[3.16] LL ❄️ CoC Ice Nova Assassin ❄️ - 🛑 Extremely Defensive 🛑

⚠️ Note / Warning ⚠️
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This is not a guide for new players, and this isn't a league starter build. There are plenty of guides that already exist like Qosmoz's @ https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2971773 and Juju's https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3056215 that explain starting gear and explain breakpoints. I highly recommend checking those out to get started.

I do not plan to update this for 3.17. This was something I wanted to share because I haven't seen many people play LL CoC Ice Nova like this, and a lot of the existing guides still have items from Harvest or Ritual -- things that are just unobtainable in the current league.

I'm leaving all the previous league stuff behind and focusing only on this league, Scourge.


Background
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I played PoE when it was in Beta many years, and I stopped playing until Ritual league when I found out the macOS client existed. Yes, believe it or not, I game on a Mac.

I played CoC Ice Nova since then and have followed Juju's guide for CI and Kami's guide for LL. Max Block CI felt the best until this league. 3.16 changed many things, and I believe LL is now the best CoC Ice Nova variant.

This defensive-oriented version has the most ES (by 1k), and I have the most armor and evasion than most of the people in the list. I would say I also have OK DPS, and it's been fine killing bosses like Maven, Shaper, and Elder. MrPrincipleSC appears to be extremely tanky with huge DPS, but I'm honestly not sure how he sustains mana. Feels very theoretical.
https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds?class=Assassin&item=Cospris-Malice,Prism-Guardian&sort=energy-shield

I did EoW miner until 68 and promptly switched to this build. At lvl 68, I had a few thousand ES, which was enough to actually level with (with leech or Discipline Watcher's Eye, but those are expensive)

Gameplay / Videos
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Monsters:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0x2sZGM4D4

Maven:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7knWwhsvfw

Wave 30 Simulacrum:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzgK7_EXsTo

Putting on 8 auras in 3 seconds:


I'm not sure why the people I've watched on stream click one at a time. That's too slow for me, so I use my swap to put on 5 auras, then swap and use ctrl + Q W E for Prism Guardian auras.

Other Gameplay (Simulacrum, Cortex, Chayula)


Links
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Current character: https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds/char/iisanoob/TimeLostIncubator
Last league's character (CI): https://poe.ninja/expedition/builds/char/iisanoob/TimeLostIncubator
Current PoB (3.16) https://pastebin.com/WksvD1Vn - Updated 2021-11-26

PoB Changelog



3.16
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In 3.16, GGG reworked the passive tree, included masteries, and severely buffed defensive auras like Grace, Determination, and Purity of Elements. Grace gives a bunch of evasion, Determination a bunch of armor, and Purity of Elements gives elemental ailment immunity. I haven't tested Purity of Elements, but if I wanted to use it, I would replace Determination or Zealotry for it. Dropping Zealotry is a huge DPS loss, but you get so many extra layers of defense.

With my flasks:
Lvl 99 (Final update)


Lvl 97


Pantheon
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Lunaris + Gurthkul for extra PDR.


Items
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Final items @ lvl 99 (2021-11-26). I'm not going to push this guy to 100 or upgrade anything else.:



Jewelry


Flasks


Jewels

These items at lvl 99 killed Wave 30 in Simulacrum
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Older items (before 2021-11-26):



Jewelry


Flasks


Jewels

and a Thread of Hope

Detailed Explanation About Corruptions and Stats



2021-11-21 Item Upgrades



2021-11-20 Item Upgrades



Gems
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Grouped by links:

Cospris
Frost Bomb
Frostbolt Optional: Phantasmal
Ice Nova Optional: Anomalous

Body
Cyclone
Awakened Added Cold Damage Support
Awakened Cast On Critical Strike Support
Increased Critical Strikes Support
(Divergent) Inspiration Support
Ice Nova Optional: Anomalous

(Awakened CoC was the first 10ex+ purchase I made. I was able to comfortably do T16 + conquerors with normal Cast on Crit and Added Cold Damage Support)

Prism Guardian
Vaal Grace
Determination
Zealotry

Any
Frostbite
Hextouch Support
Bonechill Support
Vortex

Any
Immortal Call (lvl 3)
Cast when Damage Taken Support

Any
Vaal Molten Shell

Any
Defiance Banner

Any
Precision

Any
Hatred

Any
Herald of Ice

Any
Vaal Discipline

Any
Flame Dash


Masteries
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Explanations:

+1 to Energy Shield per 8 Evasion on Boots
- Sin Treks add so much ES with this mastery.

