[3.17] Wallach's Hierophant Freezing Pulse Totems (No Further Updates)

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Ashwin เขียน:

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GGTeMpLaR เขียน:

how is your freezing pulse that high lvl 29?

Level 21 from corrupted gem
+1 from corrupted chest
+3 from level 4 empower
+2 from amulet with +1 cold skill gems, +1 int skill gems
+2 from wand with +1 cold skill gems, +1 spell skill gems

You should be able to get to 29 that way.

You can potentially also get +2 from chest if you got a projectile gems or even +3 if you double corrupted +1 gems and +2 projectile gems, I guess. So, it can go up to level 31?

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GGTeMpLaR เขียน:

on our high-end 6-link with an empower, why do we drop awakened added cold dmg support instead of increased critical strikes?

awakened added cold dmg gives +1 skills too right?

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GGTeMpLaR เขียน:

oh the first page "High Budget Gearing Options" section has him dropping cold dmg for it. his final links in that are 3 blue 2 green 1 red and 'added cold dmg supp' gets dropped

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Wallach เขียน:

It's not a bad idea to use Purifying Flame for the curse applicator, though. Zealotry will already trigger consecrated ground if you are running that alongside ACoH but it wouldn't be as consistent, even if you're using something like Storm Brand.

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za6i9ka เขียน:

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Ryce เขียน:

Unnerve is a debuff that causes affected targets to take 10% increased spell damage.

Why is that good sir. Wouldn't it be better just get crit multi on the wand or add cold damage to spell?

Targets take 10% increased spell damage is ~10% more spell dmg.

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ScrotieMcB เขียน:

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Wallach เขียน:

It's not a bad idea to use Purifying Flame for the curse applicator, though. Zealotry will already trigger consecrated ground if you are running that alongside ACoH but it wouldn't be as consistent, even if you're using something like Storm Brand.

Another contender is Blade Blast, which applies Unnerve on hit. That option doesn't step on Zealotry's toes and can potentially remove the need for a curse cluster jewel, particularly with Culling Strike gloves, or go defensive with Evil Eye over Master of Fear. Probably wouldn't want to bother leveling that one past gem level 13 though, due to the Dex requirement.

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za6i9ka เขียน:

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Ryce เขียน:

Unnerve is a debuff that causes affected targets to take 10% increased spell damage.

Why is that good sir. Wouldn't it be better just get crit multi on the wand or add cold damage to spell?

Targets take 10% increased spell damage is ~10% more spell dmg.

It's not quite that good. Increased damage taken stacks additively — not multiplicatively — with other sources, such as:
* Bonechill
* Shock
* Projectile Weakness curse
* One of the effects of the unique flask Bottled Faith
* Unnerve
And probably a few other options this build has potentially available to it.

It's still a good stat, but it's probably closer to 6-7% more damage than 10%. And to have that low of a chance of applying, there's a decent chance you it wouldn't even kick in right away. I think that affix is indeed a trap, at least compared to more reliable methods of Unnerve application.