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Ascendancy ThumbnailLevel 98 Hybrid MoM Ice Nova of Frostbolts Hierophant3.25

Life: 4,874126%
ES: 5,54247%
Mana: 11,136389%
eHP:
92,460
Resistances: 76%/76%/76%/42%
DPS: 10,996,282
Speed: 6.77
Hit Chance: 100%
Config:
30% Shock, Power, Custom Mods
Bandit: Kill All
Pantheon: Soul of the Brine King, Soul of Garukhan

Gear

Profane WandProfane WandLich's CircletTwilight RegaliaWarlock GlovesWarlock Bootsbetter Atziri's FoibleCerulean RingAnathemaStygian Vise
Eternal Life FlaskEternal Mana Flask10c Quicksilver Flask ms and charges, enkindledLavianga's SpiritFlask charges when hit, curse effect
Hypnotic Eye JewelLarge Cluster JewelThe Light of MeaningCobalt JewelCobalt JewelCobalt JewelCobalt JewelCobalt Jewel

Gems

Make sure you hover over skill to see links!
_______________Main Skill_______________________
At this point you should buy or farm the gem
Ice Nova of Frostbolts
Archmage
Spell Echo
Intensify
Awakened Controlled Destruction
Awakened Lightning Penetration
Frostbolt
Greater Volley
Returning Projectiles
Arcane Surge
On tankier mobs cast frostbolt before ice nova
_______________Travel_________________________
Frostblink
Frostblink of Wintry Blast
Spell Echo
Faster Casting
_______________Reservation____________________
Clarity
Arrogance
Wrath
Eternal Blessing
_______________Other____________________
Elemental Weakness
Punishment
Conductivity
Enfeeble
Arcane Cloak
Frost Shield
Sigil of Power

Tree Preview

Elemental OverloadElemental Overload
Mind Over MatterMind Over Matter
Armour and Energy Shield MasteryArmour and Energy Shield Mastery
  • Recover 5% of Energy Shield over 1 second when you take Physical Damage from an Enemy Hit
Caster MasteryCaster Mastery
  • Spells which can gain Intensity have +1 to maximum Intensity
Elemental MasteryElemental Mastery
  • Hits have 25% chance to treat Enemy Monster Elemental Resistance values as inverted
Energy Shield MasteryEnergy Shield Mastery
  • Regenerate 2% of Energy Shield per second
Leech MasteryLeech Mastery
  • 10% of Leech is Instant
Life MasteryLife Mastery
  • 15% increased maximum Life if there are no Life Modifiers on Equipped Body Armour
Mana MasteryMana Mastery
  • Regenerate 5 Mana per second
  • 10% chance to Recover 10% of Mana when you use a Skill
  • 10% of Damage taken Recouped as Mana
  • 10% reduced Mana Cost of Skills

Notes

Alkuroth's Zero to Hero Self Cast Experience																									
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The goal of this build is to have a character that feels smooth from a fresh league start all the way up to the pinnacle bosses.                																									
																									
If you have any feedback please leave a comment on my youtube channel, discord, or this sheet.																									
I am especially looking for feedback from newer players. Topics or questions that you want answered in order to smooth the journey from zero to hero.																									
																									
																									
I do recommend opening the spreadsheet alongside the pob. Link here:					Alkuroth's Zero to Hero Self Cast Experience																				
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
IMPORTANT (shoot for this by the time you are in maps)																									
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75% All Elemental Resistances																									
0% Chaos Resistance																									
3000 Life																									
																									
There are a lot of nodes to pick from. Before choosing a node to allocate ask yourself do I need damage, more defense, more regeneration?																									
																									
I put prices on a lot of items. Totally ballpark also geared towards softcore league. Tried to overestimate rather than under.																									
																									
																									
There are multiple sets inside this pob to guide you from level 1 all the way to t17 maps and uber bosses.																									
Zero	starting pob																								
Level 40	good up till level 40 (skill tree)																								
Level 50	etc																								
Level 60																									
Level 70																									
Early Maps	good until red maps																								
Red Maps	red maps and bosses, possibly t17 and some ubers																								
Red Maps Chaos Innoclation	.																								
Red Maps CI Kitava's Thirst	.																								
Hero	t17 and ubers																								
Hero Ivory Tower																									
Hero Ci Svalinn Kitava																									
Giga (infinite currency)																									
																									
																									
										Trade Links															
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
You can compare skill trees in the bottom left of pob.																									
Left side should be your current tree.																									
It will show nodes you should spec into as green and spec out of as red																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
Leveling tips:																									
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Skip stragglers, Group mobs into packs (have them chase you for a bit), Use your aoe efficiently to hit more mobs. Unless you are 3-5 shotting rares, skip them. If they are fast enough pull them into packs and damage them as you are damaging the groups. (insert video example)																									
																									
