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Ascendancy ThumbnailLevel 94 LL Wintertide Brand Trickster3.25

Life: 8115%
ES: 5,076
Mana: 176
eHP:
42,464
Resistances: 80%/76%/76%/-60%
Evade: 70%
Armour: 20,796
Evasion: 19,489
DPS: 1,160,301
Speed: 2.94
Hit Rate: 8.24
Hit Chance: 100%
Config: 15% Shock, Frenzy
Bandit: Kill All
Pantheon: Soul of the Brine King, Soul of Shakari
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Gear

Prophecy WandPrism GuardianCrown of the Inward EyeSanguine RaimentMurder MittsPaladin BootsReplica Dragonfang's FlightProfane ProxySapphire RingCrystal Belt
Eternal Mana Flask
Quicksilver FlaskCoruscating Elixir
Medium Cluster JewelBrutal RestraintCobalt JewelCobalt JewelCobalt Jewel

Gems

Cold Snap
Arcane Surge
Bonechill
Brand Recall
Shield Charge
Faster Attacks
Flame Dash
Elemental Weakness
Zealotry
General's Cry
Autoexertion
Grace
Malevolence
Determination
Vaal Discipline
Summon Skitterbots
Molten Shell
Automation
Wintertide Brand
Hypothermia
Efficacy
Controlled Destruction
Elemental Focus
Swift Affliction
Frostbite

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Level 96 (119 passives)
Ghost DanceGhost Dance
Hex MasterHex Master
Pain AttunementPain Attunement
RunebinderRunebinder
Armour and Energy Shield MasteryArmour and Energy Shield Mastery
  • You take 20% reduced Extra Damage from Critical Strikes
Brand MasteryBrand Mastery
  • 40% increased Brand Attachment range
  • Brands Attach to a new Enemy each time they Activate, no more than once every 0.3 seconds
Caster MasteryCaster Mastery
  • 6% increased Cast Speed for each different Non-Instant Spell you've Cast Recently
Cold MasteryCold Mastery
  • +1% to maximum Cold Resistance
Curse MasteryCurse Mastery
  • You take 40% reduced Extra Damage from Critical Strikes by Cursed Enemies
Damage Over Time MasteryDamage Over Time Mastery
  • 15% increased Duration of Ailments on Enemies
  • 15% increased Skill Effect Duration
Elemental MasteryElemental Mastery
  • Exposure you inflict applies at least -18% to the affected Resistance
Energy Shield MasteryEnergy Shield Mastery
  • 30% increased Light Radius
  • Light Radius is based on Energy Shield instead of Life
  • 50% of your Energy Shield is added to your Stun Threshold
Evasion and Energy Shield MasteryEvasion and Energy Shield Mastery
  • 1% increased Evasion Rating per 5 Intelligence
  • Dexterity provides no inherent bonus to Evasion Rating
Flask MasteryFlask Mastery
  • Remove a random Elemental Ailment when you use a Mana Flask
Mana MasteryMana Mastery
  • 12% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency of Skills
Reservation MasteryReservation Mastery
  • 20% increased Life Reservation Efficiency of Skills
Spell Suppression MasterySpell Suppression Mastery
  • Chance to Suppress Spell Damage is Lucky

Notes

Bare minimum transition pieces:
-Prism Guardian
-Coruscating Elixir (+20% quality & Reuse at end of flask effect enchant)
-Brutal Restraint, Balbala devotion (don't worry about the best seed at this point, just buy the cheapest to start)
-It is also recommended to buy/craft a DEX/INT chest with 2000+ evasion so you have a decent ES pool

Solving reservation problems - you will need 1% increased reservation efficiency somewhere to reserve all of your life Auras:
-Replica's Dragonfang's Flight with +3 Wintertide Gems (recommended)
-2% increased reservation efficiency jewel corruption (decent option) 
-Annoint Champion of the Cause (not-recommended)

Flask Setup and Uptime solutions:
-Mana flask should be "Enduring" and provide Bleed/Corrupted Blood immunity 
-Enchant quicksilver and Corsucating Flask with "Reuse at the end of Flask effect" and +20% quality
-After allocating Essence Extraction, both your Mana Flask and Coruscating Elixir should have 100% uptime 
-In order to achieve 100% Quicksilver Uptime:
	-Belt must have at least +30% Flask Effect Duration Affix
	-Quicksilver Flask must roll a prefix of at least +48% Charge Recovery  

=>You will most likely struggle with attributes and resistances while transitioning. Use rare gear pieces to cap these out as needed. 

Other Important Upgrades/Transitions:
-Profane Proxy - goes in left ring slot, allocate Whispers of Doom once you have this, Frostbite goes in socket, manually cast Elemental Weakness
-Swich Rime Gaze => Crown of the Inward Eye 
-Craft/buy some Paladin Boots
-Annoint Ash, Frost and Storm on your Amulet (preferably Replica Dragonfang's Flight)
-Steelskin => Molten Shell (since we now have armor)

Eldritch Implicits, in order or importance:
-Swap One Step Ahead => Swift Killer once you have Frenzy Charge generation on your chest. (Very important upgrade => 20% more damage multiplier and +20% increased cast speed)
-Cold Exposure on Hit on gloves allows you to drop Frost Bomb
-Scorched ground while moving on Boots 
-Malevolence Aura effect on chest
-Cold damage over time multiplier on gloves

=>Regarding Spell Suppression - Unfortunately we use a lot of uniques so it will be very hard to be 100% spell suppression capped without giving up a lot of damage. In my experience, 90% effective suppression is enough to feel comfortable:
-68% base spell suppression = 90% effective suppresion chance with the "chance to suppress is lucky" mastery
-Passive tree provides 42% spell suppression, seek to find at least 26% combined spell suppression between Chest and Gloves

=>Regarding Chaos Resistance - Chaos resistance is a luxury to be capped out. As above, you will start to run out of suffixes. However, getting your chaos resistance to be at least positive goes a long way and is a good start. 

Watcher's Eye - I prefer to focus on offensive modifiers, both if you can afford
-Damage over Time Multiplier while affected by Malevolence
-Zealotry Cast speed

In terms of damage increasing affixes' relative importance:
-Damage over time multipler = increased effect of non-curse Auras = +1 gem levels > Increased spell/elemental/cold damage = increased cast speed/increased skill effect duration = increased effect of curses