+25% to Critical Strike Multiplier against Unique Enemies
- DPS boost against bosses

30% increased Life Reservation Efficiency of Skills
- Allows us to reserve 3x 50% in Prism Guardian

8% increased Damage for each of your Aura or Herald Skills affecting you
- Huge DPS boost. We're stacking auras!

Cannot be Shocked while at maximum Power Charges
- Shock Immunity. If you don't want this, you can do 3% per charge for 21% increased damage.

Auras from your Skills have 15% increased Effect on you
- Boosts all 8 of your auras. That's damage, defenses, and ES.

50% increased Effect of non-Damaging Ailments you inflict with Critical Strikes
- I don't know how useful this is, but higher chill and freeze perhaps means more defense?

1% of Elemental Damage Leeched as Energy Shield
- Dropped the ES leech wheel for this. Should be enough.

No longer enabled:

Gain 3% of Maximum Mana as Extra Maximum Energy Shield
- Not needed. I have an extra point until I switch around the large cluster to move things around, perhaps for another medium cluster

Discipline has 25% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency
- Required to fit Defiance Banner in your mana reservation

30% increased Damage while Leeching
- We're always leeching mana, so 30% increase for 1 point

2021-11-20 Update: Dropped the last 2 masteries and swapped to Alira. The PoB is updated for it.
2021-11-26 Update: Dropped ES leech wheel and got "1% of Elemental Damage Leeched as Energy Shield" from Snowforged wheel. Also dropped Discipline efficiency for the Leadership wheel.

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Things I Want To Try
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I want to see how it's like to run Purity of Elements instead of Determination, but I'm really liking the PDR right now. I'm not sure I'm going to do this.

I'd also like to see how I can incorporate Divine Shield. Since I have a ton of Armor, it might make me even more tanky.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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Which map mods to avoid?

Reflect Elemental / Cannot Leech / Cannot Regen

Some curses are annoying, but they're all doable. This is my query to filter maps:
"of ele|less recovery|nnot reg|normal|leech"

Less recovery can be really unsafe.

Can this do Uber Content?

Maybe. I got to wave 30 simulacrum and died to Kosis when he was at half life. It was my first time running a Simulacrum and I didn't know the boss mechanics. I think I could get through Wave 30 if I tried again.

Reserved, maybe?

What can this build farm?

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ComplexWay เขียน:

What can this build farm?

It's a melee build, so it's inherently going to be slower at quickly farming maps than most ranged builds. But I have a lot of fun clearing maps, and heist is generally slow anyways, so it should work for those.

You should really only play CoC Ice Nova if you like the playstyle (right click and move around). It's not the fastest in anything in particular.

Why immortal call and molten shell, thought you can only use one guard skill

Dont you need some cooldown reduction?

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Coldmoonn เขียน:

Why immortal call and molten shell, thought you can only use one guard skill

Dont you need some cooldown reduction?

I use VMS when I'm entering a boss phase. Immortal Call is mostly getting hit in mobs. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure how well this works, or if it does, but I enjoy the extra 8k life before a fight

Thanks for this. Been checking a lot of coc ice novas on poe.ninja but still cant choose how to build smoothest LL version, there is no ''meta versions'' like before 3.15 :D All seem to have soemthing different when i check builds ^^

For 3.16 LL version for sure is best way to build around... my block version got absolutely raped by 3.16 changes :(

Hope someone makes extremely detailed version of the mana fixes since i see so many different ones and all have negative/positive things. Also damn it feels bad to use flamedash after playing years with dash+second wind combo hah :D

Hi
what can this build do? (The feared) uber endgame new content this league?

what mods to avoid on map

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JuhlDk เขียน:

Hi
what can this build do? (The feared) uber endgame new content this league?

what mods to avoid on map

I have not done the feared. I honestly don't think I can do it, but I don't have a lot of practice with it.

Thanks for the reminder for uber endgame. I was going to try to do wave 30 simulacrum after I leveled. Now I'm 98 with 1%, I'm going to try it and record.

Maps mods to avoid:

Reflect Elemental / Cannot Leech

Some curses are annoying, but this is my query to filter maps:
"of ele|less recovery|nnot reg|normal|leech"

Less recovery feels dangerous, but it's doable.

Edit: Got to wave 30 in simulacrum, but used up all my portals. 1 portal used from a crash. 2 deaths from being frozen. Is getting to wave 30 good?

that's very good
wave 30 is very hard also depends what mods you get
i will try this build out seems funny
thanks for answear and your time :)