																									
Get Bestel's Chest for an early quicksilver.																									
Find the secret room on prison level for more quicksilvers. I like to run 3 quicksilvers. (insert video example)																									
																									
																									
Leap Slam Frostblink tech - you can use frostblink to cancel out of the later portion of leap slam's animation, making it much faster. (video example)																									
																									
																									
Ascendency Order:																									
Tasalio -> Sione -> Tukohama -> Valako																									
																									
																									
Can also go Sione -> Tukohama first for more damage. Gearing will be tougher but people that are very comfortable with the campaign will not have a problem.																									
																									
																									
																									
Twink leveling tips:																									
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3 quicksilver + mageblood enchant rotate btwn them for perma uptime																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
General:																									
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The main focus is ease of gearing and having a smooth as possible zero to hero experience.																									
																									
																									
Highly recommend farming normal lab for ice nova of frostbolts. If you are on trade league you can just farm it until you have enough currency to buy. Try and aim for the alt gems that are worth the most, sell them buy the gem etc.																									
																									
																									
Here is a link to help determine what alternate gems are worth. Keep an eye on the league. You might have to adjust it. (settlers)																									
https://poe.ninja/economy/settlers/skill-gems?level=1&quality=0-19&corrupted=No&gemType=Transfigured																									
																									
																									
Vendor Recipes ~Extremely~ useful for ssf, useful for leveling as well																									
https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Vendor_recipe_system																									
																									
																									
Having stat problems?																									
Find the nearest +30 Dexterity Node																									
Attribute Mastery has some good nodes to solve																									
Craft Intelligence + Dexterity onto gear.																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
Level up clarity to the minimum level where mana regen still feels okay.																									
																									
																									
																									
Punishment should be max level, it is set to 1 in pob for correct dps calculations.																									
																									
																									
For map mobility consider using another enkindled quicksilver. Also frostblink of wintry blast setup																									
																									
If you feel like you are getting wooped by ailments, or chilled ground is too annoying, can run stormshroud. Craft avoid shock with essence on boots, roll eldiritch currency to avoid shock / ailments.																									
The most dangerous ailment is shock. Use shock panetheon before swapping over. Chill is also really annoying. Can get chill immune on boots.																									
																									
If your body plate has no life modifiers, spec into the life mastery that gives 15% life.																									
																									
																									
Other gem options: (main skill)																									
If you want more aoe / map clear. socket in increased aoe to replace one of the damage links for your main skill.																									
If you want even more aoe socket intensify as well																									
If mana costs feel too steep socket inspiration . Can also unallocate forethought and preceding node on passive tree																									
																									
																									
If elemental overload isn't proccing enough drop controlled destruction for another support																									
																									
																									
When jumping from Red Maps -> Hero or further keep in mind that some items offer a relatively small increase for a very large price increase.																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
mana problems, skill cost too much, taking too much damage to mana. need more recover / regen @manacost @mana cost																									
Look for these mods on clarity watchers eye																									
mana on skill use																									
mana recovery rate																									
get a pair of nexus gloves																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
use inspiration in gem links																									
get rid of the increased mana cost nodes on passive tree (forethought)																									
annoint righteous decree																									
																									
																									
																									
gem slots, running out? need room for gems?																									
frost blink of wintry blast setup is mostly just for map traversal. can trim some of the links in there or just drop it entirely																									
																									
																									
can automate frostbolt with kitavas thirst. Going to have to adjust some gear and skills depending on which setup																									
																									
																									
es recovery, energy shield recovery, energy shield regen, es regen																									
i havent tested this ring yet but it sounds promising																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
																									
Item Info:	I also included trade links for early mapping gear in another sheet.				Trade Links																				
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This is campaign / early maps. I don't recommend picking up generic rares (yellow) anymore after this point. Use a loot filter to filter them out. (insert loot filter)																									
																									
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Weapon:																									
vendor recipe sceptre																									
debateable if this is worth it for archmage setup																									
																									
																									
Feel free to put any other stat you can with the crafting bench doesn't have to be cast speed but that is one of the best if it's available.																									
																									
random spellcasting weapons / shield good stats, order of priority																									
(+ lightning, or spell skill gems)																									
cast speed																									
adds damage to spells																									
increased spell damage																									
increased lightning damage																									
spell critical strike chance																									
																									
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Which small passives for clusters? (order of priority, sort of)																									
Chaos Res, All attributes, Dexterity, All Elemental Res, Cast speed, Passive Effect																									
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