet's Pen(s), simply self-cast Freezing Pulse. Don't get the jewel sockets through scion regen or the three strength jewel socket below Berserking. However, picking up the res's below Scion for leveling ain't bad. Path through spell damage instead of attack speed coming out of Scion and you'll be good.

Freezing Pulse - Controlled Destruction - Hypothermia (Poet 1)

Arc - Controlled Destruction - Hypothermia (Poet 2)

Cast When Damage Taken(1) - Warlord's Mark(5) - Immortal Call(3) - (Anything you want)

Herald of Ice - Inc AoE - Inc Crit Strikes - Grace

Frenzy - Faster Attacks - Reduced Mana(Anything you want if you don't use Voidbringers) - Frost Bomb

Orb of Storms - Power Charge on Crit: Separate Link: Flame Dash(8) - Arcane Surge(1)

Since most evasion boots will be annoying to roll 4 blue, prioritize Orb of Storms - Power Charge on Crit. It'll be better damage during bosses compared to the low arcane surge buff from the Flame Dash.

Ascendancy:
-Assassin
-Pathfinder
-Path of the Ranger then head toward Vaal Pact

Pantheon:
-Major: Brine King (makes you immune to stuns if you've been stunned recently)
-Minor: Gruthkul (Helps vs physical damage. Vesseled, it offers a nice debuff to things smacking you)

The Voidbringers are absolute overkill. You don't need them. Any Ele Weakness on Hit gloves are good, but also not required. Simply Frost Bombing enemies will suffice for most pen (if you have your Wise Oak balanced for both Cold and Lightning). Helm Enchant isn't necessary either.

Priorities are dual Poets, then fixing your res's for double Wise Oak penetration; you don't NEED to do this, but it is nice. With Alchemist, we get quite a bit of pen with this setup. Getting Queen of the Forest setup helps as well, even if you can't quite make the 100% increased move speed cap right off the bat.

Elreon jewelry is super nice. They allow us to attack with Frenzy with ZERO mana cost, meaning we can do no regen maps and never have to worry about mana. I use Voidbringers so my mana cost is slightly higher than most setups. Two Elreon pieces will suffice for non-Voidbringer setups without the reduced mana gem.

I want to make room for an Adrenaline flask, but I'm unwilling to drop my Warding. I value the temp chains removal and silence protection from hexfont monsters too much.

The % Evasion while moving flasks do stack, but I capped my Evasion for Queen of the Forest quite easily with just one. I haven't made room for the Watcher's Eye granting movement speed while Grace is active, but it'll be substantial. Since Queen of the Forest can only grant us 100% movement speed, we have to find other means of pushing it.


Sidenote: Flat to spell Abyss jewels are absolute ass for the build. I punched in a 60 flat to spell abyss jewel in Path of Building and ended up with a whopping 0.8% damage increase.

I'll publish more of these with time. Keep in mind that this is simply a placeholder, and I didn't have Queen of the Forest at the time:

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So, if you've got the dough for the wands, you're golden. Leveling experience is nothing short of euphoric; if you don't, no need to stress. Mapping with Freezing Pulse self-cast has been viable for awhile now and with the Ascendant Assassin node, you can build crit quite early/easily. Transitioning into Poet's later is easy ;3.

The clear feels amazing. Arc picks up so many targets Freezing Pulse tends to miss, such as that one monster that's always behind you; it looks cool and flashy to boot! So far I've barely started to min-max the build and it already preforms well. Bossing is give or take (mostly, you're taking it from the boss), but I think that'll come with gem levels and character levels (maximum HP per level will help immensely).

Something I've noticed is you CAN'T let you attacks per second go higher than 2.6 tool tip. If you attack more than 4 times a second, it ruins the engine. You'll notice this if one of your Poet spells is on your bar. I'll make a video of this soon to demonstrate. Regardless, you'll be able to tell that your stuff isn't going off as much as it was before if you happen to invest too much into attack speed.

If you have any questions about the build, feel free visit my Twitch. I stream every day ;3.