[3.5] CheeQu's CoC Ice Nova Assassin - Up to 7m Shaper DPS + Amazing Clearspeed [In-Depth Guide]

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grindst0ne เขียน:

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Lillbazz เขียน:

I feel like I'm pretty well geared at this point. Not full Gucci but..

Can anyone take a peek and see why my dmg in POB isn't listed higher?

https://pastebin.com/A6Hu75UU

Post above has an avg Ice Nova of 666k, and I can't for the life of me change the settings, or add gear to get there.

Side note; currently running Ice Nova/Frostbolt in both armor and weap.

Thanks

The guy who posted 666k ice nova damage is running a build that is worth hundreds of ex. It's just a humblebrag. As for your build:
- Your cyclone is clocking at 9.19 attacks per second. This is way too high and should drop to below 7.5 to optimally proc cast on crit. Otherwise you are missing out on consistent damage, which adds up to a lot. I'd get rid of Apocalypse Eye, as it's adding to attack speed and has some crit chance. It's mainly also due to the onslaught flask, which you do not need, as even without it you are > 7.5 attacks per second.
- Your helmet is missing a suitable enchantment. 40% Ice nova damage is ideal, but super expensive. You can also run one that modifies an aura, for example.
- Your gauntlets can be optimized by crafting "damage while leeching" and "damage during flask effect". This can be achieved by basically rolling gloves with the "increased damage with his against chilled enemies" mod and then crafting the rest of the mods on them. This is pretty expensive. You could yolo annul your current gloves too, and hope that a prefix will poof. After that you can get "suffixes cannot be changed", and annul the prefixes, etc.
- You are not running a watcher's eye that modifies hatred or zealotry (e.g. "damage penetrates ..." or "adds x to y cold damage when affected by...", and you are not running either of these gems. Herald of Ice only adds a relatively minor amount of damage.
- Your abyssal gem, ancient sight, adds fire damage, which is pointless as you are not running yoke of suffering.
- You are not running Militant Faith (for extra area damage) or glorious vanity (for tons of energy shield, to free up nodes for extra damage)
- You're not running a vortex setup, which is basically free dps. Ideally, you'd link vortex with unbound ailments, bonechill and arcane surge. You can pretty much ensure a constant uptime by doing so.
- You're running enfeeble, which has only 20% effect against shaper. You're also running 2 aura's with blasphemy. Your maximum curse limit is one, so that won't work.
- You selected "have you killed recently", and selected both "have you crit recently" and "have you dealt a non-crit recently", which is unrealistic. Instead, it's more realistic to select "is there only one nearby enemy" if you are talking about shaper dps.
- You're running precision lvl 1 with 100% hit chance even before slotting it, which is basically pointless.

I've adjusted your build:
- added multicraft on boots for some resistances
- added my own timeless jewel (simulated in PoB). Note that this means mind over matter and arcanist's domination have no effect (hence the reductions I put in the gem). It adds a ton of survivability (2k es due to corrupted soul at the mind over matter slot - you do not actually have mind over matter, but PoB cannot handle the new jewels yet) and damage
- This freed up some slots for quick recovery. Not really needed anymore and was changed due to the timeless jewel, so I put the remaining 2 points into frost walker.
- changed aura's to hatred - enlighten - zealotry - precision
- added a 15% reduced mana reserved enchant to your helm, which is not that unrealistic to farm or buy
- modified your ancient sight abyssal jewel to do cold damage (basically, get a new similar jewel, a hypnotic eye one)
- removed the onslaught flask and added atziri's promise
- Removed unnatural instinct as it added a ton of attack speed and not much dps. It wasn't doing a lot. Sorry. This frees up a ton of points, which have to be spend to get a bit more attack speed and damage, which is what the precision tree does.
- Grabbed mind drinker. It's nice.
- Changed Sol Desire to have lightning resistance so you can get rid of Alira and grab 2 extra nodes, which amounts to the 113 you had in your PoB (there were 2 nodes too many).
- Added "shock enemies for 4 seconds when you focus" on your ring, instead of the shatter stuff. Note that PoB cannot count this, but it is basically an extra 20% dps for a limited duration that you need to manually activate.
- To get more int, I had to remove the might of the meek stuff too, and went up left, which also added a lot more dps.
- Had to change cold resist on gloves to lightning resist and had to add some strength and some crit chance to to sol desire ;-). Goals!

All this pushes your dps to 2742278,995, excluding shock and excluding frenzy charges, with 7.1k effective hp. Poacher's mark requires you to kill enemies, which is unrealistic during the shaper or uber elder fight.

Your previous dps was 2071516,68 without frenzy charges, without the 2 erroneous nodes (removed lethal assault), and with 6k effective hp.

There's a lot more you can do. Mainly craft a 6 link armor with "spells have +x% chance to crit", and some more stuff that I listed (e.g. other gloves). Also, get one of those watcher's eyes. Myself I'm running discipline with energy shield gain on hit as well, which greatly helps with survivability, but getting one which also has a hatred mod is expensive. The pathing to Constitution is also pretty lengthy, but it adds 500+ effective hp, so I left it in. You can free it up for even more dps.

https://pastebin.com/ApDPV913