[3.5] The Notorious DOT - Vortex & Cold Snap Trapper (Budget - League Starter)

•Vortex and Cold Snap traps - deal massive DOT damage
•Should be more consistent boss damage, since you don't have to constantly throw traps to maintain DPS. Having to run for your life in between throwing traps usually means a DPS loss, but not with DOT!
•You throw 1 of each trap and the damage just ticks away! When the damage dealing ground effects expire, throw your 2 traps again.
•Use Decoy totem to keep bosses in the DOT effects.
•Cheap and easy to scale. Easily under 1ex to gear!

Where does our damage come from?
•Stack Cold DOT multiplier with Spine of First Claiment, Rime Gaze, Skill nodes, Jewels with cold DOT.
•Flame Golem in Malachais Artifice ring applies -50 cold res to anything it hits
•Orb of Storms to easy crit to get 40% more ele dmg.
•Frostbite curse on Blasphemy.
•Arcane Surge on Flame Dash
•Frenzy Charges from Cold Snap, Master Sapper, Tinkerskin if you can afford it.

Pros:
•Safe playstyle, good for new players.
•DPS never stops while you move to dodge/reposition
•No unique items required,build works perfectly fine with all rares
•Scales really well with unique items, which are all cheap! (20c or less each)
•Can do any map mod! No-regen is kinda rough, but doable if you manage mana flask well.

Cons:
•You throw single traps, so you have to have decent aim and throw them right onto boss/mobs.
•Lots of button to mash for max boss dps.

Playstyle
•For maps, just flame dash around and throw your 2 traps into packs to delete them. Easy.

•For bosses: Drop Decoy Totem, Drop Orb of Storms, throw both traps, chug all damage flask, Flame Dash away from danger.
•When Vortex/Cold Snap ground effect goes away, repeat the cycle.

Coming Soon!

Refer to the "Skill Gems Setup" part of the guide below to see what gems you should always be on the lookout for and add them as you can!

Tree at lvl 90


Current Gear

Always look for jewels with 4% increased cold damage over time!

additional modes to look for:
-Trap Damage
-Trap throwing speed
-Area damage
-Cold damage

•Body Armour: Vortex - Trap - Trap and Mine Damage - Efficacy - Controleld Destruction - Concentrated Effect (Can use Increased AoE for mapping)

•In Helm: Cold Snap - Trap - Trap and Mine Damage - Bonechill

•CWDT(lvl 2) - Immortal Call (lvl 2) - Frost Bomb (lvl 10 - Increased Duration

•Orb of Storms - Increased Critical Strikes - Increased AoE - Faster Casting

•Flame Dash - Faster Casting - Arcane Surge (lvl 7)

•Blasphemy - Frostbite - Decoy Totem

•In Ring: Flame Golem

•Class: Shadow
•Ascendency: Saboteur
1st: Perfect Crime
2nd: Chain Reaction
3rd: Born in the Shadows
4th: Pyromaniac

The DPS from Explosives Expert was barely over 10k and the AoE only gives us 1 extra radius. I prefer the sustain Pyromaniac gives over the very small AoE and dmg boost. This allows us to still have some life sustain without getting a Tinkerskin. 1

Major: Soul of the Brine King

•Capture The Forgotten Soldier in Conservatory Map
•Capture Puruna, The Challenger in Atoll Map
•Capture Nassar, Lion of the Seas in Reef Map

Helps us against stuns, freezes and chill so we can kite better.


Minor: Garukhan, Ryslatha or Shakari would all be good

Garukhan
•Capture Stalker of the Endless Dunes in Dig Map

-Evasion and movement speed are great for us

•Ryslatha
Capture Gorulis, Will-Thief in Infested Valley Map

-This is a major buff to our insant life flask


•Shakari
Capture Terror of the Infinite Drifts in

-Chaos damage really hurts our low life pool