[3.25] Ice Dancing Queen - Icestorm/Cyclone/CI - Viable For Everything
" Does GGG fix the amethyst flask vendor? It doesn't work for Simplex (still works for normal amulet) :-(. | |
The patch isn't deployed yet; so unless they changed the behavior in the last few weeks in an unannounced hotfix the recipe should still work.
To be clear, the recipe will update the old implicits (-1 prefix, -1 suffix, 25% increased magnitudes) to the new ones. It won't reset influence, so if you've double-influenced your amulet, it is still bricked. | |
" Sorry. I forgot to use Scouring Orb on the Simplex first. It works now :-). | |
" Based on this analysis, I redo the math. The possibility to get tri-mod ilvl 85 Simplex amulet is (only 4 of 6 donor amulets will pick the correct shaper mod): 1 - (1 - 800 / 105350) ^ 2 * (1 - 800 / 139950) ^ 2 = 2.636% The possibility is a bit higher if the Simplex amulet is ilvl80: 1 - (1 - 800 / 101000) ^ 2 * (1 - 800 / 130000) ^ 2 = 2.786% This translates to 36 ~ 38 attempts on average. | |
" Thanks, professor! xD | |
" My math (Excel) gets me total of 105650 weight of prefixes instead of 105350 you have. More importantly you forgot you can roll damage/15int also as Crusader prefix giving it weight of 1300 instead of 800. So: 1 - (1 - 1300 / 105650) ^ 2 * (1 - 800 / 139950) ^ 2 = 3.558% Or 1 - (1 - 1300 / 101000) ^ 2 * (1 - 800 / 130000) ^ 2 = 3.753% Average of 26-28 attempts. | |
" Even better! Thanks, math people! | |
So, after looking at all those buffs to melee skills, I was thinking maybe it's worth starting with something other than Icicle Mine. Some cold melee skill that would benefit from our early leveling tree.
Frost Blades looked like a natural choice. Shadow can get it at lv 2, and it works with any weapons. The starting support (Chance to Poison) is fine with it too. A scepter and a spirit shield both have %ele dmg implicits, and a shield really helps defensively too. After reaching the lower prison you get Added Cold and Added Lightning supports, just need a GGB item, not hard to find one. I really liked Frost Blades for lv 1-12! The clear speed was awesome. Mana was an issue though. I had to buy a paua amulet from Nessa and used 3 mana flasks. Brutus was pretty easy too. And after killing him the mana issues were solved with Clarity. Plus Precision, good for any melee. Merveil was OK, but felt kinda slow. Frost Blades is not a good single target skill. Act 2 was where it started falling off quickly. That's where random rares started getting tanky. So, just to compare things, I grabbed a lv 1 Icicle Mine from Nessa and a BBG wand, put Icicle Mine - Added Cold - Added Lightning in it, and went back to Act 2. Icicle Mine pretty much 1-shot trash mobs and took a few sec to kill tanky rares. LOL. So much for the buffed melee skills. I guess you actually have to build your tree around melee things to use them. But for this build, Icicle Mine is still the way to go until you get the Whispering Ice. Frost Blades can be used before lv 12, instead of Stormblast Mine, before you get Icicle Mine. Последняя редакция: Kelvynn. Время: 23 июля 2024 г., 15:40:49
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From skimming the more recent posts, I get the impression that the 3.24 POB will work exactly as-is for 3.25? Or at least "good enough to use for the first few days"?
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How much more shield will we have, with these new item bases and quality buffs?
Do we still need to use Discipline on maps? Or we can replace it with a herald of ice for better clear? |