[3.26] ShakCentral's Cold DoT Witch For Everyone

It's my first time playing Path of Exile, and this build guide has been incredibly helpful. Thank you! I'm currently progressing through Act 7 HCSSF.

anyone took this to red maps yet, how does it feel with the changes? fact the left click cast option is gone makes me kinda meh

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Prov1eh#1157 เขียน:

anyone took this to red maps yet, how does it feel with the changes? fact the left click cast option is gone makes me kinda meh

Do yourself a favour and 6L wintertide brand and play elementalist

https://poe.ninja/builds/mercenaries?skills=Wintertide+Brand

75% of wintertide players are ele atm on softcore

I think the archetype can work but some decisions in this guide are questionable. Take a look on poe ninja to see what others are doing imo

I'm sorry if this has been asked before and the question is mainly brand related rather than build related but playing Brands for the first time. Am i correct in saying that the right way to play is to place 3 brands on ground at the start of the map and then only Recall them as you go rather than keep recasting Wintertide over and over again as you zoom through maps? Or no difference and you can just cast a brand on each new pack as you zoom through a map?

yeah this recalling brands thing is a bit of a mystery to me

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I'm sorry if this has been asked before and the question is mainly brand related rather than build related but playing Brands for the first time. Am i correct in saying that the right way to play is to place 3 brands on ground at the start of the map and then only Recall them as you go rather than keep recasting Wintertide over and over again as you zoom through maps? Or no difference and you can just cast a brand on each new pack as you zoom through a map?

Wintertide brand has two damage components - one while it is attached to a target, and a short secondary damage over time when the brand is removed from a target.

With the brand mastery to re-attach, this is mostly handled automatically when clearing packs.

You mostly will use Brand Recall on single target, to repeatedly rip the brands off and re-attach them to re-trigger the secondary damage over time.

Brand recall does not extend the duration of brands any more, it just relocates them and increases the attachment range, so they'll rip off targets to you and then immediately re-attach if anything is in range - this is mostly only useful for Armageddon, Wintertide and Arcanist brand. Storm brand and Penance brand don't benefit as much from the interaction.

Found someone doing a fun hybrid ES/armor LL occulty variant and am mimicing them. This is more my style than golems.

https://poe.ninja/builds/mercenaries/character/Wuchtbrummer-2308/Yarkand?i=6&search=skills%3DWintertide%2BBrand

Needs 2-3 div to get initial setup (stormshroud, basic components) but is quite tanky. Damage is acceptable for T16s, but I'm only like 1/10 of their damage so far, heh. Should get much better as I continue to get better gear.

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Found someone doing a fun hybrid ES/armor LL occulty variant and am mimicing them. This is more my style than golems.

https://poe.ninja/builds/mercenaries/character/Wuchtbrummer-2308/Yarkand?i=6&search=skills%3DWintertide%2BBrand

Needs 2-3 div to get initial setup (stormshroud, basic components) but is quite tanky. Damage is acceptable for T16s, but I'm only like 1/10 of their damage so far, heh. Should get much better as I continue to get better gear.

Looks Solid.

From what I can see my only criticism is they're leaving a lot of damage on the table by not getting more cast speed.

Obviously PoB can't account for their Merc set up, but it's saying they only have 19 activations per brand.

They also arent using Brand Recall, which would be an easy single target boost.

Ideally, you want Brand Recall and to get it's cooldown to the same duration as Wintertide's End.

If you aren't ripping wintertide off an enemy, you're leaving single target damage on the table as they will only take 3x brand damage, wintertide's end adds roughly a 4th brands worth of damage if done consistently.

It's also important to ideally have more than 20 activations per brand - they don't share stages on a target. I think around 30 activations is actually ideal and I'm personally aiming for 40 - this should mean it ramps to full damage in half the brand duration which will also match wintertide's end's duration, and as a result I'm exploring options for dropping swift affliction, probably in favour of Empower or throwing Arcane Surge in my main links.